<TITLE>12. Par 32-33</TITLE>L-32 One time there was a driver had to ascend the mountain, and a man had to hurry and get across the mountains, and so they said... One driver walked up; he said, "I'm such a perfect driver, I can drive these six head of horses and my carriage within six inches of that rim across that big thousand foot ledge. I can drive it in six inches at a full gallop and never fall."
Another driver stepped up, said, "Sir, let me take it. I can drive within four inches of it at a full gallop and never--and never fall."
And there was an old fellow just standing over there looking, the dri--the man wanted to go across the mountain, said, "What about you, sir?"
He said, "Well, look, mister, according to what they're talking; they're better drivers than what I am. I hug the wall; I don't take any chances."
He said, "You take me across." See? Don't see how close you can get to sin without sinning; see how far you can stay away from it. That's the way it is. Keep off the territory altogether. That's the way I want a church. That's the church I want to belong to: one that shuns the very appearance of sin, get away from it. Say, "Well, our girls, or our men, or our--they just have a little clean fun." Oh, my, my, clean fun. What Americans call clean fun...

L-33 I was up in Canada not long ago with my good friend Fred Sothmann, setting there. I... One of the great American... I ain't going to call the name of this group. And so they was up there having a--a convention, and whiskey bottles piled all over everything. When I come in that night, started up the--the--got on the elevator, and that boy... It even made me ashamed I was an American. And he looked around; I--I said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "The Americans are in tonight."
And I said, "My..." That was at Saskatoon. And I said, "It's some lodge having their convention." And so when I got up there and got off the hall at my room, started down, there was two young ladies standing back there, both of them with wedding bands on with their--just their underneath skirt on, drunk as they could be. An old drunk men trying to reach after them, maybe a husband home baby-setting. Maybe these men reaching after these young women, and their wives home taking care of a baby. But they were having a little clean American fun. It's filth and sin. That's right.


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