<TITLE>19. Par 190-199</TITLE>L-190   So there used to be buyers, brokers go by and buy these slaves. One time there was one come to a great plantation, and he watched them. The slaves were hard beaten, and everything, you know. They was away from home; they'd never go back again. The Boers, the Hollanders, had went over and got them, brought them here and sold them. And they'd never see papa again, mama again, never see their babies again. They bred them with one another; picked a big man, breed him to a big woman, away from his own wife, to make bigger slaves. Oh, God will make them answer for that someday! That's right. That isn't right.

L-191   Like Abraham Lincoln said one time, when he got off a boat there in New Orleans, picked off his stovepipe hat...

L-192 He seen three or four little negroes, coming down, standing there with no shoes on, where they had... A cow had layed and got--got the frost off the ground, they was standing after running the cows in. Their little old feet bursted, bleeding. They was singing, "You got shoes, I got shoes, and all God's children has got shoes."

L-193 When he got off the boat down there, walked up to the bull pen, there was a great big negro standing up there, whipping him around, testing his heart. And run him up and down the street, with a whip behind him; then check his heart, see if he was all right. His poor little wife standing there, two or three kids under her arms like that; to sell him, to breed him to a bigger woman. Old Abraham Lincoln stuck that under his hat... his hat under his arm, like that, and hit his fist, he said, "That's wrong! And someday I'll hit that, if it costs my life." And yonder, in a museum in Chicago, lays a dress with the blood on it, that freed that negro from that.

L-194 And I say that sin and things is wrong! God help me to hit it, and all other ministers of the Gospel. We are born free, children of God. We have no business for any creed or cult to run us into a World Council of churches. We are free-born man, in the Holy Ghost. We have a right. We come out of such stuff as that, to be pentecostal. That's right. Now we are free. We don't have to be bound down to those things again.

L-195   But this buyer said, looking across his slaves, a hundred or something, of them, on a big plantation, he said, "Say!" One little fellow there, they didn't have to whip him; his chest out, and his chin up, right on the job! Said, "Say! I want to buy him."

L-196 He said, "Oh, no!" The owner said, "He's not for sale. Huh-uh."
He said, "Well, is he a slave?"
Said, "Yeah."

L-197 He said, "Well, what makes him so different?" Said, "Do you feed him different?"
He said, "No, they all eat out there in the galley, together."
Said, "Is he the boss over them?"
Said, "No, he's just a slave."
"Well," said, "what makes him different?"

L-198 Said, "You know, I wondered that, myself. But," said, "you know, over in the homeland where they come from, in Africa, that boy's father is the king of a tribe. And though he's an alien, he conducts himself like a king's son."

L-199   Oh, I thought, what a thing for Christianity! Women, stop that wearing them clothes like that! Man, stop that telling them smutty jokes and all that stuff! We are sons and daughters of the King. Dress like a queen, dress like a--a lady. Act like a gentleman, don't let your hair grow down like this. The Bible said, "It's wrong (nature teaches you) for a man to have long hair. And it's a disgrace and a common thing for even a woman to pray with her hair cut." And how about these? "It's a--it's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man." The great unchanging God doesn't change. But yet today it's just as loose as the rest of our nation is. Shame! Let's act like sons and daughters of God. Let's live like it. We are, we are sons of a King. We are. We are. Right now this bunch of mess and dirt and filth, around here, people call themselves "Christians" and still acting like that!


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