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((Editor’s note<\/strong>: This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein<\/em>. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.)<\/i><\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Hands clasped while we do this. Let\u2019s move quickly. (Pause) Get some help over here. (Pause) Four, (Pause) four, three, over here, over here. That\u2019s good. You work on this side. He\u2019s a three, I\u2019m at four. Not four, three or less. (Pause) (hums) (Pause) You heard what I said about that\u2013 those wrenches under the driver\u2019s seat? (Pause) And the spare plug, the\u2013 the spark plugs? How many heard me? Be sure they did. It\u2019ll save a broken neck. (Pause)<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

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

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Under the driver\u2019s seat? (Pause) Yeah, I\u2019d move them. I\u2019d keep \u2019em in the truck. I\u2019d keep them in the trunk of a car, yes. (Pause) I\u2019m answering that question generally, I\u2019d have no moving heavy metal object inside the vehicle. Have it in the trunk. You save yourself of unnecessary injuries to the ankle. When you asked that, I saw your ank\u2013 your ankle. I don\u2019t know what it meant. But uh, so I\u2019d\u2013 I\u2019d get rid of it there, yeah. (Pause) I mean, I saw a danger<\/em> to your leg, you see, so that\u2013 that applies I think universally to people, to get objects that can float free, you know, and come move like a missile through the vehicle, get them out of the way. (Clears throat) Pays to listen to me, I\u2019ve had a pretty good record all these years.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> With having no one killed on the highway. Nobody on the highways like we are. (Tsks, sighs, makes popping sounds)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Scattered murmurs of agreement)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Stand up.<\/p>\n

(Sound of the congregation standing)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Thank you, so much.<\/p>\n

Man 1:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

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

Man 1:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) take a four.<\/p>\n

(Feedback)<\/p>\n

(Thumping on the microphone)<\/p>\n

(Organ music begins to play)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s a\u2013 That\u2019s a lovely song.<\/p>\n

(Congregation begins to sing \u201cOur God has brought us from a mighty long way\u201d)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I like that melody right now anyway. Sing it. (Clears throat)<\/p>\n

(Thumping on the microphone)<\/p>\n

Man 2:<\/strong> Where\u2019s the microphone?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You need more cloths? Here\u2019s some\u2013<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (singing) Our God has brought us\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Hold your hand up high.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (singing) \u2013from a mighty long way.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Four, three, wait, wait, wait, wait. Three. Three. Four.<\/p>\n

Congregation: <\/strong>(sings, joined by Man 3<\/strong>) Our God has brought us, from a mighty long way. I\u2019ve been blessed by his goodness. I\u2019ve been saved by his love. Our God has brought us, from a mighty long way.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Sing it a little bit louder. That\u2019s sweet.<\/p>\n

Congregation & Man 3:<\/strong> (singing) Our God has brought us from a mighty long way.<\/p>\n

Man 3:<\/strong> (singing) A mighty long way.<\/p>\n

(Sound of microphone being thumped and blown on)<\/p>\n

Congregation & Man 3:<\/strong> (singing) Our God has brought us, from a mighty long way. I\u2019ve been blessed\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Shhh!<\/p>\n

(Congregation stops singing and Man 3<\/strong> trails off into a quiet hum. The organ continues to play the tune quietly)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I want\u2013 I\u2013 I have something to tell you. This little bug\u2013 You see there where that sp\u2013 that fly was there? This little bug, it wa\u2013 I swear to you it was covering just him, it was right on top where that bug was, like that was where he\u2013 best place to hide, and he was just exactly on the place where the bug was nose<\/em> to nose. He\u2019s moved now. He\u2019s up here. And I thought that was such a c\u2013 a cute thing. He was hiding in that paper right smack on top of the picture<\/em> of the bug.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> He\u2019s going back up there. He\u2019s going back up there and looking at it now while I\u2019m talking to him. Right here he is. He says, \u201cI wanna find out about that bug there.\u201d He says, \u201cHe\u2019s a weird looking thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> See, he\u2019s looking\u2013 he\u2019s looking at it now. He\u2019s looking at it.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> It pays you to notice little things like that. It has a healthy thought. I felt to mention it to you. If it doesn\u2019t touch you, all right, but it\u2019ll help<\/em> you if it touches you. Here he is, he\u2019s\u2013 he\u2019s\u2013 he\u2019s crawling around.<\/p>\n

(Sound of thumping on the microphone)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> He\u2019s got two little fellas back there. He can handle himself. (Makes popping sounds)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (singing rises, joined by Man 3 and Jim Jones) \u2013a mighty long way.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Peace, see you tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

Scattered in<\/strong> Congregation:<\/strong> Thank you, Father.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You that are called for council, I\u2019d prefer it not having it done publicly tonight. If you\u2019ll allow me to have my wishes in that matter, all my love to you.<\/p>\n

Man 4:<\/strong> (Loudly) Be on time for the buses, because they will depart starting at five P.M.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes. It\u2019s\u2013 It\u2019s very important, very important that we there because we have these officials<\/em> all week long.<\/p>\n

Man 5:<\/strong> Testing one two\u2013<\/p>\n

Man 4:<\/strong> Don\u2019t delay. You\u2019ll be standing here without a ride.<\/p>\n

(Crowd noise. milling)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Shhh! People are\u2013 Some are questioning about various people. We\u2019ll tell you if anyone\u2019s missing. Like someone\u2019s asking where Harold Cordell is. Harold Cordell\u2019s going down to help in Los Angeles Temple for a while, due to the fact that we need it, not because he\u2019s being punished.<\/p>\n

(Crowd noise, sounds of service breaking up, and Jones consults with unknown persons on places to stay)<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

(Tape silence for several moments)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> On the\u2013 on the back page of the front section, it covers a whole page, and I would like for you to hear just a little bit of what it says. (Pause) The peril of power comparable to Adolf Hitler is evident today in America in every phase of its life. The Watergate situation is one of the indications that is absolutely frightening to the publishers of this paper. The atmosphere here is exactly<\/em> like the atmosphere of Germany in 1933. This writer remains\u2013 retains a vivid memory of a brief encounter with Hitler in 1937. He was introduced to Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator, through deputy assistant Rudolf Hess. Payne and Hitler were together for awhile. At that time, he said, most of the world had the impression of Hitler as a pasty-faced little white man with an absurd mustache. He wasn\u2019t that way at all, according to Payne. His skin was bronzed, he had steely blue eyes, and an elegance of manner. He had a sweet voice and more charm than most people are allowed to possess. He had a crisp, cold mind. He definitely<\/em> was not a clown. I\u2019ll skip on to something else now (clears throat) in this same article because it\u2019s very long. (Pause) He said, \u201cI expect,\u201d this writer said \u2013 now this is the paper, the\u2013 the leading paper in California \u2013 he said \u201cI expect,\u201d now notice this, \u201cthat a government like Adolf Hitler\u2019s will happen here within the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now this is not Jim Jones anymore. This is what I\u2019ve been telling you for years, and here it is. (Clears throat)<\/p>\n

