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	“Lawd, help me ~.is mornit~gJ Here‘s another first line to one o.t our songs: ‘~U1 dem preachers got to so‘.

	“Nehemiah, when he wid de king, de king axed hirn to reveal de wall ~vhar his Lather was buried. Nehemiah did what de king had done axed. him. I ‘tends Galilee Baptist church in lower Cross Keys; and at Sedalia, I goes t~ Ne~ Hope I~~ethodist church, but I don‘t know nothing else but Baptist. We peoples is barrence (barren o±‘ the Holy Spirit), but not God; He, Hisseif, is born of God, arid all is of de sanie source and by dat I means de Spirit. ~li has to be bornof de Spirit to become chilluns ot God. Romans, Chao.3, ‘lows so~ethin~ like dis: ‘He dat is dead in sin, how is it dat he can continue in sin?‘ Dat tell us dat every man, v~hite or black, is de child o1~ God. ~tnd it is Christ dat is buried in baptism, and we shall be buried in like mariner. If Christ did not rise, den our preachin~ is in vain. And ii we is not born agin, why den we is lost and our preachin~ is in vain.

	nhm picking up de Nev~ Testaiaent, consider all dat you hear me arguing and saying is from a ~ia~‘t anti. not from edication. Rom~ns e~, ‘lows: ‘Speak plain words, not round words, kaise all de round words is fer dem dat is edicated.‘ Jacob had twelve so~as. Dey went arid bundled up deir wheat, and eleven bundles bowed to de one. Dat Joseph‘s bundl~ what he done up. Other brothers up and ~ot and sold Joseph into captivity to de Egyptians. Dat throw~d Jacob to send Rèuben to Egypt. Den dey bowed to Jacob and his sons. It run on and on till dey all had to go to E8ypt, and all of dem had to live under Joseph.

	“when I• was a little shaver and come to inysel~, I was sleeping in a corded bed. (He scratched his head) I jes‘ studying
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