{"id":27386,"date":"2013-06-16T00:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=27386"},"modified":"2015-02-23T23:32:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:32:02","slug":"q233","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27386","title":{"rendered":"Q233 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Note: <\/strong>Transcript prepared by Don Beck. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Jones: <\/b>Thank you. Everybody do what they can at this time. Do what you know to do, and do it reverently. (Tape edit) Three times, it gives three separate praises here, but they\u2019re written out. It\u2019ll always<\/i> be in the permanent Library of Congress, the Congressional Record<\/i><\/a> remarks [page] E3559. There\u2019s never a church in history that had that, and the only way it came was by us working together showing that we were loyally united, showing that we support right causes, showing that when we move, we move as one man.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Mike Prokes:<\/b> That\u2019s right. You\u2013 you can\u2019t buy publicity like that for hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n

Jones: <\/b>This goes\u2013 this goes to every library in the United States, every library across the world, to every radio station, to every newspaper throughout the entire United States. Here we are in the House of Representatives, \u201cPeoples Temple Christian Church supports First Amendment freedom,\u201d and then it goes on down telling all<\/i> the good works that we do. Tells what the San Francisco Chronicle<\/i> says, that we\u2019re highly regard\u2013 highly regarded for our social works, and it goes on to explain everything that we do. I think you should be overwhelmed<\/i> by this, and then if the entire denomination of the First Chris\u2013 of the Christian Church of 1.8 million has made a resolution praising us throughout the entire United States. So in spite of little dogs of capitalist lackeys, weak imperialistic lackeys like the [San Francisco<\/i>] Examiner<\/i> no\u2013 of which no good respecting member would take an Examiner<\/i> paper. How many do not buy the Examiner<\/i> paper and will not read it? Don\u2019t read it under any circumstances, \u2018cause they try to destroy us.\u00a0 How many do<\/i>? (Pause) Only God could\u2019ve won that battle. So don\u2019t ever pick up an Examiner<\/i>. Don\u2019t find yourself buying it. Don\u2019t support them, because last week we heard from one of them in their uh, KCBS, one of our members listened and others reported it, that the Examiner<\/i> is losing circulation rapidly. They had to fire their manager because they\u2019re having to cut down in personnel, and they attacked us only a few months ago, and the man that attacked us [columnist Lester Kinsolving] has been dismissed. And such is the case, every time someone touches the modern ark of the covenant\u2013 they touched us, and the very week they touched us, a fire broke out and burned up thousands, hundreds of thousands of their newspapers. (voice rises) That\u2019s what you get when you mess with God.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Take this to Sister Tennyson for San\u2013 Sacramento. Some people want to desert our ship. (aside) There\u2019s a copy for her and others\u2019ll get copies. She\u2019s setting on that, hold her hand up. (Back to congregation) Others want to desert us, you know. They wanted to fall aside. They thought we were going to sink. And now we are in the record. The permanent<\/i> library of the Senate and Congress. We are in the record of the United States House of Representatives, and we were praised openly, the first church in history to be praised openly on the floor of the United States House of Representatives in Washington.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You that stayed with us, you were repaid, you were repaid for your loyalty. You that stood with your Father, you have been the good children. Now some of the disloyal will want to come home (pause) (voice lowers) but go tell it on the mountain, all these lackeys that\u2019ve lied on us. Their\u2013 their names are not in Congress. Not that we care that our name\u2019s in Congress. Just goes to show you, that the truth will set people free. (Long pause) Now each one take an envelope. Be quickly, because the (unintelligible word, could be \u201cspirit\u201d) (pause) (unintelligible word) from the Congress and a lot of people that (unintelligible phrase) going to be worth a lot to us one day. When people attack us, you can always say, well, if they attack us, at least the Congress praised us, the Speaker of the House gave time for us to be praised in fine print. Whole page of it, whole page of praise, several columns, Peoples Temple this last week. No matter what they say in the future, they\u2019re gonna have a hard time getting around what\u2019s already in the permanent record, which will always<\/i> be. As long as there\u2019s a Congress, this\u2019ll be in the permanent records of Congress. Hmm. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing to themselves.<\/p>\n

