and the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. the words of the lovely, dark and deep. but i have promises to keep. and miles to go before i sleep. and miles to go before i sleep. . >> when have you heard a preacher say i will be brief. but when it comes to talking about real gentle and simple faith. it is quite brief in its expressions. i am a methodist minister and i have done many other things in my life. not the least of which is being in state government for many years and the areas of social service assist and child welfare. i did some radio in baltimore. and talk on bal, that's how i got to know govern schaefer when he was married. i didn't know him. i didn't know he was the kind of person who would listen to a talk show. and see what people are talking about. and he was beginning stages of the harbor. >> i thought it was a good idea. what little i knew about that development and i am on there defending it at night. i found out that he was listening. en thought, maybe i could be of help some day. >> when he became governor, he brought me down to the press office where i worked with public information officers and that's how i got to know him. >> i wasn't there until my job changed. the steps of a good man are ordered of the lord. one day i got a constituent letter on my desk. it had come from the govern's office. >> the man is actually reading letters from citizens. and in his open hand. he wrote luther, i think you ought to go visit this person. >> oh, my god. he knows, i am a minister. do i make pastoral calls now. >> i went to visit her. she was a state employee, low level state employee. her husband was very sick. they weren't getting the kind of care they needed. we worked with her. until we could find some way to help. that was the kind of work i did. after that, it became a full time job in office with cabinet stature. i did have a title, i can't remember what it was, but i was secretary of hard luck. i consider that a great honor. i wish i had a certificate on it. i was everywhere in the state representing him. i tell people that i spent time in every jail in the state of maryland. just a few hours at a time. visiting people either inmates or their families. whoever. had a problem. what makes a man good. he cared. that make as person good. >> he had a simple religious faith that he didn't talk about a lot in public. and he was to speak one day at the naval academy prayer breakfast. >> so i got the assignment to write him. well, you didn't write out a whole long speech for him. you wrote little outline kind of things. so i wrote this little thing saying. a simple faith. and i was there. waiting to hear this great religious statement. and the place was packed, the midshipmen were there and everyone else and it came time for him to speak. that morning the reporter in the baltimore sub had written a story saying has religion tainted governor schaefer. >> well, to call onhim to deliver the message at the prayer breakfast and i am sitting back there waiting for this. and he got up there like you know he could get. a he said a simple faith. of simple faith. christians, are supposed to love everybody. but i hate that and he named him from the baltimore sun. so i guess i am not a chn.he sat down. i had to pay a little pastoral call on him that afternoon. and talk about it. the media has done just a wonderful job with lainy and her staff and so forth encouraging them to cover all of these wonderful spots in the city where he did so much. obviously so much. it is just great coverage. and the work in the neighborhoods to keep them clean, keep them straight. and keep people living there. those kind of things are well documented and had been highlighted today. but the steps of this good man, went to places where you could not find now perhaps or take a gathering to show. and put on television. >> it was those simple homes and hearts of people that he cared about, and reached out to and helped when ever he could. >> he cared. we developed something called the seven steps of good citizen service. one was deal with their problem, not yours. don't be a bureaucrat who says oh, my god, i had to put up with that kind of thing. what does that have to do with what i am doing. >> listen, to their hearts. as well as their words. >> respond to people not letters. consider the possibility they just may be right one of those citizens out there. if no one can help, at least show that you care. if you can't help, maybe someone else can. >> working together. and when he became comptroller he took the seven steps with him. mike golden had them on the little mugs in comptroller's office. tax collectors. i know they do more than that and the comptroller is here today. but i hope maybe your people still have the mugs around somewhere with those seven steps of caring citizen service. he cared. also, he acted. not enough just to respond. you had to do something. and you didn't respond to people and so easy to do in bureaucracy. wish we could help you. that is a federal issue. contact your senator or your congress person. or whoever else -- if it gets to us. it is ours. >> one story the governor kept talking about. we got a letter from an older couple that lived in the mountains in west virginia. they had a son in some military conflict if years before. who lost his life. and i think they were citizens of maryland at the time. they contacted us with the letter otherwise they had been trying for years to get that it memorial flag, that those veterans who gave their lives for the country get and the family gets to keep. and they couldn't get it. now, what do you do in response to that? you simply write them back. call them. and say, well, you know, that military or someone. or say, you know, since you now live in virginia, you might want to contact the governor's office in virginia. guess what? he gave that to me to do. and i went to our national guard and thank god for them and they gave me a flag. and i drove all the way down out into the western part of virginia. on country roads and i finally found the little house out there where this dear mother and father were and i had a little ceremony there. and in the name of governor schaefer and the people of maryland who cared about that he acted. it is your problem, it is our problem too. finally, he believed. there are answers to all problems, i think he really believed. and the bible says that with god all things are possible. >> you can take a fading city and make it glizen and blame again. >> it did go into broken and hurting hearts. and be made whole. and see that it happened. >> editorial