<TITLE>14. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 Oh God, if we have to take every miracle out of the church, if we have to take all the pipe organs out, and the plush pews, give us back to that godly love, brotherly love among the people and fellowship. If we have to do all that, take it back to that again. Life, oh, life...
Sometime people think that life is having a--a party, going to the party and having a big time. That's not life. Some people has brought it to a place to getting drunk. They get out on the street and get drunk, and they're having a big time. They say, "This is life."

L-37 A writer once wrote, here not long ago, in a magazine, I believe I referred to it sometime here. I'm not sure. But said, "Life begins at night. Night was made for life." Night was made to rest. The sun goes down, you lay down, take your rest, not prowl all night, and come in at daylight, and--you're not supposed to do that. Evil things prowl at night. Evil works at night: All serpents, and lizards, and bugs, and everything crav--travel at nighttime. And that's the--the demon powers that prowl in the nighttime.
And man has become lower than beast. A man is the-- is the... We're told that he's animal life, but let that man be away from God, he's the lowest of all the animals. There's not a animal in the world as low as a man that's away from God. You watch.
Take the old m--mother hound dog, or the old mother hog, and so forth, whatever it is you want to call her, whatever you wish to. But you look at her morals, she a million miles beyond a lot of movie stars when it comes to moral. That's right. Just so degraded... Man so degraded that he'd jerk a baby out the arm of a mother and ravish that mother for beastly lust. But put the Spirit of God in him, he's a different creature, because he's a new creature. In Christ Jesus he'd shed his blood to protect her. That's the difference. One's death and the other one is life.

L-38 Some time ago I was in Canada, holding a meeting up in Saskatoon. And we'd been having a great meeting out that at the ice arena, seven or eight thousand people attending. I was with some friends of mine up there in this certain meeting. I'd just left Phoenix. That's the next meeting after I'd left Phoenix, about three or four or five years ago, one of the meetings.
And I went down that night to the service at a--at--at the t--at the ice arena. And on my road coming home, I noticed that evening the people were crowding into this big hotel. I thought, "Well, them all look American license and so forth, on those cars, coming from down in the United States." Then I... That night when I come in, I realized America was there in Canada that night.
When I got onto the elevator, it was so full of whiskey bottles and gin, till you could hardly find a place to stand. And I looked in that; I said... Looked around like that, and the little operator of the elevator knew me, and he said, "They're here."
I said, "It sure looks like it."
He said, "This place is a--is a drunken sot, Brother Branham."
I said, "Isn't that awful." It was some club. I could call it, right now, but there's probably members of the same setting here. So they're all rotten anyhow to begin with. There's only one society; that's the society of Jesus Christ. You only get in that by being born. Your other societies may be all right, but the real one is Christ. That's the One that molds character and makes people what they ought to be, the society of Jesus Christ. And you only get in that by birth.


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