Archie Ijames:<\/strong> That\u2019s right!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> In his biography, he goes on to write \u2013 this uh, publisher \u2013 to declare that the scapegoat this time will be blacks, Mexicans, and Indians. As you know, Hitler murdered all of the Jews before he finished. Now that won\u2019t happen to us if you listen to me. We have plans that are laid<\/em>. We have plans that are absolutely workable<\/em>. But it\u2019s going to take more<\/em> cooperation than we now get. You\u2019re going to have to make this your chief<\/em> commitment. Now these are white<\/em> people telling you that we\u2019re going to have a man like Hitler at least<\/em> within five years, he said. Well, the Watergate is such a bad mess, that the head<\/em> of the FBI [L. Patrick Gray] was guilty of burning up papers<\/em> that were plots<\/em> to discredit Senator [Edward] Kennedy. They were all lies concocted by the State<\/em> Department of the United States. That\u2019s what came out. The FBI director resigned last night\u2013<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> \u2013because he was caught with his proverbial hand in the cookie jar, burning up. The man that\u2019s supposed to enforce<\/em> the laws took an order from the assistant of the president of the United States [counsel John Dean] to break<\/em> the law and to burn up papers that would have indicted everybody\u2013 everybody in Washington. That\u2019s how corrupt<\/em> this mess is. These people involved themselves with a plan to get guns<\/em>. The only thing that stopped that was a Virginia gun dealer who reported them. And they have gone in and spied<\/em> and bugged<\/em> and wire<\/em> tapped, stole papers, lied on the Democratic Party. This evil, every kind of evil that you want to think about, they have personified it, and they are the leaders<\/em>. The leaders<\/em> of this United States have done everything that they\u2019ve always told us that we should look upon with disgust. Now it\u2019s right at the door, and NBC brought out the fact that Mr. [Richard] Nixon did the same thing in California. This week it revealed all that had been done \u2013 which was frightening \u2013 that they represented themselves when Mr. Nixon was running for the governor of the state of California, he represented himself to be a Democrat<\/em> running a Democratic organization, and sent out a half million<\/em> cards telling people to vote for him, representing himself as heading a Democratic organization, which was clear<\/em> fraud, and nothing was ever done. And NBC, the nightly news, showed you the pictures of the ones that took part in that nefarious affair twelve or thirteen years ago, and every<\/em> one of the pictures you saw on your television are the same surly bunch that are involved in this mess now in Washington.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yes!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> As this paper said, the scandals were very similar just before Hitler took power in Germany. Now Mr. Nixon\u2019s gonna have to do something quick, or his name is gonna be mud. I don\u2019t<\/em> think Mr. Nixon is the kind of man that\u2019s gonna go down in history with his name mud. And I think that there\u2019s some generals that will\u2013 if it does get to him<\/em>, if it finally gets to him\u2013 Of course it\u2019s already with him. None of this could\u2019ve been done if he hadn\u2019t been involved in it. If this<\/em> gets to him, he will conspire with the generals like it was done in Greece<\/em>, and as it was done in Turkey, and was done as I prophesied on the sixteenth in the Philippines islands, and the generals will take over, and civil liberties will be done away with, and as they did with the Japanese, they\u2019ll run everyone into concentration camps<\/a>. But you\u2019ll have a few days, and we have an emergency plans for our buses that will get us out. Because the Japanese had a few days, but they didn\u2019t believe it\u2019d happen to them. But we have one in our church whose mother was put in a concentration camp in the middle of a desert, and she died<\/em> with cancer even though they owned\u2013 owned several thousands of acres of farm land. And she was put<\/em> in a concentration camp and died<\/em> of cancer. I did not know her. She died<\/em> of cancer and was denied an aspirin. For six months she agonized and suffered and bled to death and was in pain till she bit her own flesh, and they would not even give her an aspirin tablet. That\u2019s what happened to the Japanese, and if you think they would do it to the Japanese and the Jews in this United States and wouldn\u2019t do it to us, you\u2019re some kind of a dumb Uncle Tom.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> That\u2019s right! Yeah!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now we must not<\/em> be caught lacking. We must not shirk in our duties. I\u2019m asking you now, and I want to see every envelope, I want us to rally<\/em> here. They brought me this offering. It is pittance<\/em>. It won\u2019t pay for the bus<\/em> fares back and forth, the fuel<\/em> of the buses, and we\u2019re right on the face of a\u2013 of a national rationing. We oughta right now be able to get gas storage. We cannot do<\/em> that, because everyone puts everything first, except their God, except this great cause. You\u2019ve got money for everything but this great cause, and this will be the life of you and your children. If you don\u2019t protect this, you\u2019re going to lose your life. Now I mean that as a prophet. You mark my words. If we don\u2019t protect this, we will lose our very life.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> So I\u2019m asking everyone, and I want to see each one take an envelope now and do something sacrificially, and I want those e\u2013 envelopes brought up to me here on the pulpit. Everyone take an envelope. Let\u2019s do something. Let\u2019s show that we\u2019re not gonna be caught lacking. We need millions<\/em> of dollars to get land abroad. You understand me, folk, we need to be prepared for every emergency. We need to have our cave equipped with every kind of supply, and we\u2019re well on the way. Certainly we\u2019ve got a valley up there. If we stay in America, we\u2019ve got a valley that we can always come back to and a valley that we can protect short of a dictatorship. If the earthquake comes and the nuclear war that will<\/em> come on the day that we prophesied, we\u2019ll\u2013 we\u2019re well protected. We just need some more supplies. However, between now and that prophecy, a dictatorship<\/em> could come which would mean we would have to take a short<\/em> journey out of this land to save our lives. Now don\u2019t<\/em> you think it can\u2019t happen to you. The Jews<\/em> said they were God\u2019s chosen people. The Bible said they was (Deuteronomy 7:6, \u201cFor thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.\u201d See also Deuteronomy 14:2, Psalm 33:12, and Psalm 105:43),<\/span> but seven million of them died in Germany. And they had a constitution, and they had the best bill of rights, and they had best democracy, but on March fifth, 1933, Hitler said there was too much trouble, so he declared martial law. Do you know President Nixon can declare \u2013 or any president \u2013 can declare martial law any time he pleases?<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Any time he pleases. And this Watergate is such a mess, that it\u2019d be just like this, some case like this when he\u2019ll say, \u201cThe country\u2019s in disorder. I have to have absolute control.\u201d That\u2019s what we did in the Philippines, and believe me, if they do it here, we\u2019re finished, unless we work together, move<\/em> together as one people. United we stand, divided we fall.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> That\u2019s right! Yeah!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> So everyone\u2013 You<\/em> don\u2019t understand how it works. Some of you white people here think, well, you\u2019ll get out of it. Hitler went back and saw everyone that associated with Jews for twenty years, and killed them all right along with them. It\u2019s too late, child. In the first place, it\u2019ll come to every poor white and Mexican, and some of the Mexicans don\u2019t rel\u2013 realize yet who they are. They\u2019re not like Sister [Aurora] Rodriguez and a few of that sort, they don\u2019t yet realize that they\u2019re one of us. Some sister today, Sister Mabel was t\u2013 talking, or Sister Davis that took the first offering. Someone was calling her grandchildren, a Mexican family, dirty black niggers. They didn\u2019t want them to play out in their yard. The Mexicans\u2019ll wake up, they\u2019ll find out that they\u2019re dirty black niggers, just like us too.<\/p>\n

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

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

Jones:<\/strong> And my Indian people are beginning to realize it. At Wounded Knee, uh, just yesterday the news came out, that they\u2019d come in there and strafed\u2013 The newsman<\/em> said that they came in and strafed, shot<\/em> down those Indians right in the streets. And what happened to him? They arrested that white man, just because he was reporting the news, just because he told you the truth, they arrested him. He was a reporter<\/em>, a leading reporter of The Boston Globe,<\/em> and they put<\/em> that white man in jail, charging him with inciting<\/em> a riot because he told you what happened at Wounded Knee. America is already on the brink<\/em> of fascism.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah. Yeah, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Dunlop was his name. If you read the news, you know. Some of you are too busy reading that black book. You\u2019re reading that slave<\/em> book. You\u2019re reading the Bible, you oughta start reading what\u2019s going on around you.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> He\u2019s in jail right know awaiting trial on the grounds of inciting a riot, because he told you how Indian children and adults were shot down by governmental personnel in the airplane, shot down. He saw it with his own eyes, and he reported it, and they\u2019ve charged him with inciting<\/em> a riot, because he was above\u2013 without<\/em> a gun, he was in a plane reporting the news, which is supposed to be the only thing that will keep a country free, is free flow of the news. And Abraham Lincoln said, give the people the facts, and they will be free, and without the facts, he said, they will be enslaved, and here\u2019s a reporter who was arrested yesterday just because he told you the news, and charged with a crime that can put him in jail for 25 years. Just because he was in a helicopter going abroad, going over, reporting the news, which was his job<\/em> and he had no<\/em> gun, nothing else, he wasn\u2019t even involved. But they didn\u2019t want you to get the news, and now they\u2019re gonna punish him for telling you what happened at Wounded Knee. So this white reporter of The Boston Globe<\/em> is in jail today<\/em> facing a charge of conspiracy to incite a riot.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now when are we gonna wake<\/em> up and get our mind off of, you got shoes, or heavenly slippers, or the pearly white cities? When are we gonna get our mind<\/em> off that stuff and start building our heaven down here?<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now everyone one take it. I\u2013 I\u2013 this gonna be a special test. I want to\u2013 I\u2019m going through these envelopes like I\u2019ve never gone through any. I wanna see how many\u2019ve responded to this great<\/em> truth of today\u2019s news. Five years. Five years. Now this is the most conservative<\/em> paper in the nation. San Francisco Examiner<\/em>. If it<\/em> tells you this, you better look out.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> This is The San Francisco Examiner<\/em>, the biggest<\/em> press in America, the Hearst<\/em> press, and it says that within five years, we will have a dictatorship just like Hitler\u2019s. Said, because people don\u2019t care. Said, people are unconcerned. (Pause) Said, ninety percent of the nations have been brought under dictatorship. We\u2019ve brought ninety percent of the nations of the world today under military dictatorship. Nine out of ten of them are under military dictatorship. (Sighs) That\u2019s something else. What will you do about it? Will you act upon it now? I wanna see. \u2018Cause I\u2019ve not made it so straight so I\u2019m gonna particularly watch this offering. (Pause) It\u2019s in several<\/em> newspapers. I just happened to read you that<\/em> one. (Pause) That\u2019s why we need to shout when we\u2019re talking about our principles, when we\u2019re talking about our God of democratic socialism, nonviolent egalitarianism. We need to shout and dance and gain momentum, and some of you won\u2019t get out and dance with us, because when we dance together, it was as the Indians used to before they would go into battle. If they danced with enthusiasm and brought their people together, they\u2019d win<\/em> their battles, they would make<\/em> their conquest. And we\u2019ve got to get our energy and our enthusiasm up for what we believe, so that when we all dance, we dance together, and when we all shout, we shout together.<\/p>\n

