{"id":62813,"date":"2015-02-12T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T04:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=62813"},"modified":"2023-07-11T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:30:26","slug":"annotated-transcript-q648","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=62813","title":{"rendered":"Annotated Transcript Q648"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Transcript prepared by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To return to the Tape Index,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28703\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo return to the Annotated Sermons page,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29177\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo read the Tape Summary,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28224\">click here<\/a>. To read Tape Transcript,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27518\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nListen to MP3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q648a.mp3\">Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q648b.mp3\">Pt. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from disclosure.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0The first ten minutes of side 1 are overdubbed. Transcripts of both tracks follow, beginning with the shorter Track 2.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Track 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013Jackie Fields\u2013 (Pause) (Unintelligible word) Jackie Fields. I\u2019m speaking to someone. Jackie Fields. (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Both uh\u2013 both names\u2013 Jackie Fields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Your name is Jackie Fields also?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, yes, uh, I have uh\u2013 Bonnie Jo\u2013 My name\u2013 my nickname is Jackie Fields. My (Unintelligible word) name is Jackie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Your nick\u2013 Your nickname is\u2013 is Jackie, hmm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Well, now, there\u2019s not three\u00a0<em>poodles<\/em>\u00a0at your house, is there? But there\u2019s\u2013 What?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Hmm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Three at my house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Bless your heart. Now hands clasped, back there by you, sister. You\u2013 Have you ever felt like you\u2019ve committed blasphemy against God?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm. (Unintelligible) I don\u2019t know you, but I\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0know you in knowing the Spirit. (Unintelligible)\u2013 you\u2019re also afraid (Unintelligible).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-huh [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Don\u2019t know you, is that correct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You committed\u2013 You (unintelligible)\u2013 Blasphemy is when you don\u2019t\u00a0<em>think<\/em>\u00a0it any more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And part of (Unintelligible) that doesn\u2019t have any\u00a0<em>conscience<\/em>\u00a0always (unintelligible). When you commit the unpardonable sin (unintelligible) the Holy Ghost, it\u2019s a place where you just uh\u2013 you\u2013 you\u2019ve gotten to the point where you don\u2019t\u00a0<em>know<\/em>\u00a0right or you don\u2019t\u00a0<em>want<\/em>\u00a0to know right. People who have committed the unpardonable sin never\u2013 never think they have. Do you understand what I\u2019m saying? Person who committed an unpardonable sin would\u00a0<em>never<\/em>\u00a0think they had. So you\u00a0<em>haven\u2019t<\/em>. But you\u2019ve allowed through\u00a0<em>fear<\/em>, things to enter into your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now as we clasp our hands. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p>(organ music)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, God, God, God, God fearing, God fearing, God fearing. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p>(Pause, Tape edit).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Do you have any slippers in your room, like, knitted slippers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>With pom-poms on there\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>One of the slippers\u2013 Does it slide around on your foot (Unintelligible word)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>It does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(responds)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now, sister, (unintelligible)\u2013 the blood, the life of Christ. I want this placed on the statue that\u2019s white by the fireplace. And I want this to be\u2013 be\u00a0<em>taped<\/em>\u00a0on it. Understand?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>All right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible) You\u2019ve been having difficulty in your\u00a0<em>throat<\/em>. The Spirit wants to heal this also. Place your hands on your\u2013 on your throat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>This will save you from a\u2013 a fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And this will heal the condition that\u2019s in your throat. Your\u00a0<em>chest<\/em>\u00a0has been your weak point. During the winter you\u2019ve had several ti\u2013 uh, battles with your\u2013 with your respiratory problem\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying) Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Well, this\u2019ll\u00a0<em>stop<\/em>\u00a0it now. When I reach out to you in the name of Christ, in the name of Christ, (claps hands once) in the name of Christ, in the name of Christ. I stop it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying hard) Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Tape that to the large white statue with gold on it and that will bring (unintelligible) \u2013the entire house, and\u00a0<em>Christ<\/em>\u00a0will be in that house, \u2018cause I have (unintelligible)\u00a0<em>into<\/em>\u00a0that house. Praise God. Praise God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>End of track 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Track 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Hands clasped. Yea, God\u2013 (Clears throat) Melvina? Melvina Higgins. (Pause) Melvina Higgins. (Pause) (unintelligible) Melvina Higgins. (Pause) It\u2019s all right. (unintelligible) \u2013handicapped. Hands clasped. (Pause) I have to make (Unintelligible word) thoughts here a moment. (unintelligible) things that we tell publicly. I\u2019ll build your faith, sister. If you believe in God (unintelligible) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">all that believe together (unintelligible), and they parted every man (Acts 2:44-45, \u201cAnd all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.\u201d).<\/span> (unintelligible) and they\u00a0<em>shared<\/em>\u00a0in a most beautiful interracial, international,\u00a0<em>totally<\/em>\u00a0equalitarian family. Now\u00a0<em>God<\/em>\u00a0is a idea. He\u2019s an idea. That idea is personified. It\u2019s personified up here in a body today. