<TITLE>11. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 Here she goes, goes down to the city everywhere telling people she's going to have a baby, knowing no man. Why, sure. She just took God at His Word. Right up into the hills of Judaea she went. She'd heard about Elisabeth, heard that she had a blessing too.
Now, that's the way real borned again people do. When they hear somebody gets the Holy Ghost, away they go to find out all about it. Amen. When God does something to heal somebody, the next neighbor comes over and just joins in and happy and rejoicing with it.
So right down through the city of Bethlehem, right on up into Judaea she went, and when she come up to where a Sarah, or Elisabeth rather... Now, Mary and Elisabeth were first cousins. John and Jesus was second cousins, and when they come right up to where the home was, I can see Elisabeth way back in the room. She'd hid herself. She raised up the curtain. She seen a young lady coming.
Why, she said, "It's Mary, my cousin." And out she went. My, I can see her so happy, and she threw her arms around her and begin to hug her and kiss her.

L-40 That's the way women used to meet one another, but, brother, you know what, them days is changed now. They don't have that kind of love one for another. They got so now they don't even speak to you. Isn't that right?
Why, it used to be back on the farm when--when some man would get sick, we'd go out and cut the wood for him, or shock the hay, or whatever it was, think nothing about it, go over and set up at night time.
Now, you don't even know your neighbors dead, unless you see it in the paper. It's a shame how brotherly love has ceased. That's right. We just don't have it like we used to.
Why, pop, if he'd run out of money, he'd go over and borrow fifty dollars to run him through till the crops come in. That was all right. You didn't have to have any security.
Why, you couldn't borrow five dollars today without security. Brotherly love is ceasing. God said it would. Yes, oh how we need it.

L-41 The other day, I... My wife's present, she'll probably tell me about this afterwards. We went downtown, and they was a girl going down the street, a young woman that we knew. And I said, "Say, did you see her?"
She said, "I--I spoke to her."
I said, "I didn't see you."
And she said, "I smiled at her." That's not speaking. You know what I like. I like a great big old pump handle handshake, a old country type. Say, "Hello, brother. How are you?" Yes, sir. Now-days instead they just turn a little silly grin and say, "Hello." My, I don't like that. That freezes me to death.
One day down at Brother Bosworth and I we were down in Miami, Florida, and we had a tent pitched out there. Some little boy was having a meeting and got up against it, and I come down to have a couple of days for him, and there was some Duchess or something like that. I... My, I don't know very much about dignity and parade. So, they... She was some great woman. She let this tent be set on her lot or out there a place where she had her a park.


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