The Church And Its Condition

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You know, where they go to kill sheep, you know what leads the sheep up to the killing block, is a goat. But the goat will lead the sheep right up the chute at the slaughterhouse, and, then just the time he gets the sheep coming up the chute, then he’ll jump out. But, oh, they say, when they’re going to kill the goat, then he kicks up a storm. See?
And that’s the way the devil will do. He’ll try to lead God’s children right into the meanest, but when it comes time for him to die, he really kicks up a storm then. That’s the way the devil does it. And that’s the way sometime, some little fancy-looking girl or some little snicklefritz boy, with a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of whiskey, would lead a little girl off, a lamb of somebody’s fold, off to the wrong. “Oh, it’s all right. There’s nothing to all that goody-goody stuff about church.” But let death strike that old boy one time, you hear him squealing, hollering all over the country. And that’s the way the devil does it.