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THE MAN OF CALVARY
No. 186. Sin Killer Griffin, Darrington, Texas, 1934.
Reverend Sin Killer Griffin is pastor of one of the largest congregations in the world—the Negro convicts of the penitentiary. This is a fragment of his Easter Sunday sermon, transcribed from a group of records made in 1934. His sermon is at once poetry and song and must be chanted and sung in a highly dramatic manner. (See record for the manner of rendition.)
Roman soldiers come ridin' at full speed on their horses and splunged
Him in the side. We seen the blood and water come out. Oh-h, Godamighty placed it in the minds of the people, Why, the water is for baptism And the blood is for cleansin'. I don't care how mean you've been, Godamighty's blood HI cleanse you from all sin. I seen, my dear friends, The time moved on. . . . ' I seen while he was hangin',
The mounting begin to tremble on which Jesus was hangin', The blood was dropping on the mounting, Holy blood, dropping on the mounting, My dear friends, corrupting the mounting. I seen about that time while the blood was dropping down, One drop after another, I seen the sun Jesus made in creation; The sun rose, my dear friends, And it recognized Jesus hanging on the cross. Just as soon as the sun recognized its Maker, Why, it clothed itself in sack clothing and went down. Went down in mourning! "Look at my Maker hangin' on the cross." And when the sun went down, We seen the moon—that was his maker, too, Oo-oo, he made the moo-oon, My dear friends, yes, both time and the seasons. We seen, my dear friends,
When the moon recognized Jesus hangin' on the cross, / seen the moony yes} took with a judgment hemorrhage and bleed away.
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