{"id":114255,"date":"2022-05-14T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114255"},"modified":"2023-07-11T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:29:13","slug":"annotated-transcript-q497","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=114255","title":{"rendered":"Annotated Transcript Q497"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jones:<\/strong> \u2013black woman. And stuck down, in a corner of this particular photo, is a photo of a black girl in a red dress.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yet I do not know you.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Never been in your home?<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You\u2019ve shown this picture to no one?<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s in your home now. That picture I described is in your home.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Hands clasped. (Clears throat softly) You have a daughter that has three children.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes, I have.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Young child. He\u2019s a boy, \u2018round four or so.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> This is saving his life.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Shouts, affirmation)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (glossolalia) Your name, that you give to us, is Sidener?<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes, it is.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> But to show that, no\u2013 every meeting I show this. Uh\u2013 I show the power of God. People come, they give subscriptions, or they give their attendance list, and you would give your name as Sidener?<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Your name was Thompson, before you were married.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Quickly, shouting) God Almighty!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers, shouts) (Pause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> This\u2013 This, my darling, is for a twin. You have a twin sister?<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes, here she is\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Idella. Right next to you. Idella. Idella Carter. This will stop her from a stroke \u2013 she has high blood pressure \u2013 and this will stop her from a stroke. Monday evening. Spirit, Spirit of God! Monday evening \u2018cause (Calls out) God has come on the scene! Won\u2019t happen now.<\/p>\n

(Organ music plays softly, joined by soft female vocals sings \u201cIn the Upper Room\u201d)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (applause, cheers, claps with music)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And this is for a loved one, Jetta\u2013 is it Jetta Steward or something of this sort?<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> Woman:<\/strong> Yes that\u2019s my (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> In San Jose (unintelligible)? And in your eyes, there\u2019s been a problem that\u2019s been causing\u2013 a problem that\u2019s been giving you some difficulty, a pressure in your eyes. This will stop glaucoma, that would cause you to go blind. Now, you are done. You are finished! The blessings. Just place this on your eyes, just place it on your eyes, and the Spirit<\/em> shall roll away the film! Ohh (harmonising with music).<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> (Singing with support of organ) In the upper room with Father\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Spirit. Spirit.<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> We now have two cancers returned. Two that\u2019ve gone out to the restrooms, have now returned with cancers being carried in large handfuls of paper towels. They are rejoicing now, as they come forward on the stage, to where the Prophet receives them warmly, and rejoices with them over their healings.<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> In the upper room with Father (melodically, soulfully)<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> So many cancers passed today, before this congregation of several thousand. God goes about his work\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> We just took away cancers from both of them, and deafness here, we stopped it. We praise God. She can hear out of both ears, clearly, so we can praise God. Praise God! Praise God! Thank you, God!<\/p>\n

Jones and Female vocalist:<\/strong> In the Upper Room with Jesus [Editorial note<\/strong>: Jones sings the name as Jesus, and the female vocalist corrects herself \u2013 from Father to Jesus \u2013 in mid-word]<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> \u2013before I come down. There\u2019re the cancers \u2013 two cancers \u2013 that\u2019ve been passed. The woman carrying them, was with a stroke three days, she\u2019s in her seventies. And I came to her, she was paralysed on her side, and she was made every whit whole. And ever since then, she\u2019s said \u201cI\u2019m gonna do the work of God.\u201d She hosts the bus, clear across the country, those\u2013 uh, all this healing work, \u2018cause she was laying with a stroke for three days, paralysed on her side. And that\u2019s been some time ago, so it lasts, child, the Spirit\u2019s blessing lasts. I\u2019m going to ask that people have come in late, I\u2019m going to ask that you have an opportunity to give, and I\u2019m going to ask now for purely no blessing, but just because you love. Some of you in the family\u2013 how many will give an extra dollar right now? How many would give one extra dollar? One extra dollar, in the family, one\u2013<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> \u2013 about that. Only God. And that\u2019s happened 38 times this year. Not the ones in the homes, not the one on the streets, not the one in the hospitals, not the ones like the sister who stood up and testified about going to the morgue, and showed her daughter here where she took a picture and went to the morgue. Those pictures are indeed blessed. Four thousand miracles that we have written<\/em> report of\u2013 and how many we don\u2019t have written report, we couldn\u2019t say since May. So get those pictures.\u00a0 Money won\u2019t stand in your way if you\u2019ll speak to the secretary. It\u2019s a blessed thing, \u2018cause God anointed those pictures. We didn\u2019t for years have pictures, but the Spirit spoke the pictures to be just as much as an anointed cloth. And it has certainly proven its meritoriousness. It\u2019s stopped accidents, cured cancer, brought one woman\u2013 she went, right in this church, what was her name? Sharp, wasn\u2019t it? Son was dead for\u2013 dead for a\u2013 a day. Good God. Good God! Just a faith<\/em> brought him back. Dead for a day. Don\u2019t believe it? You can ask them. You saw the woman standing up here, the girl that the mother went right to the\u2013 there she\u2013 it\u2019s the sister there? Dead for a day. Son dead for a day, right standing over there. And you saw the sister with the daughter up here, she was in the morgue, and she pushed doctors aside and went in and put the picture on and up she come (Calls out) right out of the morgue! Good God.<\/p>\n

Congregation<\/strong>: (Applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Anybody else \u2013 if we weren\u2019t preaching brotherhood and peace \u2013 they\u2019d have advertisement all over the news, but they\u2019re afraid to advertise such a thing like this, \u2018cause they know the world would beat a path to the door<\/em>. They don\u2019t want to tell it. Couldn\u2019t afford to tell it. Remember busses eight and nine will be returning to Fresno, Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco, Redwood Valley, at about seven-thirty or eight. Uh\u2013 But no one\u2019s to go unless you have<\/em> to go to work. \u2018Cause we\u2019re staying over for a big meeting tomorrow at one. How many will tell, the\u2013 the mit\u2013 the witness of the Spirit was to tell twenty. Twenty a day. How many will tell? Several people. The only advertisement we have of our new Temple will be by your voice. Tell them. Meeting at five-thirty tonight, and then tomorrow at one. Feast and a fellowship and healing service, tonight at five-thirty and tomorrow at one at the corner of Hoover and Alvarado. You might write that up out there, \u2018cause some people won\u2019t hear it, and there\u2019s one woman back there that needs\u2013 Hey, don\u2019t move. Don\u2019t move. Spirit. Sister, don\u2019t move. Please don\u2019t move for a minute. I must<\/em> give a cloth to you. I must<\/em> give a cloth to you when I go down. Please don\u2019t move<\/em>. Sit down if you will. It\u2019s an accident I\u2019ve got to prevent\u2013 I see a Buick and\u00a0 Chrysler colliding, and you would be in the middle of it. Hands clasped. (Pause, sounds like flicking through pages) Spirit of God. Katie Green. Who\u2019s Katie Green? Katie Green. (Pause) Katie Green? (Pause) I s\u2013 No, all right, no, it\u2019s all right, no\u2013 no need to do so. May\u2013 Maybe Spirit\u2013 (Calls out) Katie, Katie Green! You\u2019re deaf! That\u2019s why I don\u2019t hear it. Katie Green! (Pause) All right. Hands clasped. I see now, the Spirit\u2019s speaking. Precious, precious Spirit of God, move in to heal the sick<\/em>. To raise the dead. (pause) You can\u2019t hear without it\u2013 that\u2013 uh, that ear mechanism? (Louder) You can\u2019t hear without that ear mechanism? Tell her\u2013 I\u2013 She can\u2019t hear. She\u2019s deaf.<\/p>\n

Marceline Jones:<\/strong> Can you read lips? Can you hear without that ear mechanism?<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Cries)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> She don\u2019t hear me. Uh, hands clasped, hands clasped. Have to rise above it like we did with Sister Brown here with the\u2013 with the uh, cast. I\u2019ll have to work on my own. Get the\u2013 Brother [Archie] Ijames, step over there by the side and tell her just, uh, that I\u2019ve called her out, real loud, and uh, open your mouth so she can see it. Say she\u2019ll believe we can\u2013 we can give\u2013 give hearing. You\u2019ll have to repeat<\/em> everything I say, I suspect she\u2019s very<\/em> deaf.<\/p>\n

