Talk of J. M. Hammon, Salt Lake City, 18 December 1960
18 December 1960
Talk of J. M. Hammon, Salt Lake City, 18 December 1960
A talk by J. M. Hammon at a general meeting at the Fischer home in Salt Lake City. The archive file is labeled J. M. Hammon. The automatic transcript of the opening does not clearly name the speaker. The text is an automatic, unreviewed transcript of the recording, lightly paragraphed for reading. The recording itself is the source.
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I feel with the council that we've had tonight is what we need. It's been quite varied. And I feel like it's touched the hearts of a lot of people. It's worth finding if you don't accomplish more. We fast up to find opportunity in our lives when we fail to rally around Brother Bottle and Brother Muffet when they were in their good days.
And let them lead us into the presence of the Lord. And if we're not careful, we're going to miss another opportunity. to have Brother Johnson take us into the presence of the Lord. I will often look at the congregation and remind you how few are here that were here in the old days, yet I can look into your faces and see that practically every one of you were here one by one, one by one, one by one here in their last days.
And we haven't done too well. We can't do what we've been poorly taught. I've said enough thinking that maybe you're out to school. I'm a mixed up in a lot of businesses here and I'm in the school business once in a while. At least sometimes the students get their lessons piled on top and I get three quick kicks off their arms.
They don't know what to do first. And maybe you've had so much instruction you don't know where to begin. I wonder why we haven't done better with what we've had. You see what I mean? I really do. We hold school every two weeks and we have to go over some damn lesson. I say lesson time all the time.
This fellow called Carl taught me the same lesson an hour ago every day, and now I don't think I might lose my mind. He gave us a lesson, and he assumes that the students have learned it. And on he goes, and they scratch their poor little heads, and they take their books home, and they pour over it.
And the old guy says to the neighbor, Anybody, come and help me with my answer. I've got to learn this lesson tonight, because tomorrow comes another one. And we have the opportunity to expect you to do it. We've come here to teach the parents, the fathers, the mothers, go out to those who need you over and over and over and over again.
We don't understand how much they have to pay to pay for you. Well, let's do that. I'll sit in my seat and I'll see the faces of you lovely people and I'll tell you how happy you are. I remember how, under the musk of the sun, I thought of the times that I'd had minus tens of thousands.
And I remember you. When I needed one. When I did something for you. And I thought if you and me could go up on the well and look at the well you'd seen, per a million, for the hundred and ninety you'd seen. So, for us to eat, go by the recipe as you did for us. So I'm sure you could just pin on the wall, if I desire her, the ability to get this great job and keep a new woman to go by it.
But you're sure to be down the road. There are a lot of things that you women have that are wonderful. You ought to have a good day, and change that to exist once more. I know that's going to get too often, but you get to talking about things you shouldn't. I don't know. I don't know.
When I was in my early 50s, the government scrapped me out of the parliament, calling me a fool. It seemed as if I fell out of the parliament, but I didn't. But I got to go out on my own. I didn't bother to try to be punished. It seemed as if I didn't have the confidence to have my priesthood, to be the kind of person I was.
Thank you for watching. I want you to count them all around. And I'd like to take a look at them all, so I wonder what you found. I actually did. I don't know. I don't know if you've done it or if I haven't done it. But here it is. It's a kind of a new game. It's a game that you can play with your friends, and it's very interesting, and it's cool.
It's a game that you can play with your friends, Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you. I got a good hijack about six months ago. I was pleased that it hit me when it didn't involve me. But I went to him and asked him to get the word of the Lord for a family in a certain situation that we were involved in.
I don't mind getting the word of the Lord for people if they're being united with me. I can't get the word of the Lord for a disunited people. Isn't it true brethren? You cannot do it. You say, here Brother Johnson, we'd like to have the word of the Lord. Or the word of the Lord on what? Is there one item in this gospel, in this gospel of Jesus Christ that this people can unite on?
