<TITLE>10. Par 57-62</TITLE>L-57 And also, we find that homes, which is the backbone of the nation and of the church, we find homes broke up, and divorce courts just overrun with divorces. Juvenile delinquency of--of mothers leaving their little children with baby-setters and--and taking off out to work and somewhere when their husbands got good jobs, but they're just not satisfied to be a mother and stay at home. They're not satisfied to dress like ladies; they--they want to dress like men. Men wants to be like women. And they--they just--there just seems to be something wrong somewhere. And people are reaching for something and can't find it. That's a pitiful condition to be into.
They've looked everywhere to find something to make themself an example. We take the women of our days; they'll watch television until they see a certain movie star; or she'll come out dressed in a certain way, and all the women will want to dress like her or act like her, make her example. Some pretty girls just in the bloom of life will try to pattern themselves and try to make some movie star an example that they should go by; and finally they find themselves wound up in a cage of sin that they can't get out of. What a pity. Seeing them come into the meeting, tears running down their cheeks... But they're hunting for something.

L-59 We take men. Men, you catch them on the street or in their business. The old man wants to be a teenager. He'll cut his hair off on the flattop and make a--a ducktail in the back. He wants to be a teenager. The teenager wants to be like one of these rock-and-roll kings. Where do they wind up? In sin and disgrace.
Man seems to be unsatisfied. He's running everywhere. They'll take on--listen to the radio for jokes and things that these jokesters pull. And they'll go out and try to mimic or--or act like those people.

L-61 You take the little boy on the street, how I know it, and he's got to be a Paladin, or a Hopalong Cassidy, or... And the commercial world gets ahold of that and makes millions of dollars out of it. They got to be a Roy Rogers, or a--a Mr. Dillon, or--or some television program outfit. They're trying to impersonate that person. They've set them up as an example. They've taken them for their--their standard of life. And what do they find at the end of the road? Those little fellows turn out to be gangsters and robbers. The women turn out to be prostitutes, and--and street-walking, and--and delinquent people. Men turn out to be gamblers and lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Churches try to impersonate the other church, the big church.

L-62 Would just seem to see there's no satisfaction among the people. What do they--what makes them do it? It's for a cause; it's a nature. God gave them that nature. They've got a nature that makes them want to have something to identify themselves with. They must have something that they want to be like, an objective in life. They want to be a movie star, or a cowboy, or--or something on that idea.
I was hearing on the radio coming home, where some great Italian man at Denver was trying to play a Hopalong Cassidy, something with a loaded gun; instead of that he's going to be a Chester the rest of his life; he shot his kneecap off. There you are.
But they are trying to find something to identify themselves with. And the reason they are doing it, is because that there's something in them that God made them that. But God made them an Example to be identified with, and that was when He made Jesus Christ to become your Saviour. That's the Example. That's what people wants--should want, to be identified with Jesus, to be like Him.


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