<TITLE>20. Par 69-72</TITLE>L-69 The spirit, you go into Russia, you find a spirit. Go into Germany, you find a spirit. Go into an organization, you find a spirit, a spirit of the Mason's, a spirit of the Odd Fellow's. You go into a home, you find the spirit of the home. And where you let yourself be, you take a real good woman, and put her out with some scalawags, and she'll... Them scalawags will be good or she'll be like them. That's exactly the truth. I've seen it in thousands of cases.
Same thing with men. Let him run around... Show me your company; I'll tell you what you are. That's right. What we need, to not associate ourselves with the world. We ought to associate with one another. If we get away from the world, maybe we'd get our hearts together. Amen. Amen. That's right.

L-70 This poor little thing, when she come back, she told she was coming home, and she brought one of her little Suzy friends with her. And on the road back, her mother talked--told her, she'd meet her at the station. And when they was coming up, she said, "Oh, I want you to see my mother, when you see her." And so they looked out there, and first thing you know, her little mother standing out there. And the girl was with her, said, "Oh, Mary, who's that old hideous looking thing there?" Her face was all scarred up, and she was down like this, a little fellow shaking like that, little wad of hair, sticking on the back of her head, the little calico dress on. Said, "Look at that old hagged woman there. Who is that?"
And the girl was ashamed to admit that that was her mother. 'Cause she'd got amongst the scavengers. She got amongst the prissy, the know-it-all.

L-71 That's what the church has done today: Got amongst the know-it-all, your great theologians who studying seminaries, and so you say, "Amen," like a calf a dying almost. And then they call themselves a preacher. I'd rather have a boy--a preacher in my pulpit that didn't know the difference between split beans and coffee, and know what the Lord Jesus Christ was, in the salvation of souls, than have all the D.D.'s in the world. Amen. That's right.
I mean that for the truth. What we need today, is a good old fashion, God-called man, that got back there on a broom sedge hill and prayed through to God, not ashamed of the Gospel. That can preach it, and stand on the truth. Amen.

L-72 Then when she come in--got off the train, she went out there, and her poor mother run up to throw her arms around her, and she turned her back on her mother. She had something prissy, something that wasn't so--the--her mother wasn't so stylish. And that's the way the people are treating Jesus Christ today. They don't want the old fashion, down at the altar, cleaning it up, and dressing up like a saint, and acting like a saint, and walking godly.
They got to have their entertainments and everything, and your little parties, and bridge parties, and stitch and sew, and talk abut Miss so-and-so, and so forth, and all up-and-down. And all these little old organizations, you're patterned just like the churches of the world. That's right. You're ashamed to come back to the altar again and make yourself right.


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