<TITLE>16. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 Oh, brother, how we need some more men like that. And it's usually when you're thinking on things like that that He appears. Search the Scriptures. It's when people are thinking and believing. When you got your mind on staying home from the prayer meeting on Wednesday night to see "We Love Sucy," or some of them silly television things they got and dodging church... How are you ever going to do anything with a class of people like that?
You know the birds make their nest in spring of the year. But if that male bird hasn't been with that female bird, them eggs won't hatch. She can just hover them, and be so loyal, and stay there until she gets so poor she can't fly off the nest. But if that female bird hasn't been with the male bird, the mate, them eggs won't hatch. They'll rot right in the nest.

L-60 And that's as bad as it is today. We've taken people by confession, and letter, and so forth, into the church, that knows no more about God than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knight. And what have we got? A big nest full of rotten eggs, men and women who knows no more about God than nothing else. It's time to clean the nest out, and start from the pulpit to the janitor, and get them people in contact with God, who knows what the power of God is, who's been born again by the Holy Ghost. Right.
You can't make deacons out of them, and them married four or five times, and all kinds of stuff like that, because it's a meal ticket. It's a shame. That stuff's coming right amongst our Pentecostal people, and in the weakness of the message to let the people glamour in sin, and carry on, and then still call themselves saints. We need a shaking revival.

L-61 Not long ago talking with the great--or hear him talk rather, the great evangelist, Billy Graham. When he was in Louisville, Kentucky, he raked them preachers. I was setting there. Dr. Mordecai Hamm, the one that led him to Christ, he's a good friend of mine... He just passed into glory at ninety-something years old, a few mo--about a year and a half ago. And Brother Hamm was setting there by me.
And Billy got up there, and he said, "You bunch of lazy preachers." He said, "I come in a city and stay there six weeks. And when I do I'll have thirty thousand confessions." You know, they call it... I believe that's what they call it, "Decisions." Decisions is all right. Decisions is confessions, stones. But what good does it do to have stones if you haven't got a stonemason to cut them out in the shapes of sons and daughters of God?
What good does a million decisions do, when there's still glamour in sin, and act like everything, and never have a--never have a change of heart? Still smoke, chew, drink, dip snuff, watch television, stay home from church, and put their name on a book, and call themselves Christians? Men, letting their wives out in the yard with little old things on.

L-62 Here the other day I seen the most hideous sight I ever seen. I was down at Clifton's Cafeteria, and I was waiting for Brother Arganbright to come up. And here come a woman. I--I never seen anything like it in my life. I... She had green in here, and red, and all different colors. Might've been a nice looking woman. But the way she had one of them water-head haircuts, like the first lady, you know, and all that nonsense. And there she was standing there.
And I--I'm a missionary. I've seen pellagra; I've seen leprosy. I never seen anything like that in my life. And I was going over to her to ask her if I could pray for her, tell her that I was a missionary, and I--I felt sorry for her. And I wanted to pray for the woman. I thought, "I--I never seen leprosy on a person like that." A human being with green eyes, blue, and all kinds of nonsense, with enough manicure on their lips to paint a barn with.


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