Does God have to have the word of the Lord? Oh yes, what would we like to have us do? Well, I think we'd like to get the word of the Lord on that. Or else the Lord will not give us his word until we're ready to obey. And so you please tell me, if Brother Johnson stands up here and says the Lord wants the people to do this, if it wouldn't fall on just as dumb an ear as it did the remarks that I made tonight and all the rest of the brethren may do, it would be all just as unheeded as any other thing.
Because we do not desire to do things of having the word of the Lord or anything else in the people. You tell me you want the word of the Lord, but I don't know how to achieve that word if I knew how. I don't know what you do with it after you get it. I know the word of the Lord is coming in to this people.
I know David Johnson can deliver the word of the Lord to people. I know I can deliver it to priesthood. I've heard God deliver the word of the Lord to people. I thought you and Jeff wanted to get up here, and if all the revelations of God all might have flowed from among us, they flowed from here.
And yet I don't see any evidence of improvement from it. I'm dead serious about this. I'm dead serious. I think that there's maybe some revival in our feelings. what you really desire. I often remark, and it makes my dear friend tell doctors in public meetings that I am grateful for his integrity. He lets me whip around him. My father used to have a son of horses, and he would always have a horse with his whip over. Sometimes he had to lift the horse up a little bit to get him to do his work and stay in his place, You had to have one that could stay put and not get too excited while you were doing your work.
Well, I asked for the file, and I said, Well, I'm going to go to the home and tell you how I smell in a certain respect. And I did the same. And it wasn't until it was just two or three weeks that I came on the scene when I found that he had done what I asked him. I saw the evidence. So he broke, so he went right down the line and cut the old tape just as straight as a knife could cut it.
I saw the evidence for the doctor. And I did the same thing. I don't know if you've seen the evidence or not, but he's a friend of mine. But there are some good friendship upon delicate feelings. I can walk into his presence and raise him up just as freely as he can be, he's coming to me in a little better manner, he'd just do this and this and this and he'd do better and so on, and I respect him, and I can do the same with him and our friendship's not Friendship's not based upon a damn lot of nonsense.
I can go into another guy's office and complain and scream up a little bit for the way he counsels the people and one thing and the other. Do we have to part enemies? No. We're friends. Friends upon principle. Upon what relationship are you men and women together? Upon what principles are you men trying to operate?
I don't know. I think if we had finally come up yet, that we're still trying to bring the world along with us. I can tell you by the very crux of our heartbeat, that no one in the universe is willing to hide their soul in a room that's instinctively clinging to it. If you're just trying to bring the spirit of the world within your home, then everything.
I go around with better attention when there's remarks about TV and radio on the app. That isn't the case. That isn't the trouble. I can go home and get the axe and break the TV out of the hole and throw the radio out the window. And that is going to help my wife one eye over. She might be afraid that I'll use the axe all the time, so she backs off in the corner, and I said, so be it.
But I don't make a crisp enough. And I was about to tell you something, and I think I will. God, help me. By the grace of God, I can take any, any woman in this society. society. She's my wife. I don't want to get married, but this is the only one who isn't. And if you'll just try to be a Christian, you'll be a naughty boy, and I'll have you a companion. United with me. But I can do it. And if you can't, you ought to be ashamed yourself, because I'm a hard man. You ought to be ashamed. I don't know how, I don't know how to permeate your bosom. I don't know how to, upon what principle would you try to live with a woman. I don't know. I've had some of the damnedest renegades stood by me that that God is having this dispensation and they're still with me. And I can call them together
in a moment's notice. I'm ashamed of you. I'm ashamed of you, brother. I don't know what in the world you're doing. I know that you're not a memorial people. I know that You're not overly indulgent. You're not abusing people. Fair and the right is your fault. Is it stupidity? Prevent me.
Prevent me. What in the world is the matter with you? A man gets the right of deciding a first one, a second one, or a third one, and it seems to make no difference in his capacity to grow or increase or do anything. I don't know how, I don't know how a man can quarrel with the same woman so long over the same issues.
