Most of the world's population
have relatively normal hearing,
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and the sounds of everyday life
is something that most of us
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take for granted.
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However, for over 5%
of the world's population,
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360 million people,
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they have a
disabling hearing loss
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in either one or both
ears or are profoundly deaf.
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For those with
partial hearing loss,
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this is what life sounds like.
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Thankfully, to the commitment,
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passion and determination
of an Australian hero,
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the gift of sound
has been given back
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to over half a million
people around the world.
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Yay!
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You chill.
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Just say yes. Give me, Barrett.
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Hi.
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Hi. Oh, look, he's smiling.
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Good afternoon. I know.
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Hi, Cooper.
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Hi, Cooper.
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No one has ever
been able to restore
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one of our five senses
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until Professor Graeme
Clark devoted his energy,
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determination and faith
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to the development
of the cochlear implant.
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Many of us are familiar
with Professor Graeme Clark
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and how he led the team
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to develop the first
cochlear implant in 1978.
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It is commonplace now
to see adults and children
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wearing the latest
generation of the bionic ear.
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Around half a
million people in the world
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now have improved hearing,
thanks to this amazing device.
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We're here in the
National Museum of Australia,
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where you can see the
first cochlear implant,
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a device that was
supposed to be impossible,
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a device that brought together
a groundbreaking combination
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of in-ear surgery, cybernetics,
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electronic engineering,
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speech
processing, and neuroscience.
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A device that proved that
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we could directly
bypass malfunctioning ears
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and bring sound to
the profoundly deaf
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by direct
stimulation of the brain.
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In other words,
bringing sounds from silence.
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Professor Clark's
work is inspirational
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and contributed
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so much to our
understanding of the brain.
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Today I want to share with you
part of Professor Clark's story
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that didn't
make media headlines.
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His commitment to a
practice that at the time
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might have been
considered insignificant,
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but has now been
shown to be very important
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to helping our brains
work at their full potential
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and bringing powerful
insight and creativity.
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Today we'll spend some time
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with Professor
Clark revisiting history.
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I was born in 1935
here in Camden in 62,
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John Street in our home.
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And I remember
that as I grew up,
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I was a very hyperactive child.
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I caused my mother
a little bit of stress
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when I climb
trees and block them,
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caused her
frustrations when she locked me
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in the bathroom and
I escape and disappear.
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I was always curious as a child.
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I always wanted
to know why or where.
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This curiosity
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and this drive must have been
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there at an early
age because at two,
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I was always on the go.
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And mum didn't always
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answer my requests.
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And I said to her once,
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"I'm bored, I'm leaving."
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My mother
complimented my father.
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She was the...
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I suppose the creative person,
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she was a very gifted pianist,
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and also a very
gifted watercolor painter,
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and a loving, caring mother,
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who was always
willing to sacrifice
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herself for her children.
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My father was a
great inspiration.
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He was deaf and a
pharmacist here in Camden.
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And I knew only too well,
how difficult it was for him.
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But in addition, he
was a very ethical person,
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both in business and
in his life generally.
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And as a young person,
I found that most helpful
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later on to be ethical,
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I hope in my research career.
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I think I had a
wonderful relationship
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with both my
father and my mother.
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I couldn't have
asked for better parents.
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And I only hope that
I could be half as good
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as my father and my mother.
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Since Camden had no high school,
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Graeme headed to Sydney,
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where he first
attended Sydney Boys High
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and later boarded
at The Scots College.
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It is here that he
furthered his education
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and desire to get into medicine,
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and also became
a keen sportsman.
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The education
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I had at this
college helped me in a way
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that I never
realized would be so relevant
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to studying medicine
and then later on carrying
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through research to
develop was a bionic ear.
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It was all based on
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what I built in my
learning relationships
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here at Scots.
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And it wasn't just
academics that you got involved
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with here at Scots,
here you also were involved
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in the sporting
activities of the school.
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Yes, indeed, I had a
very rounded education.
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I was not a brilliant sportsman,
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but I played cricket
with enthusiasm and football.
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And I was quite a
reasonable athlete.