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

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And when we all study<\/em>, we study<\/em> together.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Scattered murmurs of assent)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now I want to tell you something. I know that some of you that were not involved are the ones who think that there are some other God besides this<\/em> God.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You toy with religion, you deal with scriptures, you deal with Bibles, you involve yourself in mysticism. That is counterinsurgent<\/em>. I want to tell you today for your<\/em> good, allow no<\/em> one here to praise anything<\/em> else, or talk about anything else, except what I am. Don\u2019t let anyone<\/em> else tell you that so-and-so can do something, or there\u2019s such-and-such a group over there doing nothing. Thi\u2013 this is the only<\/em> group that\u2019s helped at Wounded Knee. I was the only<\/em> one that got Billy Smith off. I was the only<\/em> one that put funds for [Angela] Davis. I was the only<\/em> one that helped with things I cannot even mention here because some would hurt us. I have been the only<\/em> one that\u2019ve been in the court, and this week, three have been gotten out that had trumped up charges. I\u2019m the only one, and I consider it blasphemy<\/em>, and I consider it treason<\/em> if you let anyone praise anything else (Emphatically) except what I am<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And you that don\u2019t clap, I\u2019m watching you, I\u2019ve got eagle eyes. I\u2019m watching<\/em> you.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> I\u2019m watching<\/em> you. I wanna see you clapping right now, if you believe this. If you don\u2019t believe it, take a walk.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Applauds louder and scattered cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Listen, brother, I\u2019m asking you<\/em> in the balcony, why aren\u2019t you<\/em> clapping? If I hadn\u2019t\u2013 if I hadn\u2019t stood up for you, you\u2019da been in jail<\/em> not long ago, over something that happened under my roof. At least you could do is support me in my beliefs, I\u2013 And you<\/em> know what I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019m talking to you<\/em> in that balcony. Now you stand by me. People wanted to nail you to the cross for something you\u2019d done, which I wouldn\u2019t dream of doing but I\u2013 I covered<\/em> and cared for you and overcame<\/em> the problem, and then you<\/em> have other gods before me. You<\/em> should be ashamed of yourself (Deuteronomy 5:7, \u201cThou shalt have none other gods before me.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Jones:<\/strong> Perhaps somebody should tell<\/em> just how much they want to do to people who deviate and how much I stand up for people that make mistakes or indulge themselves in areas that I do not care for. How much I am a protector<\/em>, and then when you cannot declare that I\u2019m the only one. I want you today to stand on your feet and clap your hands and declare it or leave<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Calls and sustained applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Thank you, thank you, thank you. I\u2019m not trying to be difficult. I just know who has to save you, and when we\u2019ve got somebody with double mind, carrying water on both shoulders, they\u2019ll hold us back. Let them go out there and believe in a Sky God that\u2019ll never come. Let them believe that these things\u2019ll never happen. Let them<\/em> die in the gas chambers if they want to, even though I want to save everyone. That\u2019s their choice. But don\u2019t let them be in here holding us back by looking back to other gods or looking back to Sodom and Gomorrah (reference to Genesis 13 and 14).<\/span> Don\u2019t let it be.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You demand that they only speak of one God, God Jim. (Emphatically) You will let them speak of only one God, the savior that\u2019s here talking<\/em> to you. Don\u2019t let them talk about any other God. I will have no Gods before me (Deuteronomy 5:7).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Fervently) For your salvation. For your own welfare. For you<\/em>. It\u2019s because I love you. Don\u2019t let anyone else be before me, because I\u2019m the one that will marshal our resources together, I will marshal our strength. It\u2019s me that will unite us if we have our whole attention undivided upon me.<\/span> But if someone is here able to sow discord amongst the brethren, it will hinder our exodus to Babylon. It will hinder us and cause us to die in the wilderness. So don\u2019t let any traitor name any other God.<\/span> (Ministerial cadence) I am God and there is no other God before me! (Deuteronomy 5:7)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah! Thank you!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Peace. I\u2019m not seeking any accolades nor any kind of public demonstration, I\u2019m only trying to unify<\/em> us, and I happen to be the heart<\/em> of the organism. I happen to be the pulsating center. I happen to be the vibrant dynamo that will draw us together, and if you let somebody else be praised or some other foolish religion\u2013 You<\/em> know no one ever before me. You talk about a prophet here or a prophet there, no prophet ever has done anything for the blacks or the Indians or the poor. No one\u2019s ever done anything for them until I came along. You<\/em> know that.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> So the question\u2019s settled. Don\u2019t listen to any of this business and\u2013 uh, anyone that discusses a healer is a blasphemer. We\u2019re<\/em> not interested in healing. I heal my people better than anyone on earth. I keep you in a better state of health than anyone, but that\u2019s not why we\u2019re here. (Emphatically) We\u2019re here because we want a new earth, a new society, a free movement<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> So if any other healer is mentioned, it\u2019s blasphemy<\/em>. If any other healer, living or dead, or any other religious leader living or dead is mentioned, it\u2019s blasphemy<\/em>. We need to unify<\/em>, and if we find you doing otherwise, you will be out, because we can get along without you, but you can\u2019t get along without us.<\/p>\n

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

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah. Thank you.<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Enthusiastically) You choose this day who you\u2019re going to get with. You choose this day who you\u2019re going to work with. You choose this day who you\u2019re going to serve, what idea you\u2019re going to serve, because you cannot serve two masters. You\u2013 The one you\u2019re going to hate, the other you\u2019ll love, and I say you\u2019re gonna cleave<\/em> to one or push<\/em> away from the other (Matthew 6:24, \u201cNo man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.\u201d See also, Luke 16:13).<\/span> So now decide today, who\u2019s<\/em> it gonna be? Is it Jim Jones or is it not?<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Moderates) We just rescued some little kittens that were being choked<\/em> down a\u2013 uh, in a\u2013 in a garbage pail right next door here. Little baby kittens being choked<\/em> down in a garbage pail, and the woman using all kinds of racial language. Let me tell you, there\u2019s only a\u2013 We got them, they\u2019re saved here. But she had no feeling about it, and they wouldn\u2019t have any feeling, some of these people, they\u2019d just as shoon\u2013 just as soon shove down a little black child in a garbage pail too. They\u2019ve got no feeling<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You oughta see these pretty little\u2013 little baby kittens, just shoved down into a garbage pail. If I hadn\u2019t been there to rescue them \u2013 and they\u2019re back here \u2013 if my workers hadn\u2019t cooperated and got them to a veterinary\u2013 People do it all the time. It\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve rescued them. They put uh, in a church. One church put little\u2013 you heard them talk about putting little cats and dogs down in the outdoor toilet. That\u2019s what religious folks did, because they knew that that\u2019d be a way to get me to come out of my church to come and help the little animals. This country\u2019s ready to kill anybody on the very snap of your finger. They\u2019re ready to murder. This nation\u2019s filled<\/em> with murder.<\/p>\n

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

Man in congregation:<\/strong> Letting the people throw damn mice in the fire.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You better get\u2013 You better get your mind off all this other, this\u2013 this poopy crack. You better just get off of it. (Pause) You got too much poppycock in your mind. That poppycock never saved you. That poppycock never took your great grandmothers and grandfathers out of the cotton fields. That poppycock of Sky God and fly away religion never helped any of us. We don\u2019t want none of it here, and if you talk about any of that other religion, I don\u2019t wanna hear nothing about your Bibles or your religion. I only want to hear you tell me how we\u2019re going to build a free society out of this earth<\/em>. I wanna hear about a heaven on earth and I don\u2019t wanna hear (Cries out) nothing else!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Thank you. Turn in those offerings now, so that I can take a count of it, because I\u2019m gonna separate the true from the untrue and the faithful from the unfaithful. (Pause)<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s the difference about this place. We shout sometimes, and when we shout, we\u2019ll shout, and when we get serious, we lay it on the line and tell it just as it is.<\/p>\n