Archie Ijames<\/strong>: (Slowly and clearly) Father Jones is calling you out. And he\u2019s gone heal you.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Oh! Oh! Tell her I know what she\u2019s saying to herself. When she came in, she didn\u2019t say anything, but when she came in, for the beginning of the service, some hours ago, I saw this that she said \u2013 oh, I\u2019m sorry, what am I doing. I\u2013 uh, let me tell you what I saw. Said this is like one big rainbow. One big, beautiful rainbow. Even though you\u2019re not of a minority.<\/p>\n

Ijames<\/strong>: (unintelligible) \u2013 minority, like one big, beautiful (slowly) rain \u2013 bow. Did you say that?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> In your mind. In your mind.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Few voices, scattered shouts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> All right, sister! You had six \u2013 all right, y\u2013 you can tell it. No use to me shouting. You had six brothers.<\/p>\n

Ijames<\/strong>: (Slowly, loudly) You had six brothers.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Three sisters.<\/p>\n

Ijames<\/strong>: \u2013 brothers. You had six brothers.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Three sisters.<\/p>\n

Ijames<\/strong>: Three sisters.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> But you\u2019re the only one left.<\/p>\n

Ijames<\/strong>: You are the only one left.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Two of your sisters died of cancer.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Crying, whimpering response)<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> (unintelligible) (Slowly, deliberately) Two of\u2013 two of your sisters died of cancer.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> One of the lungs.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> (Slowly) One of the lungs.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And one of kidneys.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> And one of kidneys.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Crying)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Since June last year.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> (Slowly) Since June last year.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Crying)<\/p>\n

Ijames<\/strong>: (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> In your youth \u2013 oh, dear God \u2013 in your youth you have the terrible misfortune of being taken advantage of by a seriously ill man.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> (Slowly) In your youth, you had the terrible misfortune, of being taken advantage of, by a ill man?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Seriously<\/em> ill. Depraved \u2013 depraved. He was depraved.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> male:<\/strong> (Overlapping) Seriously ill. A depraved man, right?<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Crying)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> He had syphilis<\/em> and he gave it to you, which has left you blind and deaf nearly.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Shocked gasps and shouts, then scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> He had the sickness and left you<\/em> nearly blind and deaf, right?<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Whimpering)<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Right, she says.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Your parents couldn\u2019t get you to the doctor in the delta.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> (Slowly) Your parents couldn\u2019t get you to the doctor in the delta.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> In the delta!<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> In the delta!<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Crying)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Who can know these things?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheering)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now tell her. Tell her, if she will believe, and\u2013 turn off her sh\u2013 her hearing aid.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> If you would believe and turn off the hearing aid.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I shall make you hear.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Shouts, cheers, clapping)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Spirit. Tell her to look to me. Tell her to look to me now, not to read lips anymore. (Puse) Spirit<\/em> of God. Take her glasses off. She also has diabetes.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Murmurs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Okay, we got the hearing aid, all right, fine. Spirit of God. (Slower) Spirit of God. (Slower and quieter) Spirit of God. Now what you see, is what you\u2019re going to get.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> If you see me as a Prophet, you\u2019ll see, and get a Prophet. If you see me as a good man, you\u2019ll just get a good man \u2013 I don\u2019t care how you come. But if you see me (pause) in the hundredfold \u2013 there\u2019s thirty percent God, sixty percent God, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold, hundred<\/em> percent God \u2013 and I have come in the hundredship, fathership, sonship manifestation (Matthew 13:8, 23: \u201cBut other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold\u2026 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/strong> Yeah!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now, Sister Green, Sister Green, Sister Green, Sister Green. Don\u2019t look to him. (Pause) I said, Green.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> male:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I said\u2013 All right. Syphilis has left you with that palsy, that shaking and that tremor in your hands. That\u2019s syphilis that\u2019s done that. (Slowly) Sister Green, I have come to heal you. (Slower) I have come to heal you. What did she hear me say? Ask her to repeat what I said. (Quiet) I have come to heal you.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Whimpering, trying to say \u201cheal\u201d)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I don\u2019t hear her. (Slowly) I have come to heal you.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Whimpering)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Little louder, darling, it\u2019s all right, little louder. Don\u2019t be afraid. You\u2019re a Methodist<\/em>. You\u2019re not used to this, but I don\u2019t care, I\u2019ll make uh, I\u2019ll make a born again, apostolic socialist outta you before I get through with you.<\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/strong> (Laughs) Hallelujah.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Whimpering)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I\u2013 Say it out loud. I have come\u2013 Have trouble with your voice, too, darling? Say, I have come to heal you. (Pause) Go ahead. I\u2013<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Whimpering) What?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Don\u2019t be afraid, darling. Say it, I\u2013 Say, your name is Jim Jones. Shh\u2013 shh (hushes crowd) Your name is Jim Jones. Say it. Do go ahead, say it loud. Don\u2019t worry. Say it.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Slowly) Your\u2013 your name\u2013 your name\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: Lim\u2013 Lim (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s what? Lim\u2013 Your\u2013 your\u2013 no, I said your name is Jim Jones. My name is Jim Jones.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: My, my\u2013 my name\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You got my name. My name. Say, my name is Jim Jones, in the Spirit, now, come on quick, my name is Jim Jones.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: Your name\u2013 Ji\u2013 Ji\u2013 Ji\u2013 Jim (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Loud applause, cheering, shouts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now, Sister. Sister, Sister. Sister. Sister. Those hands that are shaking, those hands that are shaking. Sister. Just calm, just calm them now. Calm them now. Calm them now. Calm them now. (Slowly) Calm them now. You know you couldn\u2019t hear without that hearing aid. Now, the hands will calm. Hold your harm up\u2013 hold your arm up. Hold your arms up. Hold them up. Hold them up, dear. No, no, no, c\u2013 no. Calm, calm, calm, calm. I said, I come now, I\u2019m speaking as the fathership. (Forcefully) Calm! Stop it!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Loud applause, cheers, shouting. Organ begins melodising in background)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Spirit! That\u2019s it. Now Sister, look up here, look up here, because I\u2019m in an authority now. Look up here. Look up here. You that are blind, oh, you were blind yet you can see (John 9:25, \u201cHe answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.\u201d).<\/span> Now, Sister. Look at my hand. Do I have any fingers up? Keep the hand calm, keep it calm, \u2018cause I\u2019m in there.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Unintelligible, sounds like \u201cfingers\u201d)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Do I have any fingers up? (Pause) I know I\u2019m taxing it. Just let the light\u2013 let the light break on through. What do you see?<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Unintelligible) I see\u2013 I see three (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> What?<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Male narrator: <\/strong>She is at the back of the auditorium.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You see what, though, what do you see<\/em>? How many fingers do you see?<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> She\u2019s in the last several rows at the back of the congregation.<\/p>\n

Katie Green<\/strong>: (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause, clapping, organ begins to play once again)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Calls) Three fingers, that\u2019s what you see! And that\u2019s it! God Almighty, God Almighty!<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> (Beginning to sing) (Unintelligible) Joy, joy joy, to my soul! (Jones harmonises with her) (Unintelligible) blessed\u2013 Tell her what Father has done! (Unintelligible) \u2013 has come, and he brought joy, joy, joy, to my soul!<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> From the back of the congregation, in the last several rows, she\u2019s\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Listen, child. Listen, child. I\u2013 I can take that trembling away, all that trembling. Go on. Go on. Go on, walk. This is an anointing here. You can walk, you can walk. If you can see<\/em>, and you can hear<\/em>. Come on, let\u2019s walk now, let\u2019s walk. Let\u2019s walk. Let\u2019s walk.<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> She is now coming down the aisle. To the front of the congregation.<\/p>\n

