(John) the Patter of the People — Willie Mullan

The Living Water and the Gift of the Spirit

It goes up to seven again this evening, and we're at the latter part of the chapter. You remember we finished with the great saying, In the last day, the great day of the feast. Verse 37. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any man thirsts, and you remember I underlined that little phrase, if any man thirsts of being the picture, the picture of a longing soul, somebody's thirsting for life, somebody's thirsting for peace, somebody's thirsting for power, somebody's thirsting for God.

It's the picture of a longing soul. And Jesus said, If any man thirsts, let him come unto me. What a wonderful statement that is. You see, that's the picture of an all-sufficient savior, one who can supply every need, one who can meet us just at the very point of, only let him come unto me and drink.

And I pointed out that that was the picture of life's secret. My everything's prepared, the feast has spread, all things are now ready, just come and taste, appropriate to yourself. And then the Lord finished the great saying by saying, Let him come unto me and drink, he thus believeth on me.

As the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. And here is a lasting sufficiency. And then the Holy Ghost takes this out to explain this, but this speak he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.

For the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified. And I think you could always put the section mark there and say, Because that Jesus was not yet glorified as what? And the true answer is, that Jesus was not yet glorified as the head of the church.

For only when he went up through the clouds and sat down on the right hand of the majesty of high, he was made to be the head over all things to the touch. And then the Holy Ghost came to baptize all the followers down here into the body of Christ, and connect them forever with the head.

And you know, that's why the Holy Ghost came, because Jesus was glorified one day as the head of the church. Now, we'll really start from verse 40 this evening, and we're going on down through to verse 1 of chapter 8, because I think that the chapter was made in a very poor place, wasn't it?

The Division Among the People in John 7

You see the last verse of the chapter, verse 53, and every man went on to his own house. And in between the two chapters, there's a little word left out that's in the original. It's the little word, but.

Very often the translators would leave this precious little word out when they wanted to make a chapter. Here's how the last of the chapter should read, and every man went on to his own house, but Jesus went on to the mount above.

You can see the connection quite clearly, and you can see that sense demands that the but should be there. So, we're going right on down to the first verse of chapter 8, because I believe it's connected with verse 53 very definitely.

And I want to underline some very precious things for you in these 15 verses. First of all, we want to have a look at the posture of the people. You can see verse 40 begins with the word, many. Many of the people therefore which heard this great saying that we were looking at a moment ago on the last day of the feast, many said, of a truth this is the promise.

Then verse 41, others said, and in the same verse, some said that we are going to look into the platter of the people. And then you will notice that in verse 43, so there was a division among the people because of him, and we're going to look up the cleavage in the grout.

And then in verse 44, some of them would have taken him, but no man laid hands on him. You see, there was real anger in the breasts of some who believed that he was making himself the eternal son of God, and they would have taken him.

But their anger was anchored on this occasion, because that no man had power to touch him, except it were given him from above. And the anger was anchored on that occasion. And then we must take time tonight to look at the observation of the officers.

The officers came back to the pharmacies and answered, never man speak like this man. What a wonderful testimony from the soldiers of the temple to the savior of the world. Yes, never man speak like this man.

Then I shall take my time tonight with this part of the chapter, the perniciousness of the Pharisees. Why, they had a way of talking and belittling everything. Why, they would inoculate the people with their pernicious ideas, all to do away with light and truth.

And we would need to take time there this evening. Then I shall ask to underline the nobility of Nicodemus. It comes a little bit more out into the open in this chapter, and then we shall finish there, watching the creator go to the Mount of Olives for the night, and the creatures going every man to his own house.

The Prophet Promised by Moses

Now, let's begin at the beginning, right back there at verse 40. Many of the people, I think we need to take time here, because you must notice exactly what part of the crowd you're dealing with. Now, many of the people.

And we must differentiate this evening between the common people at the feast, and the Pharisees who were the rulers in the temple. You see, this evening, we're still down at Jerusalem, at this Feast of the Double Eccles, and here we are finding many of the people.

I think we could say it like one of the others said, many of the common people, the ordinary folks and others at the feast. Many of the common people, therefore, when they heard this saying, when they heard Jesus crying, O not last day of the feast of any man, first let them come unto me and drink.

