<TITLE>09. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 I was conducting a meeting... I--and I hate to go through this, because some of my friends are setting here from Canada. But I was in Canada, and the manager of meeting is present now also, Brother Sothmann there, where I was holding a meeting at the ice arena. And they'd put me up in a--the hotel. And that afternoon when I come... I'd been in Canada for quite a little while, and I didn't see the sin, and the carrying on, as we seen it here at home.
And when I went down that night from where I'd been in the country, came down to the hotel, I noticed the Americans coming over, whiskey bottles flying everywhere. And when I come in that night from church, from the service, I got on the elevator. And I'd been there for around a week; I'd never seen nothing like that.
On the elevator was setting--all around it, whiskey bottles and beer cans. And when the boy closed the door to take me up on the elevator, I looked around. And he knew who--who I was, and he said, "It's rough."
And I said, "Sometimes such characters as that makes me ashamed I am an American, with such conduct as that." And he let me off on the floor, way up almost to the top.

L-26 And it was a certain lodge here in America was having their convention there in Canada. And when I got off the elevator, oh, the awfullest carrying-on everywhere. And way up at the end of the hall there was two young women, I suppose in their late twenties or early thirties. And they just had on their underneath garment with a bottle of whiskey in their hand, so drunk, and both of them with wedding bands on. Oh, of course, they was just having a little clean fun. That's sin!
And they were trying to come down barefooted, no stockings; and just the underneath garment with this whiskey bottle in their hand there, blurry eyed; and men trying to get out of the rooms, falling over them and trying to catch them like that, so drunk they could hardly get up.
And I thought, "Isn't that a shame!" But we call that in the States here, just a little time of recreation. Maybe a daddy at home taking care of the baby. It don't only to the wom--women, the men does the same. Sin is sin; I don't care where it is; it's sin, and it's wrong, and we a Christian nation, visiting our neighbors like that, with our lodges and so forth, and carrying on in such a disgrace as that.

L-27 And I stopped. And one young fellow staggered across and hit his head against the other side and fell back on the floor, got over, and saying all kinds of bad things. And these young women come on down and stopped. I pulled back in a little place to watch. And these young women stopped right out in front of me. And they take each a drink out of the bottle, reached down and pulled up that little underneath skirt, and throwed the foot up in the air and hollered, "Whoopie, this is life."
I stepped out in the floor and caught both of them by the hand. I said, "I beg your pardon, this is not life; this is death!" The Bible said, "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she's alive."
And there's too much of that kind of carrying on through our churches in their nations today, and yet calling themselves Christians.
That's the biggest stumbling block Christianity ever had, not the bootlegger on the corner; we know he's branded, but the hypocrite that calls themselves the Christian and live in the church with such life as that with them. It shows that they've never been acquainted with the Lord Jesus, or they wouldn't do that. That kind of life is horrible. That can't be the kind of life that David was talking of.


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