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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke

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To: Arctic Trader who wrote (11958)10/13/1999 8:30:00 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
It was a cold winter's day that Sunday. The parking lot to the church was
filling up quickly. I noticed as I got out of my car that fellow church
members were whispering among themselves as they walked to the church.

As I got closer I saw a man leaned up against the wall outside the
church. He was almost laying down as if he was asleep. He had on a long
trench coat that was almost in shreds and a hat topped his head, pulled
down so you could not see his face. He wore shoes that looked 30 years
old, too small for his feet with holes all over them, his toes stuck out.

I assumed this man was homeless, and asleep, so I walked on by through
the doors of the church. We all fellowshipped for a few minutes, and
someone brought up the man laying outside. People snickered and gossiped
but no one bothered to ask him to come in, including me.

A few moments later church began. We all waited for the Preacher to take
his place and to give us the Word, when the doors to the church opened.
In came the homeless man walking down the aisle with his head down.

People gasped and whispered and made faces. He made his way down the
aisle and up onto the pulpit he took off his hat and coat. My heart
sank. There stood our preacher...he was the "homeless man." No one said
a word.

The preacher took his Bible and laid it on the stand. "Folks, I don't
think I have to tell you what I am preaching about today." Then he
started singing the words to this song. "If I can help somebody as I pass
along. If I can cheer somebody with a word or song. If I can show
somebody that he's traveling wrong. Then my living shall not be in
vain."
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