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And I found that that helped me
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to adjust to the
relationships in the school.
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And it's always said,
healthy body healthy mind.
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Now I understand
there's a building
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at the school named after you.
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Tell me a little about that?
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There is the Graeme
Clark Center for Innovation
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in the Sciences been created.
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I feel very humble about it.
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It's a wonderful
testimony to the relationship
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between science, faith,
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and I'm very
proud of this building,
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which is aiming to bring boys up
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to a new understanding
of science to make them
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more creative, more innovative.
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And I think that's my hope
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that this will
continue to do so.
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What is your understanding
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of the relationship
between faith and science?
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Why is that
important for all students
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coming through school?
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Well, my understanding
is that truth is truth
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and science is
aiming to find out the truth
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in the physical world.
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But the physical world
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is complimentary
to the faith world
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and the spiritual world.
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And we aren't just machines,
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we are fearfully
and wonderfully made.
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In 1952, Professor
Clark enrolled in medicine
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at the University of Sydney.
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At that time, the
university was alive
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with vibrant discussion groups
around different philosophies.
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My time at Sydney
University was very formative,
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very exciting experience
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for a young
person from the country
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to learn about medicine,
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that was my main aim,
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so that I could become a doctor
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and try and help
people with ear problems
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and hearing disabilities.
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I started in 1952,
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and went through the courses
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and finally graduated in 1957,
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and went through the
hospital training program.
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When I came, my goal
was to study medicine
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to become an ear doctor,
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so I could help
people like my father.
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I've always called
deafness the silent handicap,
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because the
average person doesn't know
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what it's like to be deaf.
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But I knew because I
lived with my father,
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and I had a great
affection for him.
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And so how it affected him
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in such a great
variety of aspects of life,
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whether it be in social
circumstances in Camden,
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running the shop in the home,
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and I desperately
wanted to do something.
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But how could a teenager
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do something to help a father
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when there was no
medical assistance
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for people like him?
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It was also here
that I was introduced
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to the Student
Christian Movement
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and found that
that was leading me
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to a spiritual awareness.
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It was only when
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I went on a Student
Christian Movement camp
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in my first year of medicine
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that we were asked by the leader
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if we'd invite
Christ into our lives.
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I didn't realize
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that was a very
significant moment
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in my life.
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I did so, thinking, well,
there's no harm in doing that,
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because I was a
nominal Christian.
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I wasn't sure whether
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I believed in
miracles or supernatural.
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But I had this
extraordinary experience
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when I did so in quiet time
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that I felt the real
presence of Christ in my life.
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It was an experience of
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perfume, beauty, peace.
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And I haven't experienced that
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since but I had
said, "This is real.
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I must explore it further."
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And that led me to
further Bible studies
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to carrying out
my Christian faith
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in the future,
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which was quite a
roller coaster ride.
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After finishing
at Sydney University,
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Graeme and his
family moved to Melbourne,
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where he began his career as an
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ear, nose and throat surgeon.
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While on holiday
with his wife and children
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at Minnamurra
Beach in New South Wales,
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Graeme made a
discovery that changed history
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and the lives of
hundreds of thousands of people.
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What a magnificent beach.
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It is a magnificent beach.
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And even more so
as it was the beach
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where the
famous cochlear implant
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shell story started.
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It was here that
I was meant to be
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watching the children surfing
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and was sitting
here playing with a shell
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that I found
looking like the cochlea,
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putting grass blades into it,
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and found that if it
was stiff at the base,
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flexible at the tip,
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it would go around the turns
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the thing that we were
struggling to discover,
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and there's a shell...
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There's the one of the... okay.
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And there's a piece of
grass, a blade of grass,
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which would go
around the cochlea.
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And a presto.
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There it is, it's
gone around the turns
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something that we
couldn't achieve in models,
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and was said to be not possible.
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And it was so simple.
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And it was that
discovery really that changed
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the course of
history for deaf people,
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for profoundly deaf people.
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It did change the course,
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because it meant we could
use multi electrodes to simulate
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different frequencies in people
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who are profoundly deaf
with that electrode system.