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

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah, all right!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> When Hearst<\/em> is printing this kind of stuff, when the Hearst<\/em> boys are getting nervous, when they<\/em> think we\u2019re going to have a Hitler in five years, we\u2019re liable to have one in five months.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now what we have in mind when it comes, our missionaries are getting ready to go, we\u2019re going to serve the people abroad, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do, and they\u2019re probably going to try to stop us. They\u2019re already making big issues, that we\u2019re a church that takes care of our people too much. Said a church shouldn\u2019t have any money to take care of its people. That\u2019s what that reporter made a case on the television, we take care of our people too much. Said a church should give its money all away. (short laugh) Yeah, they want us to be poor, as uh, Job\u2019s turkey. They want us to be po\u2013 poor as a church mouse. They don\u2019t want us to have anything. That\u2019s what they got in their mind to keep us poor<\/em>, and we\u2019re doing something about it. And they\u2019ll probably try to raise a lot of Cain, but if we show to them that\u2013 the\u2013 we\u2019re like a wild bunch of panthers<\/em> when they come after us, if we show them that we can get really angry and if they want to take one of us on, they have to take all of us on, then we\u2019ll have some trouble.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You know, there\u2019s over a thousand people\u2013 there\u2019s over a thousand people here in this room and closer to two<\/em> thousand on Sunday, and that\u2019s a whole lot of people to take on. We can be pretty angry when you take us on.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now we\u2019ll quietly walk out of here. We\u2019ll quiet\u2013 we\u2019ll quietly take our little trip through the wilderness and leave<\/em> Pharaoh\u2019s Egypt, Pharaoh\u2019s Washington, Pharaoh\u2019s America (Book of Exodus),<\/span> we\u2019ll leave it quietly and we will go along humming our songs, riding in our buses till we get to the border, and our missionaries are going out now to get us some land south of the equator. They\u2019ll be serving there, and we\u2019re gonna build a clinic and then we\u2019re gonna get some land where we can raise food \u2013 that\u2019s our hope \u2013 and some animals. That\u2019s starting in the next few days. The br\u2013 The brother that leads the choir [Don Beck], he speaks Spanish and he\u2019s going, and uh, the Mertles [Elmer and Deanna Mertle] who have a picture, they\u2019re going. And we\u2019re going down there, uh, we\u2019ve got a little spot where people live to be a hundred, and a hundred and eight, a hundred and nine years old. I\u2019ve found a place that people don\u2019t uh\u2013 don\u2019t get old<\/em> like other people do. And uh, you know me, when I look over this world, I look for the very best<\/em> place I can find.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah, all right. That\u2019s right!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And we\u2019ll<\/em> go there and be good citizens and we\u2019ll help others. We\u2019ll right now be serving, as I say, through a clinic and show them how loving we are, so we\u2019ll win their hearts so they\u2019ll want us. And uh, we are glad uh, that to anyone who wants to share with that vision, we\u2019ll share with you. But we\u2019re going to have to do it with all of our might<\/em>. It calls for every kind of a program<\/em> that you can bring about. It calls for every one of you selling any kind of project, because believe me, when we have to go, we have to move as one people, at Jerusalem, as it was when\u2013 when Jesus [Jeshua] warned them there, you\u2019ve got to be as one people at Jerusalem (Ezra 3:1, \u201cAnd when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.\u201d),<\/span> and if we\u2019ll<\/em> stand with one<\/em> people in those eleven buses, soon to be twelve, maybe thirteen, if we stand in those buses and are unified<\/em>, they\u2019ll let us go right straight through, I promise you.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah! All right!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> At this\u2013 at this juncture\u2013 They\u2019re gonna\u2013 There\u2019s not one person that weak\u2013 weakens the chain\u2013 And if you do, they\u2019ll kill you. They\u2019ll take you and use you just like the Jews\u2013 the few Jews that sold out the rest of the Jews, they took them and used them for awhile, and then they castrated them.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> They saved the worst<\/em> penalty that they could find for the quisling. They saved the worst<\/em> kind<\/em> of torture for the rat fink, for the one that sold out their brother. They saved the worst<\/em> for the one that turned in the rest of their brothers. They gave them the worst torture. Not one<\/em> of those that turned in their fellow travelers, their fellow Jews, not one of them got by. They castrated<\/em> every one of them and tortured many of them and poked their eyes out and did a whole lot of things. So you\u2019d feel terribly bad if you sold out your brothers and sisters and then that\u2019s all you got in return. So let\u2019s be determined that we will stand. Where two or three agree as touching anything, it shall be done and we will move together<\/em> (Matthew 18:20, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Reverend Garrison, who was called out and healed from a Baptist church when he was a Baptist pastor, Baptist minister, now has a project to tell you about. And he\u2019s got this<\/em> project, and I want others to do similarly, because we\u2019re going to build the best here<\/em>, and we\u2019re going to build the best everywhere, and they\u2019re not gonna stop us. If they do, we\u2019re going to raise so much hell that they\u2019ll hear us all the way to the White House.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now we\u2019re peaceful, and we don\u2019t believe in killing, but we will<\/em> protect what we have. We\u2019re gonna protect<\/em> those convalescent homes and that beautiful forty acres, the children\u2019s home. We\u2019re going to protect<\/em> our cave, we\u2019re going to protect<\/em> our senior citizen homes, we\u2019re going to protect<\/em> our dormitories, we\u2019re going to protect<\/em> our beautiful children\u2019s home and the forty acres, we\u2019re going to protect<\/em> our swimming pool and all that we have here, and we\u2019ll protect<\/em> our land abroad, and we\u2019re going to protect<\/em> our buses, and if you want to try to prove<\/em> what we\u2019ll do, you just see, you just try to take one little thing away from us and see if we don\u2019t fight like hell.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Peace. I got a pompous spy for a\u2013 a bunch a sell out churches here. And he\u2019s setting back there, I want him to get it all straight, \u2018cause he don\u2019t know, I\u2019m loving. I\u2019ve taken in people who\u2019ve betrayed me. I\u2019ve forgiven them. One man I saved\u2013 saved him when he was being crushed with a bus by revelation. The bus would have pulverized<\/em> him, but I saw where he was. But he didn\u2019t know me in those days, and he turned me into an agency and made false charges. But I took him in when he got the light, and I\u2019ll take you back many times. I forgive more than anybody you ever heard of, including your God in the Bible (Matthew 18:21-22, \u201cThen came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> I forgive and I forgive and I forgive.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Intense) But there\u2019s one thing. I\u2019m mean when you mess with my children.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And these are my children. Now you say what you want to about me, you talk about me, you can just say any old ugly thing you want to, but if you try to hurt what I have built up for my children, because I\u2019ve come without money or price (Isaiah 55:1, \u201cHo, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.\u201d),<\/span> nothing but these old used choir robes, I\u2019ve never bought new shoes, never bought a pair of new shoes in my life \u2013 you\u2019ve heard the story \u2013 I don\u2019t have anything but just money protecting you<\/em> and the people that I love and these facilities. (Intently) But if you think, good bro\u2013 brother from the alliance, if you<\/em> think that I will let anyone<\/em> take any of what I have sweat and nearly died<\/em> for to build up for my children, if you think I\u2019ll let one little speck<\/em>, one little dirt, one little plot of my forty acre place where we\u2019re gonna raise greens and strawberries and we have our cattle, if you think that you\u2019re gonna take one little rock, I\u2019ll bust<\/em> your ass.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now that\u2019s\u2013 I think I\u2019ve established the message. I think I\u2019ve made it very clear.<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation:<\/strong> Yes!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You say, \u201cI didn\u2019t know that was in the Bible.\u201d Oh, yes it was there. When Jesus talked about asses and Paul talked about dung. He talked about the worst word in the Bi\u2013 in the Yiddish language, Hebrew language, Paul said, \u201cI counted all dung that I might apprehend the Christ vision,\u201d (Philippians 3:8, \u201cYea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.\u201d)<\/span> and that was the dirtiest word you could say for ass or BM, so uh, I\u2019ve got a right to tell it when I want to get a message across, and I think that that good alliance minister will now get what I\u2019m sayin\u2019: Don\u2019t mess with my children.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now Reverend Garrison, ex-Baptist, but now healed<\/em>, has got a project which\u2013 He had a ring once when he thought he needed rings, and then he decided he didn\u2019t and he had a thousand dollar ring and he\u2019s doing something with it \u2013 it\u2019s quite interesting \u2013 with\u2013 some other people are joining with him.<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Thank you, Father.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s been appraised, by the way. All those things have been appraised and proven that they\u2019re worth exactly what is said.<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Peace.<\/p>\n

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

Garrison:<\/strong> Say it like you mean it. This time (Unintelligible word) the peace is very shaky.<\/p>\n

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

Garrison:<\/strong> The San Francisco Examiner<\/em> stating what pastor has just read. We all should be at our best. Uh\u2013 Realizing that we are not<\/em> where we should be, we all are working on projects up in the Bay Area, and we hope that you here would do likewise.<\/p>\n

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

(Microphone moved around)<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> In this particular<\/em> project that I have here is a drawing. We have raffle tickets drawing uh, you know. You see them here, a dollar apiece.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Let me read what\u2019s on there for it. And I think it\u2019s a wonderful way he gives up his jewelry. One diamond ring, three karats, appraised at over a thousand dollars. One mink fur jacket appraised at o\u2013 over five hundred dollars. One ladies diamond wrist watch appraised at nearly five hundred dollars. Another one, uh, ladies watch\u2013 all you get, you\u2019ll get these things or these people you know, try to sell them to people out there that, you know, like that sort of thing. They\u2019ll get them a dollar per ticket. If you happen to get \u2018em and don\u2019t want it, you can do it again.<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You know. (Short laugh) If you don\u2019t\u2013 If you\u2019re like me, don\u2019t want diamonds\u2013 Uh, mine\u2019s been put in. I saved a man\u2019s life, as my people know, with a dai\u2013 he gave<\/em> me a diamond ring and I turned it in to the treasurer<\/em>. Saved him on Market Street, San Francisco, three thugs were gonna beat him up. And I\u2013 I\u2013 I saved his life<\/em>, and they gave me a diamond, but I wouldn\u2019t have a diamond. He wouldn\u2019t give me a diamond if uh\u2013 Well, I won\u2019t say what I was gonna say anyway.<\/p>\n

Scattered in congregation:<\/strong> (Laughter)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Any\u2013 Anyway, you<\/em> can take it and you can sell<\/em> it, you can use<\/em> it, you know, whatever. That\u2019s not the point, but everyone participate with this. Everybody\u2013 How many\u2019ll get uh, some of these tickets and I don\u2019t know how he\u2019s gonna (unintelligible under Garrison)<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Sister Wilson, where is she? She\u2019s in charge of Los\u2013 of our Los Angeles district down there. Where is Sister Ruth Wilson?<\/p>\n

Woman 1:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Sister who?<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Wilson uh\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Oh, the head of the\u2013<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) yes, you\u2013 Most of you know her.<\/p>\n

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

Garrison:<\/strong> And she<\/em> has stated that many of our L.A. members\u2013 many of our L.A. members that have been uh, criticizing,<\/em> saying that\u2013<\/p>\n

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

Garrison:<\/strong> He said, don\u2019t wear rings. What are we gonna do<\/em> with them? Well, if you are dedicated enough to not wear the jewelry, then turn it back and have it uh, raffled over again. That\u2019s what we\u2019d<\/em> do. But\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> You\u2013 You\u2019ll find some of your good old neighbors that\u2019d love<\/em> to get a thousand dollar ring. You<\/em> can sell those tickets, honey.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You\u2019d find a lot of Uncle Toms and Aunt Jane. You got one on both sides of you.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Laughs and delayed applause)<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Now this raffle come off the twentieth of May, and uh, these te\u2013 tickets haven\u2019t been moving like they should. And there\u2019s much involved in this, I want you to think about it.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I want you to come up tonight, at the end of the day, and we\u2019ll uh, have some secretaries there at the table. You assign these tickets through<\/em> Sister Wilson and take the re\u2013 registration of who will take them, to proven members, you know, and uh, then we can take \u2018em out and sell<\/em> \u2018em, because we ought to get those sold<\/em>. We don\u2019t want to give no one a thousand dollar ring<\/em> unless they come up with a thousand dollars at least, you know, in the raffle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I mean unless we can sell a thousand dollars worth of tickets we want (Unintelligible) assuredly uh, pay for these. Now, sisters doing it\u2013 we ought to be able to do it, one of the\u2013 some of the sisters are taking a quilt<\/em> and doing that. They\u2019re doing a qui\u2013 they\u2019re doing a thousand dollar (unintelligible) with a quilt. And we need to do it, we need to get everything we can together. Honey, whatever you got to sell, sell your old man, if you have to. Come on.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah!<\/p>\n

