<TITLE>13. Par 41-42</TITLE>L-41 All right. There you are. She danced across the floor, and she forgot I was even standing there, she got so lost in that song, this little, some kind of a little old song. And then she said, "Oh, excuse me," she said, "I just love to dance."
And I said, "I see you do." So I assigned the bill and went on up. A few minutes I was coming down a pole, and Doctor Brown's little group, fine church there in the city.
Said, "Hey, Billy."
And I said, "Hello, Doctor Brown, how are you this morning?"
Said, "Just fine." Said, "Billy, how you coming along over at the Tabernacle?"
I said, "Just fine and dandy."
Said, "Still having a good crowd?"
I said, "Yeah, uh-huh."
Said, "I hear that your congregation holds up pretty good."
I said, "Yes, by the grace of God."
He said, "You know what I done, Billy?" Said, "This church here has got five thousand members." He said, "Some of them's in California, some's in everywhere." Said, "That's been from fifty years." Some of them's dead and everything, but their still members of the church. That's just about as far as it goes. Said, "You know what?" Said, "I sent out a thousand cards, and asked people if they would pledge that they would come to Wednesday night prayer meeting, at least for six month in the year. That would let them miss every other service, and come for six months in the year." And said, "You know how many responded to it?"
I said, "No, I don't."
Said, "Five."
I said, "You know what?" I told him this story. I said, "Do you see that--that little old girl down there was dancing across the floor with no clothes on hardly, hollering toodled-ee, doodle-ee, doodle-ee like that, when that guy...?... Clayton Mike Mitchel was spinning that old wildcat thing ever-what it was?" I said, "You think... She got out the radio and throwed a kiss to him in the radio and said, 'Good bye, deary, I'll see you at the old briar patch, ever-what it was over there that night.'" I said, "Do you think Mister Mike Mitchel will have to make her sign a card to come over there? She'd pawn what clothes she had on to get there. Right, for in her heart, she couldn't live without it." And I said, "You get that bunch of lukewarm church members down to the altar and let them pray through, till the Holy Ghost sets their soul afire, there'll be no signing cards. God's in their heart, God goes to church. He loves to worship. Amen.
"Well," you say, "that was the Methodist and the Baptists." That's Pentecostal too. Amen. That's right. There you are.

L-42 "Set a seal upon those who sigh and cry for the abominations; the rest of them don't come--come near them. They were very religious, but don't get near them; just let them alone. They're not interested, and they wasn't interested in my work; I'm not interested in them now." God give them their chance, they wouldn't listen to it, so go on.
So when that was fulfilled, then all the Angel returned back and said, "I got everyone that was crying and sighing, burdened for the sins of the city."
He said, "All right now, Angels, you with the slaughtering weapons, go forward and slaughter utterly everything." And that was fulfilled.


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