Reform or Revival, Which Shall It Be — Richard Sipley

Bemidji, I've heard a great deal about Bemidji and about what happened here during the Sutera crusade and I always get excited and my heart gets stirred and warm and Overflowing when I hear about God's working in any place.

The Need for a Great Awakening

God is working in many places around the world today, but we are still Waiting for the one thing that none of us have seen in our lifetime, and that's a great awakening and It hasn't come in our lifetime last great awakening of the kind that we're thinking about that swept across to North America's 1905 and So we're due about every one or two hundred years.

God and his great mercy to a lost world brings an awakening and. And he has to find people who can believe it and who can lay their lives at the foot of the cross and be ready For God to use them and if he can find those people Matter who they are where they are what they are.

He'll take them and use them as channels for that great awakening. I just wanted to come in my lifetime and Every year that goes by and I get closer to heaven I get excited about heaven. But I'm going to feel just a little cheated if I get to heaven and I didn't get to be part of the awakening.

If that happens, I I'm gonna say Lord you sure about this. Don't you think I should go back for a little bit but we just expect it to happen in our lifetime. Please open your Bibles tonight to Zechariah.

I'm going to do something. I very rarely do in a church service. I'm going to read two chapters from the Word of God tonight. But they're very short ones really about the length of one ordinary chapter.

Joshua the High Priest and the Cleansing of Iniquity

Zechariah 3 and 4. Reform or revival. Which shall it be? Zechariah 3 and 4 and he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him and The Lord said unto Satan the Lord Rebuke you.

Oh Satan. Even the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you is Not this a brand plucked out of the fire now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel and he answered and spake unto those that stood before him saying take away the filthy garments from him and unto him he said behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with change of raiment.

And I said let them set a fair miter upon his head so they set a fair miter upon his head and clothed him with garments and the angel of the Lord stood by and The angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua saying thus saith the Lord of hopes If thou walk in my ways and if thou keep my charge Then thou shalt also judge my house and shalt also keep my courts and I will give you a place to walk Among those who are standing here imagine God saying I Will give you a place Before the throne in heaven.

That you can stand where those are standing before the throne in heaven. You can claim all that God has to offer. What a challenge to any man. Here now Joshua the high priest. Thou and I fellows to sit before thee they are men wondered at for behold, I will bring forth my servant to branch.

That's Jesus Christ. For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua upon one stone shall be seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave the grieving thereof saith the Lord of hosts and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

That's the kind of an awakening awakening. We're looking for. It may not happen in exactly one day, but it will seem like one day. Because in a short time it will take for God to change the face of the world.

When that awakening comes and that they say if the Lord of hosts shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine under the fig tree. Chapter 4. And the angel that talked to me came again and Waked me as a man that is waken out of his sleep and said unto me What do you see?

And I said I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold with a bowl upon the top of it and the seven lamps thereon and the seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top and Two olive trees by it one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side thereof.

So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me saying what are these my lord? Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me. Do you not know what these are? And I said no my lord.

And Then he answered and spake to me saying This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts Who art thou a great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings crying grace grace unto it.

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me saying The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house his hand shall also finish it. And I shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you.

For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. And those seven they are the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Then I answered and said unto him What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? And I answered again and said unto him. What are these two olive branches the third time?

He's asked this question. Which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves. And he answered me and said do you not know? what these are. And I said no my lord. And Then he said These are the two anointed ones.

Political Reform Cannot Replace Spiritual Awakening

Or literally, these are the two sons of fresh oil to stand by the Lord of the whole earth. Recently, I was greatly disturbed by an article in Time magazine. The cover picture of the magazine had a picture of Pat Robertson of 700 Club on the cover and In large print the words were gospel TV religion Politics and money.

Religion politics and money. Inside the article that followed I read about Christian TV that in 1985 Christian TV received 1 billion dollars in offerings and that Pat Robertson of the 700 Club alone had 16 million TV viewers.

And the article also Before it was finished very large section in Time magazine said that the Pat might run for the Republican nomination for president and if he did he would run on a ticket of moral reform and At that point I had no desire to be critical of my Christian brother, and I don't at this point at all.

