This is the part of the Temple that made sense to outsiders and that survivors most often describe as the reason they stayed. In Indianapolis it meant integrating restaurants and the city hospital; in San Francisco it meant a free dining room, a legal clinic, care homes and drug rehabilitation, and enough organised voters that politicians came asking. Jones preached it as scripture applied rather than scripture believed, and increasingly as scripture replaced. The doctrine that God is what people do for each other is not, in itself, unusual in mid-century American social-gospel preaching. What was unusual was the degree to which the works were also the proof of the preacher. When the works were praised, he was praised, and there was no institution standing between the two.