(Female vocalist singing with organ tune once again, congregation clapping to the beat)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Come on, walk on around, walk on around. Lift your hand up. Lift up your hand. Walk on around. Walk on around. Walk on. Walk on. No tremble, no tremble. No tremble. No tremble. No tremble. Go on, walk! Go on, walk, Sister, go on.<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> As he commands, the trembling stops again totally.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Don\u2019t be afraid, don\u2019t be bashful. Just go on and walk. Just run. Go on, walk! Get with her, sister there, get with her, get her so\u2013 get with her, so\u2013 She\u2019s been so crippled up, she\u2019s got sores all over her legs. Let her walk! Let her walk! In the name of God, let her walk! Now tell her, I said to run. Run (increasing volume each time). Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run! Run real well, run! Run! Run!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers, continues clapping with the music)<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> She is told to run and she does so. She ran up the aisle to the back of the congregation!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Harmonising with female vocalist) My God, Jesus, what is (unintelligible). Come out with your crutches! (unintelligible) Come on out with your crutches, come on! (Harmonising with female vocalist once again) \u2013brought joy, joy, joy, to my soul!<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> She is now running down the aisle! (unintelligible) (Pause) When she stepped out of the aisle, she could barely walk, and now she runs. (Pause) Again at the front of the congregation, running across to the other aisle.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Tell her to run! Tell her to run! Tell her to run! (Harmonising, unintelligible) There\u2019s the sister that was healed last night, dancing around. Don\u2019t matter what your crippling condition, yes, you can be healed<\/em>! Let the Spirit<\/em> have its way! (Harmonises with female vocalist) Joy, to my soul.<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> Joy to my soul.<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> There are thousands here today who have just seen God perform the miracle, a miraculous healing of an infirmed woman.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (continues to sing with music and vocalist in background)<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> Deaf, blind, and crippled with palsy. Just freely delivered. (Pause) Nothing is impossible with God, as he has proven here today, before this large congregation.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Sister. Sister. Sister. I want you to take that \u2013 I want you to take a good<\/em> fast run. I want you to take a good<\/em> fast run. \u2018Cause you\u2019ll\u2013 you\u2019re going back to that tremble, and I want that stopped. I took<\/em> that syphilis, now stop that trembling. Stop it. Stop it. Now stop it!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Stop it. No more trembling. That means no more trembling! None whatsoever! None whatsoever! Now you go running, you just as young as you think you are. Now run, run, I mean run! (Shouting) Run! Run! Run! Run! That\u2019s it, run!<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> (Increasing in volume, singing with accompanying organ) Oh yes he did, yes he did, he brought joy, joy, joy to my soul.<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> Well, you better not get in front of her, because now she is re\u2013 running. She makes a sprint to the back of the congregation, out the door, and coming across to the aisle to come forward again. She is now sprinting down the aisle to the front of the congregation, (Pause) as thousands rejoice over her healing. Rejoice that God is being manifest\u2013 being manifest in the hundredfold degree! She continues to run as she starts another lap around the auditorium.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now, my Spirit. If there\u2019s some that want to be baptised next Saturday night and Sunday up in our beautiful apostolic nation in Redwood Valley, come down the aisles and receive this great salvation. Ye must be born again! You must be born again in the Spirit<\/em> of God! (John 3: 3-8)<\/span> The same one that took her crippling away, the same one that healed of her neck. The neck still straight is it, darling? The one that took her brace off, the pain all gone? Still as she is down here. You can see she\u2019s doing all right. Praise God! Able to move the neck every way, Sister? Able\u2013 every way? Look at her. She was in her neck brace. Look<\/em> at her, all the way round! Well, God Almighty, let\u2019s praise him! I<\/em> know where he is. I haven\u2019t talked too much tonight about where he is, but we know where he is<\/em>. Yes, we know where he is!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause, some still clapping with music)<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> And he brought joy, joy, joy, to my soul!<\/p>\n

Jones and<\/strong> Female vocalist:<\/strong> (singing) My God did just what he said. Yes, he did. Yes, he did! Healed the sick and raise the dead. Yes, he did. Yes, he did! He brought joy, joy, joy to my soul.<\/p>\n

(Fade out, tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> \u2013come down the aisles.<\/p>\n

Jones and<\/strong> Female vocalist:<\/strong> Yes, he did! Healed the sick and he raised the dead, yes he did. Yes, he did. And he brought joy, joy, joy to my soul.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Singing, clapping to beat)<\/p>\n

Jones and<\/strong> Female vocalist:<\/strong> Oh, your God did just what he did. Yes, he did. Yes, he did! Your\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> He that overcometh, Revelation 3:12 says, I will make a pillar in the temple of the house of God, and he will go no more out into the Earth (Revelation 3:12, \u201cHim that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out\u2026\u201d).\u00a0<\/span>Will you come and be baptised? Will you come and be baptised into this new immortality? This is a new day. You\u2019ve never lived under the fathership degree, the hundredfold, this is the day<\/em> of the Lord (Matthew 13:8, 23).<\/span> This is the day<\/em> of salvation. The day<\/em> of your God! Oh, great God. Will you come? Will you come? (Begins to sing) Is there anybody here who loves my Jesus? (Female vocalist joins in) Anybody here who loves my God?<\/p>\n

Female vocalist and unidentified male vocalist<\/strong>: I want to know if you love my saviour, I want to know if you love my God! Is there anybody here, who loves my\u2013<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I want you, Sister, that was using that crutch \u2013 now walking \u2013 I want you to s\u2013 wave<\/em> it over this crowd, \u2018cause I anointed it. Just wave it over the crowd, and walk up and down the aisles. That\u2019s another sister that left hers. (Breaking into song) Oh\u2013 there anybody here \u2013 God Almighty \u2013 who loves my Jesus? Anybody here who loves your God? (Calls out) Father wants to know, my child!<\/p>\n

(Vocalists continue song with Jones riffing with music)<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> I want to know if you love your saviour. I want to know, if you love your God.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Father wants to know my child, if you love your\u2013<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Raised voice) At Alvarado and Hoover. I\u2019m not going to go down the aisles, but I will<\/em> go down every aisle over there. We gotta have time<\/em> to get over there. We want to take this anointing over there, we want to leave<\/em> with it just like this. You see, when people have the faith<\/em>, they saw God! And they dropped their crutches and they dropped their canes. That\u2019s all right, love, come on! Come on to your feet. Come on! Lift your hand, hold that cane up, and walk, walk, love! Walk, just walk. Don\u2019t look at the cane. Just hold it up like the serpent held it up. (Voice lowers somewhat) Don\u2019t tell me. Don\u2019t tell me. You gotta know, uh\u2013 if you tell me, it shows a limitation. You must not tell me anything. You gotta see more of the God in me. (Unintelligible word) \u2013 come to the next service. Spirit! Come on, child, come on. Come on. Let\u2019s just have faith. Let\u2019s just have faith \u2013 all right, Sister! Go on, go on, go on, go on!<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> (Singing previous refrain accompanied by music)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Excited shouting) Hey God! Hey God! Spirit! That\u2019s six! Six that\u2019s off their crutches \u2013 good God Almighty, why don\u2019t you praise him? Six that\u2019s left their crutches! Good God Almighty!<\/p>\n

Male narrator:<\/strong> They come up with crutches and canes, and as Father speaks the word, they give up their (unintelligible word) crutch and give up their cane and walk or run away, giving testimony that the healing (unintelligible, Jones speaking over) as spoken by this man of God, in his manifestation of good.<\/p>\n

(Music and song fade out)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> The sister there in the white coat! The sister in the white coat had been six years a cripple, unable to walk.<\/p>\n

