In the old days, when a contract was made, you know what they did? Notice. God just telling me to say this, I don’t know. A person would go and write a—a contract on a piece of paper. They’d write the contract. And then on the contract, they’d write what it was they was going to do, then they’d tear the paper in two, and they would kill a beast. The me…And over this beast, they tore the contract. They would give one person one part, one part the person the other. And when they come together…When this agreement was brought together, that had to be exactly the same piece of paper cut through the letters, and had to dovetail just exactly with that or the contract was no good. See, the agreement was no good. The same piece of paper that was tore away, had to come right back and dovetail in with the other, like that, to make it perfect. And then, as their pledge, they killed a beast when they made their pledge.

To Whom Is the Arm of the Lord Revealed?, 1950-08-24, Cleveland, OH, §32