I don't know how you're doing. Now consider this, brethren. Now consider this. If you think better ham is lied to, go home and ask the Lord. The doctor knows I'm not lying. If you don't take my word, get on my side and say, better ham, I'm telling you the truth, or you'll be lying to us. Just go home and ask the Lord.
I don't say it's always been so, but I can certainly do it now. You've had the same instruction that I've had. You've had, many of you have had better opportunities. And I'd like to see you do better. I don't know why you need to change address, because mine didn't do better yet. Nothing happened by my consent.
And I think this is exciting. And I think that the dispositions of the government I'm sure. I'm sure. I'll tell you, I think a woman would be very slow to appear in my presence or laugh at mine in a dress that I couldn't stop. I'd say, well, I'm going to take you out tonight. Now believe me, she won't go get one of those things for free.
She comes out in the best she's got. In the best, it's the thing that she's going forward to. It covers up her nakedness. I don't want any woman going out with me to dinner or to a show or to anybody's house where she sits and squirms trying to get back in her skirt. I'd go leave a woman to come home alone, I tell you.
I'll hear the keys, I'll see you in the morning, if you'd like to say so. And I know it. It's what you're bedding and putting up with. It's what you're putting up with. You must be glad to have it so that you can go on and on and on and on. You must not have much disposition to one of your nights at the bedding or the one of your night with you.
You can't tell how many women are going on in this work putting up with the experiences they've had to go through just for the fun of it. They've got a hope within them. And where is yours? You say, oh, brother, we want to do the right deal. We've heard so much about it that we're frightened.
When a man comes up to me and starts to tell me a little bit of ham and I want to do the right thing, I just get scared to death that he's going to corner me and give me a long sermon about what the Lord is. You've got to know how to love the Lord, dear. You've got to know how to love the Lord, dear.
Dedicate yourself to the priesthood. That's what you should do. We should live in a spirit of dedication and I'm just fine for living by the lives of the holy priesthood. And I would hate to cast off all the things that interfere with it. Maybe living doesn't interfere with it. I don't interfere with a man living by the laws of God, making a living.
We think that we have to go down and work with the Gentiles all day. We can only work with a handicapped. I was not handicapped. I worked with him just as much as any other man has in eternal time. And I thought a handicapped, making a living, because God Almighty knew he would have to make one when he came here and expressed it to us.
But I think if we were given to abide in the spirit of the world, I'd love to have it so. And we'll bring it home to our families just as much as the women's folks do. I think of this work so often, and the things we've had to go through. You're simply, you're going hard by it. So many times I go and comment, well if I just didn't have to work for this and if I didn't have to work for that.
Well I often admire what guys gone through who had to work for the world when they worked out so many years in the world. For filthy stories and shabby work and chipping on the boss and everything there is. can i assign the progress in the life of the saint right to it all so don't tell me it's difficult he wasn't a very wise man brother johnson and brother jeff here is not he's not an accountant by profession he's an apostle of the lord jesus christ by profession and what he has to do is time him until the lord gives an easy moment I went through some hot feelings in my mind the day of the lawyer, I was about ready to tear one of them off.
I gave some vicious thoughts and I thought he might ask me why I got such a disposition And I was going to tell him. So I developed my vocabulary. I started out driving a bunch of black horses with my father. That's where I learned to talk. And I tell you, I could really, really do what I had to do.
I've had my old dad get up on the seat and say, Mary, can't you calm down a little? Yes, I said I could, I guess. But if he had to drive you dirty so-and-so, I wonder if he'd be calm. I was about to use that language on the flyer, but I just control myself, but I wonder, I do actually wonder, I do actually wonder what's holding this up, what's holding this up, this show is ready to get on the road.
And I tell you, we just can't seem to get the people pulling apart. And I'm not speaking of the people that are gathering around this work, but the people right on the inside of this thing. The funny matter, Bad Brother Johnson could be just as close as I stand to him, or Guy, or Brother Rich, or any man.
