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Rh mountains as You’ve never seed sence the earthquake.

[''He pauses again as if struck by a new thought. His knees gradually give way beneath him and he sinks to the floor''.]

In Your Holy Word, Lord, I know You commanded your servants to slay all blasphemers. Mebby You think that’s enough. An’ mebby it ought to be.

[He pleads with great fervor]

But I’d druther You’d do it Yourself, Lord. You can do it better ’n I can. An’ it ’ld have more effect. But I want You to understand, God, that I ain’t no coward. If it don’t suit You to do it Yourself—I’ll do it fer You—I don’t keer if they hang me. You died fer me once, an’ I’m willin’ to die fer You if You want me to. They wus a time, Lord, when my proud heart said, “All o’ self an’ none o’ Thee”. Then You come a-knockin’ at the door o’ my sinful soul an’ I whispered, “Some o’ self an’ some o’ Thee”. But that’s all changed now, Lord. I’m Yourn an’ You are mine. An’ the burden o’ my song now is, “None o’ self an’ all o’ Thee.” You can do with me what You please, Lord. If it’s Your will that this blasphemer shall die, I’ve got a whole box o’ dynamite out in the store, with a time fuse long enough so I can git back here afore it explodes. I can blow up the dam while he’s under thar a-telephonin’, an’ the waters o’ Your wrath ’ll sweep over him like they did over Pharaoh an’ his hosts in