So, please don't misunderstand what I'm going to say. Because that is not my purpose. It's not my purpose to criticize any servant of Christ and so that is not my purpose tonight. But I was thinking about everything that was included in that magazine and I had just barely laid it down when I picked up a newspaper and I had an article About a new novel that had been written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.

She's a very famous novelist in Canada. She had written a new novel entitled The Handmaid's Tale and I wouldn't even begin to tell you what it's about. I haven't read it, but I read some reviews. So I have an idea of what's in the book.

It's filthy Beyond expression. But the reason that I was so disturbed by the article about this particular novel is that the book implies and raises the fear that fundamentalist Christians Will eventually take over the United States With a super biblical puritanism and the installation of a theocratic form of government that would become a fanatical religious dictatorship and That book is having rave reviews all across Canada.

It is being sold by the thousands it is being talked about and discussed and read and Believed and that book pictures Takeover of fundamentalist Christians through the polls and Forcing of Christian standards into the laws of the land and Forcing that down upon the people of the United States.

It's quite a picture. The book of course is ridiculous and was written to sell as all Margaret's books are. Nevertheless, I do believe that I want you to listen to me carefully now this opening night of this school on revival, I do believe political moral reform without grassroots spiritual awakening Could result in religious oppression or a reaction of violent persecution against Christianity.

And that is exactly the kind of thing that's being stirred up by this book. Intense reaction against evangelical Christianity, of course since that Came out. We have all lived to see the tremendous exposes that have come out in the news media about those who are leaders in the public eye in evangelical Christianity.

I was so thankful recently as I was at our large worldwide conference in st. Paul, Minnesota for our denomination and The opening night. Dr. Billy Graham was introduced and our president introduced him as at least one man in the public eye With nothing against his name.

Amen. I Was just so relieved but since that time many of those who have been looked to as possibilities for changing our world of today and bringing about a complete reform in North America and changing its laws and bringing back righteousness have been exposed in Great sin.

I am astounded to See Jerry Falwell of the moral majority trying to save The Baker Empire and again, that's not a criticism of Jerry. I just think it's a mistake for him. That's my personal opinion. It's nothing against him as a man of God.

I think it's a mistake. You know what? I think God is trying to do. I don't have to recount for you tonight all of the men of God in the public eye who have fallen in the last few months and Before that Joyce Landorf was a casualty and before that the Bishop of Bourbon Street was a casualty and since then George McDonald's is a casualty and the list goes on and on and now of course President Reagan who has been thought of I think by many Evangelicals as the Savior of the church as the one who was going to stand for righteousness and the one who was going to lead Reform in North America and help the evangelical church to bring back in righteousness and renew our nation he's now in deep trouble and Facing accusations that I have no idea whether they are true or false.

But his Integrity and the standing he has had before the American people is slipping away. And you say what is happened. I Have looked at all this and I have prayed deeply because my heart is so burdened for what I believe is coming.

Listen, there's a wave coming. There's a tide rising. There's a wave coming and there is a great awakening coming to North America and God is determined to bring it and I believe before he can bring it Must remove from the minds of God's people any idea that they can depend upon anything of this world or anything of human flesh and he must get them back to God alone and to the cross of Calvary and the cleansing blood and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Where they will look to God and cry out and pray and seek his face until God does what only God can do. And no one else can do it. And I am getting excited. I am NOT glad because of these terrible things that are happening.

I am NOT I am NOT rejoicing over those things. I've preached a sermon on this Scandals in the ministry recently and my heart aches over it and I have prayed for the men that are involved in it. My heart bleeds with them.

I have a personal letter from George McDonald and from his wife one from each of them and If I don't have time to read them tonight it would break your heart to listen to them. A man and woman who loved the Lord Jesus Christ with all their hearts and who Confessed their sin and cleaned it up and put their lives in the line for God and are now dragged into the mud again.

But what I see happening is I See God in his love and mercy for North America saying I am NOT going to allow the evangelicals of North America To think that there is any way that the world can be saved today without the old way.