Voices in Congregation:<\/strong> Yeah!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Six years. That\u2019s why she\u2019s dancing and praising God. Six years she couldn\u2019t walk! Something to praise him for! Something to praise socialism for! Something to praise God for!<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> (Punctuating Jones\u2019 statements with refrain)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Shouts, affirmation)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Hey, (music fades) you say you can\u2019t stand to be religious, then you\u2019ve got a hard heart. When religion can cause six people to walk away from crutches. When it can cause six people to drop their crutches, then it\u2019s worth being religious. It\u2019s worth being religious. Praise<\/em> his name!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Good God, good God! Let\u2019s carry this right on over to Alvarado, and Hoover. Let\u2019s carry this anointing. And I will then go up and down every aisle. But learn. It\u2019s what you see<\/em> in me, that you reproduce in yourself. The more of God you see in me, the more you reproduce. Tell all these people, that ordinarily I\u2019d go down the aisles, but I don\u2019t feel led to. But I will, tonight, five-thirty, over at our new Peoples Temple. Let\u2019s praise God. Let\u2019s praise God.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Light applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Let\u2019s praise God. The communion \u2013 banquet \u2013 the food will be served over at the new Temple. Service begins at five-thirty at Hoover and Alvarado. How many are gonna go over with us? How many going to go over to dedicate\u2013 carry this vibration in. Let\u2019s carry it right in! Make your arrangements for the pictures, and listen to the broadcast tonight. Train yourself to listen to the broadcast, ten-thirty to eleven. Service tonight at five-thirty over at our new Peoples Temple at the corner of Alverado and Hoover, and Monday\u2013 Monday, at one o\u2019clock, a big day, tomorrow, healing service. Then\u2013 also the twenty-third, is it? And the twenty-fourth? September twenty-third and twenty-fourth will be our next meeting in our new Temple. Let\u2019s hope to have it by then. Let\u2019s agree?<\/p>\n

Male narrator<\/strong>: Amen!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Let\u2019s agree to have it, let\u2019s agree to have it. Well, we\u2019ve already bought it \u2013 no question about that \u2013 it\u2019s w\u2013 how<\/em>we buy it. On what terms<\/em> we buy it. Let\u2019s see that we get it the hundred-and-twenty-nine thousand by putting the cash in there now. Hm? Getting the amount of money, we need in the escrow now. Let\u2019s get over\u2013 you sisters get over and practice on that pipe organ, \u2018cause you\u2019re gonna have to learn how to use it. You head ahead, will you? Head ahead and use that pipe organ \u2013 75,000 dollar pipe organ. Learn how to use it. Bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you! Bless you! Let\u2019s lift our precious hands, and your precious hands out there. Black and white together, all races, so beautiful, so beautiful. Tell the people I normally go down the aisles \u2013 every aisle \u2013 but I don\u2019t feel led now. But I\u2013 we will<\/em> over at the Peoples Temple, at the corner of Alvarado, 1300 South Alvarado and Hoover. Now touch your neighbour, just gently, and love them, love them. Embrace them. Bless you, this \u2013 Sister Mabel \u2013 bless this sister. She gives me a lot of love. Tell her I feel her love. Bless you, bless you. (Pause) If you don\u2019t have transportation, you come around back and we\u2019ll put you on our bus. It\u2019s your bus. So come around back. We\u2019ll get you on board, you know that. Nobody walks here. Come around back, get on board, little children. Get on board, little children. We\u2019ll take you, we\u2019ll take you. Bless you.<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Part II<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Congregation in song, led by Jones with supporting music. \u201cLeaning on the Everlasting Arms\u201d variation)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (In song) \u2013 now think of these words! Oh my (unintelligible song) Oh yes we\u2019re leaning! Tell the whole world we\u2019re leaning! Don\u2019t you know we\u2019re leaning? Oh yes, we\u2019re leaning. We\u2019re leaning on the everlasting arms. Once again, everybody. Clap your hands! (Unintelligible) Raise the vibrations high! Let the anointing of God (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

(Congregation continues in song)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (In song) Once again now! What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms! What a blessedness\u2013<\/p>\n

(Final verse of song. Song draws to a close, accompanied by the slowing of the music and the quieting of the congregation)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Blessed, blessed. We just left the Embassy where seven people left their crutches. A woman got healed of blindness and deafness, and then one right after another, they left their crutches and their\u2013 their\u2013 their\u2013 their\u2013 their\u2013 their canes. It was\u2013 it\u2019s just too good, too good to consider. We just have so much we don\u2019t really think about all that we do. Just walking around!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> God Almighty, walking around. Blessing us. Now this is a wonderful, wonderful shrine to a great metaphysical teacher [Mary Baker Eddy]. I\u2019m sure we\u2019d put the kind of joy for worship that they should\u2019ve had, \u2018cause she gave great theosophical truth that are on the wall. And we\u2019re gonna liven up the place a bit \u2013 I think they can stand our singing, it\u2019s\u2013 it\u2019s built<\/em> for it, isn\u2019t it? The acoustics are just wonderful. Praise the name of truth. Just turn around and give your neighbour a good embrace, and bless the very seats that you\u2019re in.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (chatter, and eventual applause)<\/p>\n

(Music begins on the organ)<\/p>\n

Jones and<\/strong> Female vocalist:<\/strong><\/p>\n

God\u2019s gonna have it just like this, all over this world.
\nGod\u2019s gonna have it just like this, all over this world.
\nGod\u2019s gonna have it just like this, all over this world.
\nCan\u2019t you see, this is proof of God?
\nBlack and white together, all over this world.
\nBlack and white together, all over this world.
\nOh, black and white together, all over this world.
\nCan\u2019t you see, this is proof of God?
\nOh, all God\u2019s children dwelling in peace, all over this world.
\nAll God\u2019s children dwelling in peace, all over this world.
\nAll God\u2019s children dwelling in peace, all over this world.
\nCan\u2019t you see, this is proof of God.
\nOh, no more creeds or colours all over this world\u2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Calls out) Look at that sister dancing right there (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

Jones and<\/strong> Female vocalist:<\/strong><\/p>\n

No more creeds or colours, all over this world.
\nCan\u2019t you see this is proof of God.
\nOh, clap your hands and praise your God, all over this world.
\nClap your hands and praise your God, all over this world.
\nClap your hands and praise your God, all over this world!
\nCan\u2019t you see, this is proof of God?
\nOh, may God have our freedom, all over this world.
\nMay God have our freedom, all over this world.
\nMay God have our freedom, all over this world.
\nCan\u2019t you see this is proof of God?
\nTalking about our freedom, all over this world.
\nTalking about our freedom, all over this world.
\nTalking about our freedom, all over this world.
\nTalking about our freedom, all over this world.
\nCan\u2019t you see this is proof of God?
\nOh, no more racism, Father, all over this world.
\nNo more racism, Father, all over this world.
\nNo more racism, Father, all over this world.
\nCan\u2019t you see, this is proof of God?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Music continues)<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Accompanied by a light piano riff, maracas) Bless you, bless you. Bless you. Bless you, bless you. Bless you. Why don\u2019t you sing your\u2013 sing your number again, one of the numbers. If\u2013 that is, if you can get ahead of these people that feel the Spirit in their mind already<\/em> gonna praise him.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Whistling, shouting, applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> God is able, God is able. God is able. God is able. God is able. He\u2019s able. Bless you.<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> \u2013see that the Spirit is able. We affirm only that God is life, and there is no substance out of God-good. There is no reality in anything but the righteousness of truth. We do not affirm, as some do, that there are other worlds beside God-world. We believe that all powers that be are ordained of God, and there is no power but God. And in that affirmation, in these last two years, from just dirt ground up in Redwood Valley, now we have laid our claim onto a piece<\/em> of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, shouts, applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Praise the name of truth. (Pause) I see Pastor Armstrong out there. I was speaking with him last evening, how we can perhaps use this, for his group, our group, and all the groups that can assemble to do right in this city. This will certainly give us the kind of uh, position<\/em> for respect that we deserve. No one can say that we have anything that is lesser<\/em>than anyone else. I\u2019ve never been in any more beautiful building than what we\u2019re in right now. And let\u2019s keep<\/em> it that way. Let\u2019s keep<\/em> it that way.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Great God. Everyone being their neighbour\u2019s keeper, picking up every little piece of thing, even of\u2013 a little cloth, or every little string \u2013 that\u2019s what I do \u2013 to make this lovely, so that they\u2019ll see that brotherhood is blossoming as a rose<\/em> in a fair land. Sing. There\u2019s a request that God is able. Bless you.<\/p>\n

(Music begins with piano intro; congregation begins to clap in tandem)<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As pilgrims are here, weak on our journey
\nWe often know not \u2013 know not \u2013 which way to turn.
\nBut there is one, who knows the road,
\nWho\u2019ll help us carry, who\u2019ll help us carry, our heavy load.
\nDon\u2019t you know God is able?
\nHe\u2019s able. He\u2019s able.<\/p>\n

(Congregation echoing \u2018He\u2019s able\u2019)<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong> He\u2019s able.<\/p>\n

