<TITLE>09. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 We have a little stir in the people and then we settle down like, the devil blowing his breeze across us, and we get an old "True Story" magazine somewhere in the house instead of picking up the Bible. There's a many a Christian in this city tonight that can tell you all about Hollywood, but knows no more about God, and call themselves Christians. It's a shame. Amen.
Prayer meeting night comes, you stay home watch their television, instead of going out at the prayer meeting. Isn't that right? Sure it is. Everything, time to read the papers, time to do this, time to have your society gatherings and things, but no time for God. What we need today is a good old fashion Saint Paul revival and the Bible Holy Ghost back in the Church again, signs, wonders, and miracles. Time for everything, but the right thing.
That's the reason the world's in the condition today. Haven't got time to take care of the children, let them run the streets.
You women, calling yourself real mothers, and don't even know where your kiddies is at half the time. That's not only in the Methodist and Presbyterian; that's in Pentecostal too. That's right. You know that's the truth. Talking about juvenile delinquency, it's a whole lot of parent delinquency. What the parent needs today is to get some of them old beer cans out of that ice box out there, take the cards off the table, and put the Bible right there, and open It up and call the kids around have a prayer meeting. That's what we need today. That's right.

L-23 And some of you up in my country, Kentucky, they have little old sayings, that say the illiteracy of Kentucky, how ignorant, how dumb they are.
I had a minister tell me he didn't want to go down to Kentucky, because the people was too stupid in Kentucky, lived down there. Let me tell you something, some of them old gray-headed mammies up there could teach you something. That's right.
You let your daughter run out all night long nearly with some old cigarette-smoking, whiskey-drinking rascals, and come in of a morning, and her clothes half on her, and everything like that, and you call yourself a Christian and say nothing to her? Let that happen over in Kentucky, and one of them old mammies would top one of them hickories out there; she wouldn't be able to move for six months. Yes, sir.
What we need today is some old, real old-time American mammies that believes in giving them a little protoplasa stimulation once in a while. That's exactly right. You know that's right. Amen.

L-24 Church all let down the bars, they all sing: "They let down the bars; we compromised with sin. We let down the bars, the sheep got out but, how did the goats get in?" You just let down the bars, that's what it was. You let down the standards of Christianity. Amen.
The devil might've went out of fashions but he hasn't went out of business yet. He's still in the business. We'll save that for the preacher's. I just come here to preach Divine healing. All right.
But that's good for you. Amen. That'll straighten you up. It's old fashion corn bread, and black-eyed peas, and strong coffee for breakfast, but those will stick to your ribs for a good days work. Sure will. All right.
Notice, yes, sir. The day that we're living, the hour, the time the Church ought to be going forward, instead of that, It's going backwards. That's right. You can't go... If you're not going forward, you are going backwards. God don't want His Church to go backwards or set still; He wants us to go forward, and don't slack at all. The Holy Spirit don't say, "Slack up there, wait a few years."
He said, "Go forward constantly all the time. Move on."
Where was she moving? To the man of God, moving up the mountain all the time.
I used to sing a little song:
Lead me higher up the mountain,
Give me fellowship with Thee. (You remember the old song?)
It'll light us to the fountain and the Blood that cleanses me.


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