It's always been saved and that is by the mighty power of God. And man will not be able to do it. He never has been able to do it and he will not be able to do it now. I believe in Christians in government and I believe they can work for moral reform and If I didn't believe that I wouldn't have spent four hours with the cabinet of our province.

Just a couple of months ago. There are 23 of us pastors who met with a cabinet for four hours and Talked about what we thought ought to be done in our province. And that was a very exciting time all the Liberals were down on this end all the even I don't know how it happened and all the evangelicals are up on this end and the liberals spent more time than they were supposed to With their presentations and all they did was talk to the government about how they spent their money and Then we got to the evangelicals and it was my turn.

And the prime the premier was sitting right across from me and it and cabinet ministers a member of my congregation and others that I know well by name and We had a good time. And I said listen men I want you to know That all of us on down the end of this table are not one bit Interested in all this talk about where you spend your money and how you spend it because we don't think money has anything to do With the problems of this province.

We believe the problems in this province are moral and spiritual and we want to talk to you about the moral problems here and about the spiritual problems and I was so excited because the Minister of Social Welfare got up and He turned to a pastor won't tell you what church he was from but who had talked a lot about money.

And what the hell he ought to spend it and here's the Minister of Social Welfare and he stood up and he said, you know I'll tell you how I feel. He said I'm a member of the church of that brother who was just talking and He said I'll tell you how I feel.

He said I feel like that. I have two hands and he said there are two needs out there. He said the people have Financial need and they have spiritual need and he said because I'm working for the government I have this hand tied behind me and all I'm allowed to use is this one and he said brother You're supposed to be using the other one.

Oh. You see there is a hunger. There's a tremendous hunger and I have cabinet ministers and politicians sitting in my church on Sunday morning with their eyes full of tears taking notes. Because they know that there's only one thing that can save North America and that's a mighty moving of the Spirit of God.

Historical Awakenings and the Meaning of Revival

That's the only thing. Now what is an authentic spiritual awakening? What is it first? I want to take a page out of history and then I want to look at this passage of Scripture we've read tonight a page out of history in September 1857 a man of prayer Jeremiah Lanphier Started a noon prayer meeting in the upper room of the Dutch Reformed Church consist rebuilding in Manhattan.

That's in New York City in Manhattan in Response to his advertisement only six people out of the population of a million showed up. But the following week there were 14 and then 23 and when it was decided to meet every day for prayer at noon.

By late winter they were filling the Dutch Reformed Church. Then the Methodist Church on John Street then Trinity Episcopal Church on Broadway at Wall Street in February and March of 1858 every church and public hall in downtown, New York was filled at noon.

Did you hear what I said? Every church and public hall in downtown, New York City was filled at noon for prayer everyone. Horace Greeley Famous newspaper editor sent a reporter with a horse and buggy racing around the prayer meetings to see how many men were praying in one hour.

During the noon hour. He could get to only 12 meetings, but he counted six thousand one hundred men in prayer. Then the landslide of prayer began. Which overflowed to the churches in the evenings people began to be converted.

Listen 10 ,000 a week in New York City alone. I'm not talking about Bible times. I'm talking about in the late 1800s. This happened in sophisticated wicked, New York City 10 ,000 conversions a week. The movement spread through New England the church bells bringing people to prayer at 8 in the morning 12 noon 6 in the evening.

The revival raced up the Hudson and down the Mohawk where Baptists for example had so many people to baptize That they went down to the river cut a big hole in the ice and baptized them in the cold water.

And when Baptists do that, they're really on fire. Right, I don't know if the water sizzled. Maybe it did. As far as the churches were concerned the ministers of Atlantic City reported that of a population of 50 ,000 people there were only 50 adults left unconverted.

Take Portland in Oregon 240 major stores closed from 11 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon each day to enable people to attend the prayer meetings. And they signed an agreement so no one would cheat and stay open.

Take the First Baptist Church of Paducah in Kentucky the pastor an old man. Dr JJ cheat took in a thousand members in two months and died of overwork. What a glorious way to go to heaven. Anybody like to try that?

Well, I'm ready. If I could go that way. Hmm. Now, how does the Bible speak about this kind of a situation? I want you to go back with me 2 ,500 years to the land of Palestine. Nebuchadnezzar the leader of the great Babylonian Empire invaded Israel and he came with a huge army.

