<TITLE>12. Par 52-55</TITLE>L-52 But now, what if this woman gets married, and takes all these vows and everything, and she becomes this man's husband, and she's heir to all he's got, and so forth, and then she goes wild? she starts off on a tantrum? she starts off running after other men? Not only that, but she's sharing her love with others. A man with his wife, all the promises that they've made, and then she goes out and starts sharing her life with others, her love and her affection with others...
That's what too many so-called Christians do, sharing your love with the world: playing, dancing, gambling, staying home from prayer meeting to watch television, all kinds of worldly things that's took the place of the love of God in the church's heart. She's gone on a tantrum. She's gone wild. She's gone out after other men. She's sharing her love. She'll take her tithings that she should give to the church; she'll spend it on other things out there in the world. She'll... Instead of loving God the way she should do, and living for God, and loving to come to church, you almost have to persuade her to come.

L-53 Why, I know here not long ago, a--a minister told me that he sent out so many prayer--so many cards to get people to sign that they'd pledge to come to Sunday school at least six months out of every year.
And I'd seen a little old girl down below the hill there where I'd been working. And she come out of there. And I was standing at the door, knocked at the door, and she come to the door. And she was some of these here wildcat players, you know. Like this bunch they had to have arrested down here in Phoenix last night, I believe it was, doing this new perversion of--of rock and roll, or twisters, or ever what it was. And they had to get the cops to come get them.
Young folks, don't you understand that that is the spirit of the devil? Under the influence till they didn't know what they was, out in the streets carrying on?

L-54 Like some of these comedians, or these record players, and jockeys, and so forth, going to a play in a city I was in, and the young ladies taking off their underneath clothes and throwed it on the platform for this boy to autograph. Don't you realize, that's the devil? It's a spirit of the last days. Sure. It's such a shame. There you are, gone wild.

L-55 And this young woman, she come out carrying on. She didn't even know... forgot me standing at the door. And she said, "Oh, pardon me. I forgot about you standing there." And she throwed a kiss to that guy on the radio, or ever what it was, and said, "I'll meet you out at the Green Briar Patch," or whatever it was. They was going to have some kind of a dance that night.
And I said to Dr. Brown, which was a friend of mine.
He said, "How is your congregation holding out up there, Billy?"
"Fine." I said, "We're giving them pills."
He said, "What kind of pills?"
I said, "Gos-pills; that sure keeps them coming all the time," See?
And he told me about that, signing those pledges. And I said, "Dr. Brown, do you think that that wildcat player on that radio would have to make that girl sign a pledge that she'd be over there that night? Not at all. She'd pawn what clothes she had on to get there. Why? It's something in her that's connected her, a spirit, to that worldly amusement."


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