<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-36-3 Now, here's going to be a little stinger now, and I don't mean it in no harsh way. I just... This is teaching. You have to... When you hit these places you have to sting and burn a little. You see? Now, wait. It's just like branding a calf. I used to hate to do that--to brand a calf. Poor little fellow, we'd run out there and... I don't know whether you ever calf-roped or not and--and--and--and tie them. You hog-tie them (See?) across the... And the poor little guy, you run down there, and take this hot branding iron, and sock it on him. Oh, brother, it looked horrible! When he got up, he really had a running spell. He just run, and kick, and holler, and beller, and go on. But I tell you, they knowed from then on who he belonged to. That's right. They knowed what--what pasture he belongs on. There's no joke about it then. So let's brand. See? Let's brand. Yes, sir. When they said...
You know the... you... Many of you has read or sang the Cowboy's Meditation. You see? And the stray yearling, when you get him in on the last there, at the round-up, the stray yearling they just make soup out of him, 'cause he--no brand on him at all. So the rest of them goes on to their own pastures, but the boss of the round-up knows his cattle. So if you... Brand hurts.

L-37-2 Now, look! Satan could scientifically prove by his wisdom (now, I'm going to play the part of a doctor here for a few minutes), Satan could scientifically prove by his wisdom that the soil that he was going to give for the human race to grow in had vitamins. Sure did. He could scientifically prove it. They can scientifically prove anything they want to almost. See? Sure.

L-37-3 It had Vitamin P, "pleasure, popularity." That's in it; that's in his wisdom soil: (sure, sure!) all the worldly pleasure, all the picture shows, all the dances, all...?... "Go ahead, that's all right, it won't hurt nothing." Sure. See? Popularity. "Well, you're the biggest church there is in the city." All right.
It had Vitamin C in it, which he referred to as "common sense." Makes reason. See?
It had Vitamin R in it which meant "reasonings." Yeah, he could reason. But you see, that won't work.
It had Vitamin beau--B in it, which means "beauty." Satan is beautiful. Sin's beautiful; and as sin begins to get more and more, more beautiful it becomes. How much better house we got today than the log house? How much more prettier is it? How much prettier is our women today than they used to be? See? How much prettier is Florida than it was--now than the way God created it? See? It's got beauty. How many knows that Satan is of beauty, and he desired beauty and tried to create a beauti--more beautiful kingdom and so forth? Sure, we know that. Satan is in beauty.

L-38-1 Now, notice! He had Vitamin R which is "reasoning"; Vitamin B which is "beauty"; Vitamin M which is "modern"; "Aw, you want to be modern."
Just take his knowledge and find out if you don't believe that stuff. It'll grow right in you. That vitamin will come right up where you are setting. Some fellow stand up and give you some of his knowledge, "Now, look, friends. What would it be if we took this great lovely cathedral here and had a lot of screaming, and crying, and speaking in tongues, and running up-and-down the floor, frothing at the mouth like mad dogs? And--and what do you think the mayor of the city would say, deacon board, if we permitted such a stuff as that to come in here?" Oh, sure, it's modern. "You think our people would stand down there on the street with a tambourine in their hand and... What would it do if our sisters would come with big, long hair hanging down, and the rest of the women going through town, 'Looky there. Looky there, why the president of this church (ever what it is, you know)... Well, look, looky there, she look like an old model, don't she? Her spare tire is going flat on the back.'" You know, something like that.


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