- Title: CSF-37
- Summary: BAPTIST CHURCH: BLACK BAPTIST CHURCH MASS
- Description:01:01:36 - FEMALE BAPTIST CHOIR SINGING SPIRITED, ANIMATED HYMNS IN MIDST OF HUGE CONGREGATION INSIDE CHURCH AUDITORIUM. AUDIENCE JOINS IN CLAPPING HANDS WITH THE RHYTHM AS INTENSITY RISES. PREACHER VO SHOUTS "LET EVERYBODY SAY PRAISE THE LORD". ALL ANSWER. PREACHER: "NOW EVERYBODY RAISE THEIR HANDS AND SAY PRAISE THE LORD!" AUDIENCE RESPONDS, APPLAUDS. 01:05:37 - ABOVE VIEW AUDIENCE. PREACHER AT PULPIT VOICE OVER, "IF EVER THERE WAS A NEED IN THE WORLD, THAT NEED CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD, "PEACE". "LET EVERYBODY SAY "PEACE". AUDIENCE RESPONDS. PREACHER CONTINUES SERMON AS CAMERA FOCUSES ON AUDIENCE. 01:06:47 - ELDERLY PREACHER BEDFORD KRAUS ON PULPIT WITH MULTIPLE MICROPHONES. GIVES SERMON. AUDIENCE SPEAKS OUT AFTER EACH PROFOUND STATEMENT. PREACHER SINGS THE WORD "PEACE" & OTHER PHRASES AS HE PREACHES. MINGLING SONG WITH DRAMATIC WORDS. RAISES ARMS,"HALLELUJAH!!" 01:14:42 - ELDERLY BAILY TAKES PULPIT 01:15:00 - BISHOP BAILEY SPEAKS FROM PULPIT. 01:17:21 - UNIDENTIFIED HOST AND PREACHER TAKES PODIUM. GIVES LONG SERMON. GETS LAUGHTER & CHEERS FROM CONGREGATION. QUOTES BOOK OF REVELATIONS. SPEAKS OF CHURCH IN CITY OF SATTAR. 01:44:30 - "NOW HOW DID THIS CHURCH (SATTAR) COME TO DIE?" 01:47:05 - "HOLINESS IS NOT RIGHT, BUT HOLINESS IS THE ONLY THING THAT'S RIGHT" AUDIENCE RESPONSE. "LET ME TELL YA, ANY PREACHER WHO TRIES TO BE SOMETHING ELSE, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSIN. YOU'RE LEAVIN' A PALACE TO GO TO A PIG'S PEN". (LAUGHTER). "PRAISE GOD". WAVING HIS ARMS. 01:50:18 - "THE HOLY GHOST WILL LEAD YOU, HOLY GHOST WILL GUIDE YOU, AND THE HOLY GHOST WILL SHOW YOU THINGS TO COME". PREACHER BECOMES MORE PASSIONATE & INTENSE AS SERMON PROGRESSES AS DOES AUDIENCE RESPONSE. "THIS CHURCH (SATTAR) DIED THROUGH OVER CONFIDENCE". 01:53:15 - PREACHER TELLS OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS TELLING OF THE SUICIDE DEATH OF ART LINKLETTER'S 20 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER DIANE. "BECAUSE SHE WENT ON A TRIP WITH LSD". READS ANOTHER NEWSPAPER CLIPPING ABOUT A MAN WHO KILLED HIS MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER, SAID HE WAS GOD. TELLS OF DEMONSTRATIONS BY YOUNG PEOPLE LYING IN THE STREETS. "THANK YOU JESUS". 01:56:59 - DRAMATICALLY, EXPRESSIVELY "GOD, HELP US. ANYTIME THE MORALS OF A NATION DROP AS LOW AS THE MORALS OF AMERICA, WE ARE ON THE THRESHOLD OF DISASTER". "THANK YOU JESUS". 01:58:00 - TELLS OF INFIDEL IN TEXAS WHO WOULDN'T LET A SANCTIFIED PREACHER INTO HIS HOME UNTIL THE MAN'S SON WAS BITTEN BY RATTLESNAKE. PREACHER THANKED GOD FOR RATTLESNAKES. "IT WAS A RATTLESNAKE THAT OPENED UP A DOOR I WAS TRYING TO GET IN FOR TWO WEEKS". VOICE BREAKS. 01:59:46 - PREACHER GETS REALLY INTENSE AS HE CONTINUES DRAMATICALLY AS DOES RESPONSES FROM AUDIENCE. 02:01:40 - PREACHER GETS SO INTENSE MEN IN BACK OF PULPIT RISE TO THEIR FEET AND ALSO GET ANIMATED, PREACHER FINISHES IN ALMOST STATE OF COLLAPSE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: CSF-37