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And tonight, who that did not know God in me will be\u00a0<em>sick<\/em>, because they discern\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0the Lord\u2019s body (I Corinthians, 11:29, \u201cFor he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord\u2019s body.\u201d)<\/span>. Just as that, when\u00a0<em>you\u2019re<\/em>\u00a0being anointed, they don\u2019t discern it, people said, (unintelligible) that Scripture for years. Said they\u2019re\u00a0<em>sick<\/em>\u00a0because they discern not the Lord\u2019s body. And they always have it (unintelligible) and of body. And every one of you is God in\u00a0<em>a<\/em>\u00a0body. (Pause) So tonight, in this room, I\u2019m his body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Scattered response)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019m his tabernacle. But I am, so shall ye be. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He said, these things shall you do \u2013 even Jesus \u2013 and greater things, because I go to the Father (John 14:12, \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.\u201d).<\/span> And as you read the King James, (pause) get a little booklet [\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14111\">The Letter Killeth<\/a>\u201d] back there, if you would read it,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> you\u2019ll find that if you didn\u2019t have the\u00a0<em>Holy<\/em>\u00a0Ghost, through prophecy, pastors, teachers and prophets, to lead you to perfection, edifying the word<\/span> (unintelligible) of the ministry, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">to\u00a0<em>perfect<\/em>\u00a0you (Hebrews 6:1-5)<\/span>. If you didn\u2019t\u00a0<em>have<\/em>\u00a0them, you would be like a ship (unintelligible).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Scattered response)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Because even in your King James Bible \u2013 he was just a king of England \u2013 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Matthew 1, the first chapter of Matthew, the sixteenth verse, in Luke, the third chapter, and the twenty-third verse, (unintelligible) it\u2019s the\u00a0<em>history<\/em>\u00a0of Jesus (unintelligible) Abraham, and it\u2019s the Jewish custom that had to be through the father. But Matthew and Luke disagree as to who Jesus\u2019 grandfather is. One says it\u2019s Heli, the other says it\u2019s Jacob. One says his great-grandfather is Matthan, the other says Matthot. M-a-t-t-h-o-t \u00a0(Matthew 1:15-16, \u201cAnd Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.\u201d Compared to Luke 3:23-24, \u201cAnd Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph.\u201d).<\/span> A spelling error (unintelligible), but it\u2019s even written in the King James, with all of its errors, it says no man can call Jesus the Christ except by the Holy Ghost.\u00a0<em>No<\/em>\u00a0one can. Now sister, I\u2013 I\u2019ve heard in your mind, I\u2019ve heard in your mind (unintelligible)\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s what you said in your mind. This must be God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. Yes. (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0You lost your father.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And your mother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0And two brothers by a stroke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Your mother was born June 2\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Passed away in 1932.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>One sister was totally paralyzed\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Due to a stroke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>She died in 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019re from Shreveport, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, Dad. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You have three children. One\u2019s passed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You thought, due to a tumor on the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible) consciousness of God to tell you it was reality, a cerebral spasm, blood clot on the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh! Oh! (Weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh! (Weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible) Shreveport (unintelligible) with a coffee table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(Cries) Yes\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>With a large glass swan on the top of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And a green porcelain vase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And you have a Bible, a white\u2013 with red letter edition\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013given to you, handed down by another member\u2013 an\u00a0<em>uncle<\/em>\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>An uncle handed you the Bible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Archie Ijames:\u00a0<\/strong>Hallelujah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> I want you to study closely the Corinthians, II Corinthians 3: The Letter Killeth. The Bible kills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Amen!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Letter to Romans, letter to Thessalonica, letter to Timothy. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Bible kills but the spirit makes alive. I\u2019m just Americanizing it.\u00a0<em>Love<\/em>\u00a0makes alive. The Bible kills, but love makes alive. That\u2019s what caused that man to be so evil.<\/span> And have a knife on him. Wanted to use a knife in the name of Jesus. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That\u2019s what caused that man to stand up. It was the letter. It\u00a0<em>kills<\/em>. I want you to\u00a0<em>move<\/em>\u00a0the letter, and now I\u2019m going to give you the spirit (II Corinthians 3, \u201cWho also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying, moaning)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying hard, moaning hard, wailing)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Sister, you\u2019ve always feared a total\u2013 total paralysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying hard, moaning) Yes\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Like your sister. And you have now had a stroke. It\u2019s left you paralyzed\u2013 paralyzed (Unintelligible word) on one side\u2013 your hands, your arms paralyzed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And your legs paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And you\u2019ve been having this terrible\u00a0<em>throbbing<\/em>\u00a0in the back of your head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019d\u2019ve had another stroke, Wednesday at two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying, moaning, wailing) (Unintelligible) Get out of me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Because the thing that you\u00a0<em>fear<\/em>\u00a0comes upon you. Now because you said, in your mind, it\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0to be God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>He\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0to be God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying) Oh, I can\u2019t\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>That arm? I want you to stand. I want you to stand.