Call To The Altar

Then there were those Baptisms—that's when someone wants to be converted by joining the Church and get religion. So they have to be Baptized. Dig this—I remember one Sunday the Church had a great big guy they had to Baptize. So these Deacons all standing in this river—in water up to their waist in their white robes. They had Baptized several women and a few men—saved their Souls. When in walks a great big burly sinner who came down the line. So—these Deacons whom were very strong themselves, they grabbed hold of this cat and said to him as they ducked him down into the water, as they let him they asked him—"Brother 'do you believe?" The guy didn't say anything—just looked at them. So they ducked him down into that river again, only they held him down there a few minutes longer. So when the Deacons looked in the guy's eye and said to him—"Do you believe?" This guy finally answered—he said "Yes—I believe you Son of Bitches trying to drown me."

Satchmo
Louis Armstrong

Down to the Wholly Sanctified Church of the Congestion Congregation the Righteous Reverend T. S. Plost is holdin a gawd fearin Revival. There's gonna be a heapin helpin o singin and praisin alongside a few good doses of hellfire and damnation. Lawd a mercy.

For this is a great call to the altar, the likes of which we ain't never gonna see again in a decade or more. Maybe even less. And this is more that just a sweltering summer savin of souls--the Reverend gonna be drivin out demons. Puttin the fear of gawd into the devil hisself. Those caught up in the moment will feel the power of his call and will deliver themselves up at that altar with a joyful noise.

Testify.

Those possessed of evil will be dragged by his Deacons to the presence of our Most Righteous Reverend who with the power of the Lord herself flowin through his every vein will lay on hands and drive that devil out, casting him into a dark place far from that promised land where all good things flow without end. After regaining consciousness these newly vacated vessels will be filled with his glory, forevermore protecting them from the evil that threatened their everlastin life. Or at least til the next revival. Without fail and without delay these freshly baptized believers shall go forth into the community spreading the gospel according to our Righteous Reverend T. S. Plost.

Ernest Angley would be proud.