I say God all around you, so dark and stable.
\nHe\u2019s a friend. He\u2019s a father.
\nHe\u2019s your joy! He\u2019s your hope.<\/p>\n

(Congregation echoing \u2018Surely!)<\/p>\n

Female vocalist:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, surely, surely, surely, surely
\nHe\u2019s able to carry you through, to carry you through.<\/p>\n

(Repeats song)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Another good hug, another good hug for everyone. Another good hug. (Pause) I think one of our sisters down there \u2013 was it Sister Julia that wanted to tell about a miracle? A miracle that happened on the way out of the church. As we said, we had seven<\/em> people \u2013 one woman, just was thrilled. She was shouting. She\u2019d been, what was it, seven years on the crutches? Hadn\u2019t walked? This is another miracle that happened afterwards. We had someone who was deaf \u2013 syphilis, syphilis from\u2013 tremors, tremors, and blindness, and healed of every phase is what. And this is a miracle that happened after the meeting was over. We\u2019re just grateful for it.<\/p>\n

Sister Julia<\/strong>: Well, everyone was gone, we were trying to get our little things we was selling together. So we could go, we was putting them aside. And this lady was standing beside the wall, she and her cousin-in-law, she said, just waiting for them bring their car around. All of a sudden, she just whirled around in a spin, and she fell, and her eyes just rolled back.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Shocked noises, gasps)<\/p>\n

Sister Julia:<\/strong> So they ran in to the building and got a picture, and I had one in my bag. I took it out, and I put it on her head, then put the other one on her chest. She laid there for (voice wavers, crying) about three or four minutes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Dear God.<\/p>\n

Sister Julia:<\/strong> And her body just went like this, and she said, Oh, where am I? What happened? I don\u2019t know what happened, she said. (Crying) Good people, the woman was dying, her skin had turned grey, she was almost dead. That was a miracle. I never seen nothing so quick in all my life.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause)<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> man<\/strong>: If\u2013 If you have a car, with the licence plate 0DA097 or ODA097, would you please move it. Someone has to get out, it\u2019s an emergency. Would you please move your car immediately? Thank you.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> The air conditioning\u2013 the air conditioning has, uh, just been turned on. It takes a while for it to, uh, to function. It depends upon the humidity of the atmosphere outside, and the number inside, and, uh\u2013 I guess, so they explained it to me, an adjustment is required. And that\u2019s why you\u2019re feeling the heat. And I guess if we keep the doors open as we have, that only takes away from the air conditioning. Although it seems if there\u2019s any air conditioning right now, it\u2019s conditioning on a very low level. (laughs) Is it coming down? Good. That\u2019s fine. If it\u2019s coming down, then that\u2019s fine. We\u2019re glad. It just\u2013 After all, we can\u2019t expect miracles just begin. You heard earlier this afternoon, the thing I think is the greatest optimism for us, the greatest expectation. We\u2019ve got so many youth coming on, who have a sure word of inspiration about injustice and can preach a positive message of Christ Consciousness. You heard my young son, who is eleven, and he was \u2013 the first time to speak \u2013 and it\u2019s been their first all day. And you heard my son, twelve, uh, and he spoke too, first time before a big assembly like this. And now, a\u2013 another son\u2019s gonna\u2013 he wants to try it, today.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, calls)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And others wanted him to try it. And he felt, well, he certainly would do so. He\u2019s not an anxious person, but he\u2019s a good little lad. He\u2019s sensitive to animals. He cares like all of them, they\u2019re good children, they\u2019re good boys. We have eight children, and if we get eight preachers out of our<\/em> group, it\u2019d be something.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Calls of affirmation)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And L\u2013 Lew [Jones] will be preaching, either today or tomorrow, he\u2019s down on the drums. And I tell ya, they\u2013 they\u2019ve got a certain fire<\/em> that, uh, if they\u2019re doing that well at eleven and twelve and thirteen, you don\u2019t have to worry. You don\u2019t have to worry.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And I got some other sons, and some other daughters, that\u2019re gonna be speaking. But right now, our natural<\/em> born, Stephan [Jones], would like to say a word, and people would like to hear him say a word. Come, Stephan.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s wonderful. (Clears throat)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>I just want to praise God for this ever-present love-force here we\u2019ve got. You know, like, I\u2019ve got many things to be thankful for, but there\u2019s one that I\u2019m\u2013 I\u2019m really grateful for. It\u2019s a privilege to be the son of God Almighty!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheering)<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>And those of you that\u2019ve been on your knees all your life, praying and hoping. You don\u2019t need to pray and hope anymore, all you have to do is come here and have faith! And you\u2019ll have all you need. Love and protection.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s true, it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>We\u2019ve been put down by this capitalist society for a long time.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> man<\/strong>: That\u2019s right!<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>We\u2019ve had to watch innocent women and children dying over in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>We\u2019ve seen the hungry dying.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes, it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>Two out of three babies going to bed hungry.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>But this man\u2019s here to save us!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause)<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>I know he can heal. He can\u2013 he can protect and do all these things. But most of all, he can care<\/em>. And he can\u2013 he can\u2013 he\u2019s come here to save us, and if we don\u2019t help him\u2013 It\u2019s hard, one man against the whole world.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s true, that\u2019s true, that\u2019s true. That is true.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>So many of us can sit here, you know, and\u2013 and question<\/em> whether he practices what he preaches. I\u2019ve said this before, but I\u2019m gonna say it again. I live<\/em> with him. I watch him. I see his every action. He practices what he preaches. And he goes over it. He expects more out of himself than we do, by far, you know. He\u2013 he\u2013 he stays up nights for us, just worrying about us, you know, like, he\u2019ll go\u2013 he\u2019ll stay up week\u2013 a week, you know. I\u2013 I\u2013 I don\u2019t think I can see \u2013 maybe there\u2019s a few \u2013 but not very many people that\u2019ve stayed up a week just worrying about everybody, you know.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>And anybody that would think about turning against this church. If you\u2019ve seen what I\u2019ve seen\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>You gotta be crazy.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Laughs) That\u2019s sweet. That\u2019s sweet.<\/p>\n