He burned the city of Jerusalem. He leveled the temple to the ground and he took away most of the population to Babylon as captives. They were deported. They were settled in Babylon. They said you're never going back settle down make your homes make your life.

This is where you're going to stay. They just left behind the poorest people the lowest classes In the country of Israel but God had something to say about that and finally the Persian Empire came in and took over the Babylonian Empire and A man by the name of Cyrus who was a leader of the Persian Empire 50 years after the deportation decided that he would send Jews back To reestablish a Jewish culture in Israel and he sent back 50 ,000 Jews and they went back.

Led by Zerubbabel who was of the royal family a noble and he was to be the governor and the organizational leader and Joshua was to be the high priest and they were to rebuild the city of Jerusalem and rebuild the temple and Establish the Jewish worship and the Jewish culture again.

And so they went back and they began well if you're going to take a nation that is destroyed. That is dead. That is gone and bring it to life. It takes more than organization and more than human wisdom it takes the mighty power of God and So as they went to work Everything started to go wrong.

The people that lived there were against them. All the people that surround them were their enemies the people who had established their homes there who were Jews were against them and It seemed like they could never accomplish it finally they wrote to Artaxerxes That is the people around them and said these people are going to establish this city they're going to rebel against you put a stop to it and Artaxerxes wrote and said stop it and 16 years went by and nothing happened.

Sometimes I think of that 16 years is the period that's passed in Evangelical Christianity since the last great awakening in North America, and I think it's about over. And I tell you God said I'm going to do something about it.

So he sent Zechariah and Haggai to be prophets and To speak to those people and to do something about that situation in Chapter 4 there are three questions that are asked and I want you to notice those quick three questions with me quickly tonight.

They're very important for our day. Will it be reform or revival? Here are the questions. The first one is in chapter 4 verse 7 Who art thou a great mountain? Who art thou a great mountain. The second ones in verse 10 who has despised the day of small things and The third ones in verse 11.

What are these two olive trees? Now I want to paraphrase those questions just a little so we can come to grips with them. The first question who art thou a great mountain. I want us to change so it sounds like this.

The Problem Behind the World’s Brokenness

What is the world's problem today. What is the problem facing us in North America today. He said who art thou a great mountain this mountain that's in the way that's hindering that's standing before Zerubbabel.

What is this great mountain? And I want to ask today. What is this great mountain that's hindering the work of God the Evangelical Church. What is this mountain? What is the world's problem the problem of North America number two who has despised the day of small things?

I want to change that as to what is The attitude of the Church of Jesus Christ today. What is the attitude of the churches? Because that's what it means if you despise the day of small things That's an attitude, isn't it to despise something to look down on it to think it's of no value.

No count. That's an attitude. So what is the attitude of the church toward these problems? And finally What are these two olive trees and we're going to find out that question is what is God's solution?

What is God's solution. Now first, what is the problem in North America today? Well You heard our brothers say tonight that he listened to a tale of sin until he could listen to it no longer. You know one of the reasons that pastors are burning out at the rate.

They're burning out because day after day all day all they listen to is sin and I'm not going to stand here tonight to tell you how bad it is. Some of you know, how bad it is Last Sunday night. We left Sunday afternoon to come here.

But last Sunday night we had the Dobson film on pornography. And when our government set up a Federal Commission on pornography, I presented a paper to them in Canada and I Don't know as a Christian Whether you allow yourself to be exposed to the sin that surrounds you or not.

But if I stood here tonight and told you some things That I know to be happening all around us some of you'd be so embarrassed that you probably get up and walk out. The condition of sin in our world in which we live is so bad That I want to tell you something.

There isn't any governmental or sociological Solution to the problem. I know that the government in Canada is spending millions and multiplied millions of dollars to try to do something about wife abuse and child abuse and pornography and Evil of every kind and they cannot touch it.

And I sat and listened to our cabinet in our province. Some of them with tears in their eyes talking to us as pastors and saying speak to us. Tell us what you think tell us what you believe and I said to our premier, sir I know that you don't have any answers and I pity you.