When they heard this saying said, of a truth, this is the prophet. Dr. Bollinger points out that the words, The Prophet, ought to have a capital T. I am the capital T, because it's not just a prophet.

This is not just a prophet. This is THE prophet. You see, the Old Testament talks about THE prophet who would come. It shows you that the people of whom they were the common people, their minds were going back into the Old Testament, and they were thinking about what Moses had said.

But just go back and watch what Moses really did say. You'll find it in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, please. Deuteronomy, chapter 18, and down the chapter there, at verse 15. Deuteronomy 18, verse 15, and Moses is speaking, The Lord thy God is talking to the whole nation, will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me.

Unto him ye shall hearken according to all that thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more that I die not.

And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet from among the brethren like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him, says the Lord. You see, I want you to get the idea, that's why I turned back to read that, that the people, the common people, when they heard this tremendous message on the last day of the feast, that the people said, is truly, this is the prophet.

You see, the idea here is, this is indeed the messenger of the Lord. That's the idea. You know, they were looking at what they believed to be the messenger of the Lord. This is the one who's going to stand in Moses' place and bring the word directly from God to us, this is the prophet.

Knowing About Christ Without Trusting Him

But I want you to get the hold of this, that all the common people believed in him, and believed him to be the messenger of the Lord, yet they never received his message. That's a very sad thing, you know, because I believe that there are folk in this building just now, and they believe that Jesus Christ is the way back to God, and not only the way, but the truth.

I believe that if I were to tackle many of the unsaved friends in this building, that you would admit immediately that every word Jesus Christ spoke was truth, and yet you can't take it in. You know, I was talking to a little girl, she's in the meeting now, she'll forgive me for this.

Some time ago she wanted to be saved, and she came into the little vestry there, and she said to me, Mr. Mullen, I need to be saved, you know. And I said, sit down in the chair there. I said, what's keeping you back from getting saved?

Do you not know the way of salvation? She said, I know that Jesus came from heaven, and I know that he went for the cross, and I know that he gave himself as a sacrifice for sin, and I know that he placed God on the cross, and I know that he rose again.

And I said, what comes after that? She said, you know, I can't trust him. I said, you can't trust him? I said, can you trust your mother? Have you any bother trusting your mother? If your mother promised you a bicycle for Christmas, would you have any bother trusting your mother?

She said, I could trust my mother. And I said, you know, if the Lord Jesus Christ looks at you, and he says, come unto me, and I will give you rest, or whosoever shall call on my name shall be saved, can you not trust him?

Can you not rest upon his word, and take the gift of life from his mealtiest hand? And you know, it was simple after that. And you know, there are many of you here this evening, and you believe, like these people long ago, that he's really the messenger of God, that he speaks the truth, yet somehow or other, you can't accept it.

Unbelief is keeping you back from blessing, and it will damn you, remember, eventually. But I want you to get this deeper, even in what we're at it now. Look at this, the platter of the people. Many of the people, therefore, when they heard this saying, said, oh, for truth this is the prophet.

Others said, this is the Christ. Now, what's the difference? You see, I believe the difference is here, that a great part of the crowd just saw him as the messenger of God, and yet there was still another part of the crowd that saw him as the Messiah of the nation.

My dear friends, I'm perfectly sure that standing in that crowd that day, there were quite a number who really, honestly believed in the heart, from all the wonderful miracles and messages that had been got to them by this man, that they believed this is the Christ, but they never accepted him.

Recognizing the Messiah Rather Than Merely the Messenger

So, I want you to get the hold of this this evening. I think the greatest example in the Bible is Pilate. You see, it's one thing to realize that he's speaking the truth, it's another thing to recognize the person who speaks the truth.

And, you know, I believe that Pilate saw this. You see, when he was brought into Pilate's judgment hall, and we read in Matthew that he stood before the governor, I think I can see the proud, conscious Roman governor looking into the eyes of this stranger of Galilee, and he's dressed in an ordinary robe of an ordinary Nazarene, and as he looked into his face, he said this.

