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When I heard a parson had come to town...
:42:06
...I had an image of a pale, scrawny,
Bible-thumping Easterner...
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...with a linen handkerchief and bad lungs.
:42:14
That's me.
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Hardly.
:42:19
Your health.
:42:22
It occurred to me it must be difficult
for a man of faith...
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...to carry the message
on an empty stomach, so to speak.
:42:29
I thought...
:42:30
...why not invite this devout
and humble man to preach in town?
:42:36
Why not let the town be his parish?
In fact...
:42:39
...why not build him a brand-new church?
:42:44
I can see where a preacher'd be
mighty tempted by an offer like that.
:42:48
Oh, indeed.
:42:51
Then he'd be thinking about getting himself
a batch of new clothes.
:42:56
We'd have them tailor-made.
:42:58
Then he'd start thinking
about those Sunday collections.
:43:01
Hell, in a town as rich as LaHood,
that preacher'd be a wealthy man.
:43:06
That's why it wouldn't work.
:43:09
Can't serve God and mammon both.
Mammon being money.
:43:25
I opened this country.
:43:27
I made this town what it is.
:43:29
I brought jobs and industry.
:43:31
I built an empire with my own two hands.
:43:35
And I've never asked help of anyone.
:43:38
Those squatters, Reverend,
are standing in the way of progress.
:43:43
Theirs or yours?
:43:47
Here, look. Just look at that writ!
:43:50
Comes hot from Sacramento, giving me
mineral rights to the whole canyon.
:43:56
That hardly seems likely. If you had
those rights, you'd have exercised them.