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

Garrison:<\/strong> That was (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And that\u2013 that\u2013 that applies to the brothers too. If you\u2019ve got a contrary old lady who\u2019s been holding you back, and she won\u2019t let you go forward and do this new work, sell her, honey. She\u2013 See what she can get on the market.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Warner Brothers\u2013 Warner Brothers movie<\/em> studio\u2019s come by and they want to know whether we\u2019d rent this, (Stumbles over words) we\u2019d rent<\/em> this place. They want to do a murder<\/em> scene in it for a movie<\/em>. I said anything I got is for rent for my people.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> All right!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And that\u2019s just exactly what I meant, to get you where I want to get you free, I\u2019ll rent anything I got, honey, and you can think what you want to think. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> If that isn\u2019t the holiest<\/em> thing I know, I don\u2019t know what holy is.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> All right.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Because we\u2019re gonna be free<\/em>. You hear me? We\u2019re gonna be free.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> I\u2019m tired sitting around, having to worry whether we\u2019re going to have a dictatorship or a concentration camp or what new thing they\u2019re gonna do with the blacks, and now this new move that the president\u2019s getting ready to make to cut back all the welfare and the Social Security, I\u2019m getting tired<\/em> about that. (Emphatic) And if I can\u2019t do something about it, we\u2019re gonna take them on full square, and die<\/em> in the process, \u2018cause I\u2019m tired<\/em> of it!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Give me liberty or give me death. I don\u2019t want to have to live this way.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> We\u2019re in this together, baby, and if you don\u2019t like to go in anything together, then you better get off while you got time. They\u2019ll get you too. They\u2019ll get you, but we\u2019re in this together. Sink or swim, hell or high water.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> All right, you\u2019ll have those tickets up there at the\u2013 at the desk\u2013 at the uh, inn. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Garrison:<\/strong> Thank you, Father.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Thank you<\/em>. Very good idea. How many\u2019ll buy<\/em> one of those tickets? One dollar. That\u2019s not much.<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Uh-huh [Yes]. Get \u2019em out and you\u2013 some of you can get out on the streets. She\u2019ll take fifty and she\u2019ll sell them too, you go over there. Uh\u2013 That\u2019s all right. What\u2019s her name?<\/p>\n

Woman in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Put \u2019em down. It\u2019s all right. Fifty. Hand me down. I\u2019ll pass on some of these folks.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> That\u2019s (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Anybody else wanna take\u2013 (Pause) You don\u2019t go to him now. Just give your name to me.<\/p>\n

Ida Mae Lee:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

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

Ida Mae Lee:<\/strong> (Unintelligible),<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> How many you want?<\/p>\n

Ida Mae Lee:<\/strong> Fifty.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Fifty? What\u2019s your name, love?<\/p>\n

Ida Mae Lee:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

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

Ida Mae Lee:<\/strong> Ida May Lee.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes Ida May Yates. Fifty.<\/p>\n

Ida Mae Lee:<\/strong> Ida May Lee.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Ida May Lee. I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019ve got an Ida May Yates. That\u2019s why I jumped too quickly. What is it?<\/p>\n

Woman in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yeah, she\u2019s not worried about speaking in tongues anymore. What\u2019s your name? (Laughs)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> She\u2019s out selling\u2013 she\u2019s out selling these tickets, so it\u2019s good enough. How many do you want? I know you. I may not know your name, but I know all things about you.<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Yes. Shout your name out.<\/p>\n

Woman in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) and I want twenty five.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Twenty-five, good.<\/p>\n

Laura Steferson:<\/strong> Laura Steferson (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Laura what?<\/p>\n

Steferson:<\/strong> Steferson.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Good. Did you get it? Steferson, fifty. Laura Steferson\u2019s good for fifty.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Sarcastic) If I\u2019ve got that kind of power that I can take every one of those witnesses and get them in a car and kidnap them and have \u2018em all hid, you better be good. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> No, I don\u2019t work that way. I don\u2019t have to work that way, but you mess with me, and I might<\/em> work that way.<\/p>\n

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

Ijames:<\/strong> Hey! All right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Now you can do with me what you will, but don\u2019t mess with my children. You understand that, all you Tommys in here and all you Janies? You understand that, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And all my nigger blacks and all my nigger honkeys and all my nigger Chicanos, they all understand that, don\u2019t they? Yeah.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> We\u2019re just not gonna have our children messed with, but I was thinking about that marvelous<\/em> and remarkable<\/em> thing, I look at Melvin [Johnson], the singer, three time loser, and I caused the judge to get ill.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> A prejudiced judge to get ill and send somebody else.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> All right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And who did I send? The only black judge I could find in these parts? All over these hills, I found the only black judge and made him take his duty.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible word) Just look at (stretches word) all these miracles, miracles, miracles. I look at Kice here that was due to be got\u2013 to be gotten. I promised what I told you that Sister Jewel I won\u2019t give you here last name, but when they were coming after her, gonna put a charge against her of welfare fraud, I said they\u2019re not gonna do it.<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I said I pledge it won\u2019t be done, and they didn\u2019t do it. Oh, let me tell you, you\u2019re just talking about one of my departments, just a number<\/em> of things. Kice and\u2013 and all the\u2013 what is it, the number of people been in trouble \u2013 Carrie \u2013 and uh, some I can\u2019t name, because it would uh\u2013 it would uh, bring out some things that we don\u2019t need to, but oh,<\/em> the charges have been trumped up on people, and every blessed one\u2013 I look over there and see an usher standin\u2019, got him off when they said there wasn\u2019t any chance. I see two<\/em> ushers here, three<\/em> ushers.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yeah!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> All kinds of prison records, they said they couldn\u2019t get \u2018em out, facing ten year sentences and didn\u2019t get ten minutes. What you talkin\u2019 about?<\/p>\n

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

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Laughs) I like to see you chuckle, honey.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Laughs) I like to see that, that mixed-up nigger like me down here, that white\u2013 that white nigger down\u2013 (Laughs)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You\u2019ve got the sweetest laugh. When you laugh, it just does my soul good. You see, that\u2019s why you got\u2013 you gotta be a nigger to laugh like that, honey. You don\u2019t know how to laugh unless you\u2019re a ni\u2013 (Laughs)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Laughs) Say, I don\u2019t like to be called nigger. That\u2019s why I\u2019m doing it, \u2018cause some of you folk think you\u2019re white. That\u2019s when I\u2019ll quit using it. When I get all these folks that come in here black as my patent leather shoes and think they\u2019re white, when you quit coming in here, I\u2019ll quit using the word \u201cnigger,\u201d but you better not call us nigger outside. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> When I think of what we have, the power<\/em> center here, the power<\/em> center. Do<\/em> more than all that God business could do, all<\/em> that religion could do. The power center of a living<\/em> Christ, a living<\/em> savior, how much<\/em> we\u2019ve done just in one department, not one of our people in jail or in trouble. Not one<\/em> of them that haven\u2019t been gotten off of these terrible trumped up charges. Just a matter one brother had to serve few\u2013 few days<\/em> when he was facing ten years. My God Almighty, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. (Voice climbs) You don\u2019t know what you got here, you want to protect it with all your life!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Intense) And the more you give\u2013 and the more you give in faith, the more you protect yourself. That\u2019s the answer. So let\u2019s add to our faith, because our money has every time been intrinsically<\/em> involved with our health. People that\u2019ve died, have died invariably. There\u2019ve been no member in the valley that ever has, none in San Francisco, but the ones I know have held onto money, or they\u2019ve held onto food, they held onto something they didn\u2019t want to give up. Now\u2013 So let\u2019s come on through. We\u2019re short<\/em> today, and we\u2019re not gonna stay short, are we, honey?<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation:<\/strong> No!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> If we have to rent out something that we own\u2013<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation: <\/strong>(Murmurs in approval)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> We\u2019re gonna come out\u2013 We\u2019ve got<\/em> to come out. There\u2019s nobody else gonna get us through but us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> We waited all those years for somebody to come out of the sky, and they never came, so we know who gonna get us up out of the mud. It\u2019s us. All right, today I want to ask from the depths of my soul if there\u2019s anybody here that will help us with a thousand dollars. That\u2019s how short we are.<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) tell you where I\u2019m going?<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s someplace towards the icebergs. You\u2013 you head out towards the icebergs, and you keep on going, some of you, till you get lost.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> We got to do it proper. Anybody got a thousand dollars here to help us in faith to rise up and see what happens? Last night we moved in faith, and my, the miracles that were wrought in San Francisco. It\u2019s the proportion to your faith, that\u2019s always the way it works, in proportion to your faith. Anyone here said, yes Father, I\u2019ll get on my feet and I\u2019ll find a thousand dollars. (tape edit) I would say the best talk show program in the state of California, he said \u201cI don\u2019t know what Jim Jones is by what he says<\/em>,\u201d but he say, \u201cbut I look around and I see my people<\/em>.\u201d He\u2019s a black man and he uh, leading commentator, and he said \u201cI tell that they\u2019re healthier, they\u2019re eating better, they\u2019re better taken care of than any people in San Francisco.\u201d So he said, \u201cI know<\/em> what he is by what I see<\/em> with my own eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> So now I want to say to you that uh, we will see that you are taken care of in the best shape. That\u2019s what we want. So if you\u2019ve got dying insurance, then get rid of it. Come on, you don\u2019t need to worry about dying. We\u2019re not counting on dying, and honey, if we die, we\u2019ll die in a battlefield. We not gonna die in no old graveyard, honey. Come on, child.<\/p>\n

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

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

Jones:<\/strong> You don\u2019t\u2013 you don\u2019t want to make some honkey richer.<\/p>\n

Scattered voices in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s all right, brother, you (stumbles over words) you\u2019ll need me too one day. Y\u2019all gonna need me one day. You\u2019ll get\u2013 you\u2019ll wake up one day. It\u2019s true anyhow. Say, what do you mean with graveyards and cemeteries? I\u2019m gonna tell you one thing, don\u2019t you call me to no more funerals where you\u2019ve got velvet-lined caskets and designed and embroidered caskets and all that bunch of stuff. Don\u2019t you call me. If you die and go that way, you bury yourself.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> That\u2019s right! Hey!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> No wonder<\/em> people die. I haven\u2019t had any of these funerals. They aren\u2019t all dressed up, and as I said in\u2013 since 1959, never lost a member in the Temple, not one<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Then when you look around at all these funerals, they got \u2018em (stretches out word) all dressed up, that last one I had, it was pitiful<\/em>! They put more money in that casket then some people see all their life. I\u2019m talking about the last funeral I had here in Los Angeles, dressed up, all that stuff. That\u2019s why everybody hates me.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> No wonder the morticians don\u2019t like me, preachers don\u2019t like me, the graveyard owners don\u2019t like me, \u2018cause I don\u2019t like that mess. I tell you, I don\u2019t like that mess.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now they\u2019ve tried to shoot me down. That\u2019s why I had some workers\u2013 the workers are all invited to be here today, they even tried to set a little fire<\/em> a while ago. But uh, (laughs) they\u2019ve been trying to kill me so long, \u2018cause I trouble so many people. And they\u2019ve poisoned me, and General Hospital said it was enough to kill ten horses, was it?<\/p>\n