This is the first question I want you to mark. He said, Art thou a king then? Now, why would the judge on the bench ask a poor, humble person such a question? Art thou a king then? And Jesus answered clearly.

He said, To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world. And then Pilate left the prisoner, and went out to the crowd outside, the rabble mob outside, and he said, Behold your king! He was recognizing the person.

And then he did more. When he wrote the superscription for the cross, he penned it like this, This is Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. And the Jews came and said, Don't, don't, don't do that. Don't write that.

Write that he said he was the king. Pilate said, I won't change it. What I have written, I have written, and I'm persuaded way deep down in my bosom this evening, that Pilate recognized the person, but crucified him just the same.

And I'm perfectly sure, you know, that there are men and women in this holding now. And if I were to press you into the corner one by one, you would admit this very night that the man on yonder cross was God's Son.

You would say with a centurion, Truly, this man is the Son of God. Somehow, you know, from heaven to his birth, like Pilate, you know. And you're as deep as a died centurion, as you sit on the seat. You see, a part of the crowd recognized the Messianic, and a part of the crowd recognized the Messiah.

And then the passage goes on, verse 40, again. Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Oh, for truth, this is the prophet. Others said, this is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?

Hath not the scripture said? Now, watch this little bit. They're quoting scripture now. Hath not the scripture said that Christ cometh out of the seat of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

You see, some saw him as the messenger, and others saw him as the Messiah, and some saw him as a make-believe. They said, Will Christ come out of Galilee? They said, Doth not the scripture say he was born in Bethlehem, in the town of David, and before them?

They didn't know. Sins, they didn't even know that he was born in Bethlehem, and they didn't even understand that he belonged to the house and lineage of David. And here they were, trying to quote scripture, to show their knowledge of the book, when all the time they're displaying their ignorance of the person.

Because, you know, it's possible for you to do the same. My, I've heard people fiddling about with God's words, when everything they were saying was just telling you all the time that they were absolutely ignorant of the glories and wonders of this person.

I've seen them too often. My dear friend, I want you to get this. I think I should put my weight into this. You know, sometimes we teach the children to just quote scripture, and I don't think that there's anything wrong, you know, with filling your heart and mind with the perfect knowledge of the word of God.

But I want you boys and girls to get the hold of this, that being able to rattle off flesh will not get you to heaven, if you don't experimentally, passionately, know faith for yourself. There were people who could quote scripture, and they were quoting it correctly too.

Out of the town of Bethlehem, of the house of David, and not out of Galilee, they were quoting the scripture correctly. But they're Christ! They didn't know! You know, I'm not asking you what dressers you know now.

I'm asking you, do you personally know Christ as your own and personal Savior? You know, I heard about a little girl, and she's just four, so I can't tell you her age. Her father's in the meeting now.

I think she's only six or seven, maybe eight. She's a tiny little one, and she was saved last Monday night, in our Monday night meeting. And I just met her coming from school the other day, and I stopped the car and I opened the door and I said, come in.

And she's a wee bit afraid of me, I couldn't tell you for why, but she is. And she looked at me with her big eyes on the footpath, had a good glimpse at me, and I put on the best face that I can put on, and that takes some effort.

And I said, come here, come here to me. I said, in the car. And very slowly she threw the bag in, and then she climbed up, and I pulled the door. I said, I heard something about you. She never spoke, she just looked.

Oh, I said, it was all right, you know, it was something good. She said, I trusted the Lord Jesus last Monday. I said, are you sure of that? She said, I am sure. I said, where did it happen? She said, in the little back room.

I said, where? She said, it was when the man was preaching. I just knew that I needed the Saviour, and I just trusted Him as my own Saviour, and I'm saved. And you're saved for how long? How long? She said, I'm saved forever.

She had a personal experience of making Christ out of me to talk, which she couldn't keep it back. Tell me, tell me, tell me. I'm not asking you what verses you can talk, how many chapters you know. I'm asking you this, do you personally, experimentally, know Christ, as you say?

Don't you see this crowd quoting the chapters? No, they don't know the Christ. In fact, they're talking against Him. My, their very thought displays their ignorance of the person. That will do for the proper of the people.