He's got just as much right to stand behind as I have. You need to justify the way you work and that there is a lack, there is a building of people that you do not want to come into. I'm going to take another moment to show you what I mean. I was a grub that steals the lights out of the abominations of the Egyptians.
I had been in the wilderness and kept them there for years and years and years. And I don't recall when it was that he climbed up into the mountain to receive the word of the Lord, but he had those people where he wanted them to receive the Lord. And they said, no, Moses, you go. They did not see who they were able.
and so you all just went and while you were gone you people apostatized and you got the golden calf you remember the story very well but now is it possible is it possible in the lives of those people that we do not want to see them is it just possible that we have gone as far as we want to go Why isn't it here? I don't know why we've got to go on and take another generation of people out to find the bodies of those people. We call another priesthood in order to get to get this work up to the place where it should be received, because to me, the sacrifice has been sufficient.
We've proven our worth in the midst of our enemies, but I don't see how we haven't proven our worth in the presence of God. Now I know the truth, I've been thinking about it a long time, about how we dress and what we do have. I told you before, I never dreamed that I would see such good things.
I never dreamed that I would see such good things. But I want to show up and take out those reasons and add to them. And I'm serious about it. I think it's maybe on that one-week announcement. And I'm going to tell you how I'm going to start getting a little hungry and a little hungry along about the second or third Sunday in the month where I'm going to say, Well, let's go around the earth and maybe I'm going to have your daddy heard.
And say, Well, maybe we can begin to practice some of these things. I am convinced of the proposition until the Lord shows me otherwise. If you touch a woman, and there are many of them here, and they are being born in our ranks daily, and they come out of the world with this attitude that they wanted to be the will of God, that they wanted to be engaged in the work of the Lord, like I told you the last time I was here He told me there would be a young Mexican girl buying him a trip back there, and what her desires were, and what her parents' desires were, and they'd make him perform at the gospel, and he'd want to do the will of the Lord. And that's all we could get out of him. And that was all there was to it.
Now, we have had women come out of the church, out of the world, and into our families who want to do the will of the Lord. And we have men who have come up and have dedicated themselves to do the will of the Lord. They want to be engaged in the gospel of Jesus Christ and his fullness.
Now, can you tell me why a young couple or a woman beside a man or a family is more than about 90 days to 6 months? to get that little act on the road? Do we have to go through a long period of quarreling and disagreement and finding out for all the many nasty things about each other that could exist if we let them express themselves or could we dedicate ourselves to the proposition to the day that they're buried?
All you have to do is just step up here and do what's right. I'll be kind to you. You be kind to me. Before we get married, you'll be hurtful enough to talk over a proposition, but the connection that I have is predicated upon this one proposition that the woman tried to become like her husband.
and I can tell you about a classmate of mine who should be proud to graduate. And I can't see why they'd take any more than 90 days to work out that kind of a population. 90 days is not much. If you have a budget, take six months to last part of it. You just want to relax on the road and you don't need to go through all this warfare and trouble that you've seen in the past.
It's absolutely non-essential to the kingdom of God. The spirit of contention is not the spirit of God. And we can just as well shout the day one as we can shout the day two. Because anytime it rises higher, we're way down the road into trouble because we can't do any better. We just do a lot of doing because the God in us has become one of those Johnson's, one of those Johnson's who can become one of the people.
It's impossible. It's impossible without a good God person to become with us. We've got a God in us who has good principles. And I've never seen a man who has heard a God in our lives. God, he says, suffered to be written from the days of Adam until now, where you'll find a manager than Roy Johnson to join with.
He doesn't swim his arms or buddy anybody's nose when you get up close to him. He's as patient and kind as a man can be. And I assure you that he was here to tell you, to utilize you for a good purpose, because you may not always have such a character around it. I have described to you my observation in this work that many are called to do a job.
