<TITLE>16. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59  Now, I never tell people what they have to do, and what they can't do, and what... That's up, between them and God, but I know that one of the lowest things that I ever see women do is smoking. I stand here and see them set there and act like that, it's just something in me. I wished I didn't feel that way, but it's something in me makes me feel that way. And I... It's not me; it's Him. And I know by that what it'll be at the judgment; so escape that. You don't have to do it. Get away from it. Stay away from it. You can't come in this prayer line without it being called out on you; that's one thing for sure. He'll call it every time.

L-60  And notice this one thing now. Later on down through life, I--I had girlfriends like all boys. And I remember I was a little skeptic of girls; I seen the way women act. And frankly, I never did have very much use for women. I don't mean you sisters, now, but I... Just to see how untrue they were, some of them... I was around, watched my father drinking and hung around those places, and maybe I'd be around, and I'd see how women come out and living untrue. And a lot of them women's done gone on to meet the judgment now, and will have to stand there in that day.
And I said I'd never get married; never want nothing to do with one. I'll be a trapper and a hunter all my life, and I'll never have nothing to do with the girl. So when I got to be about... When I was even seventeen, eighteen years old, I'd pass down the street. I'd see a girl on one side, and I thought she was going say something, I'd cross over and go over on the other side, because I just didn't want nothing to do. That's all, didn't want to hook up--caught up with it or anything, I wanted to keep away from it. And so I went ahead. But finally I found a girl that was a real girl. She was--was a Christian. She afterwards become my wife.

L-61  I guess you wonder how I ever got married being so bashful. I tell you how that happened, just quickly as I can. I met her. She was a--a pretty girl, but she was such a lady, the way she carried herself. And I'm so glad that her little boy, hearing--this afternoon he's hearing this, and I can say his mother was a genuine lady. Yes, sir.
And I met her; she was a member of a church up there. And she asked me to go to church with her, and I did. I kept going with her a long time, and I--I thought she was pretty. She was a real girl, so I... But the only thing was, I'd been going with her for about a year and something, and I knew a girl like that, I couldn't take up of her time if I wasn't going to get married, so I'd have to let somebody else that wanted to get married have her, and that was going to be an awful spot to pull away from me.

L-62  So you know how you think they all look, you know, with teeth like pearl, and eyes like a dove, you know, and on like that. All of you get them...
Don't you think that of your wife, you know? You ought to continue thinking that of her too. That's right. That's right. Keep that thought in mind, just as sweet... Wait till she's made immortal on the other side, then look at her. She won't need any--what do you call them manicure stuff you put on your face here to make her look right then. God will have it...


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