Stephan: <\/strong>I just want to say, I\u2019m grateful for this man. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Bless you. Bless you, bless you.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Sustained applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Thank you! It\u2019s so sweet. Each one has their own style, and you appreciate each one of them by giving your salutations and greetings, and I think that\u2019s wonderful. We should not expect every minister to be out of the same mold. And these are really ministers coming on, and we\u2019re going to cultivate ministers, \u2018cause I have the phenomena and an impartation of a faculty, that I can give the gift by impartation. We\u2019re going to stir up this whole West Coast. We\u2019re going to stir<\/em> it up!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, shouts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now, I\u2019d like you to hear from another one of my sons, Scott. Like my first son Jim [Jones, Jr.], he was a stammerer, couldn\u2019t hardly speak. Jim couldn\u2019t hardly speak. And you certainly saw he didn\u2019t have any problems speaking this afternoon. Jim spoke. And now, Scott also<\/em> had the same problem, but it\u2013 let\u2019s\u2013 well, let\u2019s let it speak for itself. All right, my young son, Scott.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>Oh, yes, what a mighty God we serve. You can call upon his name in the time of danger. Oh hallelujah, my God.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>Before you call his name, he will be there.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Calls of \u201cthat\u2019s right!\u201d)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>My God.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Shouts, light applause sustained)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Overwhelmed. Take your time. (Pause) Tell them about injustice. Tell them about righteousness. Go on, preach it.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>He will be with you always<\/em>, even in\u2013 even unto the end of the world. He will never leave<\/em> you nor forsake<\/em> you.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>Just call upon his name<\/em>. My God. A few weeks ago, a Greyhound bus fell on Charlie Touchette.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yeah\u2013<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>Charlie Touchette called upon his name<\/em> and, uh, my God.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>The bus came down on him, but there was no injury to him.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Sweet.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>People are driving their cars on the highway, and their cars are going in circles, they just call his name and instantly<\/em>the cars will stop! (Pause) If you see Jim Jones as a friend, he\u2019ll be the best friend you ever had. If you see Jim Jones as a father, he be the best father you ever had. But if you see Jim Jones as the pers\u2013 the\u2013 as the personification of God<\/em>Almighty\u2013<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s all right!<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>He will meet every<\/em>\u2013 every<\/em> need! When a bus fell on Charlie Touchette, Charlie Touchette saw Jim Jones as the personification of God<\/em> Almighty! If you see Jim Jones as God<\/em> Almighty, your needs shall be met. He that keepeth his saying, shall never die, but shall have life and prosperity.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes, yes, yes.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>I\u2019ve seen our pastor walk very calmly when somebody had lost their life in the audience.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Mmm-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>He don\u2019t need anybody, because God is his armament.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes, yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>Thirty-one persons have been raised from the dead, by this power which is working through our Father, Jim Jones!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Working through<\/em> him, yes, working through him! Sure working through, you do not stammer, You\u2019re doing beautiful, brother.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause)<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>In Mexico, people saw a shadow on the water.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes, they did, they did. They certainly did, when we were on our vacation, yes, they did.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>It was about forty feet away. The shadow came closer and closer. As it appear, it took the form of our pastor Jim Jones<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, shouting, cheering, accompanied by piano-riff)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s all right, it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>It was he<\/em> that was walking on the water! And not another. It\u2019s the same Spirit that walked in Galilee<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Good.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>The same Spirit<\/em> that came from the tomb, where\u2013 when Mary thought that he was the gardener.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>It wasn\u2019t the gardener, it was Jesus Christ God<\/em> Almighty!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Preach on, boy!<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>At that time, Mary did not know that it was she\u2013 it was him. Jesus took on a different body at that time. (Pause) Because of having taken a different body, she didn\u2019t know it was he that had walked many times. (Pause) My God. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>If a racist king can see four in the fires burning\u2013 the fires burning \u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>He saw three, but there was four, he put four in there, it was three, now it\u2019s four!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> All right, all right. (Pause) Sweet Spirit. It\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>People have seen\u2013 People have seen Jim Jones walking through walls, which a man cannot do!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>People have seen Jim Jones stand in his pulpit and read something from back there, which no eyes cannot produce.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s all right. It\u2019s all right, child.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>We have\u2013 we have\u2013 we have\u2013<\/p>\n

Voice in congregation:<\/strong> Take your time!<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>Eleven Greyhound buses.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>One day, a bus driver was driving the bus at s\u2013 sixty or seventy miles per hour.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>And this small kid was near the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>The kid, on a accident, pushed the brake lever.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> He did that, he did.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>And the bus was going about sixty miles per hour! The driver\u2019s body fell forward, but the bus was on the road still, because of this protection that worked through out Pastor Jim Jones!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause, piano riff in background)<\/p>\n

Voice in congregation:<\/strong> All right! Tell \u2018em about your God.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Hums)<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>If you come today to get healed, your mind<\/em> should get healed first, then<\/em> you!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

Scott: <\/strong>If you see him as God Almighty, he will meet every desire and need. Because what you see is what you get.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause, shouts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible over applause) That\u2019s good, that\u2019s good, that\u2019s good. That\u2019s good. That\u2019s good. That\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> man<\/strong>: Oh, why don\u2019t ya praise him? Why don\u2019t ya praise him?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Precious. Precious. Said it\u2019s good, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Affirmation, muffled responses)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now we\u2019re in our new house, and you know what we\u2019re up to, to get our escrow. So, now\u2019s the time to take an offering, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

