This is old blowers and I want to tell you some more about this crisis that we was having down here I say we was because It's it's just about over now and I was awful worried about it for a while But it's straightened itself out, but it was kind of funny what happened in that's reason I'm telling you but I you know I told you about brother Maynard coming down here and starting up this Church that he called a prayer house tabernacle and he had some money behind him I don't know whether it was his money or some group But anyway, he started up this prayer house tabernacle down here in this Burden house that I told you about earlier and what he done was he paid the taxes and then he put him across out front and a Little neon light on the top of it. It was blue and it twinkled You know blinked and and he was real proud of it And you know what he done and it was amazing to me But he got he started up this church and he got everybody or practical everybody that what did Didn't have nothing to do with church. He got them in his in his in his church and he he called them disciples for the Lord and and he He said it up kind of like a salvation army church and he had he had Of course, he was the major you see and he had loot tenants and and captains and sergeants and and and privates in his army and he had two armies actual the the the grown people they was his arm of the arm of the tabernacle is what he called him and his Children's army he organized them into an army and he called them crusaders for the Lord and so he He's what he advertised on the radio and he got him a regular radio show So like I say he had some money behind him somewhere But he started up his show and he said he was gonna do a what he called a multi Prawn attack on the devil and he was gonna round him out as what he said And I can remember all that stuff because I heard that on the radio over and over again And of course he said a lot of stuff But that was that was some of the stuff he said and so what he done see he was he was mad at me because I told him I didn't go to church and so he called me a arm of safe Well, I don't know about that But but I don't go to church and I do have a religion But I try to do what I think is right But I just don't like to go to church Well, he said the little kids down here that is what he called a crusaders and they come down here with signs and the sign said don't buy no milk from the arm of Satan is what it said and See I didn't pay no attention to him But it made him me just as mad as it could you know him was my girl and it made her mad But I didn't pay no attention to him and I got the thinking about how I would feel if I was If I was in their place and that's what I learned from a man a long time ago that I worked for and he said Try to put yourself in the other man's place and try to think how he is thinking and so I done that and I got The studying and I said, you know, it's awful hot out there with him little kids is marching So I told Emily I said, Emily If you want to do something about this, I said go in there and make up a batch of cookies I said make some of them chocolate chip cookies Well, Emily is a good cook because she learned from old flossy butts and and she learned Emily to cook and Emily is a good cook if I do say so myself and She didn't want to do it at first and she said you gonna feed them cookies And I said Emily just go in there and cook make up some cookies if you don't mind and I said I'm gonna show you something I'm more I'm gonna learn you something that'll do you some good So she done it she went in there and made up a batch of them chocolate chip cookies and all the time it was getting harder out there in the road where them kids was a marching and About two o'clock. I brought a big old plate of them cookies out there on the porch And I had a whole bunch of milk cold ice cold milk And so I announced I said milk and cookies for anybody that wants it Well, they all come toward the gate and I said now the only drawback the only strain is that you got to leave them signs out there in the road and So they laid them down and I said now I mean Lay them down permanent Just lay them right there and leave them there and you can come in here and have all the milk and cookies that you won't Well, they they agreed to that and they come in that gate.
They were hot I mean, you know, I felt sore for really and they come in there and got them cookies and drunk up that milk And they went on home and I ain't seen nothing of none of them now There was one boy that didn't come in he stayed out in the road and he marched up and down with his son But he was by himself and the rest of them come in and Finally he just slicked on off I didn't see when he left but I noticed that he was gone and and he'd been back neither He was what they called the loot in it in that army and he hadn't he hadn't come back and I ain't seen no more of them And so that was his first problem. He was gonna he was gonna route out the arm of Satan and I said you see Emily I said you don't have to raise cane with people to get them to do what you want them to do I said there is other ways of doing it and what you've got to do is use your head and The reason that I'm telling you this is because when then people went old brother Maynard First got started down here. Well the people wanted to run him out of the country and And the sheriff had a meeting on it in the sheriff come into the meeting and he said no He said we ain't gonna have nothing like that down here. He said we ain't gonna be no vigilante committee he said we gonna do things according to the law and he said you can't run that man out You might want to but he said you ain't gonna do it because I ain't gonna let you do it He said he if long as he ain't breaking the law then he can stay down there well anyway, that was his first Prawn of his attack and the next thing that he done was he sent his kids up there to the schoolhouse And they had this song that they sung about the I can't remember the words to it It went something like the B.I.B.L.E.
