<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 It's a disgrace sometime the way that... Get into another country and see the way these people act, that come from this country. As much as you've had the Gospel preached to them, and then act like that, why, you'll receive double damnation at the day of judgment. Why, it's a shame.
I got on the elevator that night, and the whiskey bottles all on there. And I said to the little fellow, I said, "Looks like the--the glass company had a--sure a big day."
He said, "I never seen such in my life." Said, "I don't want to say nothing about it, 'cause you're an American."
I said, "Yes, but sometime action like that makes me ashamed of it."
So he stopped up on a certain floor and let me out. And when I got out of the elevator and started towards my room, I heard somebody whooping and hollering. And I looked, coming down through the room--the hall, and here come two young women, perhaps mothers, both had wedding rings on. They looked to be in their late twenties. And they just had on one little underneath garment, with a bottle of whiskey in their hand. And men so drunk trying to get out and grab these women, them pulling and falling.

L-22 And I got back into a little place and kindly stopped for a few minutes. It made me so ashamed. And I loo--seen them coming through there, and they stopped right out in front of me, and one of them took the bottle, and took a great big drink, and handed it to the other one, pulled up that little underneath skirt, and threw her foot out, hollered, "Whoopie, this is life."
I walked out in the middle of the floor and caught them both by their hand. That's why I know they had wedding rings on. Perhaps a husband home somewhere baby-setting. And it's just as bad with the men. Sin is sin on either side. And it's all corruption. "Oh, just having a little clean fun," they said. Clean fun, that's sin.
God will make you pay for it. God will make the nation pay for it. It'll make the individuals pay for it. We sell people whiskey and stuff, and cigarettes, and giving them cancer, and telling them this, that, and the other, and then we wonder what's the matter.

L-23 And here they come, and I held their hands like that, and--and I said, "I beg your pardon. You said, 'This is life.'" I said, "This is death. It's only death dressed up." It's true.
And this girl looked around, said, "But we don't mean no harm."
I was trying to hold her up. I said, "Looky here. I am..."
Said, "Won't you take a drink?"
I said, "I am a preacher, a Gospel preacher." Then they started jerking back. I said, "Kneel with me here in the floor just a minute. You'll sober up and go home to your children." They jerked away, and down through the hall they went falling over one another. Not fit to be in their own home with the shades pulled down, the way they were dressed. And then they called that "life." That's death. Certainly is.

L-24 And the world is so crowded down today, calling big times, and... You've got so much of it out here on this West Coast, so much glamour. And I noticed it's creeped into the churches, trying to glamour the church. The church is not glamour, it's a place to preach righteousness, holiness, and purity, and the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit in the human life. Oh, it's a disgrace. What makes a person do that? Why? Is this...
And then if Satan can't blindfold you to do that, he'll do something else for you. He'll let you feel that you're want to be religious. And then he'll let you go over and shake hands with the minister somewhere, and put your name on the book, and think that you're religious.


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