<\/p>\n<p>(organ music playing in background)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Scattered cheers and applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I want you to stand. (Pause) It\u2019ll take a while. Don\u2019t\u2013 don\u2019t\u2013 just\u2013 just\u2013 let her do it on her own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Let her do it on her own. (Pause) Sister, I want you to move these children out, move the children, uh, up closer to the front. Sister, out\u2013 while the nurses assist you, yes. Sister out. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>In a high anointing here tonight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:<\/strong>\u00a0Hey, God!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>People\u2013 Peace. The people\u2013 Shh. Get the children down. Sit down quickly. Sit down quickly, I\u2019m having to put out a high anointing. (Pause) People this week saw me stop a bullet, aimed for someone else. How many in this house saw it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Scattered shouts)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Don\u2019t you know God?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now sister, (Pause) that arm\u2019s\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0twisted, and the leg\u2019s all twisted. Sister, now you\u2019re\u2013 you\u2019re\u2013 you\u2019re in front her. Nurse, stand to the side. Sister, look\u00a0<em>up<\/em>. Keep that thought. Keep the thought. Keep the thought. You said (Unintelligible word) \u201cHe has to be God.\u201d (more emphatic) \u201cHe has to be God.\u201d Now, in that recognition,\u00a0<em>straighten<\/em>\u00a0that left arm\u2013 Straighten it! Straighten it, sister, straighten it. Begin it, begin it, pull it up, pull it up. Straighten it, straighten it\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:<\/strong>\u00a0Straighten it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0Up, up, sister. I said\u2013 Sister, if you\u2019ll\u00a0<em>look<\/em>\u00a0at me\u2013 Look at\u00a0<em>me<\/em>, not at the arm. St\u2013 (Calls to her) Bring that arm up now! Bring it up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Bring it up! Bring it up! Bring it up! The hand! The hand! The hand! Straighten the hand, straighten the hand, straighten the hand. Straighten the hand, sister! Straighten the hand! Straighten the hand! Straighten the hand! Now, get out of the way! Get out of the way! (Unintelligible name)! Look at me! Look at me, sister!\u00a0<em>Look<\/em>\u00a0at God in personification! Look at God being personified! Straighten that leg! Straighten that leg! In the name! In the name of God-<em>Christ<\/em>! Straighten that leg! Sister, straighten it! I said straighten it! Keep that hand straight, sister. Keep that hand straight! Sit down, sister, you\u2019re in the front of my anointing. Sit down. Sister Jackson, I believe it is, sit down. Hands up! \u2018Cause I know who was in my way! Put your hand\u00a0<em>up<\/em>\u00a0again, sister, straighten it up! I want you to keep that hand up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Now bend it! Bend it! Bend it! Bend it! Keep it bending! Keep it bending!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Sustained cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now keep it bending! Don\u2019t let it go back like that! Don\u2019t let it go back! Keep it bending! That\u2019s it! That\u2019s it! That\u2019s it! Now you\u2019ve got it! Now you\u2019ve got it! Now you\u2019ve got it! Now, sister, now move your leg! Now move your leg! Don\u2019t look down! Don\u2019t look down! Look at me! Look at me! Straighten your leg! Come on! Move! Move! Move, sister!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Sustained cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>In the name of God, Jesus Christ! I\u2019m here, I\u2019m here! Move your leg! Move your leg! Now, sister, move on!\u00a0<em>Move<\/em>! Quickly! Move on, sister! Move on! Now the arm!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Sustained cheers)<\/p>\n<p>(organ playing, woman sings a song; unintelligible under crowd noise)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>She is completely healed! She is\u2013 she is completely healed! Completely healed! No trace of (Unintelligible word). Her arms, her hands move virtually perfectly! She\u2019s completely healed! She\u2019s dancing on the stage. She\u2019s run around the auditorium\u00a0<em>three<\/em>\u00a0times. Three times around the stage!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now it\u2019s time to move! Now it\u2019s time to move!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2019s completely (unintelligible)\u2013 every place of paralysis is gone!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Sustained cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>End of Side A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Side B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(Ten-15 minute silence for first part of tape.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(piano playing in background)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013your hands, shaking again, your neighbors. Clasp them warmly and gently. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember\u00a0<em>meekness<\/em>\u00a0is what will inherit the earth. That means to be gentle, patient and mild (Psalm 37:11, \u201cBut the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.\u201d Also, Matthew 5:5, \u201cBlessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The\u00a0<em>righteous<\/em>\u00a0shall dwell in the land forever (Psalm 37:29, \u201cThe righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.\u201d)<\/span>. The\u00a0<em>meek<\/em>, the gentle, the patient, the kind shall finally be the ones that inherit this troubled planet. So learn to be patient and gentle with one another. That\u2019s the most\u00a0<em>important<\/em>\u00a0attribute of God. Love, gentleness. (hums a note) (Pause) I hear a name. L-A-U-G-E-T-T-A. (Pause) Morris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Hands clasped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, that\u2019s all right. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I hear a doctor\u2019s name. And I know nothing of you personally. I know none of your\u2013 nothing of your life personally and you\u2019ve told no one here anything. Is that correct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I hear a Charles A. Mayfield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:<\/strong>\u00a0(laughs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And a Vernel\u2013 Vernell H D-i-e-u-d-o-n-n-e. Vernell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now\u2013 (glossolalia)\u2013 Now there\u2019s some things that nurses will tell you that will be mentioned here that you\u00a0<em>should<\/em>\u00a0use and you should\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s in your practice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Because there\u2019re things that are\u00a0<em>detrimental<\/em>\u00a0to your health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I should say that uh, in July of last year, you were x-rayed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019ve told no one here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>No one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s difficulty in your back\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013in your abdomen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, yes, oh, yes! Oh, yes!