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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter S. Maroulis who wrote (15302)	7/12/2000 10:11:20 AM
From: Barney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 62558

Light On His Feet Things were not going well that Sunday... The young minister was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. To futher complicate things, he found out that the regular organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in at the last minute. The substitute wanted to know what to play. "Well, here's a copy of the service," he said impatiently. "But you'll have to think of something to play after I make the announcement about the finances." After the choir's anthem, the minister came to the pulpit and said, "Brothers and Sisters, we face a great challenge today...The roof repairs cost twice as much as we expected, and we need $4,000 more. Now, any of you who can pledge $100 or more, please stand up." At precisely that moment, the quick thinking substitute organist played a stirring redition of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And that is how the substitute organist became the permanent organist.