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“⁠—and I stood,” Elmer was explaining, in the pulpit of Wellspring Church, “there on the Roo deluh Pay in Paris, filled almost to an intolerable historical appreciation of those aged and historical structures, when suddenly up to me comes a man obviously a Frenchman. + 

“Now to me, of course, any man who is a countryman of Joan of Arc and of Marshal Foch is a friend. So when this man said to me, ‘Brother, would you like to have a good time tonight?’ I answered⁠—though truth to tell I did not like his looks entirely⁠—I said, ‘Brother, that depends entirely on what you mean by a good time’⁠—he spoke English. + 

“ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘I can take you places where you can meet many pretty girls and have fine liquor to drink.’ + 

“Well, I had to laugh. I think I was more sorry for him than anything else. I laid my hand on his shoulder and I said, ‘Brother, I’m afraid I can’t go with you. I’m already dated up for a good time this evening.’ + 

“ ‘How’s that?’ he said. ‘And what may you be going to do?’ + 

“ ‘I’m going,’ I said, ‘back to my hotel to have dinner with my dear wife, and after that,’ I said, ‘I’m going to do something that you may not regard as interesting but which is my idea of a dandy time! I’m going to read a couple of chapters of the Bible aloud, and say my prayers, and go to bed! And now,’ I said, ‘I’ll give you exactly three seconds to get out of here, and if you’re in my sight after that⁠—well, it’ll be over you that I’ll be saying the prayers!’ + 

“I see that my time is nearly up, but before I close I want to say a word on behalf of the Napap⁠—that great organization, the National Association for the Purification of Art and the Press. I am pleased to say that its executive secretary, my dear friend Dr. J. E. North, will be with us next month, and I want you all to give him a rousing greeting⁠—” + 