One man:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Ten horses and it didn\u2019t even\u2013 didn\u2019t even make me a little more than I was just a little dizzy like somebody\u2019d had maybe one shot more of Old Crow than they shoulda had. But I\u2013 (shouts) Hey now! (Laughs)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And so, they\u2013 they don\u2019t like what I\u2019m sayin\u2019, because they may\u2013 they kill us, you know. Make us in debt so them Uncle Tom, I\u2019d been riding with these morticians too, and the only one as I said except that king or whatever their names, Jackson or whatever their names, that\u2019s the only one\u2013 I\u2013 I\u2019ve rode with them and they\u2013 they talk about we don\u2019t have any problems. I\u2013 Listen, I won\u2019t ride with them anymore.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Yeah, the preachers supposed to ride in the ambulance, but I\u2019ve been riding in my bus. I said if they don\u2019t give me that bus, I\u2019m not riding with these rat fink hon\u2013 honkey type funeral directors.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Hey! All right.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You better hear what I\u2019m saying. I rode with one. He said, \u201cYou know if you\u2013 if you a good Negro you don\u2019t have any problems.\u201d He said, \u201cI got a swimming pool,\u201d and he said, \u201cMy\u2013 my girl has all kinds of white friends.\u201d He said, \u201cIf you just do right, people be nice to you.\u201d I thought I\u2019m gone hit that sumbitch if I don\u2019t get out of this car.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> All right. All right. Now you think about moving, brother, but you got \u2013 back there in the back \u2013 you upset, but you got cancer of the prostate, and I\u2019m the only one that can cure<\/em> it. I\u2019m the only one that can raise the dead. Now you hear me.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now you just listen to me. I\u2019m the only one that you\u2019ve seen that can open up eyes. One was on the front row here was blind from birth. I\u2019m the one that took someone\u2013 the cast off of the woman over here, right sitting here, she was blind for 27 years. You don\u2019t like my talking. Well, when you get up and walk, you think, by God, about that cancer that\u2019s gonna eat your pubic<\/em> area out.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You just sit down\u2013 you just sit down a little while longer, and you find out you don\u2019t\u2013 you\u2019re not nearly bothered about it, \u2018cause you called everybody that anyway. You don\u2019t need to try to act like you don\u2019t understand what I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about. Just like that preacher last night. I said you be up shit creek without a paddle, and he looked\u2013 he looked at his wife\u2013 he looked at his wife, like we don\u2019t talk like that and I said, \u201cYou know both of you talk that way (stumbles over words) each other today. You used those lang\u2013 that word just today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And that good old Pentecostal preacher, he just set down and smiled like a (unintelligible as recording cuts off)<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> \u2013 (Unintelligible word) them, them robbing the graves and putting people in debt for ten years. It\u2019s easy for them big fat asses to talk about doing<\/em> right.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (In full throat) Now you been wanting me to die but I\u2019ll tell you one thing. If some\u2013 If I ever do<\/em>, you\u2019ll never see me in no box. You\u2019ll never see me in no grave. I\u2019ll give my kidney to some stugg\u2013 struggling black, I\u2019ll give my heart ju\u2013 because I got a good heart\u2013 I\u2019ll give my heart to some poor field nigger. I\u2019ll give my organs to somebody, I\u2019ll be cut up like mincemeat pie<\/em>, honey! Hey!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> (Enthusiastic cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> And what they can\u2019t use, they can fertilize<\/em> on a bed of turnips. They can put out on some greens up there in Redwood Valley to make my greens grow better for you, but if\u2013 I want to tell you, if you put me in any box, I\u2019ll get up and I\u2019ll tear that damn box up all over the church house.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Want no box, want no\u2013 and shove somebody off in a mausoleum. (Calms) One of them precious hearts. and it\u2019s all sweet and well, they didn\u2019t know it then and she\u2019s come back to prove us life anyway. I saw shoving \u2018em inside these walls. Honey, don\u2019t put me in that mess to make money for white people. Don\u2019t<\/em> do that. Don\u2019t<\/em> shove me in no drawer or take all the money, all the time we\u2019ve sweat and all the years we\u2019ve gone without, then put us in a big box to try to make us look like\u2013 The Time<\/em> magazine said, \u201cThe reason black people don\u2019t have it\u201d \u2013 I think was it Time<\/em>, maybe Newsweek<\/em> \u2013 said, \u201cThe reason black people don\u2019t have any money, they spend three times more on funerals than white people.\u201d We gotta change<\/em> this, honey.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Emphatically) We got to spend our money on the living<\/em> instead of the dead<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Calms, then builds) Roses and all that stuff that we could never have got. We don\u2019t have any company with cut<\/em> roses. We\u2019ve been cut off too much. We\u2019ve seen our loved ones cut off in the prime of their youth. We don\u2019t want anything cut<\/em> around us, fancy flowers and fancy mausoleums and fancy caskets. We don\u2019t want any of that. And I\u2019m telling you, I want to go on record now, don\u2019t you dare try to put me and show me off, \u2018cause you that loved me, I want you to remember me when I jumped and danced, when I was out there fighting in the jails, when I was in the courts. That\u2019s the way I want you to remember me.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Calms) You\u2019ll have a freedom conscience. \u2018Course, most of you don\u2019t need to worry, \u2018cause I\u2019m gonna be around to see you through.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And you\u2019re going to have to live\u2013 you\u2019re gonna have to live, honey. You\u2019re gonna have to live awfully short, you know, you\u2019re gonna have to live an awful short life, uh (stumbles over words) long life rather, if you\u2019re going to pass me up, because I intend to stay around as long as I possibly can to take care of some of you. Particularly my senior citizens, you\u2019ve been disappointed, you\u2019ve seen this and that happen, and the very ones you\u2019ve depended upon, like Martin [Luther King], shot out from under you. Well, we\u2019re going to do (stretches word) all we can. That\u2019s why I want my men around\u2013 Not that I care, and they can\u2019t even get to me unless I\u2019m concentrating on healing one of you.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s why all these people, the bus drivers all been (Unintelligible word, could be \u201csignaled\u201d), they made their plans, they\u2019ll be here. They\u2019ll not be out, every man\u2019s around, they\u2019re all watching, \u2018cause people like to put your only hope out. They\u2019d like to put the light out.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> They\u2019d like to get me out of the way, so that they can continue to rob you. They\u2019ve\u2013 they\u2019ve screwed you and w\u2013 worked you to death and taken everything away from you, and now you\u2019ve got a few nice things, you\u2019ve got some lovely property up there, you\u2019ve got lovely homes, the lovely convalescent homes, the lovely senior citizen homes, lovely acreage. You\u2019ve got ground, and you\u2019ve got some earth, and they don\u2019t like that. But I\u2019m gonna tell you, they\u2019re gonna have to try awful hard to get me out of the way, because I don\u2019t intend to go anywhere for awhile.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Calls out) But when I do<\/em>, if I do<\/em>, I\u2019ve already got one groomed. I\u2019ve got one groomed to stand right here. He doesn\u2019t look just like me, but the moment I\u2019m gone, he\u2019ll call out the people with my mind<\/em>. He\u2019ll tell the people with my mind<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> I\u2019ve got my successor in mind. I\u2019ve got them more than in mind, I\u2019ve got them in plans<\/em>. So don\u2019t you worry about it. I won\u2019t leave you comfortless. I told you that I\u2019ll always be sitting in this seat, whether my hair may be a little darker or a little lighter, doesn\u2019t make any difference, I\u2019ll always have my person, my mind, my energy, my consciousness will always be here. You\u2019ll never be without a father<\/em>. I\u2019ll never leave you fatherless, I told<\/em> you that, and that\u2019s what I mean<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And I\u2019d give the instructions that if I did not live up to my own covenant, I\u2019m to be killed<\/em>, and if my successor does not live up to being a good father, he won\u2019t live (dramatic drop-off) long.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Voice rises) So look out. This office is a lonely<\/em> office, this office is a hard<\/em> office. I have told several of my people, I said, if I ever look like I\u2019ve turned back, you cut<\/em> my throat, and I say, whoever\u2019s in my position, there\u2019s the same thing holds for them. If they act like they\u2019re not going to be a good Father, (voice drops, then climbs again) they\u2019ll be taken care of, because I\u2019ve brought the fathership degree to earth, I\u2019ve made Father mean something, I\u2019ve caused the name of \u201cFather\u201d to have respect, and whoever takes that name from now on is gonna have to deserve that respect. And if they don\u2019t, honey, they\u2019d better run fast.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Hey! All right.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Calms) And that\u2019s what I mean. And you say, you\u2019ve just got one successor? No, I got four<\/em>. So, one don\u2019t go\u2013 work, I\u2019ve got two<\/em>, and when the second one has to g\u2013 get out of the way, I got the third<\/em>. I do things very well. Don\u2019t you worry anything about me.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now perhaps the one that died a few weeks ago \u2013 of course partly being messed up at another church and trying to be here too \u2013 and I said you have to have one decision. You got to decide who<\/em> you\u2019re gonna serve\u2013<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You\u2013 you\u2019re gonna have to have one God. You\u2019re double-minded in all your ways, unless you decide on one God. But I looked in that thing and I was ashamed<\/em>! (Quiet) I was ashamed of that casket, I was ashamed of it. It looked like it was embroidered and the\u2013 it stood out. My God, that casket must have cost three, four thousand dollars. (Pause) The tragedy. Now if you gonna bring me in anymore of your funerals, non-members or whatever, don\u2019t you bring me into that kind of a mess. I\u2019m tired of it.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> That\u2019s right! Hey!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You right now, if you had my teachings at heart, you\u2019d write down, say if there\u2019s anything useful in me\u2013 People are dying<\/em> in this country, \u2018cause they can\u2019t get a kidney.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> They\u2019re dying<\/em>. All they need\u2013 They\u2019re blind<\/em>\u2013 All they need is just a little cornea, they can get it from you. My eyes are already willed. My eyes are already willed, and you that live in big cities have got it easier than some of us who are up in the countryside. So you make your decision now to put in the paper that you don\u2019t let your eyes go into no box. You don\u2019t let your eyes go in any ground. You uh\u2013 you reserve those eyes for somebody else, some poor nigger that was made blind by the white society. You give him a chance to see. (Intense) Did you hear what I said? Give him a chance to see<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Not one of my loved ones will go in any caskets. And I don\u2019t care if the morticians all hate me, it doesn\u2019t make any difference anyway, \u2018cause I\u2019ve got everybody else hating me, I might as well have the mortuaries hating me too. But I\u2019m not going to have any of my loved ones in a casket. Not one of them\u2019s gonna go in any casket. Not one of them\u2019s ever gonna stand in the Temple, \u2018cause the Temple meant life. When we\u2019re in here, we remember us lively. Somebody wanted to use the Temple the other day, for the dead, I said, \u201cNo. Bring a picture of them in here. Bring a picture in here, and we\u2019ll rejoice<\/em> around that picture of them while they were alive. But we don\u2019t want to remember us in the Temple, in the death, we want to remember us in life, because he came to give us life and life more abundantly (John 10:10, \u201c\u2026I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Talk to them as they come and they go, when they come strolling around. Ushers always talk to people when they\u2019re running around, \u2018cause it\u2019s important to get the truth across. Well, I did not mean to get on (clears throat) the soapbox about dying and the soapbox about caskets, but I want you to understand what I feel<\/em> about this. And if you don\u2019t<\/em> want to give your eyes, like you would<\/em> if you were living up to my teachings<\/em>, you\u2019d will every organ that can be useful, if you don\u2019t<\/em> want to do that, at least get you a simple old pine box. We have lived<\/em> poor, we have been kept<\/em> poor, and we\u2019re not gonna take money away from those that we love to put in a box. We\u2019re all going to go back to the same maggots whether you\u2019re in a steel casket, or a copper casket, or in a emerald lining, you\u2019re gonna go back to the same old maggots, honey. So what in the world you trying to do?<\/p>\n