I Wouldn't sit in your seat for anything in the world. Because I know that you are burdened with the problems of this province and you have no answers. There are no natural answers. You say don't you think we should do anything about it?

Absolutely. We showed the film Sunday night when I get back next Sunday night I will preach on the subject. We'll have mics in the aisles. We'll have a large crowd in our church and they'll ask questions and we'll deal with it.

Absolutely when there's anything of that type that comes in our community I deal with it publicly. I preach it I oppose it I fight it I deal with it, but I know That that isn't the answer. I Think Christians ought to take a stand.

But I know that's not the answer. A man in our church who was minister of social services in our province. Decided that he was going to clean it up and he cleaned it up. Boy, I tell you he is one of the most hated men in that province.

The evil is so tremendous that there is no human solution to the problem, but what God wants you and me to see tonight is the problem behind the problem and this one is a shocker because God gave Zechariah a vision and he saw Joshua the high priest standing before the Lord.

Now we're not talking about one of the poorest church members, we're not talking about that man. You know who still has some bad habits about him and and isn't really committed totally to Jesus Christ and doesn't tithe and isn't very regular His church attendance and is out there on the periphery, you know, we're talking about Joshua the high priest.

And in everyone's eyes, I'm sure he appeared to be very paragon of virtue. But Zechariah saw him. Like he really was. Zechariah saw the problem behind the problem. Because Joshua the high priest was standing before the Lord clothed in filthy Garments and the problem behind the problem is the sin of God's people.

The problem behind the problem is the sin of God's people. Even in the highest places, isn't it true? Isn't it true if we hadn't believed it before Christian brother and sister you have to believe it today.

I Travel all over the world. I speak at mission conferences and pastors conferences everywhere and I want to tell you that it doesn't matter how high you go in the church of Jesus Christ or what kind of position you want to find or how godly or admired or respected the man or woman may be.

I Have heard just about every sin you can imagine confess from the lips of God's leaders. And the problem behind the problem Is sin and Joshua's clothed in filthy garments and there he stood but I'm so encouraged tonight because The answer that problem is not reform.

But it's repentance and it's the grace of God. Amen, and The Lord stood there and he said take the filthy garments off from him and clothed him with Clean garments. With the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

I want to say to you tonight that there's cleansing in the blood of Jesus Christ there's cleansing through the confession of sin and restitution and Meeting God in a deep way. There is total cleansing from every kind of sin.

I don't care what kind of sin it is. God can wash it away. But that's where he has to begin. He has to begin With we who are his children. And I tell you these days God asked God he gets really tough with me.

I don't know about you. You know, I'm so thankful that God won't ever let me get away with a thing. You ever get a little nettle to God over that, you know, how come I Mean, why do you keep bugging me all the time?

You don't go bother him. He's worse than me. Now you wouldn't think that way you're too spiritual. Oh. You know one thing God's going to be doing this week. God is going to be going through this place.

He's going to be tapping his children on this on the shoulder his servants those that really loved him. And he's going to be saying I just want to let you see Yourself as I see you. I want you to see yourself as I see you.

That's quite different. But my there's wonderful grace, you know. He said my servant the branch is coming and he's going to cleanse the iniquity of this land in one day and that day was the day of Calvary and I want you to know when Jesus spread his arms on that cross and when his life's blood was poured out.

And when he cried it is finished. I want you to know he did a work on that cross. That is adequate to take care of every sin. All sin, I don't care how deep it is or how ugly it is how filthy how black.

How deeply ingrained it is? I am absolutely certain that there are Christians sitting in this place tonight who are in absolute bondage to sin. There's some of you sitting here tonight who are absolutely enslaved and one reason you've come to this conference is you're so discouraged.

Because you've confessed your sin a thousand times and you still haven't been delivered. I Want you to know the blood of Jesus will cleanse you from every guilt and I want you to know the power of the cross can bring that old self that's so bound to death and to resurrection and to victory and deliverance.

That's what it's all about. And that's what every revival has always been about you can study it. I've been studying it all ever since I was about 20 I think and I won't tell you how old I am now, but believe me that's a long time.

