<TITLE>09. Par 71-76</TITLE>L-71 And there's two classes of people today. May I say this; there's men and women in the world today, Brother Ruddell, that really don't want to do these things they're doing. There's men and women in the world today that don't want to sin. I feel sorry for them. They don't want to do anything wrong, but they do it. They're drove to it. Now, there's a place for that person that wants to do right. There's a place to let off that pressure. It's true. But there's some that doesn't care.

L-72 The other day a Brother Hickerson got me a pass from the warden here of the federal prison in--at La Grange, Kentucky, to go in, go fishing. And I met a colored boy back there from Louisville, and he told me... I said, "A fine looking, intelligent man like you, what are you doing in here?"
He said, "Well," said, "Reverend, here's what it was." Said, "I... It's nobody's fault but mine." Said, "I--I--I once belonged to the Lord." His name was Bishop. He said, "They called me holy Bishop, because that I served the Lord." He said, "Me and my wife, we have--got a little girl." And said, "One time I just couldn't stand it, so I just went with the world, went away from the Lord." Said, "I had a Christian father and mother." And said, "I served four years overseas in Korea," how many battles he was in, citations and things. He said, "But out there the thing we done is just go to dances and so forth."

L-74 "I got mixed with the wrong crowd, and one day two boys come by and said, 'Bishop, we want to go up the Quaker Maid and get some groceries, will you run us up there?'" Said, "My wife had just called me to dinner. And I said..." Said, "She called me in there, said, 'Honey, don't you go with them; there's no good in them guys. We got to get away from them and back to church again.'" And he said, "Well," said, "'I said, I hate for them, the boys wants groceries,' said, 'I hate not to take them.'" Then he said, "'I'll let them have my car.' Said, 'Don't you do it; they'll tear it to pieces.' And said, 'Run them up there and then come back then.'"
Said, "I run them up there and stopped in the parking lot." And said, "I was setting there waiting, all at once the--the alarms went off and everything, and here come these boys each with pistols in their hand. And I shut the door. I said, 'You're not getting in here.'"
And one of them whacked him across the head, and jerked him back up, and throwed this gun and said, "You're not taking these..." throwed the gun in and said, "If you don't want a hole through you... And we'll throw you out here and take off."

L-76 He said, "You can't go nowhere. You're going to get caught. You boys tell them that I was free; I--I didn't mean this. I--I was setting here; I'm a innocent party." And about that time the police had them.
They pleaded the case, and he said, "I first thought evil of the prosecutor, because he said..." Here's the questions he said: "Is this your car?"
He said, "Yes, sir. But I..."
He said, "Answer my questions." Oh, brother, the devil has a way of doing it. He said, "Answer my question." Said, "Is this your car?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
"Is that your license number?"
"Yes, sir"'
He said, "Was you up there in that lot?"
He said, "Well, I tell you..."
He said, "Answer my questions."
He said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "There you are." And on circumstantial evidence they give him ten years--sent the other boys for life.
Now, he said, "See, brother, I just got in the wrong crowd. It's nobody to blame but me." And that's right. Now, he's got ten years to let off the pressure in. I prayed for him, Brother Wood there and I--we was setting out on the water--and took the boy by the hand and prayed for him out on the water, that God would give him a parole. And I'm still praying for him that God will.
What is it? Pressure, innocent, a man innocent, Now, that man should have a chance.


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