<\/p>\n<p>(crowd begins to speak quietly)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Hands clasped. Libra transparent face powder. You know that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, yes! My God! Oh, yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes! (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Velveeta yellow cling peaches\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Y\u2013 yes sir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You use Easy Off oven cleaner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Miles nerving capsules that you have in your cabinet. Miles nerving capsules, for nerves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>They might be there, uh, uh, uh, Father, but I don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You just\u2013 Yes, well. You\u2013 you go home and look.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Who is David?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh! That\u2019s the one you saved tonight, Father! Thank you, Jesus! Oh, thank you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible) Hands clasped. Hands clasped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Thank you, Jesus! Oh, thank (Unintelligible word)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(hums) You have some loved one in them\u2013 in Texas?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>San Antonio?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes! Oh\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I see the danger of fire where there\u2019s someone distressed in their mind\u2013 someone distressed in their mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And I see the danger of fire in San Antonio, Texas. This is one thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>But right now, this is one for David\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013this is one for your home. Be sure that\u2013 (Pause) Well, what we said about never\u2013 Miles nerving capsules and any material that has to do with Reverend Ike\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013remove it from your home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, yes! \u2018Cause I\u00a0<em>throwed<\/em>\u00a0it out! Thank you, Jesus! Oh, thank you, Jesus! Yes, I throwed it out, Father. Yes, Father!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. All right. Now, sister, sister\u2013 go\u2013 go to the bathroom, and the cancer that\u2019s in your body will pass through your body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Go!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>They can\u2019t give her the microphone. They can\u2019t keep a microphone near her. She\u2019s praising God. She is praising God\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Go!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>It doesn\u2019t matter as testimony that you couldn\u2019t get close to her with a microphone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(singing in background)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>God\u2019s spirit has had His way now, and others move aside to let the spirit have its way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(in background) You\u2019re bles\u2013 you better shout with her while you can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>God (unintelligible) praising \u2018cause she knows what\u2019s going\u2013 she knows the power that came into her life now. She knows the power that brings deliverance. (Pause) She knows the (unintelligible) deliverance, and singing praise to that source of power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(in background) Because that growth\u2013 that growth is looking for a house, that growth is looking for a house. That\u2013 that alien spirit is looking for a place to rest. It\u2019s gonna leave her body. She\u2019s working it out right now. And when she gets to the bathroom, she\u2019ll bring it back. That\u00a0<em>tumor,<\/em>\u00a0it shall be brought back. For\u00a0<em>God<\/em>\u00a0never fails.<\/p>\n<p>(music plays, singing)<\/p>\n<p>(tape stops)<\/p>\n<p>(begins again)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. (chuckle) Here comes the woman healed of cancer. Here she comes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>The cancer\u2019s been returned now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Just know\u2013 Just know, because it\u2019s happened to all!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, thank you, Father! Oh, thank you, Father!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>(Unintelligible word) She\u2019s giving\u2013 She gives the pastor a hug! She gives the prophet a big hug. She\u2019s so grateful that the cancer\u2019s been removed from her body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morris:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, thank you, Father! Oh, thank you, Father!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Look at that mass! Look at that bloody mass!\u00a0<em>Thank<\/em>\u00a0God! (unintelligible). Yes, praise and thank god. Praise and thank God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s the mass. There\u2019s the mass, being held in a white napkin. A large towel, paper towel. She\u2019s dancing on the stage! Giving praises!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong><em>So<\/em>\u00a0much to praise God for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>Giving praises! She\u2019s dancing\u2013 she\u2019s dancing and shouting praises!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(in background) Just look at that growth! (Unintelligible word) True to God. (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>The growth is passing me now, in a large mass of paper towels, a large bloody growth. She\u2019s being taken now by the nurse down through the congregation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Look at that. It\u2019ll build your faith. Look at that growth. (Sings) (Unintelligible) God\u2019s so good to me\/ Don\u2019t you know, God (Unintelligible)\/ He\u2019s so real to me\u2013<\/p>\n<p>(singing in background, woman\u2019s voice)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>She continues to dance and praise. Another big hug for the prophet! Another big hug in gratitude. (Pause)\u00a0<em>She<\/em>\u00a0knows, she knows that God working through this man, almighty God has reached to meet her need.<\/p>\n<p>(singing continues)<\/p>\n<p>(tape stops)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 now in the name of Christ, let\u2019s get our minds not on what\u2013 a negative situation, let\u2019s get our minds on\u00a0<em>praise<\/em>. Just feel the atmosphere with praise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in background:<\/strong>\u00a0(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh\u2013 Hands clasped. Think about other\u2019s blessings. That\u2019s the way to get healed. Someone with the name of Beatrice Wiggins. Beatrice Wiggins. (Pause) Hands clasped in friendship and warmth. Spirit of the consciousness of the presence of God which is the source of all supply. Who is Mrs.