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Posted by: Jerry Gaffney on Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 11:14 PM

Pretty soon I was walking the streets, nowhere to go. I lost my friends. The only time I had friends was when I had money or a bottle......

When I was 14 or 15 years old, I was a man that didn't care about anyting. I would fight at the drop of a hat. My dad taught me to fight and that if you fight you would get a meal and sometimes get dessert. I thought I was tough
I pitched baseball and got paid for playing American Legion baseball so I wouldn't work and hurt my arm. That is what started my downfall. I was chosen to play for the town team, which were men of 25 to 50. We won the championship of Grays Harbor in 1934. We were asked to go to Longview to play a game.
Someone came to me and told me the big league scouts would be at the game to watch me. My head started to swell. I was drinking boot-leg whiskey and home brew. I quit school. What did I need an education when I could play baseball?
Pretty soon I was walking the streets, nowhere to go. I lost my friends. The only time I had friends was when I had money or a bottle. Pretty soon no one asked me to play baseball. I became a street kid, stealing, lying, fighting, cursing and hating everyone.
I went to work for a company that paid in company money. My pay was $3.50 a day. You spent this at the company stores.
If you want cash to go to town, you traded company money which was brass for 50 cents on the dollar. This store had a gas pump. I found a drinking buddy that had a car. This was great. Sometimes I would go to get my pay on payday and only get 50 cents. What a life.
I finally met a girl and this changed my life. She was a good Christian and this caused me to go to church. What did I want to go to church for when I could get high on booze? I finally found that booze only lasted for a night or maybe two but that when I went to church, the good feeling of being clean would last for a long time. What a difference when you allow Jesus to come into your life and you are filled with the Holy Ghost. Then you find out what a real high is like. I hope this helps some young person get on the right track. The only thing I can tell you is that when you think life is all in vain, "Jesus loves You"

Rev. Clarence Price