[CS-FSLUG] Hymn #365

[Don Parris]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 23:12 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>                                                     Hymn #365
> 
> 
>                    A minister was completing a temperance sermon. With
>                    great emphasis he said, "If I had all the beer in the
>                    world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."
> 
>                    With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all
>                    the wine in the world, I'd take it and pour it into
>                    >the river."
> 
>                    And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he
>                    said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I'd
>                    take it and pour it into the river."
> 
>                    Sermon complete, he sat down.
> 
>                    The song leader stood very cautiously and announced
>                    with a smile, nearly laughing, "For our closing song,
>                    let us sing Hymn #365, "Shall We Gather at the River."
> 
> 

I read in Reader's Digest years ago about the minister whose sermon
carried the service a good 10 or 15 minutes into overtime.  The Chairman
of Deacons apparently failed to see the humor in the musician's choice
of closing hymn, "Take Time Out for Jesus".

Another preacher apparently wasn't thinking to clearly when he chose "A
Mighty Fortress is Our God" at the weight-loss ministry.