(Organ plays softly, other background noise)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Gonna be some mightily embarrassed people one day. (moves mike) Said, you praised him, and now he\u2019s tearing up the house, and you praised him. (pause) Sometimes I think fools<\/i> running this land. I know<\/i>\u2013 I know<\/i> slave\u2013 slaveholders run it. I know beasts<\/i> run it. I know demons<\/i> run it. But what\u2019s more enlightening and encouraging, I think there are some fools<\/i> that run it.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/b> Well, when they put Peoples Temple Christian Church and what it stands for in the Congress and let the Congressman [George Brown, who included the Extension of Remarks in the Congressional Record<\/i>] stand up in the House of the Congress and United State House of Representatives and praise<\/i> us\u2013 When they let us stand right up and praise<\/i> us\u2013 when we\u2019re recommending that the class system be done away<\/i> with\u2013<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> They ought to recategory them. They ought to recategory them as just being beasts. They\u2019re fools<\/i>. It\u2013 But if they want to be fools, we\u2019re glad, we\u2019re glad to keep a record of their foolishness.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/b> Actually we are indeed<\/i> uh, deserving to be in the House of Congress, because we\u2019re the most patriotic people on earth. We support<\/i> the Bill of Rights, we believe that uh, we will fight<\/i> unless they give us life, liberty and<\/i> the pursuit of happiness, the acquisition of happiness. We are going to have a government of the people, for the people, by<\/i> the people. We don\u2019t think we have<\/i> one, but we will<\/i> have or we will die<\/i> in the process of bringing it. So we are loyal<\/i> to the Constitution. We are loyal<\/i> to the Declaration of Independence. The only patriots in the land, so we deserve<\/i> to be there. And as I look around at these so-called would-be revolutionaries, I\u2019m glad that we are first<\/i> loyal to this<\/i> house, that we want to build our own kind of revolutionary democracy, because we believe in each other and we believe in our Father. We know that he\u2019s honest, that we know that he has integrity of the highest order. But I notice some of these revolutionaries, they never come around. Today I got two or three phone calls. I knew what they\u2019d heard. That we are in Congress record. Got a call from one of the Baptist ministers. Wanted me to return<\/i> his call, the First Baptist. And I thought, oh, I know what he\u2019s read. He\u2019s read that we are in the House of Congress, that Peoples Temple\u2019s been praised, because he never comes around, and even some of these would-be communists and so-called revolutionaries, they\u2019re afraid to admit (unintelligible word) with us. The people in this town that have claimed to be for the revolution of socialism for years, but they\u2019re afraid to be associated with us until we get praise or we\u2019re in the House of Congress, and then they call around and say, \u201cOh Jim, I\u2019ve just been thinking about you! I\u2019ve had you on my mind.\u201d What they mean<\/i> is that they heard on international wire<\/i>, CBS religious<\/i> reports that Peoples Temple was praised, which went all through the nation. So they heard that. I<\/i> know what\u2019s on their minds. So I trust no revolutionaries outside of they\u2013 us. They\u2019re all a bunch of lackeys or cowards, they won\u2019t stand up\u2013 we\u2019re the only group that has been courageous enough to stand up and call the word that we believe with all of our hearts, that we love with all of our souls. Even the good doctor over here that claims to be one,\u00a0 he always whispers it in secret \u2013 the one that has the newspaper [Carlton Goodlett] \u2013 whispers it in secrecy, but we<\/i> claim openly<\/i> that we are apostolic socialists. We let the world<\/i> know it. We\u2019re the only<\/i> ones that\u2019re not afraid. We don\u2019t hide our light under a bushel.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> We let our light so shine that men might see our good works. We\u2019re not afraid to call a spade a spade, to tell what we believe, and what we\u2019re willing to live for and die for. But all these so-called communists and socialists, I wouldn\u2019t go across the street<\/i> to make a revolution with them, because they haven\u2019t got the spine of a jellyfish<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> They want to stay on the good<\/i> side of everybody. We haven\u2019t tried<\/i> to get on the good side on anybody<\/i>, and yet we appear in the Congress. We<\/i> didn\u2019t ask or solicit this, we didn\u2019t ask anybody to do it. I just had a revelation of something that should be said to this honorable Congressman, and I knew when\u2013 They did just exactly what I said, he<\/i> would do just exactly what he did<\/i>. But I didn\u2019t solicit<\/i> him to do this. Not a word<\/i> was mentioned. My mind and spirit<\/i> just got in him and he did<\/i> it and he doesn\u2019t even realize why<\/i> he did it, but there it is.