\u00a0<em>Ford<\/em>? (Pause) Where is\u00a0<em>she<\/em>? Stand up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>God\u2019s almighty, God almighty\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0God almighty. Hands clasped. (Pause) Do you have a loved one named Ford? Your mother named Ford?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Younger Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Hands clasped. Mrs. Ford, and I\u2019ve got a\u00a0<em>mother<\/em>\u00a0named Mrs. Ford. She\u2019s 80 years of age. (Unintelligible word). (Pause) God almighty. (Pause) I see. I\u2019ve got to protect you from several thing[s], but your\u00a0<em>heart\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0so right, you recognize the actual conscious presence of God, and it\u2019s the key. The more you see of God, the more you\u00a0<em>reproduce<\/em>\u00a0of God. Particularly, Mrs. Ford, you\u2019re gonna be a great\u00a0<em>key<\/em>\u00a0here because you recognize\u00a0<em>God<\/em>\u00a0in this atmosphere. You recognize God in my body, as the Temple of the Holy Ghost. The more you\u00a0<em>see<\/em>\u00a0of God, the more you reproduce of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>(Unintelligible exclamation)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You lost a loved one, some time ago in an accident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Charlie Mc\u2013 Charlie McNoble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, that\u2019s my nephew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Was killed on a Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Um-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Not this Friday, but he was\u2013 he died on a Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>He\u2019s letting you know some\u2013 some things. (glossolalia) (sound of concentration) (pause) (sound of concentration) Do you live close together?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Not too very far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm [Yes]. You went away\u2013 you went away when that death came to L\u2013 Saint Louis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s her sister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I see. This one was only\u00a0<em>30<\/em>. (pause) Only 30 years old or something that was killed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lily Ford:<\/strong>\u00a038.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>38. He was 38 years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, 30 some years. Killed by a friend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. (pause) Thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(sigh) You have something on your throat\u2013 some difficulty in your throat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>In your sh\u2013 in your shoulder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Some crippling condition that enables it to move properly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(glossolalia) You told me nothing about your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>No, I haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>In your home, you have a Silver Stone\u2013 a Silver Stone, Sears Roebuck small portable radio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019ve never been to your home, I don\u2019t know anything about you. Is that correct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(glossolalia). Before I begin, I want some\u2013 uh, some other things that need to be taken care of, that will need to be healed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(glossolalia) \u2013 and taken care of, not to use, or to use, the nurses will tell you. Do you ever use Libby\u2019s Vienna sausage?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You usually buy three cans for 99 cents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>(laughs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You get little packets, sometimes, of\u00a0<em>Sweet<\/em>\u00a0and Low sweetener without cyclamates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Speak (Unintelligible word) her, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Ice milk bars. Yes\u2013 Luer\u2013 L-u-e-r seemingly\u2013 skinless pork, skinless pork links.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Kilpatrick\u2019s enriched bread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. I\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You like it\u00a0<em>thin<\/em>\u00a0sliced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I do. (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And someone uses W.E. Garrett and Sons Scotch Snuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, that\u2019s me. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (laughing, clapping)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0(Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s good in (unintelligible)\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah. (laughs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019re sweet.\u00a0<em>God<\/em>\u00a0looks at your heart, and he\u2019s seeing your need of a healing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-huh [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s your problem. This\u2013 this tobacco thing is a\u00a0<em>deathly<\/em>\u00a0thing. It goes into the bones. It\u2019s caused cancer in your body. But we\u2019re going to straighten this limb, we\u2019re going to take this problem out of the throat. (Glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Thank you, Jesus. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Winter Garden speckled butter beans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now, Lily\u2013 Lily Ford\u2019s your mother?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>She has some trouble in a\u2013 in her side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, she\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2013 She thinks it\u2019s gall stones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, she do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019ve got trouble in\u00a0<em>your<\/em>\u00a0side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You got trouble in\u00a0<em>your<\/em>\u00a0side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lily Ford:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s cancer in every case. Cancer in every case, we\u2019re going to eliminate it. (Claps once)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Scattered response)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford:\u00a0<\/strong>(gasps) Oh, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Go to the bathrooms. When you go\u2013 You go first, sister, you go second. And they\u2019ll come back, there\u2019ll be growths from your body and all the stiffness. Now I want you lift that arm. I want you to lift that arm.