:20:00
Oh, see that rock,
alvin?
:20:03
You been plowing
around that rock a heap of years.
:20:07
Sure have.
:20:08
Did you ever think
:20:09
when you start plowing
your furrows crooked,
:20:11
it's mighty hard
to get them straight again?
:20:14
I never thought
on it much.
:20:16
Well, it's that-a-way,
i reckon,
:20:18
with other things
besides plowing.
:20:22
Satan's got you
by the shirttail, alvin.
:20:25
Sure has.
Get up, noah.
:20:27
He's going
to yank you
:20:29
straight down
to hell.
:20:30
You are plumb right,
pastor.
:20:31
You got to make him
let loose of you before it's too late.
:20:34
I sure wish
i knowed how.
:20:35
Wrestle him
like you would a bear.
:20:37
I done wrestled him,
pastor,
:20:39
but-whoa there,
noah.
:20:41
Whoa. Whoa, noah.
:20:43
But old satan-
he hangs on tight.
:20:45
You and the lord
could throw him, alvin.
:20:47
Why, 'twixt
the two of you,
:20:48
you'd have old satan
down in a jiffy.
:20:50
I sure wish the lord
would throw in.
:20:52
He will
if you ask him.
:20:55
Oh, i done prayed,
pastor,
:20:56
till i was black
in the face.
:21:01
But it weren't
no use.
:21:02
It ain't only
praying, alvin. It's believing.
:21:05
Now, you see here.
:21:06
Take a look at that
old oak yonder.
:21:09
Looks mighty strong.
:21:10
Been standing there
since your pa was a boy
:21:13
a-plowing
in this same field.
:21:14
Looks like it can
go right on standing
:21:16
all by itself,
don't it?
:21:18
Yeah.
:21:19
Just a-resting
itself
:21:20
and a-feeding
on the earth.
:21:22
Well, it can't.
:21:23
It can't stand there
without there's
:21:24
a lot of deep roots
a-holding it up.
:21:27
Can't see the roots,
:21:28
but they're there
just the same.
:21:29
It appears to me
it's been planned
:21:31
a fellow's got
to have his roots
:21:33
in something outside
his own self.
:21:35
I reckon i ain't
found no roots
:21:38
what will hold me up
when i'm hellbent to fall.
:21:41
And then take
the animals in the woods.
:21:44
Squirrels would
go mighty hungry
:21:45
if nothing made them
store up nuts for the wintertime.
:21:48
Sure would.
:21:49
How do you reckon
birds get to fly north in summer
:21:51
if there
ain't something a-guiding them?
:21:53
A bird
ain't got no way
:21:54
of telling north
from south.
:21:56
And then
there's the bees.
:21:57
The bees would
sure be in a fix
:21:59
if they weren't
beholden to something