<TITLE>03. Par 25-37</TITLE>L-25 When I got about eighteen, I slipped off from home and went out to Arizona. "They needed me to break their horses. I'm sure of that. They just... They needed me, so I must leave home." Under age, but I slipped off, and I happened to get to Phoenix just in time of a rodeo, you know. So I went back out there to look their stock over, see which one I was going to ride. The ones the rest of them couldn't ride, I was going to ride it, you know, had the silver saddle.

L-26   I was a little bitty fellow, always been very small, and I thought I'd get me a pair of chaps. I know my father wore them. And he didn't have any at the time, and so I got me... I seen a pretty pair, you know, had A-r-i-z-o-n-a at the bottom, steer heads and things on it. I thought, "Oh, my, that's going to look good on me," you know, how a kid. I pulled them up on me, it was about eighteen inches of it laying out on the floor. And I looked like one of these little bantam chickens, you know, with them feathers on. I thought, "That will never work," so I just went and got me a pair of Levis.

L-27 And I thought, "I'll make some money." So I went out and looked all up-and-down that stock standing there, so wild that they wouldn't even eat hay, and it in the manger. I thought, "Oh, my!"

L-28   So the first time they brought out, it happened to be... Strange, saying this this morning, never thought of it till just now; but the first horse was to be rode that afternoon, in competition, was called the "Kansas Outlaw," and it was from Kansas, great big seventeen- hand-high outlaw he was. And so this famous rider there was supposed to ride him.

L-29 So I got myself up on the corral fence, like the rest of the riders, you know, and set up there. They'd push this hat back. I thought, "I look like a real rider," looking up.

L-30 So this fellow come out, all decorated up. He--he, when he come out of the chute, on this horse, he made about two or three twists and the sunfish, and the boy... The horse went one way, and the man the other. The pick-ups got the horse. And the ambulance got the rider, blood running out of his ears. And the horse going on down through there, and the pick-ups got him.

L-31 This caller came by and said, "I'll give any man a hundred dollars that'll stay on him ten seconds." He walked on down through there, coming down through there, said, looked right straight at me, said, "Are you a rider?"

L-32 And I said, "No, sir." I changed my mind, right quick. I was no rider.

L-33   When I first was ordained, the Missionary Baptist Church, I'd pack my Bible under the arm, you know, like that, and I got my--my credentials. I--I was a defender of the Faith, that's all there was to it. I thought I was a preacher.

L-34 One day I was in over here at Saint Louis, when this little Daugherty girl was healed, and I thought that I was a minister. I went down and I met the Pentecostals. And this Robert Daugherty, some of you may know him. And I heard him preaching. And that man preached till he would buckle in the knees and get blue in the face, and go plumb down to the floor and come back up, catching his breath, you could hear him two blocks away, still preaching.

L-35 I, my old slow Baptist ways just don't think of it that fast. Anybody said to me, since then, "Are you a preacher?" I say, "No, sir." I kind of have to watch that.
A fellow said to me, up at Philadelphia...

L-36   There is where the next meeting is to be held, with the international. I'm to speak the 29th, open the meeting the 29th, for Doctor Brown and--and many of those brethren along. That's at Philadelphia, begins the 29th of this month. It's my privilege to open the meeting, so, and have a couple breakfasts for them.

L-37 Some fellow said, "What are you hanging around that bunch of Businessmen? You're supposed to be a preacher."
I said, "Well, I--I am a businessman."
He said, "Well, what--what business are you in?"


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