that leads me to conclude. talking about his final steps. and now, on the other side. you know what is called the holy city, or the new jerusalem. and it is heavenly. >> it is in one of its editorial. this pit of advice to st. peter. make sure the pearly gates are shining when he gets there. so, it is. i think it is possibilities. and he takes the tour walking through the holy city. perhaps, telling st. peter. i think i saw a pothole starting to develop in the golden streets. and can we get something done about that. so, here is one. i probably shouldn't tell this. but i will. it might happen. he might see some other people there. and in the crowds. he spots one or two, and he says to st. peter. what are they doing here? this is not where i told them to go. that won't happen. he thought of me as a minister. and i was. >> and days perhaps and years when he could get back down here to his church. where he was a member. he came to my little church. and i was asked to take the same week. that i went to work in the governor's office. and this needed a pastor in the city of daniels. it is a mill town wiped out with the flood and hurricane agnes and it is the beautiful granite church on top of the hill. and in the old town of daniels. he started coming there. >> six or seven years ago. >> no one could see him. the church is inside. and the park. >> no tv cameras. and no carrying his bible around. like some may do to be seen. >> he came to take his seat with our small very close crowd together and he called it my church. >> my church. >> jim roby who is a state senator and county executive, the governor used to say jim robj goes to my church. he said for good's sake. i was baptized here as an infant. and come here all my life. but he came with a simple kind of faith. so, i visited him. and i visited him at saint agnes,en aye visited him -- and i visited him in the nursing home. one was a day or two before he died. he was conscious of who was there. and i offered him my hand. he squeezed it and collapsed it. and said a -- clasped it and said. don't go. i had to eventually go. and i said governor, just imagine that you are being embraced by the arms of god. and i think he sensed that. james weldon johnson was a great poet of another day and wrote the poem. go down death. i thought about that at the time. i want to paraphrase it for our own governor. weep not, weep not. he is not dead. he is legislationing on the bosom of god. he is only just gone home. just a few days ago, god was looking down from his great high heaven, looking down on all his children. his eye fell on his servant donald and god's big heart was touched with pity. with the ever lasting pity and god sat down on his thrown and commanded that bright angel, call me death. and that tall bright angel cried in a voice that broke like a clap of thunder. >> call death. call death. and the echo sounded down the streets of heaven until it reached way back to the shadowy place where it waits. and he leaped on his fastest horse. pale as a sheet in the moonlight. up in the street he galloped and struck fire from the goal. but he didn't make a sound. death rode to the great white thrown and waited for god's command and he said go down. go down to baltimore. down there in maryland. and find my son donald. he is born the burden in the heat of the day. he labored long in my vineyard. he is tired and dewpoint weary. go down and bring him to me. death doesn't say a word. and he clamped the spurs to his bloodless side and down he rode through heaven's pearly gates and through the sun and moon and stars and from the horse. it was like a comet in the sky. on death road leaving the lightning flash behind. and straight on down he came. while we were watching around his bed. he turned his eyes and looked away. he saw what we couldn't see. and he saw old death. he saw old death coming like a falling star. and death didn't frighten donald. he looked at him like a welcome friend and he seemed to say to us. i am going home and he closed his eyes. and death took him up like a baby and he lay in his icy arms and he didn't feel no chill. he began to ride again. up against the morning star and the glory up to the the great white throne and he laid donald on the breast of god. he wiped awe his tears and furrows from his face and the angels sank a little song and god rocked him in his arms and kept saying. take your rest. take your rest. weep not, he is not dead. he is resting in the bosom of god. amen. >> congregation may sit or kneel for the prayer. let us pray to the lord. all mighty god. it is one community and fellowship in the mystical body of the son chris. our lord. to the whole church. and paradise and on earth. amen. >> granted all that has been baptized in christ's death and resurrection. and we may pass with him to our joyful resurrection. >> it is still in our pilgrimage and yet, it is by faith. and lead us in holiness. and richtiousness. all our days. give courage. that had he meet the strength to meet the days lady. for the reasonable or holy hope. and the joyful expectation of eternal life with those they love. >> grant us with all who have died in the help of the he is resurrection. and eternal ever lasting glory and all thy saints and promise to all who share in the vick istry of thy son jesus christ and it is one god for ever and ever. >> now, in our service, we have the commentdation where we offer william donald into god's loving arms. people respond with the words in bold print. >> give rest to thyservant with our ain'ts. >> -- saints. > >> thou are immortal, the maker of mankind. and we are mortal. formed of the earth the and under earth shall we return and so, it is now created and saying. now dust thou art and unto dust thou remains. >> we make our song alleluia. ally luolia. >> -- alleluia. >> into thy hands oh, merse envelope savior. we commend our servant donald. it is a sheep of thine own flock or own redeeming. receive him into the arms of diversity into the blessed grasp of ever lasting peace. and into the glorious company. >> after the service concludes, and we invite people to return to their cars and make their way to the memorial garden, the baltimore city police will guide you out of the downtown area. and the hearse will depart from here. and please assist us by going directly to delaney valley. now closing blessing from our episcopal bishop of maryland. >> when they are scapegoating and big gottry are the messages we often here. a blessing is an affirmation that god loves you and it those unlimited grace and mercy. and william donald schaefer was a member