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And I bet you were excited
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to get back to the
lab and test it out.
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I was so excited
that I asked Margaret
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if we could leave
a few days earlier,
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just to go back to
Melbourne and test it out
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because at that
stage, we had to,
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had the pressure on us to
develop a prototype implant
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for our first patient.
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And we were running out of time.
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This is the
Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital,
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where Professor Clark
and his team spent 14 years
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pushing
challenges and obstacles.
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Many said it was impossible.
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They had a lack of money.
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They were
criticized by their peers.
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And they faced what seemed like
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insurmountable
technical challenges.
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Could they remain
dedicated to their course?
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I worked at this hospital,
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I think it's now over 50
years I've been associated.
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Part of that time
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was as the
professor of otolaryngology,
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first established here
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and then setting up a
clinic for the hospital
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and then the first
cochlear implant clinic
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in the world.
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So I've had a very long
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and happy
association with this hospital.
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You know, much of the research
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that we were doing was
new and was pioneering.
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Although we always
build on the work of others,
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this was thought
to be impossible.
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And therefore
everything we were doing was new
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and breaking new ground.
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And it was difficult too
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because people said
that it wouldn't work.
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And I found that
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it's also making it hard
to do the groundbreaking work.
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But I want to give
credit to our wonderful team.
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It wasn't just me.
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I led the team,
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had to provide
assistance of ideas,
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but we were a
wonderfully enthusiastic team.
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There were many struggles
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that were
related to the research
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to convince people that
what we were doing was good.
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And the scientific
community were very skeptical.
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But in addition, I learned,
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you can't do this
research without money.
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The big breakthrough
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which I believe
was announced in prayer
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was when Sir Reginald
Ansett from Channel 0 or 10
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decided he wanted to have
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a telephone to
raise money for deafness,
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which we called "No Deafness"
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and that gave us the money
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to kick-start the whole program.
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And was only then
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when we could show
that our first patient
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could actually hear
and understand speech,
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that the grant bodies,
00:19:05.91\00:19:07.64
the National Health and
Medical Research Council
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decided to fund us.
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So it was funny to think that
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we had to prove
that it would work
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before we got money
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for basic further research.
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These struggles were
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demanding in many ways.
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And for me, it
became more and more
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a question of relying
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on my Christian
faith, my prayer life.
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I did what we were recommended
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by the scriptures, to praise,
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pray unceasingly
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and I found in
my walk with Christ
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that the more difficult,
00:19:58.86\00:20:01.90
the more challenging,
00:20:01.93\00:20:04.43
the less I could rely on myself,
00:20:04.47\00:20:07.97
the more I found
prayers got answered in ways
00:20:08.00\00:20:12.57
that I really didn't
expect or anticipate.
00:20:12.61\00:20:16.75
And that was another
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great spiritual
awakening for me.
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In 1978, after 14
years of research,
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frustration and
tears, Dr. Clark and his team
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were now ready to make history
00:20:35.20\00:20:37.33
by inserting the first prototype
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of the cochlear
implant into a willing patient
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by the name of Rod Saunders.
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Rod had become profoundly deaf
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as a result of a car
accident a few years earlier.
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On the 1st of August, 1978,
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extremely stressful time.
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And I found
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to be the surgeon too.
00:21:04.09\00:21:07.93
It's helpful for the patient,
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if you're as a surgeon at peace
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when you're doing the work.
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And before the final surgery,
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I went away with my wife
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for a prayer weekend,
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where we prayed,
00:21:30.55\00:21:32.45
we relaxed and
felt God's hand in it.
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I came back on
the Monday morning
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and the engineers
were all in panic state,
00:21:40.30\00:21:43.37
trying to make sure that
00:21:43.40\00:21:44.73
the bionic ear was
finally going to work
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for the
following day, the Tuesday.
00:21:49.04\00:21:52.71
But the sister, who
was a wonderful sister,
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on Tuesday morning,
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said afterwards
how nervous she was,
00:22:00.62\00:22:03.59
and she was amazed how peaceful
00:22:03.62\00:22:09.66
I and Brian Pyman
and my colleague were,
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I didn't tell her that
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I wasn't exactly at peace
00:22:15.46\00:22:17.67
but that peace was needed
00:22:17.70\00:22:21.90
to do the right
thing for this patient.
