<TITLE>09. Par 32-36</TITLE>L-32 Mama used to take us, and she used to tell me, every Saturday night we had to--an old cedar tub we'd take a bath in. And I was the oldest one, and there's eight got a bath in that same tub 'fore me, and they'd just put a little more hot water in. And then, every Saturday night, way we had to eat, we had to take a dose of Castor Oil. I can't stand it, yet today. And I'd come to her just gagging, holding my nose, and I said, "Mom, I can't stand the stuff."
She said, "If it doesn't make you right sick, it don't do you any good."
And that's the way preaching the Gospel, if it doesn't sicken you up a little bit, do something to you, it doesn't do you much good. But that's the truth. A lot of our Pentecostal women got so that they're wearing these little, bitty, old clothes to mow the yard, and things in, Pentecostal women letting their young girls, out doing that.

L-33 They talk about juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency, what's the matter. Then talk about the literacy of Kentucky. Some of them old mammys out there, let their daughter come in the way some of the women do, five o'clock in the morning, and messed up over their face, and their hair bulled out like that. She'd take a limb off a hickory tree, and she'd take the rest of the clothes off her, and the hide with it. Then call that illiteracy. God knows we need some more mammys like that. That's exactly right.
And our women got to a place smoking cigarettes. You say, "Well, now, wait a minute, preacher. That's my American privilege." I know, but if you're a lamb, you'll forfeit it.
"Why, I belong to certain such a church." All right, if you're a lamb you'll forfeit your privileges.
"Why, I see all the other..." Yeah, that's right, but you're different, if you're a Christian, you've got to be different.
Some lady said, "I don't wear shorts, I wear slacks."
I said, "That's worse." Right. "The Bible said it's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man."

L-34 I spoke that in one of the meetings on this, and a woman wrote me a big, long letter. She said, "Now, wait," said, "you're getting off onto man-made doctrine." Said, "What's a woman going to do when she's out riding a horse in a mosquito infested area, rounding up cattle?"
I just told her back; I said, "That's not a woman's job. If she'd keep her place, she wouldn't have to be out there." That's exactly right. Exactly. Trouble of it is now... I love our sisters, and that's right. I think their fine, but they ought to know their places.

L-35 And you know, I remember when it used to be a horrible thing for our Pentecostal women to put on this manicure, you know, on their faces. I got that wrong. I always get that wrong. What it... Make--make-up, make-up. Manicure is the fingernails. Is that right? I don't know nothing about that stuff, but make-up... It used to be wrong for a woman to put on painted make-ups. But now, they do it.

L-36 You know, an old Methodist minister used to sing a song,
We let down the bars,
We let down the bars,
We compromised with sin,
We let down the bars, and the sheep got out,
But how did the goats get in.
You just let down the bars. Many times, not these brethren, but many time, preachers think more of a meal ticket, than they do the Gospel. Evangelist go across... Be a shame, now a evangelist told me, a noted evangelist the other day, said, "You're going to hurt your ministry."
I said, "Any-anything that'll hurt... If my ministry is hurt by preaching the truth, it ought to be hurt." That's right.
He said, "You'll make the people angry, and they won't give you nothing."
I said, "I didn't ask them for anything." I said, "The thing of it is, that at the day of the judgment, that's where I'm going to have to answer."


<A HREF="P10">Next Page</A>