\u00a0<em>All<\/em>\u00a0the stiffness \u2013 (Unintelligible off mike) (Back on mike) Stiffness\u2013 Stiffness\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2019s lifting her arm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And I\u2019m\u00a0<em>reaching<\/em>\u00a0out and touching your 80-year-old mother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2019s moving her arms and shoulder, testifying that the stiffness is\u00a0<em>gone<\/em>. (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Yea, God. Yea, God. All the stiffness gone out of the body. All the stiffness gone out of the body. Is it all gone, sister? Yes, it\u2019s all gone. I took it away, because I\u2019m here in the\u00a0<em>name<\/em>\u00a0of Jesus,\u00a0<em>living<\/em>\u00a0in the name of Jesus,\u00a0<em>talking<\/em>\u00a0in the name of Jesus,\u00a0<em>walking<\/em>\u00a0in the name of Jesus! Oh, yes! Never have failed you yet! You know I have never failed you! Heaven and earth may have passed away, but this which I\u00a0<em>am<\/em>\u00a0has never failed you yet. The\u00a0<em>spirit<\/em>\u00a0of the consciousness of the presence of God. It never failed you. (sings) Oh, heaven and earth\/ May pass away\/ Oh, never has failed you yet.\/ Nah, nah, never has\u2013\/ Yes, heaven and earth\/ May pass away\/ Oh, never has failed you yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>They have gone to the restroom area. Tears in their eyes, wiping tears from their eyes as they left. Testifying that there\u2019s something has reached deep within. That\u00a0<em>God<\/em>\u00a0has reached deep within.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(in background, still repeating the words, \u201cOh, never has failed you yet.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>One woman left flexing her arms and shoulders, giving a constant testimony that the pain and stiffness was gone from her arm. They have gone to the restroom area, where the cancers will be passed. We will expect to see them back in a few moments. For God has never failed us yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0See what (Unintelligible under announcer) enthusiasm. All that crippling left her arm,\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0of it. All that problem left. And just as she\u2019ll come back\u2013 both of them, the cancer that\u2019s running through that family, that\u2019s taken other members, it\u2019s gonna\u2013 they\u2019ll all come back and the growths\u2019ll come back with them. When they go to the bathroom, they\u2019ll ba\u2013 they\u2019ll pass those growths because they have\u00a0<em>faith<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>They\u2019re willing to\u00a0<em>praise<\/em>\u00a0God, and they\u2019re willing to\u00a0<em>bless<\/em>\u00a0God. Why don\u2019t you praise God, because God inhabited the\u00a0<em>praise<\/em>\u00a0of his people. Oh, yes, he does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones and congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(sing) Oh, never have failed you yet. Yeah! Never, never. Never have failed you yet. Doncha know, it never has failed you yet.<\/p>\n<p>(tape stops, beginning again)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013the cancer, there\u2019s the growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>The cancer\u2019s back! The cancer\u2019s back! And so are the women. She\u2019ll (Unintelligible)\u2013 she\u2019s hugging. She\u2019s going from person to person giving her praise. She\u2019s overcome by the spirit of God, which has moved through her body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(in background) Here she comes, free of her pain, with the cancer going down the aisles. It\u2019s wonderful. (sings) Bless that wonderful name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2019s embracing everyone she comes to! Giving them a hug!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Wonderful\u00a0<\/em>name of God!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>Sharing the blessings! Sharing the blessings that has come to her.<\/p>\n<p>(clapping, music playing)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(sings) No other name that I know\/ We\u2019ve been living in the name of Jesus.\/ We\u2019re living in the name\/ Jesus Christ our God.\/ Living in the name of Jesus Christ, our God.\/ No other name.\/ Yes. (Calls out) All right! All right! All right! All right! All right! All right, God! All right, God! All right! Why don\u2019t ya know God and say \u201cAll right!\u201d and praise him and glorify him and praise him and glorify him?\u00a0<em>Glorify<\/em>\u00a0the name of God. (glossolalia) Hey God! Hey God! Take it up in the balcony. Let people see it up in the balcony. Let the people\u00a0<em>see<\/em>\u00a0what God can do! Let that terrible growth, that terrible growth that took that pain away from the woman, now it\u2019s all gone. The arm, moving without any crippling. It\u2019s\u00a0<em>wonderful<\/em>! You better\u00a0<em>praise<\/em>\u00a0God! You better praise him.<\/p>\n<p>(organ playing in background, scattered applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>As for me in\u00a0<em>my<\/em>\u00a0house, I\u2019m not bothered by what men may say. When in five years, none of our people have died. And there\u2019s never been a casket roll through Peoples Temple. When 24 times in this year, and the year\u2019s not out, they\u2019ve brought the dead in the doors and they\u2019ve gone out alive!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>When they\u2019ve dropped dead in their\u00a0<em>seat<\/em>, they\u2019ve been resurrected.\u00a0<em>I\u2019m<\/em>\u00a0not bothering about what you have to say,\u00a0<em>I\u2019m<\/em>\u00a0not bothering about what your opinions. I\u2019m\u00a0<em>living<\/em>\u00a0in the actual conscious presence of\u00a0<em>God<\/em>\u00a0in the earth plane. You see, I know where God is. He\u2019s in my hands, he\u2019s in my feet, he\u2019s in my\u00a0<em>body<\/em>! Oh, yes, I know. I bless that wonderful name! (sings) Oh, Father!\/ Bless that wonderful name of Father\/ Oh,\u00a0<em>bless<\/em>\u00a0that wonderful name of\u2013 ah!\/ There\u2019s no other name like Jesus Christ.\/ I\u2019m going to bless that holy name\u2013<\/p>\n<p>(tape cuts off)<\/p>\n<p>(starts up again)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcer:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013return. The woman is now giving the pastor a\u00a0<em>big hug<\/em>, a\u00a0<em>big thank you<\/em>, for she\u2019s been relieved of her pain, the cancer\u00a0<em>now<\/em>\u00a0being held in a\u00a0<em>white<\/em>\u00a0towel that\u2019s being brought down to the congregation. Another cancer. The photographers are taking a picture of it, as the woman comes down,\u00a0<em>crying<\/em>. She\u2019s crying as she passes the stand. (Pause) She\u2019s crying as the cancer proceeds her into the congregation for\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0to see. Holy God. All powerful God! Moving among his people. Bringing his blessings. Performing his holy will. That his people might be blessed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(singing in background) You know our healing\u2019s in the name of our Father.\/\u00a0<em>Healing<\/em>\u00a0in the name.\/\u00a0<em>Hey<\/em>! Praise his name.<\/p>\n<p>(tape stops)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Beginning of Side A repeated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Track 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013Jackie Fields\u2013 (Pause) (Unintelligible word) Jackie Fields. I\u2019m speaking to someone. Jackie Fields. (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Both uh\u2013 both names\u2013 Jackie Fields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Your name is Jackie Fields also?