But the Johnson is here for this purpose. He did not want his people to have the talent and ability to do it. He will suffer every character who is in this work. And God is he. This division is so fast that communities join up. When you find out Bobby calls him home, it's probably the end of that decision.
I'm going to work with you. I'm glad you're happy, but today we're going to have to join up against the join up. And we'll move on. People who don't want to go will have to drop behind, and I would be proud to function and do things and go places and preach and persuade and embark on it to people who will have to leave their crying wives at home.
I'm telling you some more tragedies. I'm telling you a great tragedy in the life of a man named Mr. Carl Merritt. It's a very nice year and I regret to appreciate the days that there are reunions. I have to talk in person. My wife and I have been going together here 20 years ago. When I already had a wife, I didn't play much, but I gave things to my wife.
She was a young, lovely, beautiful woman. I remember those good years when I asked her to spend a little time at home. Sure, all the attention you promised is wise. I appreciate their loving essence. I appreciate their business. Since that's how it is, we should love and love each other.
We must not waste years scrapping with each other. She's pretending to have my love for a bottle. And I'm pretending to be a hammer and throw the water down. and he fought for 10-15 years to find a man back 50 years ago to be able to die. He tried to be a hammer and he died, but he said, oh Mary, I love you so.
I love you too. Mary said, I can't do it. I can't stay with you tonight. Can't we go on to the show? or if you take me for a ride when I'm done with it now the boat is gone the boat is gone I can't go back and there's a point I would have done if you left and I thought you were going to be alone but the boat is gone now it's here and I'm out of it I bet you're going to hell with each other This would be a sad day, but I've told you many times that I can sit in the front of the fire, and you can just hold my hand and think that I'm in the seventh heaven full of bliss and joy, because I have nothing but joy in this place.
And if I only had fifteen minutes to spend this good fifteen minutes, But if I could not hold my hand that crucified me and killed me, and desecrated my priesthood, and harassed my brethren, I just can't go back to those good old days. I had my 30th anniversary in 1910. There was a day when I was 45.
There was a day when I was 20. There was a day when I was 40. And I had to live according to my age. And I had to live according to my age. And I had to live according to my age. And I can't go back to that one. The day was when I was 35. I hadn't got the time, nor the talent, nor the desire.
The women who were lying inside, the sour girls, they're nothing to me. Since I was coming to this world, I wasn't going to join hands with the women who were fighting. If we could just relax and put this ball in. I don't know how to stop that. All the rest of my in-laws. I'm a jealous man.
All the rest of my in-laws. I should have wanted to say this. I should have done this in the first place. There is a consequence by which we gather. And I say that. I've learned that now. My problem is before I start, not after I start. If you want to die before you give me a bedtime, you should get the book, because I don't want you to.
If you want to die before you give me a bedtime, you should get the book, because I don't want you to. If you want to die with me, bless my life. Let me bless you with a sweet blessing in my life. God bless you. I'll take you into my arms and I'll devote my time to becoming a man of God so that I might honor you.
I'm going out of my house to see you. But that's all I ask of you. This is the last clip I'm going to talk about. This is a shot from 15 or 20 years ago. I spent those good days, I spent a few crazy hours together dodging and quarreling and so forth. Those days have gone by 10 through 10.
How many do I have to decide to? I want to show you the final bit about this. When your time is extended by an hour, She said, well, that day's past. You do the best you can. I've had to go on and do other things that I haven't done in the places you might have failed. I don't know what you want, but I'll do the job that I do.
I've seen all kinds of sacrifices. I've seen that a moral, powerful man can't enforce himself on the street so you get up and counsel people so that you go around persisting in disobedience. I think there are massive groups that I have been wanting to be preaching around with you and I would be sad to die to stand up in this place and teach what you might have taught.
And yet still I hear you say it. Substantially the same old way. I tell you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, this is the kingdom. This is the kingdom of God. I'm going to take your official administration. Anytime. Whatever you want to be administered to, I'm going to throw it at you on the spot.