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> But I did not get it by compromise\u2013 I certainly would not trust these running dogs and lackeys for so-called revolutionary movements or international movements. We are not interested in any kind of revolution outside of Peoples Temple both\u2013 either domestic or foreign. I don\u2019t trust any of them. We\u2019re going to stand for ourselves and build a society of the just, we\u2019re going to take care of our own, we\u2019re going to maintain the household of the faith first, we\u2019re going to minister to our children and our orphans and widows in their affliction. We\u2019re always going to take care of our people through the great\u2013 from the cradle to the great graduation, we\u2019re going to maintain every need<\/i>. We\u2019re going to be responsible fathers<\/i>. We\u2019re going to integrate, unify, harmonize, and lift our people into the highest level of prosperity, and we\u2019ll look after ourselves first<\/i>. First<\/i> we\u2019re going to look after ourselves, first<\/i> take care of the household of the faith.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> We\u2019ve tried very hard to work with other groups. We\u2019ve tried very desperately, and they didn\u2019t want to come around when they listened to this\u2013 this red-baiting and this persecution, this hate-mongering that was done by Reverend Kinsolving, until I removed him clear out of this town, run him clear<\/i> out of this town. He\u2019s been here for years<\/i>, but he\u2019s gone now, and the paper that carried his scurrilous articles is now begging for more circulation, because they are about to go out of business, they said last week on KCBS, had to hi\u2013 fire their manager. Just a few months after they attacked me, they\u2019re about to go out of business. Now that uh, now that we have been praised in the Halls of Congress, now that they\u2019ve stood up\u2013 the Speaker of the House received praise this last week of Peoples Temple on the halls of Congress in Washington, and we went down into the Senate and Congressional library and will be a permanent part of America\u2019s history. This is a permanent part of America\u2019s history. Now everybody is calling me up today, calling me up yesterday, wanting to renew<\/i> acquaintances of old fond friendship. Oh, I see through those devils, oh, I see through those devils so well. (pause) First Baptist Church wouldn\u2019t have spit<\/i> to save me, they wouldn\u2019t have lifted a finger<\/i> to save me, until they found out through (unintelligible word)\u2013 the CBS network that we were praised all over the nation. They wouldn\u2019t have lifted a little finger<\/i> to praise me, and now\u2013 or to even save me or to save my babies or your children. They wouldn\u2019t have done a thing<\/i>. Only to push<\/i> you down, but now that we\u2019ve gotten a little bit of celebration, a little bit of praise, a little bit of the just commendation that\u2019s long overdue us, now that we are seen that though\u2013 we\u2019re climbing up even though our persecutors thought they would destroy us, that we\u2019ve got on top of our persecutors, and our persecutors are going down, now they want to say, we\u2019d like to get to know you. The good reverend from First Baptist said, I would just love<\/i> to know you. I\u2019ve heard so many good things about you, and I said, well, good reverend, when did you start hearing them?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> He said we\u2019re going to have a cocktail and I said, a what? He said, well, I\u2013 you know, there\u2019re some people that you have to\u2013 you have to meet people on all their level. I said yes. You meet the city crooks on one level, and you meet the gangsters on another level, and you meet the drunk on another level, just meet them on a\u2013 He really didn\u2019t\u2013 he got turned away from me completely because he caught me at a very bad day, a very bad\u2013 Poor time to reach God, \u2018cause God was in a state of wrath, and when he got me on the telephone I guess he thought he had a tiger by the tail, because I didn\u2019t fall for all of his jive. I said, no, I don\u2019t cocktail. I said, I don\u2019t go anywhere my people\u2013 I said, now if you want to invite all of our people to tea, or if you want to drop them all in for a hot milk, I said, we\u2019ll all come. I said, I go no place my people can\u2019t go. Well, I don\u2019t have enough accommodation, he said, there\u2019ll be judges<\/i> there, and there\u2019ll be doctors<\/i> there. I said, I don\u2019t care. I don\u2019t care what<\/i> you have there. As long as my people can\u2019t go, I\u2019m sorry. I won\u2019t be able to go either.