You know, that’s a problem. See? The thing of it is, that you are—you are…maybe have to make a living. But you know what that would do for me? That’d make me so nervous I couldn’t…I—I—that…You might be able to put up with it, but that little bunch of “Rickys” in there carrying on like that, and “Rickettas,” I’d—I’d—it’d run me wild. See?

And I tell you; I—I…If it would be mine, I know what I’d do. I’d say, “You stop that or get out of here.” See? I’d run a right kind of a place or not run at all. But you, if you have to do it for a living, I don’t want to disregard you, Brother or Sister. I—I know it’s hard to say these things; but that—that just…It isn’t right (you see?), because it looked like it kind of…

Like someone said this morning about our women wearing their dresses so short, our older women, was a bad example to the young ladies. I think that’s right too. You see?

And I think that same thing. When they see you in there where all this smoking and carrying on is, and know your testimony, and all this cursing and—and rallying around them little children like that, and them carrying on like that, and you saying nothing about it, it’s a bad thing on your testimony. You do whatever the Lord leads you. I pray that God will lead you to the right way.

Questions and Answers #2, 1964-08-23, Jeffersonville, IN, §224