<TITLE>05. Par 16-20</TITLE>L-16 And old John Smith when he preached his last sermon, he had preached a very short sermon: four hours. He was eighty-nine years old. They had to pack him and set him in the chair; he said, "The very idea. The daughters of the Methodist church has polluted themselves to even wear rings on their fingers."
What would he say today to see the choir members in shorts? That's right. Listen, my sisters, I'm not to tell you what to do. I'm only saying this. You get right with God, and God will take care of the rest of it.

L-17 I remember not long ago when I--women first begin to smoke cigarettes. It was a terrible thing. I'm not here to preach the morals of these things. These ministers are to do that, but you want me to tell you something. I think that's the littlest thing a woman can do. That's right. You know what that does. I get a statistic from the government that shows that mothers--these young mothers... And you mothers here that's got young girls, teach them. Why, they've claimed that women...
Now, they've already taken just proofs and things and you seen it in the Reader's Digest and everywhere: "Cancer by the carton." That--I believe it's about ninety-eight or ninety-nine percent of throat and lung cancer is caused by cigarette smoking. That's right.
And a woman who smokes cigarettes and gives birth to a child will either have to put it on cow's milk for if it nurses from her, it'll take the nicotine from her own bloodstream here, or from her life and the baby average won't live eighteen months, from nicotine poisoning.
Talk about fifth columnist. We legalize it right here in America.

L-18 A few moments before we went for dinner, I believe, or something, I heard a radio broadcast come in, said, I forget, how many million five hundred thousand cigarette firms there was in America--how many they sell a day.
Give me the money in Palm Beach that's spent for cigarettes in one day, and I'll send missionaries all over the world for a year in this little city. Figure it up how many there is. How about whiskey, beer, and everything like that. Then you talk about...?... There's where it's at.
Well, God forgive me. I don't mean to get on them points. Let these brothers do that. Back to the Gospel. That's the Gospel too. That's right. It's a shame we let down on that.

L-19 It's so too bad, and it started from the pulpit. See, I'm not condemning you. I'm condemning these up here. Let it start from the pulpit. See way they do, and you just keep gradually coming in, gradually coming in, he just soothes right around till he gets into it, and he has got them.
How many remembers a long time ago when the old women used to dress decently, and wear clothes that looked natural, and looked like ladies. You remember that? You can't tell them apart now.
I got on a bus here not long ago with a woman. I didn't know she was a woman. I set down there. I was--I was a game warden. It was during time of the war.

L-20 She had on a pair of coveralls, electric welder's cap, cigarette in the side of her mouth, and I was setting there and my arm laying over on her like this; and we's so many of us packed in the bus. She was cussing like a sailor, and she--and she's cussing like a man and everything. And I kept looking at the cigarette. I seen her. She kept going on like that, and she said, "Oh, dear."
I thought, "Wonder if it could be a woman." And I looked at her again, and I--I said, "Sir, where are you working?"
She said, "I'm working at the boat yard."
I said, "Yes, sir."
She said, "I'm not a sir."
I said, "I beg your pardon." I said, "You--you couldn't tell it by looking."


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