Long Grove Negro Baptist Church (Patterson, Woodruff County, Ark.); Cole, Charles, Brother

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Brother Cole was the pastor of Long Grove Negro Baptist Church. Coll. by M. C. Parler Long Grove Negro Baptist Church Patterson, Ark. Oct. 25, 1953 Reel 161 Item 1 The Sunday School Lesson (taught by the pastor, Brother Charles Cole) ( Only a part of the lesson was recorded, and the following is selected portions of what was recorded. The lesson was on temperance.) Wherever you see God's people get whipped, they have com-promised with the world.... I pastored a church once that I didn't have but one thing to boast of; I had more boot-leggers to the square acre in my church than anybody else in the country. A mother of my church had six children and five of em was boot-leggers, and the baby boy couldn't boot-leg because he was his own best customer and drank it up faster than he could sell it. (Laughter) Was many a time, when I've raised my voice against it, she'd sit there cryin - tears would meet under her cheeks - and slid, "They're wrong, but they're my children." And she had the audacity to attack me one day. And she said, "They wrong, but they have to make their living." I said, "Yes ma'am,I know yo' children has to make their living, but they don't have to make it boot-leggin." Now, if I was boot-leggin for a livin, you wouldn't have me in yo' pulpit. And it ain't but one way to Heaven: if I got to lead straight...

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Ozark Folksong Collection

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University of Arkansas