That's the book for me I'll stand alone on the word of God the B.I.B.L.E. I think that was the words I'm not for sure about that but it was something like that well they started singing that up there at school and they One time they convinced the saying it in the classroom They wanted to have a time when they could sing their song and a principal told them all they wouldn't gonna do that He said you can't sing that song you can say it out on the playground if you want to at recess But you ain't gonna sing it in this school and so he stopped people stopped that right quick But the next thing they done was that they they've got this After-school Recreation you know for all the people the parents that work and and don't have no place for the kids to go We'll see the kids can stay up there after school in this recreation and they can They can stay there until their parents are home and then they go on home And so they play cards up there You know and checkers and dominoes and all kinds of stuff You know they got music up there and they've got old Sally Johnson She is the one that takes takes care of them after after school that way and and she kept keeps up with all of the The the checkers and the games they've got all kinds of board games They got one came one game they call sorry and they got a bunch of games I don't know all of them but anyway, she started noticing her stuff disappearing and You know the checkers and and cards and stuff started disappearing and she didn't know what was happening and pretty soon They wasn't a game left up there They'd all been carried off and them kids took them down there to the to the tabernacle and they destroyed them games and They they got the bragging about it and the principal heard about it and he called them in and and they Told him what they had done They told him brother Maynard had told them that they had a duty to destroy all them games all them tools of the devil and so that's what they had done and The principal give them all punishment, you know, and they know better than to do that and so she give them detention and They are one down there and arrested that Brother Maynard and and of course he bailed out of jail They didn't keep him in jail Just told him said you stir these kids up and said that's private property You ain't got no business doing that well the first thing I know the old brother Maynard had found suit in the court Saying that they was they was depriving him of his first amendment rights now then that's awful big words and I didn't know what that was but They what it means is that they was not letting him practice his religion the way he wanted to and the judge listened to about Listen to him for about five minutes and he Wammed down that gavel and he said case dismissed and he gave him a lecture and he said brother Maynard you you've got a right to practice Your religion, but if you're teaching other people to break the law He said you can't do that and he said if you keep it up He said I'm gonna find you a hundred dollars a day for every day that you teach that kind of stuff And he said I'm gonna hold you responsible for the moral behavior of the kids that's under your Direction he said and he said you can't do that and he said I'm gonna see to it I'm gonna hold you feet to the far well brother Maynard say he didn't like that But he didn't want to pay a hundred dollars a day and so he quit that too and You've gradual the people started leaving his church they realized that he didn't you know that he was teaching some Bad stuff and they didn't they didn't go to his church no more But he still had one more ace of his sleeve So he decided that he was gonna close up Carl's place and So he sent a group of the adults down there and some of them people was people that I had seen Up there at Carl's at different times You know I'd seen him up there, but they come out in front of the Carl's with their signs saying that closed down this den of Iniquity and that's what they said and they had this chant that they was doing and and they started hollering Carl come out Carl Carl come out Carl and They marched up and down the road for a while and didn't nobody pay no attention to him But directly they come on to his property they come inside the gate and you know Carl keeps that dog tied up And in opinion in a kennel when when the place is open down there So they didn't the dog was barking at him, but they know he couldn't get out And so they come inside the gate and they was hollering Carl come out Carl well directly sure enough Carl did come out and I Wouldn't up there for none of this now I got the story from Houston Ford because he was he was telling me about it And I was asking him you know he I said Houston I understand you had a little a sight man up here and he told me the whole story So that's how I'm that's what this time just repeating what Houston forward told me but he said that Carl went out there and And the first thing he done was he walked up and down the line and he got to look at them other people in the eye and every time He did they couldn't look him in the eye, you know, they'd look down and finally he said he said Why don't you folks Go on home and get away from here. He said it real quiet. He said I want y'all to get out of here and go on home and directly some of them turned around and they started off and Everybody except old brother Maynard Slink slunk away, you see and they just they know what Carl would do to him if they didn't and so they just Just left brother Maynard standing there and they walked on off and went on down the road went on home I reckon but I'll say this much for brother Maynard He was a brave man and he stood there and he looked at Carl and Carl looked at him for about 30 seconds and he said Brother Maynard he said I'm giving you just exactly a minute to get on away from here and take your religion elsewhere He said you own my property and he said I'm gonna tolerate it For one more minute and that's all Well, brother Maynard started talking and he was telling him about I don't know what he was saying about how he was Leading a life of sin and he was paving a road to hell and different stuff and Carl didn't say a word He just let him talk and brother Maynard talked for a minute.