(Unintelligible conversations)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (unintelligible, aside) The buses that have to go, they\u2019ll be ready, they\u2019ll be ready, you can leave here at eight? Then do so. No problem. Beautiful. (Back to mic) Anybody got touched since you seen it, and give us a thousand dollars? (Chuckles)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (laughs, scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Anybody does have any special pledge, and join in with this wonderful happy, happy atmosphere. If anyone have a special pledge or gift of a hundred dollars, or over that, just let us know. We\u2019ll be so glad, we\u2019ll run to you and come get it.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (murmur)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> What\u2019s\u2013 what is it? The next time we\u2019ll be here tomorrow is at one o\u2019clock, as you recall. (Clears throat) (Pause) Yes. L.A. people need to get a hold of Mrs. Caldwell, uh, Lottie, they\u2019re\u2013 we\u2019re running low on food<\/em> and we need more, \u2018cause we\u2019re staying over all night. Some of us\u2019ll be right around here, staying in here, gonna look after the place, and be ready\u2013 I\u2019ll wake up with the glory blues tomorrow, if we get through counselling. I\u2019m usually up most of the night. So we\u2019ll break in this place well. Anyone here that does have a special gift, to really thrill our hearts, to help us come up with escrow. We\u2019re in need about ten thousand dollars, really, from this assembly, today, and we didn\u2019t get that\u2013<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Ministerial, accompanied by piano riff) \u2013 now, why don\u2019t we get us centered on these obstacles of social evils, and social injustices. We\u2019re gonna breathe that this vibration is gonna contagionize<\/em>! Gonna change<\/em> the affairs of Los Angeles, gonna stop policemen in Inglewood from shooting down people in their bed. Gonna stop all the crime and violence. (Calls out) Oh yes it is! (Pause) Don\u2019t tell me it can\u2019t be done, because we\u2019ve seen the lame walk. (Increasing intensity) You come along too lately, child. We\u2019ve seen the blind<\/em> see! We\u2019ve heard the deaf<\/em> hear! We\u2019ve seen the cancer<\/em>spit up! They that were blind from birth \u2013 you come along too late child! (Shouting, with ministerial rhythm) We know<\/em>that God can do anything!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (applause, cheering)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Slight moderation, then builds throughout) Don\u2019t try to tell us now. We once were like you, cynical and doubtful. We were intellectualising, rationalising, but now we\u2019ve just seen too much. So we\u2019ve abandoned our degrees, and I\u2019ve got some, and some others have got \u2018em, he\u2019s got \u2018em, a lawyer, sitting here, people all through this auditorium, Professor [Edith] Roller down there, college teacher. We just laid our degrees aside, \u2018cause we couldn\u2019t move the mountains with our degrees. (Ministerial intensity) Our law degrees didn\u2019t heal the sick! Our law degrees didn\u2019t open up the courtroom! But we had a sister today that said she took the picture of Jim Jones, and she went into the prosecutor, and she rubbed his arm! They said she gonna get five years, but she wasn\u2019t born of the new Spirit then. (Voice wavering, ministerial intonation) She went in and rubbed the arm of the prosecutor, and rubbed the arm of the judge, and rubbed the arm of the witnesses, and people got so confused, they couldn\u2019t even testify. A law degree can\u2019t do that! I said, a law degree won\u2019t do that! A PhD won\u2019t do that! But when you get a radical faith, and you get the Christ Consciousness, it\u2019ll do that!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (applause, cheers, shouts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Moderates) Oh yes, it will. Just become like a little child. You can\u2019t move mountains with your degrees. You can\u2019t move mountains with all your knowledge. But become like a little child, and when two or three are gathered together in my name<\/em>, there will be the power, sayeth God! (Matthew 18:20, \u201cFor where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.\u201d)<\/span> These legs are on the prayers, indeed, and we\u2019re going to put some on open this place. It\u2019s gonna be a lighthouse. Everyone that has a creative thought to serve mankind, let them come, there\u2019s room, room, room, room! (Shouting) Yes sir, there\u2019s room! There\u2019s room at the fountain for you! Good God, I think I was taking an offering, but I feel like shouting. We\u2019re giving this Christian Science auditorium a dedication tonight, hallelujah!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheering)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Let the Spirit have its way. It\u2019s so good. (Pause) Sweet Christ. I don\u2019t know where we were, \u2018cause I know where I\u2019m at. (cries out) Hey!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know that nobody has to worry about money, when you\u2019re lifting this consciousness! If it can cause the sun to shine, and when we had our vacation, the four hundred of us, up in Canada, and the rain<\/em> came down, and we were out in the wilderness with our tents. They said, you can\u2019t get these buses out. I said, oh, we weren\u2019t meant to stop here, we got work to do down south. And the rain stopped, and the buses began to roll right out of the mud! Say, you\u2019re so radical, how do you live? How do you live with all your doubts? How do you live with all your fears? How do you live with all your hopelessness? How do you live with all your despair? Why, you\u2019re walking around, a suicide trying to happen. (Shouting) But I\u2019m not walking around a suicide, I have found life! And I have found it more abundantly, hey God! (Pause) (Moderates) Got nothing to lose by believing. Got nothing to lose by believing in life. Since 1959, I have not had to bury any of my precious ones. Since 1959, I haven\u2019t had to be behind the casket \u2013 oh, it\u2019s wonderful \u2013 of any precious one. I think I\u2019ve had all to gain by believing in life. If somebody dies tomorrow, for thirteen years, nobody has come in the nuclear family, nobody, no caskets had to roll. Hey, God!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheering, applause, increasing with intensifying piano)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> When I was a principal of a school, I couldn\u2019t raise the dead. When I was teaching, in the\u2013 jun\u2013 the junior college or the high school, I couldn\u2019t raise the dead. But this afternoon \u2013 last night, rather \u2013 woman died, and I run down the aisles, quick<\/em>, just like that, back to life she came! Back on the stage! (Pause) I\u2019ve seen people with degrees. This nation is a nation of lawyers. And everything\u2019s working to suit the lawyers. Gotta have a lawyer even to go out to tea<\/em>, with all due respects. Lawyers running everything, tricky lawyers! All kinds of lawyers! I know that my lawyers understand, we\u2019ve got a district attorney here [Tim Stoen], we got this brother, but they know what I mean. Lawyers everywhere set up a nation to suit lawyers! But I know something that law can\u2019t solve. I know a Spirit, the law of the life in Christ Jesus, it\u2019ll free you from the law, sin, and death. Hey, God! (Moderates) (Pause) Last week we had five people try this, with a picture, and in the court they went and out the court the judge let them. One judge pulled his arm back, and he said, Let that woman go, let her go<\/em>! He didn\u2019t want no picture round there. Say when she was fanatical, maybe she was afraid of him, I don\u2019t know but you wouldna got it done with your PhD, you wouldna got it done with your money<\/em>, you wouldna got it done with your fleet of lawyers<\/em>, but she went in there and said, in the name<\/em> of Jim Jones! Hey, God!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, applause, shouting)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I\u2019m so thankful, my heart can\u2019t contain it all. I\u2019m so grateful. Last week we \u2013 in our midweek service on Wednesday \u2013 they\u2019re just telling the cats and dogs. Little children come up \u2013 oh, sweet sweet<\/em> God. Sweet<\/em> principle. Sweet<\/em>principle it is. Cat\u2019s run over, little child just take a picture (slaps hands) put it on the cat, the cat spring up<\/em>! And run away. Sister [Eva] Pugh the treasurer. Leg severed. Cat in misery. She just put the picture on the cat, the cat jumped up and begin to purr. How many have this with animals through this room? Got hit \u2013 touched \u2013 just a picture! Sister here, one of them, eighty years old, said she had a heart attack, fell on the bus down there! Said I put the, uh, on the bus floor! I got the picture! Whatever, I don\u2019t care what it does, I don\u2019t know what method you use, but I know this is working, so we\u2019re going to use it!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers, shouts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Ha ha ha, God. And I thought, as the one son said, he can heal the sick. Was my son that spoke, the light-complected son, he was dying with kidney disease, and I healed him. My black son was laying dead on the highway, and my medical knowledge, whichever it is, and my wife\u2019s medical knowledge and she has considerable, wouldn\u2019t bring him back. His kidneys were severed. His spleen was ruptured. His heart had been penetrated. His lungs had been damaged. You can see the cut in his throat, right in his throat. The terrible things that went on. Doctor said he\u2019ll never be able to be right again. (Hums musically, piano intensifies) Hmmm.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Haha! You heard little Jim, you heard my little black Jim Junior, preaching this afternoon. He sound like he\u2019s all right! He went back to the doctor and the doctor said, I\u2019m amazed! His kidney test is\u2013 Oh, I want you (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Loud applause, cheering)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I hear some people say they can\u2019t stand religion. Well, I didn\u2019t see none of you in politics getting this done. I didn\u2019t see any of you joining any movements that got this done. I could have read Marx and Engels over my son, and it wouldna got it done. I coulda read some doctrinaire statement over my son, and it didn\u2019t get it done. But something inside of me, ever since I can know, said that you are God and beside you there is no other! So I looked down. And I said, live. And the kidneys came back, remind me of Ezekiel\u2019s bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14).<\/span> Knee bone went to the leg bone, the leg bone went to the hip bone! Good God, good God. Oh, you\u2019ll\u2013 you can get an offering any time, but I (stretches out word) feel the blessing in my soul! Sweet Spirit. As I started to say, my light-complected, my white son, said the most important thing. He\u2019s seen me go through walls. He\u2019s seen me heal cancers. He\u2019s seen me bring back dead animals. He\u2019s seen me put a leg on a rooster that was cut off, and it healed. All my sons have seen that. But he says the most important thing. My son says, he cares<\/em>! I\u2019m glad we found a Spirit that cares. And I\u2019m universalising it, I\u2019m reproducing it, I\u2019m stirring it up in the people, and what you know? You\u2019re gonna take a picture of me, and you\u2019re gonna reproduce a greater picture in yourself, and God\u2019s gonna be everywhere!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers, accompanied by piano riff)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Sweet Spirit. \u2018Cause I\u2019m not selfish about what I got. I\u2019ll share it. We\u2019re gonna cover the Earth as the knowledge of truth has c\u2013 in science, we\u2019re gonna cover the Earth with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea (Isaiah 11:9, \u201cThey shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the\u00a0Lord, as the waters cover the sea.\u201d).<\/span> And all<\/em> gonna know this Spirit, infinite mind, from the least to the greatest. Well, I\u2019ve said enough to stir up your pure minds. Some of your arthritis is begin to go now. Some of your back pains that you were feeling begin to go now. Some of the heat that was bothering you isn\u2019t bothering you so much now, \u2018cause you got the air-conditioning of the Spirit, hey God!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes, look out, because social equality\u2019s coming. Racial equality\u2019s coming. We got a whole, practically city, up in Redwood Valley. Won\u2019t be long becau\u2013 when Redwood Valley will be Peoples Temple and Peoples Temple will be Redwood Valley! Look out, honey, we\u2019re on the march, the truth is marching on!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know where we were at, forty dollars, or four hundred, or thirty dollars. Quickly stand to your feet, whatever you were giving. My soul got inspired by Scott and my son, Stephan. Anybody got thirty dollars, stand to your feet, to help the truth go marching on.<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Laughing) Tell it like it is. Who said that over there, sounded like\u2013 ah, yeah, yeah. I like that. Tell it like it is. Thank you. Anyone else with ten?<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Keep your minds round here. Keep worshipping. Now I did what you wanted, you wanted me to sing that song, Sister, I did it. You love it. I think it is lovely, but, more important we\u2019re going to rees\u2013 reach up, and let Christ come forth in us. Once again, let\u2019s sing it. (Singing) Down from His Glory\u2013<\/p>\n

Congregation, led by Jones:<\/strong> (Singing)<\/p>\n

Ever living story, my socialist saviour came,
\nOh Father was his name.
\nHe was born in a manger, to his own a stranger,
\nA man of sorrows, tears and agony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I know God, I love God.<\/p>\n

