<TITLE>24. Par -</TITLE>L-336-797 You come to the judgment and say, "Lord, You know my heart; I never committed adultery; I lived true to my husband."
But here will be a man; here will be another one, here another one, another, another, fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty of them standing there saying, "Guilty of a adultery." Why? Some man looked upon you.
"Well, I had nothing to do with it." Well, why'd you present yourself like that for? When God told you not to put them on, it was an abomination to do it, and you go listen to "Who Loves Susie?" Or what's that...
Did you find out what taken place with that "Who Loves Susie's" husband? You all seen that here recently in the paper. When we was out in the Casper, Wyoming, it come out. And what's his name? That guy that... on that "We Love Susie," or what in the--what in the world was that? The... Oh, what you all stay at home Wednesday night and miss prayer meeting to see. What is that now? "We Love..." What is the name of that? [A sister says, "I Love Lucy."--Ed.] "I Love Lucy," her husband supposed beats around, has been caught out yonder at Reno, Nevada, with a colored girl, and been living with her for years. And that's what you stay home to see instead of going, hearing the Gospel. The woman confessed it. Oh, mercy. There's nothing clean outside of Jesus Christ.
Bless your heart, brother, I--I will tell you--you guy, some of the... You say, "Oh, my, look at the class." Some of the--the very worst vultures we got and scavengers are pretty birds. You can't judge a bird by its feathers. See? So just remember that. Oh, my.

L-336-802 Now, watch.
Does not even nature... (That's that 14th verse.)... teach you, that--it's a shame for a man to have long hair? (That belongs to a woman.)
But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her:...
Now, what's he talking about, a hat that you Catholic people wear in church? No indeedy. A little covering over top of your head, with a handkerchief? He's talking about your hair.
Now. And if a woman cuts off her hair, she cuts off her glory, and is not permitted to the altar to pray. See, just what it said here, "Isn't it a common thing for a woman to go pray with the head uncovered?" Says here, says, "Well, she got to cut her hair." So let her be shaved off slick then. "And if she's going to be shaved off slick," said, "that's a dishonor; it's a shame for a woman to do that." Then said, "She ought to be covered." Now, I'm just--I'm just reading Paul's letter. You all, it's up to you. See?

L-337-805 But if the woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given to her for a covering.
Did it say she'd be given a hat? You Catholic people or you Protestants, either one, that goes to church and wants to wear a hat, say, "Well, I'm going to church, ought to put on a hat." No, you ought to let your hair grow. That's the difference. See?
... for her hair is given to her for a covering. (And it's a shame for her to come into church without covered, to go to the altar to pray.)
But if a man seem to be--to be... (I don't believe I can pronounce that word, c-o-n-t-e...)... Contentious, contentious... (You know what contentious is.),... we have no such custom, neither the Church of God.
Now, if you want to argue about it, you argue with That. All right, you want to be contentious about it, "Oh, it don't make any difference. Let's let them go ahead. Why, I think it's nothing. I... It's not what the hair is anyhow, it's what the heart is." That's true; if the heart's right, the hair will be right. Uh-huh.


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