Just Well, like I say old Carl, you know told brother Maynard just real quiet He said you've got just to jakly one minute to you know to stay here I'm gonna tolerate it for one minute and so oh brother Maynard he commenced a preaching that Carl and he told him that he was a a limb of Satan and that he was living the life of sin and he was paving the road to hell and he talked to him there for one solid minute and Brother I mean, oh Carl was a what looking at his watch and when a minute passed He reached down and took a hold of a brother Maynard and picked him up and carried him over to that water barrel In front of the up front of the store, you know where they where they catch rainwater And he dipped him down there in that water barrel and pulled him out and brother Maynard was sputtering and and he started preaching again and Brother Carl ducked him down in there again and he helped him under a little bit that time and pulled him out and He said have you got anything else to say and Brother Maynard, you know shook his head and so brother Carl said him on the ground and brother Maynard walked on off and he ain't been down there since uh, and he's lost all of his church members now and I kind of feel sorry for him because I go by there sometimes and I see him standing out there and on the doorstep and Ain't nobody there. Don't nobody go to his church no more. I always speak to him, but he don't speak back and anyway, uh his case come up last week and the only defense that he had because you know I told you that he had Talked them kids into stealing all of them games out of that recreation room and they'd carried him down there and he had He had destroyed him and so his only defense was he said well He would give him $20, but he said didn't nobody know how many games that they was and they didn't have no record Of the games so they couldn't really prosecute him because they didn't know What he had destroyed well, of course He had made a mistake there and he didn't know it, but see oh sally johnson. I mean she she is uh the most organized Person that you have ever seen and so she had careful records of everything that had been marked for that Recreation room and every time something got lost She had made a note of it and every time something was replaced was she had made a note for that so uh She had a complete record of how many Cards had how many decks of cards had been destroyed and how many checkerboards and how many sets of checkers and and how many games She had the whole thing recorded and the judge looked at it and he said this is the most organized Information that has ever been broke into this courtroom and so he Asked her that she have a figure on the mount And uh, she said well, she said she did and she showed him a total of because she know the price of all them things And she had added it up and she know just exactly to the penny What was owed and uh, so the judge find brother Maynard that much money and then he another thing he done was he give him a all Can't think of that word Punitive punitive he gave him a fine of $50 as a punitive fine, you know, that means that he was Punishing him for his uh, indiscretion is what he called it And so he gave him a punitive fine and so that costed that man I don't know how much stuff that he had destroyed but anyway He had to pay it all back every bit of it plus that $50 and so He ain't down here no more he has moved out and uh, he uh After he moved out of the place we all went down there to look and uh, and we seen them uniforms He had a whole bunch of them uniforms.
See I didn't I didn't tell you that but when them people them kids joined his army Was he he gave them uniforms and they was uh, it was uh dresses for the girls and these uh Old things like uh smocks painter smocks for the boys and they had his sequence in them, you know, they was sparkly And uh, and that's how he was able to you know, get so many members of his army because them kids liked him sparkly Sequence that he he had on his own him uniforms and dresses and them smocks and like I say, see somebody was giving him some money He was some kind of probably right wing organization was giving him money Sponsor in him and that's how he was able to get all them people in his army But anyway, they he left all them uniforms down there because uh, when them kids had quit the church Well, they had left them uniforms on the doorstep and so he had uh He had uh left them there when he moved out and they was down there and uh, some of them, you know started wearing them But they told them they ought not to do that they said that that was uh In a way it was sacrilegious because they was making fun of of his religion and so they don't do it no more than them I don't know what they're gonna do with them uniforms, but they're back down there now and uh, we're gonna We're gonna do something about that building. I don't know what just yet, but uh, we're having a meeting on it next week And uh, so I'll tell you in the next uh podcast what we have decided to do about it, but we're not gonna let that uh building uh fall into the wrong hands again and uh Somebody said, you know, they said well that building technical belongs to brother Maynard because he paid the taxes on it and uh So the the judge he said that no brother Maynard didn't own it no more because he had uh used it for uh Uh I can't remember his word, you know, that's a that's an educated judge But anyway, he said that he had misused the property so the property was going back to the county But he said the judge told us he said which you might want to think about doing is fixing, you know Taking joint ownership of the building. He said that wouldn't cost y'all much And so we're having a meeting on it next week and we're gonna Think about what we're gonna do with it. We're gonna make sure that it don't fall into the wrong hands again And so as soon as we have that meeting, I'm gonna let you know, you know what uh What we what we decide to do, but that'll be in the next podcast