Congregation, led by Jones:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh how we love him! How we adore him!
\nMy breath, my sunshine, my all in all!
\nThe socialist savior became my Father,
\nAnd all God\u2019s fullness dwelleth in Him.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Quietly) Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) Sweet Spirit. Sweet Spirit. (Hums melodically) Our hands are clasped. I\u2019d like another song sang, just a verse. Uh, or\u2013 I\u2019d like our sister who was crippled, and I called her out, they said she wouldn\u2019t walk again. And she\u2019s a precious one who sings so often the\u2013 the\u2013 in Swahili. She just sing just a limited verse. Before she does, I\u2019d like another one of my sons, Lew [Jones], as she\u2019s coming up, to have a few words. Lew, my son, who was fathered by a serviceman in the Orient, we adopted him when he was really starving, and they said that they didn\u2019t know that he wouldn\u2019t have bone damage the rest of his days. Well, he doesn\u2019t have bone damage, either. Each one of these children are miracles. This is Lew Jones, you\u2019ve\u2013 And so now, Lew, you have a word, would you, while our sister\u2019s coming? And she\u2019s a great miracle too. And this is\u2013 this lad, like my little Jim, my black son, I went to adopt a child, and they wanted to give me a blonde child and I said, well, it wouldn\u2019t be right to take children that are already in demand. And I heard him \u201cwaaah,\u201d and I went away three rooms and I got him. And he just made a fuss, and he wouldn\u2019t quit till I got there, and so we got him. It was a miracle. Took a year to get Jim, we were the first to ever adopt a black child. And with this child, a newspaper happened to fall in my hands, from Korea. And there he was, so help me truth, isn\u2019t this true \u2013 all the church will know this \u2013<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> male:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> There he was with a hand outreached: I need parents. And I said I\u2019m gonna get him. Why, Marceline says Jim, you know that\u2019s been circulated all over the United States, it\u2019s not\u2013 it\u2019s gonna really take a miracle, you\u2019re gonna have to work a miracle to get him, because it\u2019s been\u2013 it was a back issue six months. But the parents that were supposed to get him two times didn\u2019t get him, and I got the very one. I sent the picture all the way to Korea, and I said this is the boy I want, and there he is. I got him.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> He\u2013 he came to us when he was just, just a little shaver about\u2013 just a\u2013 just a year old. Now, Lew, your first time before an assembly. Have a word to say?<\/p>\n

Lew<\/strong> Jones:<\/strong> Yeah, I\u2013 I was just, I was sitting down there, down, right down on those steps, and I was thinking how Jim Jones is a very unusual man. Now everybody who thinks Jones is a unusual man, say amen!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> Amen!<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> No, I want you to say it louder, I say amen!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> Amen!<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> All right, I think\u2013 I think we got the\u2013 I think we got the Spirit going again. You can play it a little louder, Sister. Now\u2013 now I want everybody out there that thinks that L.A. is going to be taken over with Jim Jones\u2019 Spirit, say amen again!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> Amen!<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Hey, all right, all right! Now I want to tell you a little \u2018bout\u2013 little bit about this man. He is unusual man because he is sensitive to animals, and he\u2019s sensitive to life.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes, yes.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> He even takes little flies that would come in our house\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s true, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> And h\u2013 and he, and they come on his hand, and he takes them out. He can not hurt them. He can\u2019t hurt anything that\u2019s living. That\u2019s more than I can say with anybody in here. Now you talk about your God, and I talk about my God. I say my God can heal people, raise people out of the dead\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Ministerial shout) It\u2019s all right!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> I can see my God. I can\u2019t\u2013 I don\u2019t look up in the sky and see a bunch of clouds, and I can\u2019t see nothing. I see my God right here, right\u2013 five feet in front of me. My God can raise the dead\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s true. Spirit.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> \u2013when there\u2013 when doctors say, it\u2019s hopeless. When they call it, no, they\u2019re dead. When they\u2013 in the hospital, they would give up on them. He called me, go watch them. Go watch them right to the person, and says, If you believe in I\u2019m\u2013 if you believe I\u2019m God, you will raise from the dead!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Hmm.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> And the person raises from the dead. Now I know, that no\u2013 that that God up there, I have\u2013 I haven\u2019t seen him do one thing. Except\u2013 except make the cloud, make it rain and snow, and, uh, that was not thy God (laughs nervously).<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You not sure who did that, are you?<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Well (laughs). (Pause) Amen!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s wonderful. It\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Now, now, I talk about this man \u2018cause he\u2019s my father, and I appreciate him very much, \u2018cause he cares about people.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> I remember in Brazil, where he had\u2013 we had had a mission there. He fed hungry babies. You know, in the Bible it says: feed the hungry and then clothe the naked.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes, it does.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> He practices, he does every\u2013 he has done this. He has a orphan [orphanage] in Brazil, which he supports over two hundred babies.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> So good, so good!<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Hey, okay, yeah.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Hey, God! Sweet Spirit.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Now we have approximately a hundred college students right now, yes, that\u2019s gone off of drugs, hardline drugs, heroin. This man gave \u2018em a way to go, gave \u2018em a faith to believe in when there was no faith.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Scattered shouts)<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> But people wanted (unintelligible) commit suicide.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> All right, all right, all right, it\u2019s true anyhow! (Claps hands once)<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Yes it is! Everybody that believes what I\u2019m talking about, say amen!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> Amen!<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Hey! (Pause) Now I want to say a little more about this man. I know\u2013 I always thought that the God up there was\u2013 but I didn\u2019t\u2013 I didn\u2019t\u2013 I never even believed in him. What kind of God would create a war in Vietnam? What kind of God would create two out of three babies that goes to bed hungry? What kind of\u2013 what kind of God would\u2013 what\u2013 where was your\u2013 where was their God when uh, people down in Virginia mines got\u2013 got\u2013 got caved in, by the capitalistic society? Which they were supposed to have oxygen tanks provided for them, every man was supposed to have oxygen tanks, ox\u2013 masks provided to work, and half of them didn\u2019t even\u2013 half of them wasn\u2019t even working!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> What kind\u2013 What kind of society\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s just last month that happened.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> What kind of society would do that?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Mhm-hmm.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> And I say, this society\u2019s not going to get any better till Jim Jones, and socialism, rules the world.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Scattered applause, cheers)<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Now I can\u2019t speak for my brothers, \u2018cause they\u2019ve got a mind of their own, and I\u2019ve have my mind of my own\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I noticed you do\u2013 (laughs)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (laughter)<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Now\u2013 now these preachers in their black suits, with their tuxedos, and their nice Cadillacs, they tell you about hell\u2013 they tell you about hell below and the temperatures in heaven. They tell you, if you don\u2019t believe what they say, the devil\u2019s gonna get you. Now you watch out, honey, \u2018cause the devil\u2019s gonna get you! Don\u2019t you believe in none of that, because that\u2019s how they oppress black people for years! Everybody believe by saying, amen!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> Amen!<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> You\u2019re still with me, good. Hope nobody\u2019s going to sleep back there!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Scattered laughter, applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I got somebody else helping me keep folk awake now.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Now these preachers give you\u2013 they say, if you don\u2019t do this or if you don\u2019t do that, the devil\u2019s going to get you, or\u2013 you\u2013 you\u2019re gonna die or something. And then they\u2013 and then they pull on this bit about, if you don\u2019t give money. Now, I see most preachers, they have this line, they come around here, and they work, they look at every people, they look at the dollar\u2013 every money, they look at them. But these deacons back here, they think they\u2019re slick. They pull out a dollar bill while everybody\u2019s trying to pour out their souls, they put a (unintelligible word) dollar bill while the plates go by. (Pause) I saw \u2018em!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yeah, you been\u2013 he been watching those deacons, I guess.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> I saw in a church in San Francisco,<\/p>\n

Unidentified<\/strong> male:<\/strong> Haha, talk about it, Lew.<\/p>\n

Lew<\/strong> Jones:<\/strong> \u2013 it was Reverend (unintelligible name, sounds like \u201cBereford\u201d) I believe. A man that has everything\u2013 Which he doesn\u2019t have everything, but he has money. And he has not shared it with the people.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> No, he hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> He has stolen<\/em> it from the people. Now I wanna watch out\u2013 I want you to watch out for those kind of people that steal your money and take advantage of poor people.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s right, tell \u2018em, they need to be watching out for them.<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> But there\u2019s a man that\u2019s here today. That\u2013 If you believe in him, he will bring you from bondage, he will bring you up, and he will free you from\u2013 from all your troubles. Amen!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> Amen!<\/p>\n

Lew<\/strong> Jones:<\/strong> I said, Amen!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Louder) Amen!<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> Hey, okay. Now, I\u2019m gonna quit pretty soon, so don\u2019t\u2013 don\u2019t you\u2013 don\u2019t you go to sleep on me.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Laughter)<\/p>\n

Lew:<\/strong> I got one more thing to say. That\u2019s right, what\u2013 that what they hear is what they get\u2013<\/p>\n

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