However you want to run me, I'm going to toss the coin and it's up to you. We can't do any more than that. I'm not going to give you any factual information. Persuade and direct your right. I'm going to ask you to adopt the good things. The good things for the kingdom. I tell you these are my best years and I know how to use it truthfully so that I've brought them up to price.
I've paid for them. And I hope to God that this is only the beginning of my good days. Because I intend to pay the other price if I can develop the wisdom and the integrity to see good days. I want to see good days with my brethren, not with my enemies. I want to get young eyes to give.
I want to lay down my life and I want to be laid down in the kingdom of God. I want to collect my resurrection and I want to come up as a person of my friends. Touch the cross and I am ready to face. I'm going to avoid contentment. I'm going to adopt the concept of contentment. I'm going to recognize this mechanism.
All those are the desires of my heart. Now I pray that few people will hope. Quit worrying about the things that you do. If I would just feel bad about it, I'd feel bad that you might be criticized for the things you're doing. I don't know what we're going to ask ourselves last week, and I don't know what things we're going to try to say.
It's not what we're fearing, it's believing in the Spirit of God. It's what we're not doing. We're refusing to rise and worship the Spirit of God and enjoy the change of our charities and sweet felicities that are around us. around us were refusing to do it. None of us were fine and comely, delightful women around us that ought to be sent, but they're not enjoying our association in building a celestial family and are just missing an opportunity, and they're refusing to embrace the solicitors of the kingdom of God. When I refuse to enjoy the society of my families and my association of priesthood, I am refusing to enjoy the felicity of the tending of God, and I am heeding this sufficient incest upon my Heavenly Father that it be the same as he said to Brother Hammond,
I want you to come to the banquet of the tending for tonight, and I'm sure I don't care to go. That's nothing more than the felicity of the tending for having the banquet tonight, brother. Let's go and enjoy ourselves. I have been placed in the society of the finest men that grace God's footstool.
And if I haven't a character and can tell you to appreciate my blessings, then I am worthy. I have had the finest companions put around me that God cannot blame. I have participated in my choosing before I ever came here. And if I treat my dishonor and insult them, and bring them to naught, and bring them into a life, a life of misery, then I am not worthy of good justice.
I hold that a woman must have joy in rejoicing in the kingdom of God, the same as any other. And I haven't any right to rob her, and it doesn't add to my status to do it. but I believe that God needs to just quit driving us. I'd like to forgive those on the other side, so I feel his strength.
I'd like to praise the devil for their worth, but they don't have to know your worth. You still have to come up and do what you're up to do. Some of the hardest knots to do in this world the world would crack as well in this group. I'm not the better model. He said to me, he's made a lot of critical decisions.
He said to me, how do you have to do this? How do you do this? He said to me, I have a statement. He said to me, I have these pictures. He said to me, if I don't watch myself, I'm going to kick myself right out of this group. And he sure has done it. You know what's going to happen to you?
You're going to join yourself right after the end of the parade. Because God is going to hold up this work for everybody as long as he will. I'm calling upon the leading families in this work to do what they've been invited to do, to set their families in order. They've been brought up and trained.
you expect a girl to spend time with her daughter, spend time with her daughter, spend time with her daughter, spend time with her daughter, and tell you what to do or do. You are a mother and a father and a daughter is part of the business. And what about the sons? And how they act? What about the doctors? What about the hammers?
What about the barbers? What about the building sites? So I do need to step up here and do a little bit of chemistry. to the happy works where I lie, and to take away from us the commandment of the kingdom. And I will be strong from it, and there is a definite softness about it. And these promises are not commendable, and they are intolerable in the final analysis.
But God will have charity for us, and I know the hearts of his people very well. And we feel at peace from the fact we can't get out of it, we can't get free, and we can't say I understand everything I wanted to do until I was present and present in the attitudes of people. And the most pleasing thing, the most pleasing thing that could go up from the tents of Israel to the mosques of our Heavenly Father would be the sense of joy and happiness in the hearts of the people.
a genuine faith, a genuine compassion for the principles of the gospel, where women were literally willing to join in the paths of their husbands in unity and try to build in their tenderness to the others the personality that they had joined with. That was to be the sweetest music that could be heard on Father's ears.
