<TITLE>27. Par -</TITLE>L-44-4 Like a fellow down here at the Kiwanis, or the--was speaking not long... Right after the First World War. (Brother Funk standing there, being a soldier.) He said that he was... (It's a little--kind of sounds jokey. It's no place for a joke, but here's what he said. He was here in New Albany.) He said, "The captain taken us out, said, 'That whole country there is infested with Japs. Tomorrow, boys, we go in; we got to take them.' He said, 'Remember, boys, there's many of us standing here today that won't be there tomorrow. They won't be here tomorrow; we're going in in the morning at daylight.' Said, 'Now, each one get to his own religion.'"
This guy said, "And I didn't have any religion." And said, "I said..." Said, "I stood there, and all the rest of them..." Said, "Here come a chaplain, went this way; a Protestant went this way, and the Jewish went this way, and a Catholic went that way with their chaplain." Said, "I stood there."

L-44-6 And said, "The--the commanding officer said to me, said, 'Boy, you better get to your religion.'"
He said, "I ain't got any."
He said, "You better be getting some, 'cause you're going to need some right away; I'm sure."
And said about that time, he seen a bunch going by and was Catholic. Said he walked over and said to this priest, "Could you give me some religion?"
And he said, "Come on."
Said, "He went in and made a Catholic out of me." (And there in New Albany there was John Howard and a bunch of them real royal Catholics setting there, you know, when this guy was telling this.) And he said--he said, "In the next day in the combat..." He was talking about, oh, how it was and said (He's a great big fellow, you know)--and said they got hand to hand. And they was just stabbing with knives, and screaming, and cutting, and slashing. Said the lines got twisted up, and they got right around one another. Japs let them walk right into it, like that, and them big old machine guns a-bellowing from every side--and hand to hand combat.

L-45-3 Said, "Directly, I stopped long like this..." And said, "Everything, screams and carrying on, you couldn't hear yourself." Said, "There's blood." He said, "I looked, and it was my blood." Said, "I looked here. There was a hole in my side." He said, "That was my blood." Said, "I... You know, I--I--I..."
And a real... And, Catholic friend, I'm just saying this for--for fun now. But a real, royal Catholic said--said, "Did you say a 'Hail Mary?'"
He said, "No, sir." Said, "That was my blood. I didn't want any secretaries. I said, 'I want to talk to the main Man.'" Said, "That was--that was my blood."
And I think that's about the way it is. Yes, sir. That's the way it goes. We've got to have a tie post, an absolute.
"I had no time for His secretary," he said, "I wanted to talk to Him."
And that's it, brother. When a man comes to Christ, you don't want to take some preacher's word, some secretary's word, some something else. You Protestants, don't take this, that, or the other; go to that absolute until you're anchored there by the new birth, being borned again, and filled with the Holy Ghost, and you see the Bible being manifested in humility and love through your life. Oh, then that's your absolute. Yes, sir.


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