<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Drink, gamble... A lot of places allow the kids to smoke in the church--or the school, just before semester, and so forth (Isn't that terrible?) to quieten their nerves. They ought to had a prayer meeting. That's the best thing I know to quieten your nerves.
But you know, hungry people has got to fill that longing with something. If they won't drink from the Fountain of the waters of Life, the devil will give them a stagnated cistern with wiggletails in it. That's right. So they'll drink from somewhere. You'll spend that longing and...?... either on the devil or on God.
Never was a person ever went to one of those places or done any of those things, except it was a hungry-hearted person that refused to drink from the Fountain of the waters of Life freely.
I--I'll tell you; I feel sorry for them because of the let-down and pollution of our modern churches. That's one of the things that I lay it to, the social gospel that people preach.
Why, in our own city of Jeffersonville a certain pastor every Saturday night has a square dance in the bottom of the church. That's right. Teaches square dancing: of a famous denominational church, a square dance...

L-6 That was the same pastor that asked me that time, coming down the telephone pole, how I got so many people out to the tabernacle. Said, "He sign... made them sign a card, a thousand members, that they could be in Sunday school at least one time out of the year. Or one--or six months out of every year," is what it was.
He said, "You know how many answered?" Said, "Two."
I said. "No wonder. I don't blame them. I wouldn't either." That's exactly right. As long as you're having shindigs and things in the church, why, that's a sin. Don't belong in the house of God. When I get to the place that I have to have something like that to get a people to listen to me, I'll sure go off the field of the Gospel, preaching the Gospel.
I don't blame sinners. When you see sinners going out there, just old rank, low-down sinners, well, then I don't blame them. That's all they know. But these people who go to church and call themselves Christians, and then do that...

L-7 I don't blame a pig for rutting in a manure pile. Certainly not. That's his nature. Certainly. I wouldn't think it strange to see a pig in a manure pile, certainly not. That--that's his nature. That's what he does. That's his living. He don't know any different. But I'd sure feel funny if I seen a lamb doing that. First thing, he wouldn't do it.
And that's the way with the sinner. Let him go ahead. That's all he knows. Drink all the booze he wants to, and go to all the low down, and the hoe downs, and listen to all that nonsense. That's all he knows.
But to you people who's supposed to know better... I'm persuaded, if you ever turn to that, you'd never really drank from the Fountain of the Lord. I tell you, that just--that just cuts all that other stuff. It's as dead as midnight. There's no joy to it; them things are... You can't even stand it.
I go to a restaurant sometime. First thing I do, I look through and see if they got, one of those little old penny, nickel, juke boxes on the wall. Them things make me so nervous I can't eat. I--I--I have a sour stomach after I come out, just to hear all that nonsense. And see Christians playing them, supposed to be Christians...


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