And to see the reformation in the characters and the lives of the men is the way you can do it. There isn't one other thing that you'd rather hear than that. All of our sweet songs that we hear on the radio that we play on Sunday nights when we come out is fraud or all compared to that I know this essence is perceived in the hearts of this people I can reacquire it can reacquire it I know it can be done if we desire it if we know how to perceive it ask God he delivers the spirit to the people who to participate in this thing and enjoy it.
I'm sure if you wanted to see it in your eyes, you'd definitely be standing in the middle. But I'd be hardly in favor of giving these people a vacation, a good first vacation from these people if we don't intend to do any better. They insult the biblically servant of God. That's what they're doing about their people.
If they're not, then there's no difference. If they're doing that about any people, it's an insult to them. They have to keep in contact, and time, and time again, and fill themselves, and their energies, and their strength, their love, and their devotion, and their secret feelings, and their heart, self, sympathies, and everything else that goes out from the mind.
It's time to do something for the people and not give them the result. If my life required me to preach to her that long, I'd grow weary and faint. But I can't wait for you. Say to the strangers that I'm not the kind of hero for the sake of the strangers. And so I may go. But adjust me to this, and I am sure you have much more than a circumstance of connecting your presence with people that don't heed each counsel.
but there is no sense for us to do what they are doing. I often think about the unity of the last unity and I think about some other people. If you need to talk to them, go hide in there. So you can enjoy the spirit of God and the people of God search you out and search you out. And you can speak to them, speak to them, meditate on them, and they isolate themselves from them again.
I wonder what good it does. I wonder what good it does for them to come to them and deliver all they've got. Every ounce of energy, every emotion, every sacred feeling to the midst and the hearts of the people that treat them lightly. Tell me that God holds people under condemnation that treat lives like a time of suffering, that I can understand.
For I hold the same feeling. I know that much of an accident has brought me out of it. But if I'm grateful that I've got my heart, soul, feelings, and counsel to people that who would not want to take them, I don't know how you could come back for more. Now, that's a lie, it's been some great thing.
For heaven's sake, you men, take this thing seriously. How in the world can you expect a woman to follow your counsels and lead, and follow your needs, unless you lead her in such a manner that she can do it? I don't know what you're thinking of. We think that you are such powerful law-dealers.
So Brother Johnson attempted to lead the people like some other man, attempted to lead the family. He wouldn't get the first base. He'd be a stranger. And yet you expect to lord it over everybody around you. I'll tell you it isn't predicated upon that principle. Sure, a woman with two or three children can be frightened into service, service and to submit to a mountain will, but she can't. She'll never be united again.
But unity is like the desire for something else, the desire for companionship and the eternal love and the emotions and attributes and everything. That's what it's got to be I don't know how I got to get it on another principle. And I don't see it again in particular hitting me hard.
So I'm not hitting it hard. I'm just getting back to where I started again. I don't know what's the matter. The people are just going on and on and on. And I feel like they're getting it. Boy, I'm glad to see it. See it light for three months or so. But at the same time, moving good between us, why, I don't know, I find it at ease.
There is something in my heart that keeps turning. And she doesn't let up until something has to give. And maybe we talk for a minute to find out that maybe there is something that is just about to give. And so, by the grace of her good spirit, I think it's beautiful. I said these are my best days.
But I got rid of my setbacks with success. That's all. I delivered in the rest of my life. But my woman would just be nice to me. She would be nice to me unless she had a reason to. God bless you. Amen. Thanks for watching!
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- From the Historical Short Creek archive, 1960 documents. Duration 53:21. Automatic transcript (unreviewed). Speaker identification is from the archive file name, checked against the opening of the recording where it names or introduces the speaker.
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