Christ as the Divider of Light and Darkness

Verse 43, So there was a division among the people because of Him. Oh, I think that's a beautiful phrase. I think that any preacher could preach all night on that. There was a division because of Him.

You know, our Lord Jesus Christ caused a division. There's a lot of talk now about unity, you know, about getting them all together, no matter what they believe. Well, I'll tell you this, that the Blessed Master causes division.

Have a look at this verse, have a look at Luke's Gospel, chapter 12. It's a wonderful one, and you shouldn't forget it in the days in which we're living. Luke's Gospel, chapter 12, and we're away down there at verse 50, and he's speaking to the clouds, and he's talking about Calvary.

He says, But I have a baptism to be baptized this. And that's one of the phrases, if you beg, if I beg your pardon just for a moment for leaving the subject, that's one of the phrases that proves, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that sprinkling can't be substituted for a mission.

Because when I asked a man not so very long ago, when our Lord said, I have a baptism to be baptized this, what was he talking about? He said he was talking about his death on Calvary. I said, that's correct.

Would you like to translate it like this? I have a sprinkling to be sprinkled with. For the man who would say that the death of the cross was a sprinkling is a fool. Why, he went down into the depths where there was no standing, and every wave and billow of God's wrath went over his head.

A sprinkling about that, you know, and that's one of the phrases in the book, that you couldn't substitute sprinkling for the word baptism. My dear friend, you couldn't. But I want to get on. He said, I have a baptism to be baptized with.

How am I strict until it be accomplished? Suppose, ye, that I am come to give peace on earth. I tell you, nay, but rather division. Why, I tell you, we need to sit up and take notice of this. You know, friends, we need to get the hold of this, that the whole way through, the Lord Jesus is a divider of the clouds.

And He is, you know. Why, He'll bring division into homes. Why, there can be four or five in the house. And, you know, maybe only one of them knows personally and experimentally the Lord Jesus as their own impersonal Savior.

And at that blessed moment, they become, they become a child of light. Child of light. But, you know, friends, the others are in darkness. And light heart knows fellowship with darkness. There's a division there.

There's a division there. And, you know, when God is talking to His own children, He's telling them all the time to come out and touch not the unclean thing. And be ye hapless. Some people try to teach me, you know, that they can disobey God's Word and say unquestionable things to do good.

They have never learned yet that Christ is the divider. So, He makes divisions. I know He does. And, you know, when He comes to the air, He'll divide. He'll take us out, I, and He'll leave the darkness behind, and He'll make divisions in the graveyards for those that are Christ's.

He will rise first, and when He comes to deal with the nations, He'll divide the sheep from the goats, and at Calvary, He will end between the man who repented and the man who died in darkness. And you'll find that Christ always makes a division.

Tell me, have you made a division in your life from the day that you met Him, where there are lots of things and places and peoples that you have to get away from, and be separated from, and touch no longer the thing that was clean?

Had He to come out and be separate? Well, He makes that division, you know. And here it is again, you see, why there was a division among the people because of Him. You see, even on this occasion, in John 7, while I believe the common people, the people who saw the messenger, and the people who saw the Messiah, and the people who saw only the make-believe, I don't believe that any of them truly accepted Him, yet there was a division.

But there's one thing that I think that I need to put over as we get there, and it's this. Remember the people who saw the messenger, and the people who saw the Messiah, and the people who saw only His make-believe, they were all at the last in the one trounce.

My dear friend, isn't it awful that you, with all your knowledge, you're still in a company that's in darkness and going down to destruction? There was a division among the people because of Him. And then, verse 44 is a wonderful one, and some of them would have taken Him, but no man laid hands on Him.

Divine Preservation Until the Work Is Finished

You know, I think this is a great encouragement to all the children of God. You know, I'm one of those old-fashioned believers I believe that I'm preserved in Christ. I believe that round and underneath are the everlasting arms, I'm sure of that.

I'm positively sure, like one of old, that I'm immortal until my work is ended. I know that I'm launching out on something that all the believers don't believe. So, I think there's some of them too scared to believe, but I'm positively sure of this.

I'm like Job, I'm hand round with a hedge, just like as the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so is the Lord round about His people, and I'm positively sure that nothing can touch me until God allows it.

