<TITLE>05. Par 14-18</TITLE>L-14 Could you imagine how beautiful that was that morning when Adam took Eve by the arm, went walking down through the garden? Oh, my. Those big birds a flying, and peace, and no sickness, never to die. She'd never have to use any of this here manicure you put on your face to make her look pretty. And she--she... That's wrong, I knowed, I... Somebody laughed. That is... what is it you call that stuff? Anyhow, it's--it's paint, you know, that you put on your face. Manicure, what, that's--that's in your hair though, ain't it? That's what you put in your hair. Anyhow, it's some way, I don't know, it's--it's something. I'm making it worse all the time.
Never will forget when my wife sent me to get a pair of socks one time, or stockings. And she was supposed to get them kind that's got the full style in the back of them, you know, it's got that little funny thing. And there's two different kind: one is called chiffon and the other is rayon. I believe the chiffon's the best. Is that right, ladies? Is--is that Chiffon? And I was going down the street hollering, "Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon." Somebody, "Hello, Billy."

L-15 And I said, "Hello, hello. Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon."
I got down; somebody got talking to me about fishing. I forgot it. So I went down to a girl I used to go with, and I said, "Hi, Thelma."
And she said, "Hi, Billy." Said, "What do you want?"
I said, "Hope wants a pair of socks."
Said, "Now, Hope don't wear socks."
I said, "She sure does."
"I beg your pardon," said, "she wears stockings."
I said, "Well, that's what I want." I thought, "I already made a... showed my ignorance," so I said...
She said, "What kind does she want?"
I said, "What kind you got?" I wanted her to say it.
She said, "Well, we have the--the rayon."

L-16 I said, "That's what I want." Oh, I didn't know there was two different kinds. I said, "That's the kind I want; I want it the full style in the back, that thing."
Then she got them for me, and I was supposed to pay sixty cents for them, and I think it cost me twenty. I said, "Well, give me two or three pair of them." See, I--I was...
So I went back up home to tell her, I said, "You see, honey," I said, "I--I'm Abraham's son. I'm little yiddish, you know, I just know how to get things." I said, "You women go to Louisville and look all around for bargains all day long, come back home, spend all your money, and don't have no more bargain you got right here at home. I just go downtown and get three pair of stockings for a pair of--price of one."
She said, "Did you get chiffon?"

L-17 I said, "Yes, ma'am." So I didn't know there was chiffon and rayon. All sound the same to me. After while she bought another pair of stockings. So I made a mistake, so I just thought I'd better leave away from that, you know. I... It's like this here stuff you put on your face and in your hair, and... That's for the women to discuss, isn't it?
All right, how many loves the Lord, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Let's read some of His Word here now and talk in His Word just a little bit, just on a little old... Now, I'm not, as I've said lots of times, and tell you, I'm not a preacher. I'm just one of these old fashioned sassafras, you know, backwoods, believe in an old fashion backwoods, sky-blue, sin-killing religion. You believe in that? Then we can get along.

L-18 I believe that it--it don't whitewash it washes white. Makes you clean from sin, straightens you up, takes all the crooks out of you, and put you off of--out of crooked street over on Glory Avenue. Don't you believe it that? Sure, the joy bells of heaven just ring, and you just walking every day in the Spirit. There's no condemnation to them which are... has joined church? No condemnation to them which has shook hands? No condemnation to them which has been baptized? Huh-uh. "No condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus."
How do you get into it? By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body. Is that right?


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