of this parrish. and may god bless him. >> may he rest in peace. now, to you, may god bless you. >> and may god bless you with the courage. and to risk something big for something good. may god bless you with the wisdom that the world is now too dangerous for anything but truth. and to small for anything but love. a blessing of god almighty, the father, the son, the holy spirit be among you and be with you for ever. amen. ♪ ♪ ♪[ music ] and this concludes the services for william donald shaefer in downtown baltimore. what a moving service it was. words of from people who knew him best, who loved him, who felt his love. >> right. it was an absolutely beautiful service that celebr aspect of his life. >> and this is lain y lebow who was with him at his greatest moments and even with his passing. >> beautiful she was the daughter he never had. i'm sure that meant a lot. ♪ [ music ] ♪[ music ] ♪[ music ] the choir singing the respect. dr. eric conaway, what a fitting tribute in ending to this ceremony. the life of william donald shaefer. >> absolutely beautiful. that was beautiful. for a man who served the public his entire life. his public said good-bye to him in an honorable, moving, and very personal way. >> very much so. and a lot of humor because that was a reflection of the man. encounters people had with him ran the range from being extremely funny to extremely serious. >> always about business. but you're right, warm humors, tearful good-byes. nothing was more moving than the simple stories that reverend son's told. things he did that no one knew about. individual ways he answered people's letters and needs. that made him the man he was. i learn things about him today. i did. >> what a great tribute when he did james johnso adapted it and put in the demain of william donald shaefer in that poem. and sterling as always in his delivery and his presentation. >> jessica and don are outside of the church right now and they are watching as the motorcade is assembling to make its way to the lainy memorial memorial garden. can you hear us and what do you see from where you are? >> actually, we are right at the bottom of your screen there. as you said, the motorcade is forming out here. the music was glorious and out on the street as well as inside the sanctuary.here. there are arguments that for the last 30 or 40 years that we have begun to have these poles develop and we might see the same thing develop in china. >> charlie: china might have the precedent? >> the conventional wisdom is that they will have this class of elite consumers and that because it's china it will still be a very large number and it will lead them to pass the japanese as the number one market for luxury goods, so that will have all sorts of impacts but it will still be a country where there are hundreds of millions of desperately poor people. >> charlie: what will they do -- what will they do in terms of wages as the demand on the part of their employment and part of their labor market continues to make increasing demands for change? >> i think this is one of the most interesting things going on in china now, is they want to make this transition to a consumer-driven economy and the only way you can do that is making sure people have money to spend, so having spent the previous few decades dismantling the social safety net that had been established during the mao era, they now find themselves trying to put it back together again. why? because the chinese people have high savings rates partially for cultural reasons but also for very practical reasons. they need to send their kids to school. they need to buy increasingly expensive housing. they need to send their parents to live in a retirement home and they need to take care of their health care. all of those things which the state used to provide in cities they don't provide anymore, so the chinese government is looking at how they can establish minimum incomes, how they can establish a health care safety net -- all of these measures designed to free up capital so people can begin spending more. >> charlie: what's the biggest social tension in china? >> i would say it's this growing inequality that not everyone is getting to participate. i remember driving around shanghai with a friend of mine and being in awe at the thousands and thousands of new buildings -- i think the statistic is something like 5,000 buildings that they've built in the last couple of decades -- up from one skyscraper that they had when i started going there in 1986. i pointed to all those and i saw them as a triumph of chinese capitalism and he saw it as a triumph of international capitalist speculation that he couldn't afford to -- moreover, it was more as he imagined it rubbed in his face that he got to see this wonderful new life but didn't get to experience it. i think that's one of the interesting drivers in china -- that people both emulate the life styles of the rich and famous but feel like they can't have them. one difference in the united states -- and i think this is an important difference -- is we don't think that most people who got wealthy got wealthy because of their family connections, but i think people in china believe that a lot of the reasons why the wealthiest are so wealthy is because they had better connections. they had better opportunities. >> charlie: is that true? >> without a doubt. the most powerful people in the building industry, for instance, are all connected to party elites. there are, of course, exceptions to this, and in the entertainment industry, online gaming -- there are exceptions to this but i think the exceptions otherwise prove the rule that you need to have party connections. they're trying to figure out ways of getting around this. executing corrupt elite officials, all of these sort of things but it's a tough problem to resolve. >> charlie: is the consumer demand for things like cell phones extending beyond shanghai and beijing, beyond all those other cities of a million or more even into rural areas? >> first of all, to point out an interesting fact the number of cities over a million or more is nine or 10. in china, 150-plus. when we are just talking about urban china, of course, we're talking about a gigantic population but like you, i wondered how much of the sort of things i was talking about affected these hundreds of millions of desperately poor people, so i did a little bit of market research the last time i was in yunan province, which is near tibet, and vietnam. i was traveling between two cities that had previously been at the very, very end of the lonely planet trail. yo