GENDER
It is quite possible to trap clergymen, as well as laymen, with the
following question, because they are not always learned in the Old Testament.
"If David
was the father of Solomon, and Joab was the son of Zeruiah, what relation was
Zeruiah to Joab?"
Most persons give
the answer that Zeruiah was the father of Joab, necessarily. That is not
the correct answer. The trouble is that Zeruiah was a woman. And, of
course, David and Solomon having nothing whatever to do with the case.
GENTLEMAN
There has been
much controversy for years as to the proper definition of the much abused word
"gentleman." Finally, by a printer's error in prefixing un to an
adverb, an old and rather mushy description of a gentleman has been given a
novel twist and a pithy point. A contributor's letter to a metropolitan
daily appeared as follows:
"Sir -- I
can recall no better description of a gentleman than this --
" 'A
gentleman is one now never gives offense unintentionally.' "
GEOGRAPHY
The airman, after
many hors of thick weather, had lost his bearings completely. Then it
cleared and he was able to make a landing. Naturally, he was anxious to
know in what part of the world he had arrived. He put the question to the
group of rustics that had promptly assembled. The answer was
explicit:
"You've come
down in Deacon Peck's north medder lot."
GOD
The little boy
was found by his mother with pencil and paper, making a sketch. When asked
what he was doing, he answered promptly, and with considerable pride:
"I'm drawing
a picture of God."
"But,"
gasped the shocked mother, "you cannot do that. No one has seen
God. No one knows how God looks."
"Well,"
the little boy replied, complacently, "when I get through they will."
GOD'S WILL
The clergyman was
calling, when the youthful son and heir approached his mother proudly, and
exhibited a dead rat. As she shrank in repugnance, eh attempted to
reassure her:
"Oh, it's
dead all right, mama. We beat it and beat it and beat it, and it's deader
'n dead."
His eyes fell on
the clergyman, and he felt that something more was due to that reverend
presence. So he continued in a tone of solemnity:
"Yes, we
beat it and beat it until -- until God called it home!"
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