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> And that\u2019s the way it is, child. If you want one of us for good<\/i> things, you better take all of us. And if you want to do something bad to us, you damn well better come for all of us\u2013<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013\u2018cause you won\u2019t get by just taking one of us, because here we sit and there we stand. We are one<\/i>. United we stand, and divided we ain\u2019t gonna fall. United we\u2019re going to stand<\/i>. (Pause)<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones: <\/b>(Voice builds throughout) You want friendship, you better come over here. You want somebody to take you in when you\u2019re lonely, come over here. We\u2019ve got the most beautiful sanatorium. The state of California just picked out our sanatorium as the best in the entire northern California redwood region. The best out of hundreds. If you want the best facilities, if you want the best greens, if you want the best pears, if you want the best strawberries, if you want the most luscious grapes, if you want to eat when others are not going to be able<\/i> to eat, if you want refuge when others will not have<\/i> refuge, if you want sanctuary<\/i> and a way through Egypt, Babylon, when others will not know<\/i> the escape route to the river of Jordan, when you want safety<\/i> and you want to be taken care of, you better come on over here, because nobody\u2019ll<\/i> take care of you out there. It\u2019s just a jungle of pariahs out there. It\u2019s nothing but a jungle of pariahs and they\u2019re just wanting to leech<\/i> off of you and drain<\/i> you, but if you want safety,<\/i> if you want strength<\/i>, if you want refuge<\/i> in the time<\/i> of storm, if you want to be saved<\/i> when nobody else can be saved, come<\/i> on over to Father\u2019s house, and Father will take you in.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Moderates) I know some don\u2019t understand it, but you see, we know what we\u2019re talking about. We<\/i> know what we\u2019re talking about. Great God almighty, people living in nineties and a hundreds of years, and all these people that have passed, hundreds of them, and been resurrected, (unintelligible word) their neighbors in the funeral parlors and resurrected and brought out. Sister Morgan was in the morgue<\/i>, brought out. Sister Ferguson\u2019s daughter in the morgue, brought out. Why, those are just little things that we kinda throw in, those are just the extras. We don\u2019t have to have those, but those are the extras you get. [You] Say, I don\u2019t like your religion. You\u2019ve got a funny religion. You talk different. You don\u2019t just do things like others do. Well, the other folks doing their thing, did they get you healed of cancer?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Do they go in the courts and set you free?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Every one of my sons and daughters have been pre\u2013 taken out in the last few weeks that have been taken falsely and they\u2019ve been brought away, they\u2019ve been freed, they\u2019ve been released. Why, if you can\u2019t get your religion to do that for you, why don\u2019t you change<\/i> your religion, and begin to talk the right kind<\/i> of things.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2018Cause this is the atmosphere of God\u2019s<\/i> presence. We don\u2019t have to talk<\/i> about the creator, we have<\/i> a creator. We don\u2019t have a creator that claimed to make a world that\u2013 divided between blacks and whites. This God does not claim to make the world where two out of three babies have gone to bed hungry. (In full throat) But this<\/i> God is making a new<\/i> world where the knowledge of it\u2019s going to cover the earth<\/i> as the waters cover the sea, and all<\/i> are going to have freedom, and all<\/i> are going to have justice, and all<\/i> are going to come into the acceptable day of God. All<\/i> are going to know joy, peace, prosperity, happiness, the abundance of every good<\/i> desire. (Voice moderates) This is the God that you want? You don\u2019t want anything else but the atmosphere of a living<\/i> God\u2019s presence. Hmm. When you become conscious of this<\/i> God\u2019s presence, the very consciousness of it will release every<\/i> source of your difficulty. It\u2019ll be a consolation for every<\/i> problem. (Voice rises) It is the same thing that you\u2019ve been talking<\/i> about and never knew, the thing you\u2019ve been theorizing<\/i> but never had. This is<\/i> peace of mind. We do<\/i> create jobs and quiet resting places. We do<\/i> create help when you\u2019re in trouble. This<\/i> is the God that answers all prayer. This is the God<\/i> that meets every condition.