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AND HORNS ON THE TOADS
"When I am in my last hour, my own shining hour, I will
ask you to meet me at the River Jordan and cross me over.
Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Father!"
An unrestrained "Amen!" burst from the people.
At times crooning, at times thundering, she told of her most
personal relationship with God.
"When I lost my husband, Mistuh West, God said, 'Take
missionary cards. Go to the Mount Zion Baptist Church, the
Missionary Church, the Church of God.' I took and went. Jesus
calls for a church without spot or wrinkle, His Holy church."
From the testimony she went into a sermon as much for
all people as for those gathered before her. With repetitions,
imprecations rolled forth a flow of words that never paused,
never faltered-in a rhythm that stirred, hypnotized the people.
She preached to the men, then the women, and to both
as parents.
"Sho nuff, women!" she thundered. "I wouldn't be doing
so and so. 'My husband don't treat me like he used to,' " she
mimicked in a shrill, piercing voice. "'He don't give me no
money. He don't stay at home.' Oh, women, don't you do what
that husband do ...
"Father, mother, just think of the kind of childern you
raise on account of sin. Look at yo'selves. Have mercy, Holy
Ghost! Oh, fathers, oh, mothers, I'm asking you to check on yo'
welfare and yo' lives. When that child done growed up in age
and that child say 'I done done something,' you got to give
account of that child."
She beat on the Bible. She pointed an admonishing finger
at the people.
"I'm asking you to check on yo' lives this morning. Jesus
is asking you to live yo' lives. He put it on me, so I'm asking
you to check up this morning. Praise the Holy Ghost!"
She took up the spray of chenille flowers and held it to the
light. In it she had another message, expressed in symbols.
"Here's a flower..."28
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Boatright, Mody Coggin. And Horns on the Toads, book, 1959; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38856/m1/41/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.