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

Ijames:<\/strong> Yes, yes, yes. (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Well, I don\u2019t know about it. I don\u2019t know whether I can or not. (Pause) There\u2019s somebody here that\u2019s uh, called in wanting me to have a funeral<\/em> for somebody that I don\u2019t know. And they say I preach such good funerals. Did you just tell them what I\u2019ve uh\u2013 Just my\u2013<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> (Laughs) All right.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Some\u2013 some\u2013 some Baptist lady was at another funeral, I don\u2019t know the party, but she said you preach such life in a funeral that she\u2019d like me to take this loved one. Now I don\u2019t know what to do about that, \u2018cause she don\u2019t know my teachings. (Pause) Well, how long\u2019s it been since she\u2019s been<\/em> here? \u2018Cause if she\u2013 if she heard me at a funeral, she hadn\u2019t got here. Tell her to let the dead bury the dead. Forget it.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> It just dawned on me, if she\u2019d been here all that time in\u2013 in the funeral and she didn\u2019t get\u2013 she didn\u2019t get over here to see me, now she wants me to bury one of her loved ones, why hasn\u2019t she been over<\/em> here? I got too many of you<\/em> to take care of. Let her go on and take care of her problems.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Well, I\u2019m a hard man but a good father, \u2018cause I\u2019m not gonna take care of anybody before I take care of you. Now tomorrow\u2013 tomorrow they came up to me and they said, \u201cOur choir<\/em> is supposed to sing at a Baptist church,\u201d they said. Said, \u201cYour choir\u2019ll be leaving at two o\u2019clock.\u201d I said, \u201cWho in the hell said<\/em> it was?\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s all peaceful, \u2018cause they\u2019re gonna need my help. You better just\u2013 now you better tell these folks (Unintelligible word) before they walk that they may\u2013 they may need me before they know it. One of them gonna need me before Tuesday<\/em>. Right there moving. Say, I know it before he get up. (Pause) Better stay right where you\u2019re at. See, I know when you start up, I know what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> (Laughs) That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> All right now. (Claps once) I\u2019m not gonna let anything uh, take away from your\u2013 you are the first charge I have. And then they\u2013 they set up a program for a Baptist church, I said where is this Baptist church. Said over here, some little old Baptist church? I don\u2019t care what you (Unintelligible), honey, it\u2019s already late. I canceled it.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Calls out) You mean to tell me that I\u2019m gonna be here at two o\u2019clock tomorrow, and all this choir gone decide to go to some Baptist church, and I\u2019m sitting here tryin\u2019 to get a message? No! There\u2019s only one way, I\u2019m gonna tell you. There\u2019s only one way that you\u2019ll go sing anywhere, and you\u2013 if you do otherwise, you\u2019ll be out of your choir uniform tomorrow. The only way you can go is if they take me preaching<\/em> first.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And then I want to tell you\u2013 And then I want to tell you, you better know some funeral<\/em> anthems because when I get ready and finish<\/em>, you\u2019ll have to bury them, \u2018cause they\u2019ll all be dead.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> So they tell me, they\u2013 they got to get this bus, when they gonna get this bus lined up, they\u2019re gonna have that bus lined up. I said, \u201cWhere\u2019re you going?\u201d Said, \u201cThe choir\u2019s going over tomorrow to sing at a Baptist church.\u201d I said, \u201cThe hell they\u2019re going over to sing tomorrow (unintelligible word).\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Oh no. You think they\u2019re gonna get my singing and use these people, you don\u2019t know how these churches\u2013 My people were innocent in it, they don\u2019t know how they work<\/em> it. They get all these choirs in, and then the preachers collecting and I\u2013 I said, \u201cI\u2019ll bet you there\u2019s some pastor,\u201d and sure enough when they got behind\u2013 behind it, a pastor\u2019s (draws out, sarcastic) wife.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> All right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> It\u2019s always some anniversary or some tea, and if you think that we work and got this music together and sweat to build these organs for you to go to sing for some fat ass preacher to make money off you, (cries out) no!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> If they want to hear us sing, then let them come over and hear the light of the world! (John 9:5, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” See also, Matthew 5:14, John 1:9, John 3:19, John 8:12, John 11:9, and John 12:46.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> If they want to hear the beautiful singing \u2013 and we\u2019ve got the most beautiful soloist and the most beautiful choir \u2013 but if they want to hear them sing, let them first come over and hear the (unintelligible, could be \u201crock of ages\u201d).<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Calms) And that\u2019s the way it is. So that puts to rest to all the other invitations, \u2018cause they\u2019ve got several<\/em> of them down there. And every one they ever told me about, we\u2019re going here and we\u2019re going there? (Voice rises) We ain\u2019t going nowhere but in the Peoples Temple. That\u2019s where we\u2019re going.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> \u2018Cause we\u2019re not going to get on that jag. Those people stole us blind. It was those<\/em> that put us in chains. It was white Baptists that put the mark of slavery and burned it into some of our grandparents\u2019 skin. It was they that put the first chains around our feet. If you think I\u2019m gonna take our songs and sing in that slop house, (cries out) no! We\u2019re not doing it!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Calms) No, no, no. That\u2019s putting your mark\u2013 That\u2019s putting your stamp of approval right on what they\u2019re doing. We\u2019re not doing it. (Pause) (Clears throat) \u2018Cause we\u2019re gonna be consistent. We may not be everything that you\u2019d like us to be, but we\u2019re honest, the most perfect people that you\u2019ll want to see, the most pure ministry that\u2019s ever walked on earth, the most upright, the most holy, the most just, the most socialistic. It\u2019s the most beautiful ministry you\u2019ve ever seen, and we\u2019re not gonna clean\u2013 we\u2019re not gonna take this thing that has been pure<\/em> and unadulterated and undefiled, and then mix it with the whorish things that\u2019re out there in that church system. No, we\u2019re not gonna do it.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> We came too far<\/em> to get ourselves messed up in that. Well, I started taking offering, I don\u2019t know. By the way, I\u2019ve got eleven more puppies in the back room that I\u2019ve saved here that we need homes for, if you\u2019ll see me at the end of the day. You don\u2019t like the way I talk, but when you get in trouble, you\u2019ll like the way I fight for you.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Now I want to ask again, is there anyone that\u2019ll help us with five hundred today?<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Starts mid\u2013 sentence) such a face and the cataracts went off the eyes<\/em> of one too.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> They just fell off the eyes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Another sister was sitting back there that was blinded from diabetes, she could see everything in detail<\/em>, everything in perfect detail. Her vision that\u2019d been so dimmed that she couldn\u2019t see objects was wiped away, just like that. She was as clear as just a new child. It\u2019s faith<\/em> that makes one whole. Try your faith. Try your faith now, try your faith, try it. (Clears throat) And I want her to have good vision. If she doesn\u2019t get it, we\u2019ll see that she gets it, but I like that kind of faith.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> Yes!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> One of the few ministers that ever came in here that\u2019s been worth salt, those two sisters\u2013<\/p>\n

Man in congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible word) (Muses) Get some of these black ministers in here. Of course, one of our sisters saying down there in her mind, well, the black ministers, they got a right to do it, \u2018cause all the white ones have done it. No, they don\u2019t. \u2018Cause we\u2019ve suffered more. We don\u2019t need to have to copy the same old kind of trick preachers. We don\u2019t need any of them on our back. We\u2019ve had enough monkeys on our back. We don\u2019t need any Uncle Tom preachers on our back.<\/p>\n