Everyone has had this message at its very heart. The other thing that's behind the problem is not only sin, but Satan. See the reason that reform will not do it is because reform will not touch the power of the kingdom of darkness see Paul said we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world and because the kingdom of darkness is there and Because Satan is set on destroying This world and destroying the church and destroying the work of God there isn't any amount of reform at any level that will meet the problem as The van nooses and I were driving out of Regina on Sunday afternoon about four o 'clock and we were Swinging from the freeway on to route six to go south and I pointed out of the window and I said you see.

That's steel framing over there. That's a church that has just been burned to the ground. That's all's left was a steel framing. That's a new church that's just been burned to the ground by the Satanist cult in the city.

Absolutely, so how do you know. Because they built an altar in there and put their marks on the walls. And those things were still there and that's the third church in that city that the Satanists have attacked.

They tried to burn another one and they tried to burn two others and they didn't quite succeed. The kingdom of darkness is there and as Joshua stood before the Lord there stood Satan Over against him to resist him and to accuse him and to oppose him.

And do you know any kind of reform that will deal with the powers of darkness? I? Don't you know any new laws that the government could pass in Congress here in the United States that would deal with Satan and with The demons and the princes of darkness the principalities and powers we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

But against principalities and powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against the host of wicked spirits in the heavenlies. Do you know any kind of reform that will deal with it? Any new laws.

Satan laughs. You see don't you think we should pass those good laws. Certainly? But I want to tell you there are enough good laws in the book right now. In every part of the United States and Canada and every municipality.

There are enough good laws in the books to clean our communities up and make North America the most holy place that ever existed. There's no lack of laws. No. That isn't the answer. We are up against the powers of darkness and I want to tell you what this country has to have is a great Overwhelming outpouring of the Holy Spirit of God in conviction and power.

That will resist the powers of darkness the Lord said. The Lord rebuke you. Oh Satan the Lord rebuke you. Is not this man like a brand plucked out of the fire. Oh. That's what we all are aren't we? We're like a brand plucked out of the burning saved from everlasting hell and destruction and only the Lord himself has the power to resist the powers of darkness and to see them defeated and to see the victories won.

And this is going to take a great moving of the Spirit of God. Well the situation itself the brokenness of mankind. Broken homes broken marriages broken bodies. Relationships between parents and children.

Drugs alcohol on and on it goes. I Just saw a program the other night on the nuclear bomb. Just terrifying just absolutely terrifying. There isn't any thing that can save the situation. I want you to know we live today in a world that is absolutely bankrupt.

Do you know of a statesman anywhere? I? Know politicians. I don't know a statesman. We Live in a world that is bankrupt in every way and it's on its way to hell as he said. It's I think of that phrase often.

It's on its way to hell in a handbasket. It is reeling down to hell. The situation is absolutely hopeless. I think about Harry Morehouse who was a great evangelist of the past and one day he was walking in a poor section of The city where he lived and as he was walking down the street He saw a little boy who had just come out of a grocery store and he had a pitcher that was all Cracked and chipped and dirty looking and it was full of milk.

The little boy had been sent by his mother to get some milk and the street was full of garbage and junk and filth and mud and and the little boy was trying to pick his way through the Rubble and all of a sudden his foot slipped on something and he fell and he dropped the pitcher and it broke all in pieces and the milk spilled out in the mud and the little boy sat there and he started to scream and Harry Morehouse ran over and picked him up and looked at him said are you hurt?

Are you hurting. He didn't see any blood on him or anything and and a little boy is screaming and crying. He said no, but my mother with me my mother with me. And he said wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Just stop crying. Stop crying. I'll see if I can fix it. Just sit down sit down. I'll try to fix it for us a little boy. He stopped, you know and sit down and and so Harry took the pieces of the pitcher.

He said let's see if we can put it back together. And so he got the bottom and he set it down there and he he started putting the pieces you know of the Pottery and building them up one on top of the other and there were some fairly big and he got them all built up and finally.

It was it looked pretty good and he took the handle he handed it to the little boy and he said here Put the handle on right there and the little boy went like that and the whole thing fell apart again.