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, yes, uh, I have uh\u2013 Bonnie Jo\u2013 My name\u2013 my nickname is Jackie Fields. My (Unintelligible word) name is Jackie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Your nick\u2013 Your nickname is\u2013 is Jackie, hmm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Well, now, there\u2019s not three\u00a0<em>poodles<\/em>\u00a0at your house, is there? But there\u2019s\u2013 What?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Hmm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Three at my house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Bless your heart. Now hands clasped, back there by you, sister. You\u2013 Have you ever felt like you\u2019ve committed blasphemy against God?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm. (Unintelligible) I don\u2019t know you, but I\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0know you in knowing the Spirit. (Unintelligible)\u2013 you\u2019re also afraid (Unintelligible).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-huh [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Don\u2019t know you, is that correct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You committed\u2013 You (unintelligible)\u2013 Blasphemy is when you don\u2019t\u00a0<em>think<\/em>\u00a0it any more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And part of (Unintelligible) that doesn\u2019t have any\u00a0<em>conscience<\/em>\u00a0always (unintelligible). When you commit the unpardonable sin (unintelligible) the Holy Ghost, it\u2019s a place where you just uh\u2013 you\u2013 you\u2019ve gotten to the point where you don\u2019t\u00a0<em>know<\/em>\u00a0right or you don\u2019t\u00a0<em>want<\/em>\u00a0to know right. People who have committed the unpardonable sin never\u2013 never think they have. Do you understand what I\u2019m saying? Person who committed an unpardonable sin would\u00a0<em>never<\/em>\u00a0think they had. So you\u00a0<em>haven\u2019t<\/em>. But you\u2019ve allowed through\u00a0<em>fear<\/em>, things to enter into your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Uh-hmm [Yes].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now as we clasp our hands. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p>(organ music)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, God, God, God, God fearing, God fearing, God fearing. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p>(Pause, Tape edit).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Do you have any slippers in your room, like, knitted slippers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>With pom-poms on there\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, I have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>One of the slippers\u2013 Does it slide around on your foot (Unintelligible word)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>It does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(responds)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now, sister, (unintelligible)\u2013 the blood, the life of Christ. I want this placed on the statue that\u2019s white by the fireplace. And I want this to be\u2013 be\u00a0<em>taped<\/em>\u00a0on it. Understand?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>All right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible) You\u2019ve been having difficulty in your\u00a0<em>throat<\/em>. The Spirit wants to heal this also. Place your hands on your\u2013 on your throat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>This will save you from a\u2013 a fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And this will heal the condition that\u2019s in your throat. Your\u00a0<em>chest<\/em>\u00a0has been your weak point. During the winter you\u2019ve had several ti\u2013 uh, battles with your\u2013 with your respiratory problem\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying) Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Well, this\u2019ll\u00a0<em>stop<\/em>\u00a0it now. When I reach out to you in the name of Christ, in the name of Christ, (claps hands once) in the name of Christ, in the name of Christ. I stop it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying hard) Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Tape that to the large white statue with gold on it and that will bring (unintelligible) \u2013the entire house, and\u00a0<em>Christ<\/em>\u00a0will be in that house, \u2018cause I have (unintelligible)\u00a0<em>into<\/em>\u00a0that house. Praise God. Praise God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>End of track 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Track 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Hands clasped. Yea, God\u2013 (Clears throat) Melvina? Melvina Higgins. (Pause) Melvina Higgins. (Pause) (unintelligible) Melvina Higgins. (Pause) It\u2019s all right. (unintelligible) \u2013handicapped. Hands clasped. (Pause) I have to make (Unintelligible word) thoughts here a moment. (unintelligible) things that we tell publicly. I\u2019ll build your faith, sister. If you believe in God (unintelligible) all that believe together (unintelligible), and they parted every man. (unintelligible) and they\u00a0<em>shared<\/em>\u00a0in a most beautiful interracial, international,\u00a0<em>totally<\/em>\u00a0equalitarian family. Now\u00a0<em>God<\/em>\u00a0is a idea. He\u2019s an idea. That idea is personified. It\u2019s personified up here in a body today. And tonight, who that did not know God in me will be\u00a0<em>sick<\/em>, because they discern\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0the Lord\u2019s body. Just as that, when\u00a0<em>you\u2019re<\/em>\u00a0being anointed, they don\u2019t discern it, people said, (unintelligible) that Scripture for years. Said they\u2019re\u00a0<em>sick<\/em>\u00a0because they discern not the Lord\u2019s body. And they always have it (unintelligible) and of body. And every one of you is God in\u00a0<em>a<\/em>\u00a0body. (Pause) So tonight, in this room, I\u2019m his body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Scattered response)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019m his tabernacle. But I am, so shall ye be. He said, these things shall you do \u2013 even Jesus \u2013 and greater things, because I go to the Father. And as you read the King James, (pause) get a little booklet [\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14111\">The Letter Killeth<\/a>\u201d] back there, if you would read it, you\u2019ll find that if you didn\u2019t have the\u00a0<em>Holy<\/em>\u00a0Ghost, through prophecy, pastors, teachers and prophets, to lead you to perfection, edifying the word (unintelligible) of the ministry, to\u00a0<em>perfect<\/em>\u00a0you. If you didn\u2019t\u00a0<em>have<\/em>\u00a0them, you would be like a ship (unintelligible).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Scattered response)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Because even in your King James Bible \u2013 he was just a king of England \u2013 Matthew 1, the first chapter of Matthew, the sixteenth verse, in Luke, the third chapter, and the twenty-third verse, (unintelligible) it\u2019s the\u00a0<em>history<\/em>\u00a0of Jesus (unintelligible) Abraham, and it\u2019s the Jewish custom that had to be through the father. But Matthew and Luke disagree as to who Jesus\u2019 grandfather is. One says it\u2019s Heli, the other says it\u2019s Jacob. One says his great-grandfather is Matthan, the other says Matthot. M-a-t-t-h-o-t. A spelling error (unintelligible), but it\u2019s even written in the King James, with all of its errors, it says no man can call Jesus the Christ except by the Holy Ghost.