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/b> (Voice moderates) We don\u2019t have to talk about one that is to come. We have one that\u2019s anointing our head now<\/i>. He\u2019s anointing our head with the oil<\/i> of salvation and freedom<\/i> and liberation. And our cups are now<\/i> running over. Surely<\/i> goodness and mercy is following us all<\/i> the days of our life. (In full throat) While we are dwelling in the house of good God almighty, we are dwelling in the house of a good God almighty, (voice quietens) blessed, blessed, blessed. (Pause) We\u2019re not looking for it, we\u2019ve found<\/i> it. Oh, we\u2019ve found<\/i> it, and we are glad. You don\u2019t like our religion, go back on over there. Those old jacklegs, they\u2019ll stand and take your money, they got Cadillacs out there. I don\u2019t have anything, but I\u2019ve got Greyhound busses. I don\u2019t have new shoes or a new suit, but I\u2019ve got clothes and food and quiet resting places for our people, beautiful senior citizen homes, beautiful children homes, beautiful dormitories, which every one of our youngsters are getting education. Don\u2019t worry about it\u2013 And our enemies, our enemies\u2013 The man that came running down the aisle was gonna shoot<\/i> me. What did you do? You saw him this week, didn\u2019t some of you? Out picking little old pieces of paper up, little pieces of paper up and putting \u2018em in a bag. That\u2019s how screwy his mind has become, because I told you I\u2019d run him clear out of his mind<\/i> for what he did. (Pause, quiet) You cannot hate God and get by with it. You cannot fight<\/i> this work and get by with it. You may cause us some temporary persecution, prosecution, and tribulations, but we are going to have the dominion. If one of us falls, 10,000 will rise<\/i> in our place.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/b> So don\u2019t let some old jackleg telling you Jesus is coming soon, looking with his diamond rings and his golden tie clasp and his beautiful emerald cuff links. I can\u2019t even hardly say those words, \u2018cause I wouldn\u2019t buy any such thing. Don\u2019t own<\/i> any of those things. Don\u2019t<\/i> let some jackleg preacher that\u2019s got a new Cadillac every year and a fine home out in the suburbia tell you Jesus is coming soon. (Voice rises slowly) Now if he thought Jesus was coming soon, he wouldn\u2019t have<\/i> all that junk, \u2018cause when you meet Jesus, you\u2019re supposed to have nothing but love<\/i> in your heart, you\u2019re supposed to have sold<\/i> all you had and given it to the poor<\/i>. You\u2019re supposed to share it and share it alike. He\u2019s robbing you blind. He talking to you about joy that\u2019s going to come, talking to you about blessings that are yet to come. Well, what we have has already brought degrees of joy beyond the fullest expression of imagination<\/i>. It\u2019s brought us unmingled love. It\u2019s brought us joy<\/i>. It\u2019s beyond all<\/i> joy. It\u2019s brought us a love and joy and peace that is without any exception. (Pause) (Quiet) We\u2019re talking about a joy that is here now. Joy without a tear. Joy without the adverse circumstances that you have out there. Joy without fear, because we\u2019ve made a way for every kind of man (unintelligible word). All of his oppositions, all of his so-called plans of destruction, we\u2019ve got a plan for him<\/i> to countermand. (Voice rises) We\u2019ve got something to praise God for, we\u2019ve got something that we can call<\/i> God, God that cares<\/i>, a God that is<\/i> our Father, a God that loves<\/i> us, a God that saves<\/i> us, a God that heals<\/i> us, a God that resurrects<\/i> us when we\u2019re dead. We have something to praise for<\/i>. We know God. God is sitting here in our<\/i> midst and we exalt the name of Father<\/i>, because Father<\/i> is God and God is all we need.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Moderates) And if this God doesn\u2019t keep your house, your watch is in vain. You might as well just throw all the money that you\u2019ve given to these churches, you might as well give them to the\u2013 the pimp on the coun\u2013 country square or the city block called the Tenderloin. You might as well give<\/i> your money to one of those, because it\u2019s just as wasted. You might as well go and flush<\/i> it down one of the capitalist toilets because your money\u2019s not going to do you anything<\/i> unless you put it in this<\/i> house, \u2018cause in this house, (Voice builds) you can go up in Redwood Valley and see acres and acres, where a black recently died before I came, was shot down [in] their streets. Reverend Williams knew him. Reverend Williams who was crippled, a Baptist minister and invalid until I healed him. Now he\u2019s able to hold two<\/i> jobs. Now I have put a black right smack in the top of the sheriff\u2019s department. I\u2019ve put a black at the head of the largest factory. I\u2019ve put my people in the schools<\/i>. I\u2019ve put them in the hospitals till we practically have the supervision of the general hospital. I\u2019ve put them here, there and everywhere.