Ijames:<\/strong> That\u2019s right! Yes!<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s the attitude of some people here, they got a right to do their thing. No, we haven\u2019t. We\u2019ve suffered too long and it\u2019s too late. We haven\u2019t got time to go through all the stages of corruption that the white man\u2019s gone through. We got to bypass some of this corruption and get ourselves together. Anyone in this room that\u2019ll give five hundred again to help us? (Claps hands once) (Quiet) Try your faith and see what\u2019ll happen. See<\/em> what\u2019ll happen.<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Mid sentence)\u2013 out of the way, went out of the way two miles and it saved him of a hopeless condition. He was called out the end of the meeting. It spared<\/em> his life.<\/p>\n

Man in congregation:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Charity moves mountains.<\/p>\n

Man in congregation:<\/strong> Yes it does. Yeah.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Two hundred? Anyone will give two hundred dollars? Two hundred.<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Mid-sentence)\u2013 and do it with honorableness and do it with my head held up high. I\u2019m standing here till we get that seventeen hundred and eighty\u2013 no, seven hundred and eighty one dollars and thirty three cents. What, you believe that? You better\u2013 you better believe it.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> That\u2019s<\/em> what opened the eyes of that woman. That\u2019s what took the hole that was in her leg, and nobody wanted to set around her, 27 years blind and infirm. That\u2019s what did it. That\u2019s what took the woman that sits out here five years in a wheelchair, the woman that had cancer, operated five times, they gave her up to die. I know all these things, \u2018cause I\u2019ll make out a chart on you. Maybe days before, I\u2019ll meditate and I\u2019ll see some of these hard cases and I\u2019ll wonder what am I gonna do? There\u2019s no God to help<\/em> me. I\u2019m the only one, I\u2019m him, I\u2019m the one that reveals the father, I\u2019m the only thing you can look to. And I\u2019ll study that case as I did Sister [Lovie] de Pina and I thought, what to do with a woman in her seventies? Five operations, sewed up, cut away so much of her they didn\u2019t know what\u2013 where to take anymore, and so they sewed her up. (Intense) But that\u2019s what gets me through. You don\u2019t like the way I take offerings, but I\u2019ll remember that day several months when I\u2019d looked at her and said, \u201cThis is the day I\u2019m gonna do it for you. This is the day I\u2019m gonna do it for you,\u201d and she ejected that horrible cancer, and she hasn\u2019t had any more pain since that. She hasn\u2019t had any more problems since that day.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> You don\u2019t like the way I take offerings? That\u2019s the way I do everything, I hold on, I hold on. They tell me somebody\u2019s got to go to jail, I said, \u201cNo, no.\u201d They told me my two brothers here, Brother uh, C.J. [Jackson] and Brother Brown, they had to go to jail for defending our sister that I raised from the dead that was thrown in that ambulance. Said they\u2013 they\u2013 they gonna have to take some time, they\u2019ll at least<\/em> have to take a charge of interfering with an officer. I said, \u201cNo, the officers interfered with us<\/em>. They interfered with the course of freedom<\/em>. I\u2019m not taking that charge.\u201d I said, \u201cI won\u2019t take it.\u201d The attorney said, \u201cThere\u2019s no chance in the world<\/em>.\u201d I said, \u201cYes, there is, because Jim Jones is that chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And I got them free<\/em>, and don\u2019t you forget it. You keep thinking (stretches word) all the time as Brother Norman [Ijames] did a beautiful thing today, had you think a minute of all that\u2019s happened. You should do that every minute you can possibly squeeze in. You think of the times when everybody said it was hopeless, and I said \u2013 this God standing here said \u2013 \u201cOh no, nothing\u2019s impossible, the impossible just takes a little longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> So it\u2019s that spirit that gets you through, and it\u2019s that spirit that\u2019s gotta make me raise seventeen eighty one. Some of you\u2019d raise if for yourself, but you wouldn\u2019t raise it if you weren\u2019t getting a penny of it yourself. I\u2019m raising it for you<\/em>, and I\u2019ll stand here if I felt like I was gonna fall over, and I haven\u2019t slept for two nights and I\u2019ve had a lot of problems, but I\u2013 And I haven\u2019t eaten, only these liquids. But I\u2019m gonna stand here, because I know if we one day let our budget go down, then the next day it\u2019ll go down easier<\/em> and the next day it\u2019ll fall easier<\/em>, so I\u2019m not gonna let it happen once. (Intense) Did you hear me? Not once.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And if it doesn\u2019t\u2013 And as I said if walwar\u2013 Warner Brothers wants to use this, sure, or anything else. And if I can\u2019t get it by offerings, you\u2019ll be surprised<\/em> what I use this place for.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Well, remember when the cancers come. (Pause)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Stumbles over words) Tell them there\u2019s one that was dying and can walk, they can tell you all about it. He can tell you about it. There\u2019s a woman that was\u2013 her life was lost, there\u2019s a brother that woulda been killed. Tell<\/em> them, brother. I told you when that car was gonna come and hit you and saved you. Just tell them. Tell these people that don\u2019t know who is the\u2013 who they are or where in the hell they belong.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> I forgot to tell them about the errors of the Bible. Go out there and tell them about the errors of the Bible. That\u2019s what they get all hung up on their Bible. You tell them. (Pause) Tell the damn fools so they\u2019ll get some sense.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> There are people walking around there\u2013 His wife filled with cancer, all her lymph nodes swollen, and I saved her. There\u2019s a man was saved out of jail. They\u2019ll go out and tell \u2018em, tell \u2018em, tell \u2018em so they\u2019ll know what they\u2019re doing. (Pause) All right, now, folks. Back to it. How many\u2019ll give us a hundred? Show the alliance man over there that we\u2019re gonna raise our offering.<\/p>\n

(tape edit)<\/p>\n

(Organ music plays)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) Some\u2013 some\u2013 The name that comes to me that I\u2019m concerned about to touch at this moment. Some things I write down that I will not even call out. As I\u2019ve said often, I don\u2019t have to call anyone out. But I do to build faith in others, because if you just harmonize on me, if you project your faith towards me, it\u2019ll do more for you than anything on earth has ever done.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> The name that I hear is Olivia Williams.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Olivia Williams. Hands clasped. (hums with organ) They say a ounce of prevention\u2019s worth a pound of cure, and I\u2019m glad that I found a heart in which I can dwell in you. (tape edit) Someone very precious. Steven Michael. The microphone isn\u2019t on, but it\u2019s all right, I don\u2019t need a microphone, it\u2019s good that I don\u2019t to do my work, because I don\u2019t have them very much. (Pause) Steven Michael.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> My son.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Hands clasped. (Hums) Do you uh, use nonfat milk?<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Knudsen\u2019s?<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Nonfat milk. Hands clasped. Mrs. uh, Wright white bread.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Sometimes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> I have bread here that is specially made, free of any harmful chemicals. \u2018Course you\u2019ve told me nothing about your diet. I don\u2019t know anything about your home or your life. You\u2019ve told no one else that, is that correct?<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Correct.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> But by the change of this bread, it will save you from something in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Thank you.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Hands clasped. (Pause) Hands clasped. Birds Eye corn on the cob.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> True. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> C&H pure cane sugar.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Brown is what I suggest, or honey preferably\u2013<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Thank you.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> \u2013and in your case I want to prevent diabetes. You\u2019ve noticed at times a little dizzy sensations.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> True.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> This is the beginning of diabetes, and it\u2019s a dreadful kind of disease, and if I had not come along, before too long, it would\u2019ve afflicted you and you would\u2019ve been blind by it, but not now.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Thank God!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Because I have come.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Praise God, thank God! Thank God, praise God, thank God!<\/p>\n

(Organ music plays louder. A man sings along, words distorted and unintelligible)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> And somewhere you\u2019ve some connection or would have some connection with a chapel Lutheran school.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Correct.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Some places en\u2013 en route there one day, if I had not known you and you\u2019ve told no one this, but if it were not for this lovely presence that I represent. Spirit of (Unintelligible word).<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Thank God. Thank God.<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> Tracy, Steven Michael would\u2019ve all been gone.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Thank God! Thank God!<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> But they will not be gone now. Spirit of (Unintelligible under music)<\/p>\n

(Organ music play louder)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible under crowd and the organ music)<\/p>\n

(A man begins to sing but it quickly fades as Jones begins to speak)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> (Hums) You\u2019ve had a good heart, and if you want to do anything that\u2019s in your mind, something I said that\u2019s in your mind that comes to me about getting someone like Brando here, it\u2019s<\/em> all right if you want to.<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Thank God.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> If you want to do anything, \u2018cause you have a right heart<\/em> and it saved<\/em> your life. Bless you!<\/p>\n

One woman of congregation:<\/strong> Thank God! Thank God! Thank God!<\/p>\n

(Organ music plays louder)<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong> (Unintelligible)\u2013 hallelujah! And I\u2019m so glad to know my own, and when you know me, I\u2019ll tell you your thoughts and know your thoughts and intent (Hebrews 4:12, \u201cFor the word of God \u2026 is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u201d)<\/span> and can heal you to the uppermost and to the innermost and to the outermost!<\/p>\n

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

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

(A man sings, fades as Jones begins to speak)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Remember I wish to tell you that we move our clocks ahead. We move our clocks one, ahead one hour the af\u2013 this evening so we\u2019ll be here in proper time tomorrow. Before I go on with the healing service, I want to ask a question, so that I do not need to use my powerful revelation energy for this. How many came to this church because they heard of it through the radio? One, two, three, four, five, six, someone\u2019s taken this down, seven? Seven hands. How many came because you heard of it through a newsletter or a leaflet? A leaflet passed to you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. How many heard of it through a newspaper<\/em>, reading of a ad in the newspaper? One, two\u2013 Hold your hand high. It\u2019s important, because we have to use our funds wisely. One, two. How many heard of it by word of mouth of how great this miracle ministry was\u2013<\/p>\n

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

Jones:<\/strong>\u2013 or how great\u2013<\/p>\n

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Tape originally posted January 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

((Editor’s note: This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index,\u00a0click here. To return to the Annotated Sermons page,\u00a0click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. To read Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). Part I Jones: Hands clasped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":29177,"menu_order":73,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29175"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123473,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29175\/revisions\/123473"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}