<TITLE>17. Par 52-53</TITLE>L-52 I said that to a woman one time. She said, "That's the way they make clothes. That's the only way they make."
I said, "They still got goods and sewing machines. You don't have to do that." That's true. You don't have to. It's a spirit that gets on you through television programs, newspapers, advertisements. That's the reason people smoke. They say it makes them slim. They see these movie stars smoking cigarettes. Well, because she does it...
If you're borned of the Spirit of God, you don't have that kind of spirit. Your Spirit come from above, where holiness and purity, and cleanliness... O God, why can't I make people see that? You have to be borned from above. And when your above comes here on earth, you're a pilgrim. This is not your home. You don't belong here. You're just sojourning here. But our home is above; we seek a city to come whose builder and maker is God. That's the reason we're peculiar to the world. That's the reason the Spirit of God gets into the meeting and makes peculiar things happen, because it's a peculiar people. They're not of this world.

L-53 Sin. Sin, it's a curse. And there's a remedy for it. There... You say, "Well, I want to act like the rest of the women." Sarah was your example; Mary was, not someone in Hollywood, or some TV star. And you're borned of above, you're... You--you usually act like they do in the country you come from.
I went in to--to Rome just recently. And I went to San Angelo, the catacombs. And to a disgrace, it had a sign set there, "American women, please put on clothes and honor the dead."
I was down at Zurich, Switzerland. And everybody seemed to be doing pretty good till Miss America came in with a cigarette holder about that long, and a little poodle dog, and set it upon the table. The man told her shouldn't do that, and she blowed up her lips and let her know that she was American, enough to be disgraceful.
I was in Canada just recently on a meeting. And when a... The Americans was up there, at a certain lodge. I wouldn't call their name. They was having a--what they call a little clean fun. Men and women... It was horrible. Why, the elevator was full of whiskey bottles when I went up. And I said, "What's the matter?"
That Canadian boy said, "They're up here."
I got off on about the tenth floor. When I got off and started to look, coming down the road, there come a young married women, two of them, with wedding bands on their hands, just with their underneath clothes on, having a little clean fun, drunk with a whiskey bottle in her hand, men trying to fall out of the doors after them. Questioning them, they were both mothers.


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