And you know, if you could have only seen the in that crowd, my son would thank Him. No man laid hands on Him, just the same. His hour was not yet come, and when Pilate looked into His face and said, knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, or power to hand thee over?

He looked back and said, thou hast no power over me except it be given thee from above. Oh, I wish we children of God could get the hold of this. I wish we believed that God would preserve our going out, and our coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore.

You know, old John G. Paton believed this, and proved it, when he went to the West Indies, and landed on the beach. You know, as he stood alone missionary, why, he could see men creeping out of the forest, and he knew that these cannibals had come to gaze upon him.

And they got along the beach about two hundred yards away, he could see the spears glancing in the sand. He could see them with knives in their hands, and knives between their teeth. And then, with one maddening cry, they come rushing along the beach, coming atop him, screaming, coming to take his life.

And they quietly stood there. And when they came within twenty yards, the whole maddening press rushed past. And old Paton just looked, and waited, and prayed, and trusted God. Then he saw one lance and one knife after another fall on the sand, and he knew that God was between him and the enemy.

We need to learn this lesson. I think a half of you don't believe us. Yes, you remember when a little lark came in to Elisha, and said, to lark, master, what shall we do? The enemy was coming up the mound to surround them.

Do you remember what the prophet prayed? The prophet looked up and said, Lord, open his eyes. I believe we would need to pray that for some of you. Oh, that God would open your eyes. And when the little fellow's eyes were opened, why, the horsemen of heaven and the chariots of God were nearer than the enemy.

He is round the boat ship. Why should he be? Oh, I tell you, here they were, longing to take it. The urge was in their heart, but the anger was anchored in this occasion. Verse 45, then came the officers to the chief priests and pharisees.

The Officers Testify That No One Spoke Like Jesus

You remember up the chapter a little bit last week, in verse 32, the pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him, and the pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.

You see, the council, the Sanhedrin, had met, and now they send these officers. These were just the soldiers of the temple. They guarded the temple. And at the command of the pharisees, they went to take the Savior.

And then they came to the pharisees, and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? The officers answered, Never man speak like this man. What a wonderful testimony that is. You know, I believe this, that of these officers came to the edge of the couch, and the master was teaching under in the courts of the temple.

And as he said so many wonderful things so often, my, those very hearts were thrilled. They'd never heard anything like this before. Did you know they went away saying, Never man speak like this man, and that's a perfect testimony to our death at Lord's Witch.

You know, friends, I'll tell you a wee secret. You see, this was the word of the Lord that they were listening to. And you know, there's nothing like it in this world. You see, this Bible chapter, you see, it's filled up full.

Do you know what we're all here for? To see and hear and listen the word of the Lord. That's what I built it up on, you know. Not on films. Oh no, you can't keep them going for seven years. Not on foolish choruses.

No, no, no, no. They might fill some silly hook for a minute or two. This Bible stuff, it gets the preeminence. And I'll tell you this, there's nothing like it. It abides forever. My, there's nothing like the word of the Lord.

Nothing like it. Never man speak like this man. I thought down on one occasion, and I tried to see how often I could alter this beautiful phrase and still keep it scriptural. And I think if I remember rightly, that I was able to alter it 24 times.

You see, I believe you could say that phrase like this, never man loved like this man. I'm perfectly sure that that's scriptural. Never man loved like this man. You know, I was sitting away out the road today in the car praying, and I really looked up and said, Lord, why did you ever love a thing like me?

I'm telling you this, I can't understand why the Lord loved a thing like me. I can't, I can't honestly. And then I went further. I said, Lord, why did you so love a thing like me as to give yourself as a section of Christ in Calvary?

Why? Why did he love me? But when I understood, I believe he loved me so that he gave himself for me, I do. I'm positively sure of that. And I know that never man loved like this man, I do. And I think I could alter the phrase again, and I could say this, never man lived like this man is not true.

You see, he was down here in this very world of ours for 33 and a half years, and he was watched along every pathway. Every step he took was every word he spoke was weighed by the Pharisees, and the Sadducees were weighing every single phrase.

