<TITLE>14. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 There I watched, the...?... of them as they got next to the hotel; I looked out, seen them...?... people...?... these people going along the...?... scattered it along the streets...?... And I started to giving away, and they had to take me away, 'cause...?... people...?... dressed a little different went the other way, come around [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... on the street... Went down and there was a least one part of line out in the middle of the street, old...?... the street... And they had to open those...?... And there, laying there...?... picking up mortar, what they call mortar, big stones like that. And poor little women with little starving babies, setting against the side of the walls out there, couldn't set up, some of them so weak, the little women...?... their head... run down like that...?... filthy...?... seventy-five pounds...?... put it on their head like that, and run up about three or four flights of steps and doesn't even come back down, and do that from before they get...?... all day...?... no clothes on, just a little loin cloth...?... on, poor little mothers...?... And they were to many...?... They wouldn't talk to...?... like that, afraid they'd lose their job...?... place, you couldn't hardly your nose...?... Them's human beings...?...

L-44 They're not just...?... They're not puppets. They're God's children. They have just as much right to...?... as we have in our...?... But we as a nation have failed, and the Christian church has failed (That's exactly right.) to bring the people...?...
Now notice. In there when we got down about...?... I told Billy, "How can we do it?"
He said, "Dad, I don't know. We haven't got no...?..." I went to the window over there and looked out, and this was all lined with people, all up-and-down the streets and things. They were brought in barriers and so forth. And I thought...
First, they brought me my dinner; I couldn't eat it, thinking them poor people out... I--I couldn't even do it. So I had a orange and a few little crackers, and I went out there. And there was a lady going down with a little baby crying like that, and I couldn't hardly go over fifty yards. My, they...?... almost with...?...
That poor little mother setting there, looked up, the tears running out of her eyes...?... the baby children, little bitty hands out like that. I--I couldn't stand it.

L-45 I looked at them, I said, "Oh Billy." He said, "Daddy, I seen what...?..." I seen him pitch the cookie out there too...?... Went back there, I was going to go me some cookies again. So about the time I got out there, and the begin to throw...?... It was most pathetic sight you seen, to see lepers with no hands hardly, and no feet hardly, just stubs...?...
And listen. I don't know what...?... As a nation shows these Christian people, we...?... something like that, instead of going somewhere to and eat...?... Your soul has a...?... True. I...?... Remember I was born and this is my home, greatest nation in the world. But let us...?... understand our Christianity...?... because you have...?... they way we have. And then we go over there, I said...


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