<TITLE>20. Par 61-62</TITLE>L-61 Here not long ago wife and I went over to the grocery, and we were in my country. I... Oh, 'course, they wouldn't do that in California, but over in my country... We... I come in from somewhere I'd been, I believe, out in the islands, the Caribbean Islands. I come back, and she said, "Well, Honey, I'm glad you're in," said, "we got to go to the store," said, "to get some groceries."
I said, "All right, we'll take off." And I went out and cranked up the old car, and so we got started, went down. Well, I went along, and I'd notice, and I'm--I--I--I looked. And after while we seen one of the most mysterious sights that we'd seen. It was along July, August, something like that, in our country. I seen a lady had a dress on. And I thought, "Isn't that strange?" See? She had a dress on. All of them had... wore little shorts. Whether they were to be mothers or not, they went with them on. And--and some of them... She said... I said, "Looky, doesn't that look like a lady? She's got a skirt on." I said, "Isn't that strange? I haven't seen one since I come back, I don't think." (See?) And I said, "Isn't..."
She said, "Bill, I want to ask you something." She said, "Now, you know that girl standing right there on the corner. You know where she goes to church."
I said, "Uh-huh."
"Well," said, "why is it that we...? They're--they are--they're people like we are."
I said, "Sure, just like we are exactly."
She said, "Well, what--why is it that they don't...? They're--they--they're religious. They go to church, and things like that." Said, "Why is it something in us won't let us do it?"
I said, "Well, we're--we're..."
She said, "Why, they're just Americans, just the same as we are."
I said, "That's what it is. They're Americans; we're not."
She said, "What?"
I said, "No, we're not Americans, no."

L-62 If you go to Germany, you get a German spirit. See? Germany has a national spirit. You go to Sweden, you get a Swedish spirit. Now, when I was in Germany we was having (Brother Arganbright's here somewhere)... And we had a great meeting. We was averaging about ten thousand converts a night, and fifty thousand in five nights they registered of Germans, communists, and so forth, coming to Christ.
And then I'd go down the street, and here was these saints with a great big schooner of beer in their hands, hollering, "Glory, Hallelujah. Praise the Lord." And I went over there, and set down at the table, a saintly, godly home, they was all pouring that beer around. I thought, "My goodness." Around like that, and they... So I was eating. All of them started talking in German one to another. They looked at me. And Doctor Guggenbuhl said, "They're wondering why you don't drink your beer."
And I thought "Oh, oh." I said, "You say what I say." I said, "I guess it's all right," I said, "But, you see, I was born under a Nazarite birth. I wasn't supposed to smoke, chew, or drink anything."
Oh, that was all right, "praise God," just went right ahead drinking. That's Germany.


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