And he could look at the whole crowd at the end of his life and say, which of you convinces me of sin? He did, no sin. He never had to say, I beg your pardon, once. He never had to retreat a step. He never had an evil thought.

He never said a wrong word. He never went out of the pathway of the will of God by one iota. He lived without never man, like this man. Couldn't I alter it again? Never man died, like this man. Oh, I tell you, I may dare to preach on the death of Christ, but I shall never fathom it.

You know, sometimes I gaze at his face when the soldiers punched it, for they buffeted him, and the word in the Greek means that they smoothed him with a clothed fist. I believe his eyes were puffed, that his cheeks were blue and black.

They smoothed him with a rod, and there was the mark upon his cheeks. They crushed the thorns into his lovely brow, and the long eastern thorn pierced into the flesh from the blood and the sweat drawn down.

His hair was mottled as he hung on the cross. His back was furrowed with a lash, ripped to enter pores, and crushed against the wood. His bones were pulled out of joint, his hands were pierced, his tongue cleaved to his jaws as they hung on the eastern sun.

Never man died, like this man. I haven't even touched it yet. That's only physical. You know, friends, with his face battered, and his bones pulled out of joint, and his back furrowed, hanging yonder on the deep, dark depths of Calvary, he bared my sins in his own body to the tree.

Friends, friends, every scarlet thing that could be registered against me, sins that would make me blush if they were on the wall tonight, if I should have to leave the meeting, he bore them. And when yon dread hour, God saw him, and yonder he has died, and I can go further.

Never man rose, like this man. You see, others had risen from the dead before him. Oh yes, Lazarus came out of the tomb, and Cyrus's daughter was brought back from the dead, and the widow's son was brought up.

Friend, they all died again. But when he came out, he came out in his own power, and by his own power, and tonight, blessed God, he's alive in the power of an endless life. Death is abolished. He's the victim.

Never man rose, like this man. When you can go on, you'll never end. There's a text for you, if you're looking for sermons, that no end to this one. I don't know where you would end it. Never man lived, never man died, never man rose, never man loved, never man saved, never man gave, never man...

And you can go on and on and on and on. I've got 24 other wonderful testimonies. But watch again. I want to get to this bit. You see, the moment that they gave this testimony, never man spake like this man, then answered them the Pharisees.

The Perniciousness of the Pharisees

I want you to watch this little bit of word here. Are ye also deceived? You know, pernicious. You know, I want you to get the hold of this. You know, the land is full of so-called leaders tonight. Leaders, supposed to be leaders.

And you know, when a young fellow or a young girl is beginning to get light from God, pernicious, action, and mind you, that's from hell. Oh, I know what I'm talking about. I could tell you a whole lot of stories about it now.

There's a wee man in the meeting, you know, when he told the minister he got saved, the minister laughed. You say, that's something you hear at the street corner. That's not in the book. That's not in the book, saved's not in the book.

God pity his blinded mind. But here are the leaders. And when these soldiers are beginning to get light, never mind people like this man. That's them. That's what they do. And they're not all dead yet, these Pharisees.

Watch again. This is the perniciousness of the Pharisees. Just skip the next verse for a moment. Verse 49 we're at now. But this people, they're talking about the common people now, who knoweth not the law.

Do you see what they're doing? You see, they call light dissection, and they call blessing. You folks that are talking about the messengers, and you folks that are talking about the Messiah, you're cursed.

That's what the leader said. So that light becomes dissection with them, and blessing becomes curse with them. My, they're very clever fellows, aren't they? You can see how dark, and desperate, and doomed, and half-damned they are.

And there's a whole crowd in the country like them. Just the very same. Here's the bit that's in between. Verse 48. They're looking up the people, and they're saying, Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

You know, that's high and mighty, isn't it? So, you know, you fellows are talking about this being the Christ, and that never man speak like this man. Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him?

My, they were the whole cheese of the day, so they thought. And no crowd in Jerusalem, remember this, were so dark, and blinded, and half-damned as this crowd who are setting themselves up as the example.

Don't you forget that. Don't you forget that that happened in the master's day, and it will be repeated today, and is being repeated. Some of these half-damned old ministers with collars around their necks, they'll take their stands, and we're the whole cheese.