St or les Pr om Ex..Slaves ( Ge orge Brig~s )	Pace 2

	‘tOnce had 26 biles (boils). Dat make nie consider my disobedience against de Lawd. Den I went to Hirn in prayer. He told me Satan done got ahead of Hirn. Dat show me dat I done forgot to be.particular. I ~ot mot ‘ticular and pray mo‘ often, and in six weeks my biles had done all gone.

	“Dar is times when I gits lost fer not knowing. I can‘t keep up, kaise I cannot read. Mari in Sunday school reads and I hears. He read de olden testament; den he read de new Testament. Dat my schooling. I ‘dar unto you, Irgot by all my life by praying arid thinking. I sho does think a lot. (‘Uncle‘ George‘s Lacial and scalp muscles work so when he thinks, that his straw hat moves up and down.)

	“When good man prays fer bad man, de Holy Ghost works on bad man‘s consciousness, and afo‘ he knows it, he‘s a..saying ‘Lawd have IvIerc~‘ ‘stead of ‘G‘daxn‘, like all wicked folks says every day. He ..-~dat de Holy Ghost dat I still is speaking of~ jest penetrates de wicked man‘s consciousness widout him a-..know~.. Ing it • Dat penetrat ing make de bad man say ‚ ‚ Lawd have Mercy.‘ I hoe.s and I cuts sprouts, and den I plows. When you plows, mules is allus so aggravating dat dey gits you all ruffled up. Dat de devil a...working at you. Dat‘s all old mules is anyhow. I does not 0U88, no-.how, kaise it sho am wicked and I is had de Holy Spirit in my soul, now gone sixty.~~five years, since I jined Padgett Creek Church. When m~ old mule git8 to de row‘s end, and. he act mulish ~ kaise dat‘s in hirn and he don‘t know nothing else to do ~ I means to 8ay either ‘ha‘ or‘gee‘, and osten since I jined Padgett Creek Church t finds myself saying ‘Lawd have Mercy‘ ‘stead o~ ‘gee‘ or ‘ha‘. So you see dat de
Lawd has conmiand, whar..so-ever i:~ I was wicked, Satan would.