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Voice moderates) And now, if you\u2019re black and stopped on the highway by the California Highway Patrol, you will be much more likely to get on. Many of our people who didn\u2019t know me will\u2013 when they go down through there and they were speeding, they didn\u2019t know me and my teachings about moderation, and they were speeding and they found out where they were going, they said, go on. How many has that happened to? There\u2019s a black brother back there, there\u2019s another black brother, there\u2019s a black sister. Yes, you\u2019ve seen it happen to you. Now it pays to be black up there, because our God came<\/i> and made us whole.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> What\u2019s your jackleg preacher done for you lately? I see one of them jacklegs in here tonight. That\u2019s why I\u2019m preaching. What\u2019s your jackleg done for you lately? Has he come and given you a place where once you were shot down [in] the streets and now if the highway patrol stops you, and they say you going to Peoples Temple? Oh, that\u2019s all right. I\u2019ll forgive you this time. Go on. Go on. That\u2019s a good place to go. No, you haven\u2019t got anything, and (Voice rises) I\u2019ve given them acres<\/i> and acres<\/i> of beautiful property, the best of senior citizen homes, the best convalescent sanatoriums, the best swimming pool, the best of everything, the best of foods and gardens, the best dormitories. What\u2019s your jackleg done for you lately? Just rob you blind. That\u2019s what those yellow devils have done. Spineless devils, just taking from my people, rob<\/i> my people, but I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m a just God, and vengeance is mine and I will repay<\/i>. I will shake<\/i> their churches until they won\u2019t even be able to keep the church mice coming. I said, I\u2019ll shake<\/i> those churches.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> In 20 years you won\u2019t even be able to get a church<\/i> mouse to come to them. There won\u2019t be enough people to even entertain a building.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b>\u00a0 (Moderates, then builds) Why, if you don\u2019t know it, a revolution\u2019s on the scene, and God will have his way, God, father, socialism, he\u2019ll have<\/i> his way. No<\/i> man can hinder, nothing<\/i> can prevent me from doing my just purpose, nothing<\/i> can prevent me from having my holy<\/i> way, nothing<\/i> can prevent me from building<\/i> this new holy, equitable, egalitarian, socialist order of people\u2019s democracy. (Pause) (Moderates tone) And if you don\u2019t believe it, just stand around and watch. Why\u2013 While you got time, jackleg, \u2018cause you don\u2019t repent, you\u2019re not going to be around next July. You come over here to spy. I\u2019ll take care of your spying. You been best to stay at home where you shoulda been. You go home and drink a little bit of that stuff you got under the mattress. Drink that junk.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b>\u00a0 Don\u2019t come over here and play with God, \u2018cause God\u2019s a live<\/i> wire. You\u2019re not in a crap<\/i> game now. You\u2019re in the game with God almighty, and he\u2019s never lost a battle<\/i>. (Ministerial fervor) He\u2019s never lost a game that he ever played. (Pause) (Tone moderates, then builds) You puny churchite, you thought you\u2019d run us outta town with all your lie\u2013 (Tape edit) lies day after day in the fall of this year, thought you\u2019d get the attorney general [State Attorney General Evelle Younger], thought you\u2019d get all the state to turn on us, but we turned all your aims and ambitions around, and the very one you tried to influence has just today wrote one of my members a very kind letter, the attorney general, we\u2019ve gotten praise from the people that you wanted to throttle<\/i> us, to destroy<\/i> us, and now we are in the House of Congress, and you jacklegs are still just doing nothing, and you\u2019re going to go down doing nothing, and you\u2019ll always be known for doing nothing, because you can\u2019t do<\/i> anything but nothing.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> All right, child. I\u2019ve said enough. Put that in your\u2013 your pipe and smoke it.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Draws out) Yes, yes, yes. (pause) Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

(long pause, audience quietens)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Quiet) Hallelujah. (Sings) Oh, what a mighty God\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

