<TITLE>06. Par 50-60</TITLE>L-50 But, he pulled this tobacco. He said, "Now, you see, the only thing it is, is the public is not smart enough to catch this, and yet we're supposed to be intelligent people." Said, "If you get no smoke, you get no results. And when you got smoke, you've got to have tar to get smoke. And tar is where cancer lays. It takes tar to make smoke." And said, "The only thing, smoking them with the tips on them, you smoke about three, to get the satisfaction of one the other time. You got the same amount in you, exactly." See? And the American public wants a rabbit out of a hat. They got it. That's right. There you are. See?

L-51   And then when they brought that rat out. They had brought one out, every seven days. It was the most hideous looking sight I ever seen. There was a great big fellow setting by me, said, "Whew," sweat running off of him. He said, "Very striking!"
I said, "Do you smoke?"
He said, "Yes."

L-52 There you are, but yet, we go right on doing it. Why? We're trying to find something to quieten, some anesthetic. It seems like the world is in a breakneck speed, and I don't know what--what they mean.

L-53 But there is a Christian anesthetic. There is the--the opium, comes from a lily. And the Christian church has some opium, and it's from the Lily of the Valley. Uh-huh. Soothes all the pains. And it's all over then, when you get this Christian opium. This new Wine that they had on the Day of Pentecost, see, it soothes out the pain.

L-54   People, so arrogant, and they're doing things that they ought not to do. Instead of trying to get rid of the cause, they're just putting another cause with it. You can never find the cure until you get rid of the cause.

L-55 Man is trying to find something to satisfy, and he thirsts. And God made him to thirst. That, he was built up that way, but God built him that way so he'd thirst after Him. But he tries to satisfy it, and hush that holy call in him, with things of the world. And we have no right to do that. Now, but people do wrong, constantly. Instead of going to the place to get rid of the cause, we try to hush it with anesthetics, and liquor, and smoking, and putting more to it, heaping it up, all the time, making it worse. And all this only builds up pressure. It just makes it worse, all the time. Not long ago...

L-56   You, all--all of you perhaps know that I do a lot of target shooting and hunting. That's what I have as a hobby. Some brother had sent over to--to Weatherby Company and had taken a--a model-70 Winchester, as some my hunting partners in here would know. And it was rebored to a Weatherby magnum.257. Art Wilson give Billy Paul the gun, and he's left-handed. And it had a bolt, and he just give it to me.

L-57 Another fellow come in, said, "You haven't got no Weatherby, so I'll rebore it for you."

L-58   And in reboring it, they didn't want to admit it, but they didn't rebore it right. And what they did, back... You hand-loaders know, that, back behind the ring it was getting pressure. And when I fired a few rounds of shells in it, I noticed the primer was pulling back, and there was a pressure. Well, I knowed the shell was absolutely loaded under the maximum load, so it couldn't been getting pressure from that. But it wasn't bored right.

L-59 And the next shell that laid up, hadn't been for God, I'd lost my life. It just, the whole gun, exploded and blowed the trees out around me, like that. About as high as this building, red fire blew. And the rifle barrel went out on the fifty-yard range, and the bolt went over my head back, this way. The scope exploded, that close to my eyes. And--and I didn't have nothing in my hand; just blowed up.

L-60 Blood spurting every way, from around me, and we was way away from a doctor. And they seen me. And I couldn't speak or anything. And I was holding the blood in, like this. I took it away, and just spurted all over a brother standing there, and I put it back.


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