00:22:21.94\00:22:26.24
And to see things clearly,
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when, because when you operate,
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it's not a routine thing.
00:22:32.95\00:22:34.65
It's not a car that we operate.
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And there are variables
00:22:37.72\00:22:39.05
that you have to be
prepared to deal with.
00:22:39.09\00:22:42.32
So you need that peace.
00:22:42.36\00:22:46.53
When I look back on the efforts
00:22:46.56\00:22:52.40
and the results, firstly,
00:22:52.43\00:22:55.94
I must say at the start,
00:22:55.97\00:22:58.44
I never realized
what would be achieved,
00:22:58.47\00:23:02.54
I prayed for guidance
00:23:02.58\00:23:06.48
that God's will would be done.
00:23:06.51\00:23:09.32
If it wasn't a success,
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.75
then I did my
best with God's help.
00:23:11.79\00:23:15.79
But it turned out far
more dramatic and wonderful
00:23:15.82\00:23:20.90
than I could ever have imagined.
00:23:20.93\00:23:24.33
And it's been
wonderful to help adults
00:23:24.37\00:23:28.00
who had hearing and gone deaf.
00:23:28.04\00:23:31.67
But the greatest satisfactions,
00:23:31.71\00:23:34.84
the greatest fulfillment
has been young children
00:23:34.88\00:23:39.08
who are born deaf,
and then being benefited
00:23:39.11\00:23:43.85
from the cochlear implant.
00:23:43.89\00:23:46.12
Prior to this work,
profoundly deaf children
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did not have any alternative
00:23:50.79\00:23:54.33
other than sign
language of the deaf.
00:23:54.36\00:23:57.10
They could not so easily relate
00:23:57.13\00:23:59.47
to hearing
colleagues and peer group.
00:23:59.50\00:24:03.94
But to see these
children normally speaking,
00:24:03.97\00:24:09.68
you would not know
they had a hearing problem.
00:24:09.71\00:24:13.25
It brings tears to my eyes.
00:24:13.28\00:24:15.82
Professor Clark and
his team are responsible
00:24:21.46\00:24:24.06
for restoring hearing
00:24:24.09\00:24:25.69
to hundreds of
thousands of people worldwide.
00:24:25.73\00:24:28.96
And the innovation has continued
00:24:29.00\00:24:30.37
with the cochlear ear implant,
00:24:30.40\00:24:32.00
now smaller and more
powerful than ever before.
00:24:32.03\00:24:36.37
This groundbreaking
life changing technology
00:24:36.40\00:24:39.54
was made possible through
00:24:39.57\00:24:40.91
the leadership of an amazing man
00:24:40.94\00:24:43.04
who constantly took
time to step outside his work
00:24:43.08\00:24:46.51
and allow time
00:24:46.55\00:24:47.88
for listening to the
voice and guidance of God.
00:24:47.92\00:24:51.39
Professor Clark restored
the sense of hearing to so many
00:24:51.42\00:24:55.36
and always make
time to listen himself.
00:24:55.39\00:24:58.79
Perhaps we can even
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follow Professor Clark's example
00:25:00.20\00:25:02.03
and integrate
prayer into our stillness.
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00:26:49.64\00:26:50.97
and the
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Until then, I
would like to share
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Dr. Graeme Clark's
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favorite prayer with you
that is included in his memoir.
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Let's pray this
prayer together right now.
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Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
00:27:16.43\00:27:20.27
Your kingdom come,
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Your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.
00:27:21.77\00:27:25.21
Give us this
day our daily bread.
00:27:25.24\00:27:27.64
And forgive our debts
as we forgive our debtors.
00:27:27.68\00:27:31.78
And do not lead
us into temptation,
00:27:31.81\00:27:34.25
but deliver us
from the evil one.
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For Yours is the kingdom
00:27:37.25\00:27:38.72
and the power and
the glory forever.
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Amen.
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