<TITLE>21. Par 63-65</TITLE>L-63 Went to Italy. They won't set you out water; it's wine. And I went down to the drug store and got me some of this here distilled water. It was in a jug. It had one of these... like vines, wrapped around it. I guess everybody thought I carried my own brand. So I just went around drinking out of this jug all the time (See?), this distilled water. I didn't want their wine. No. But, you see, that's--that's the Italian spirit.
And you go over into Finland. I was in there and they took us over to give... They said, "We're going down to the YMCA and--and have a sauna." That's a Finnish bath. When I got down there, I thought something felt awful funny. I said, "I don't believe I want to take one." And somehow another when all the brethren went in there, here come a little blond-headed woman out with a big bunch of towels, going around where them men was stripped. I said, "Hey, hey, don't do that." And she looked at me and kind of laughed, and went on in. And here they was out there, with them women scrubbing those men out there. I said to Doctor Manninen; I said, "That's not right."
"Oh," he said, "they're just scrub women, like your American nurses." Something like that. I said, "I don't care what it is; God never intended it to be that way." That's right. But that's Finland. See?

L-64 And you come to America. When I... Was ever anybody ever in--in Europe and Rome, and went down to Saint Angelo's? A disgrace to our nation even in Italy. It's got a sign, right there by the side of Saint Angelo's catacomb, said, "American women, please put on clothes to honor the dead when you come in here." Oh, my.
Brother Arganbright and I was setting there eating, doing pretty well with a good steak till Miss United States happened to rise up, with enough jewelry on her hands for this ten cent store, a cigarette out about that far, and a pair of glasses out like this, and a poodle dog, and set it on the table. Oh, it makes you ashamed: a nation that's supposed to be a Christian nation.
That don't make it Christianity. No, sir. We're not Americans. We live here. As nationally, human beings, we are living under this, and it's the greatest nation in the world, as far as that's concerned. But I'm telling you... Just like Joan of Arc in the time of the French revolution. France needed a revolution, but then it needed a counter-revolution. And that's what America needs. It needs a revival and a counter-revival (That's right.) to straighten up some of the things that's in the churches and the lives of the people. Democracy's right, but then we need a revival in democracy to straighten it up. That's exactly true.
Oh, if we're Americans, if we're born free Americans, what we're thankful of.

L-65 I said to my wife, "But, you see, we are from another land, honey."
She said, "What other land?"
I said, "From heaven. We are born from above. Therefore, up there..." I said, "Americans? Sure, everybody does that. They get out and smoke cigarettes, wear immoral clothes; men whistle and carry on at them, and gawk at them, and have wrecks, and everything else." I said, "That's Americans." That's right. That's Americans: buzzards. See? That's right. Come out and gawk, and looking dirty, filthy, ungodly, indecent. Go to church, deacons, even preachers (Yes, that's right.), go into the church, and act... And call themselves Christians, and acting like that? What happened? They're Americans. That's the spirit of America.
Why do you stay at home at night and watch jokes on that television that oughtn't to be told in a bunch of drunken sailors, uncensored programs and all this kind of dirty tommyrot? Some of the old mothers and daddies almost ready to die, and give them a television to stay home from church. What they need is back into prayer meeting, back to God. Right. No wonder we're ready to have an atomic bomb with our name on it. We justly deserve it. That's exactly right. We've wronged and we've sinned against God. God can send His Holy Spirit along through the country...


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