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Excerpt
The sinner’s chair, it ain’t no laughing matter. I was
reading in the paper one day that Texas was getting rid of their newest
electric chair. Actually they had stopped using both of them a long time ago
when they started giving folks the needle. But they kept the old one “Old
Sparky” to go into the prison museum. It had executed the most men. They didn’t
want the newer one. The governor at that time wanted to sell a bunch of stuff
to help the state budget. That chair was thrown in the mix along with five
hundred thousand jars of government peanut butter and a truckload of canned
peaches. I had closed the paper up after reading about that electric chair and
went to sleep. But the lord woke me up a few minutes later and told me to buy
that chair. I said, “What Lord? Buy the electric chair?” He said yes for me to
buy it and put it in the center of my church. Well the next day, I borrowed my
husband’s truck while he was sleep and drove over to Huntsville Texas where
they was selling the chair. It was sitting in a warehouse surrounded by cases
labeled Peaches and stacks of peanut butter. Plus there was a lot of odds and
ends which only a man might know the meaning of. Folks looked at me strange
when I said I wanted to buy the electric chair instead of some peaches. I guess
they had assumed I was in the pie business. But I told them I was in the
preaching business and the Lord told me to buy that chair. Well they loaded it
up in the back of my truck, hogtied it real good, and I paid them one-hundred
nineteen dollars and forty-seven cents in cash. They threw in two cases of
peaches anyway.
