<TITLE>05. Par 36-41</TITLE>L-36 And then see the American women raised up, dressed like so immoral... Even to their immoral being, their--their starvation, them women can come here and teach these American women how to live decent. That's right. You never... On the street, I don't care if it's your wife, you can't stand within six inches of her. They'll take you in. See? That's right. There's no smooching up and loving, and things, on the streets there. And their women never look at a man in his face; when they're talking to him, they keep their head down like this and walk away. And they--and they don't let them on the street like that and so forth. And it's--it's the morals. And to come to find a people in starvation, and heathens, as it was, as that was, and to see the low, degraded part of our nation here, it makes me critical.

L-37 And I--I stood in the hotel, at the Taj, Taj Mahal. I guess Billy... How do you pronounce that, Billy? How'd you... Billy Paul, how do you pronounce that, Taj Mahal Hotel? [Brother Billy Paul says, "Taj Mahal."--Ed.] Taj Mahal, yeah, anyhow, and at--at the hotel there. And Billy is a witness.
Two Americans come in. And when they went to the street... We watched them as they walked out, and walked out amongst those poor people out there. And a little old boy run up to them. There's some kind of disease they get. He was about eight years old. His toe was about that big around, two of them; they stuck up about that high, and he had to pull his little feet like that. Walked up and asked for a penny, you know, or something like that, to get him something to eat. And those Americans said... [Brother Branham gestures and imitates their response--Ed.] Turned around like that, and walked away.
Said, "God, be merciful."

L-39 High-headed... And Nehru and them was talking to us, said, "We would like to have your all's way of how... and your democracy, and so forth like that, but we don't want your spirit." That's right. "We don't want the heady, high feeling that you all have in America. We don't want it." See? They didn't pull no bones about telling us either. Said, "We don't want that."
And I said, "That's not true representation of Christianity." I said, "That's a form of hypocrisy." Absolutely. I said, "Christians don't act like that. No, sir." I said, "All in America don't act like that." I said, "We have just as humble and sweet a people as they do anywhere in the world. But we have some..." I said, "To--to my sorrow, to say it," I said, "the most of the them, and the majority, are that high, heady, high-minded type, like that."

L-41 And to come here, it makes me critical (You see?), and I don't want to be that way. And I found out after so much, seeing so much, and everything like that, till, brother and sister. My old friends here from the Tabernacle, bless your hearts; you don't realize what I've went through in my days of trying to...?... you and everything, and trying to do the best that I can to answer before God someday. But I have... Now, if you see me doing wrong, don't condemn me, just feel sorry for me, and try to correct me (You see?), 'cause I--I don't mean to be that way.
But you just have to go through so much, you don't realize, and you have to ride over so much. I could tell you things this morning, which would not be lawful for me to tell you this morning, you'd realize why I was up there five days at home and couldn't move around. That's right. You don't realize it.
How, what's happened since a little old innocent preacher standing here in the pulpit, what has crossed over that heart, and cut through, and beat through, and pulled through. God only knows. I don't even tell it to the people, not even to my own wife; I just keep it between God and I, and move on the best I can. But you realize that, a human being, his mind can only stand so much, and then he goes out. You see? And what's held me, I don't know; it's just been God alone that's done it.


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