(Tape returns with singing of \u201cOh what a mighty God we have\u201d)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You may be seated. God, God, God. (Hums) (Pause, organ music in background) Remember that we are leaving tonight and you should go with us. We had a marvelous, miraculous day yesterday in Los Angeles, and again Los Angeles filled their temple. Cooler in Los Angeles last night than it was here tonight. San Francisco is getting some heat, and it\u2019s good to have these changes, by changes in community. Community, you\u2019ll build up your immunity. Even older, you\u2019ll build up your immunity. During (unintelligible word) summer you\u2019ll build up your immunity and won\u2019t have as many viruses, or they won\u2019t affect you as seriously as they will others. Because you will have built up an immunity to the germs that come flooding in from every place. You will have built resistance<\/i> up, and I would recommend that that is the wise thing to do. Now, there\u2019ll be a service here Sunday morning and there\u2019ll be a service here Sunday evening. Mr. Jones\u2019 custom is to hold meetings on alternate Sundays, and you should be under the jurisdiction of Mother [Marceline Jones]. She is a great mother to you, she been a faithful companion to me for 25 years\u2013<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013and she is here unless she is out on other work. There will be some days ahead in which she will take a while to be out on some important work, and I too, but my spirit is always<\/i> present\u2013<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013personally.<\/i> You needn\u2019t worry about me taking a vacation, because we are now getting ready to vacation, is to take in common. When I do a vacation, we do that together. I haven\u2019t missed a service in I don\u2019t know how long, and I have eight a week<\/i>. Some preachers, if they had eight in a month<\/i>, they\u2019d fall over, but I have eight services a week<\/i>, and all night counseling on Monday<\/i> \u2013 never fail \u2013 and sometimes all night on Tuesday<\/i>, and most<\/i> of the night on Wednesday before we leave for Los Angeles, and most of the night on Thursday before we start back here on Friday. But I shall have some things to take care of, for no one else can take care of it, except we take care<\/i> of us and we gotta provision for anything that might come. You name it, we\u2019ve got<\/i> it.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You could sing about these silly things about God being your father, your mother, your sister, your brother, your doctor, your lawyer. Well, you can understand why we<\/i> were going to sing that \u2013 or should at least \u2013 more enthusiastically, because we\u2019ve seen<\/i> God be our<\/i> Father, we\u2019ve seen him be our<\/i> lawyer. We saw the sister that stood up out here and said that she\u2019d\u2013 I stopped her and I said you got a hepatitis which was a serious disease. It could destroy you. Go get it confirmed. And you\u2019re going to see the same God take it away from her. That\u2019s\u2013 That\u2019s the same<\/i> God (pause) You\u2019ve heard the doctor\u2019s name given here just a while ago. He confirmed\u2013 the doctor didn\u2019t tell her. I told her, and she went to the doctor.<\/p>\n

Male: <\/b>That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Voice builds) So we know<\/i> of God that has been a doctor, we know<\/i> a God that when our sons here standing before you have been under false arrest and put in jail, they said they\u2019d be taken out, said that charges would be dropped, and he kept his word, so we<\/i> should never let anybody out there singing to a spook<\/i> sing more than we. We know<\/i> God who is our father and our mother<\/i> and our sister<\/i> and our brother, our doctor,<\/i> our lawyer<\/i>\u2013 (Pause)\u00a0 Good God almighty. How we should praise him.<\/p>\n

(long pause. Audience quiet)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Well, isn\u2019t it good? (pause) (stumbles over words) Good ol\u2019 Reverend Ike. Now I\u2019m glad. Now he\u2019s<\/i> having to take a shot at me. He said let these kind of people alone. He\u2019s got to change the world. Wants to bring justice. Said that\u2019s not your business to get involved with those people. He feels threatened<\/i> by me, \u2018cause he knows I\u2019m gonna change the world.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Short laugh) Oh well. That\u2019s just fraud. He\u2019s a fraud. Who\u2019d in a world would want to go around him, with his fancy clothes, and he tells you publicly, he spends over a thousand dollars, he dances a jig that\u2019s queer, comes out in front of a floor \u2013 that\u2019s the only kind of thing I\u2019d call a queer \u2013 dancing around, says I spend a thousand dollars of the people\u2019s money on my clothes. Don\u2019t you think I\u2019m pretty. I think he\u2019s pretty, all right.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> (Applause and cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I think he\u2019s a pretty mess, and I\u2019ve\u2013<\/p>\n

End of tape.<\/b><\/p>\n

Tape originally posted January 2006<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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