\u00a0<em>No<\/em>\u00a0one can. Now sister, I\u2013 I\u2019ve heard in your mind, I\u2019ve heard in your mind (unintelligible)\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s what you said in your mind. This must be God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. Yes. (Pause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0You lost your father.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And your mother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0And two brothers by a stroke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Your mother was born June 2\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Passed away in 1932.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>One sister was totally paralyzed\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Due to a stroke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>She died in 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019re from Shreveport, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, Dad. (weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You have three children. One\u2019s passed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You thought, due to a tumor on the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible) consciousness of God to tell you it was reality, a cerebral spasm, blood clot on the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh! Oh! (Weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh! (Weeps)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(unintelligible) Shreveport (unintelligible) with a coffee table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(Cries) Yes\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>With a large glass swan on the top of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And a green porcelain vase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And you have a Bible, a white\u2013 with red letter edition\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013given to you, handed down by another member\u2013 an\u00a0<em>uncle<\/em>\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>An uncle handed you the Bible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Archie Ijames:\u00a0<\/strong>Hallelujah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now I want you to study closely the Corinthians, II Corinthians 3: The Letter Killeth. The Bible kills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman\u2019s voice in crowd:<\/strong>\u00a0Amen!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Letter to Romans, letter to Thessalonica, letter to Timothy. The Bible kills but the spirit makes alive. I\u2019m just Americanizing it.\u00a0<em>Love<\/em>\u00a0makes alive. The Bible kills, but love makes alive. That\u2019s what caused that man to be so evil. And have a knife on him. Wanted to use a knife in the name of Jesus. That\u2019s what caused that man to stand up. It was the letter. It\u00a0<em>kills<\/em>. I want you to\u00a0<em>move<\/em>\u00a0the letter, and now I\u2019m going to give you the spirit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying, moaning)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>(glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying hard, moaning hard, wailing)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Sister, you\u2019ve always feared a total\u2013 total paralysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying hard, moaning) Yes\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Like your sister. And you have now had a stroke. It\u2019s left you paralyzed\u2013 paralyzed (Unintelligible word) on one side\u2013 your hands, your arms paralyzed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And your legs paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>And you\u2019ve been having this terrible\u00a0<em>throbbing<\/em>\u00a0in the back of your head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019d\u2019ve had another stroke, Wednesday at two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying, moaning, wailing) (Unintelligible) Get out of me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Because the thing that you\u00a0<em>fear<\/em>\u00a0comes upon you. Now because you said, in your mind, it\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0to be God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>He\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0to be God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying) Oh, I can\u2019t\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>That arm? I want you to stand. I want you to stand.<\/p>\n<p>(organ music playing in background)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higgins:\u00a0<\/strong>(crying)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Scattered cheers and applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>I want you to stand. (Pause) It\u2019ll take a while. Don\u2019t\u2013 don\u2019t\u2013 just\u2013 just\u2013 let her do it on her own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Let her do it on her own. (Pause) Sister, I want you to move these children out, move the children, uh, up closer to the front. Sister, out\u2013 while the nurses assist you, yes. Sister out. (glossolalia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation<\/strong>: (Stirs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>In a high anointing here tonight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:<\/strong>\u00a0Hey, God!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>People\u2013 Peace. The people\u2013 Shh. Get the children down. Sit down quickly. Sit down quickly, I\u2019m having to put out a high anointing. (Pause) People this week saw me stop a bullet, aimed for someone else. How many in this house saw it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Scattered shouts)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Don\u2019t you know God?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Now sister, (Pause) that arm\u2019s\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0twisted, and the leg\u2019s all twisted. Sister, now you\u2019re\u2013 you\u2019re\u2013 you\u2019re in front her. Nurse, stand to the side. Sister, look\u00a0<em>up<\/em>. Keep that thought. Keep the thought. Keep the thought. You said (Unintelligible word) \u201cHe has to be God.\u201d (more emphatic) \u201cHe has to be God.\u201d Now, in that recognition,\u00a0<em>straighten<\/em>\u00a0that left arm\u2013 Straighten it! Straighten it, sister, straighten it. Begin it, begin it, pull it up, pull it up. Straighten it, straighten it\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijames:<\/strong>\u00a0Straighten it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong>\u00a0Up, up, sister. I said\u2013 Sister, if you\u2019ll\u00a0<em>look<\/em>\u00a0at me\u2013 Look at\u00a0<em>me<\/em>, not at the arm. St\u2013 (Calls to her) Bring that arm up now! Bring it up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congregation:<\/strong>\u00a0(Cheers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note:\u00a0Transcript prepared by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) To return to the Tape Index,\u00a0click here. To return to the Annotated Sermons page,\u00a0click here. 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