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the Trinity." Then all sit down and the leader niakes the regular 

 announcements. The peyote is then passed around, either in the dry 

 condition or steeped. The leader thereupon starts the singing. 

 These are some of the songs : 



1. Ask God for life and he will give it to us. 



2. God created us so pray to him. 



3. To the home of Jesus we are going, so pray to him. 



4. Come ye to the road of the Son of God; come ye to the road. 



Then Albert Hensley calls upon 12 educated members to translate 

 and interpret certain portions of the Bible for the nonreading mem- 

 bers. He arranges with the leader to have the singing stop at cer- 

 tain places so that some of these young men can speak. When these 

 are finished, other individuals are called upon to give testimony. 

 Hensley always talks and so does Rave. 



John Rave baptizes by dipping his hand in a diluted infusion of 

 peyote and rubbing it across the forehead of a new member, saying, 

 "I baptize thee in the name of God, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, 

 which is called God's Holiness." 



The peyote eaters wanted to get baptized and xmite with the 

 cliurch in Winnebago, but the clergyman in charge would not permit 

 them, so they went and did their own baptizing through their leader, 

 John Rave, who, though he is not educated, is full of real intelligence 

 and religion. 



If a person who is truly repentant eats peyote for the first time, 

 he does not suffer at all from its effects. But if an individual is 

 bullheaded, does not believe in its virtue, he is likely to suffer a good 

 deal. This I know from my own experience. After eating peyote I 

 grasped the meaning of the Bible, which before had been meaningless 

 to me. 



If a person eats peyote and does not repent openly, he has a guilty 

 conscience, which leaves him as soon as the public repentance has 

 been made. 



Old men and women who had been brought up to worship animals 

 and all kinds of spirits have cast them all away and in many instances 

 burned their idols, not because they were told to do so but because 

 they felt that way. 



Wlienever at our meetings a person wislies to pray, he does so; 

 when he wishes to cry, he does so. Indeed, we show no timidity 

 about worshiping God in the right way. In the Bible one often reads 

 of Christ casting out the devils and of the people shouting, etc. So 

 does the peyote act on us in the beginning, although afterwards its 

 effects abate. 



If a peyote eater relapses into his old way of living, then the 

 peyote causes him great suffering. 



At first our meetings were started without any rule laid down by 

 the Bible, but afterwards we found a very good reason for holding 



