Washington County News | 1929-12-12 | Page 11 | Pulpit Jokes

j - Pulpit Jokea xSZbi late Pr. John Roach Straton, unbending at Greenwood Inke, told a i reporter a number of pulpit jokes. "Then there was a very nervous preacher," Doctor Stratton said, "who 1 gave out as his text one Sabbath, 'Heaviness may endure for a Joy, but night cometh In the morning.' "Another preacher had to preach before a convention of medicos. He was a joker, that man, and no mistake. mis-take. His text was, 'A certain woman wom-an had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was Dothlng better, but rather grew worse.' "A terrible Scotch preacher offi-ated offi-ated at a notorious miser's funeral. This Isn't a Joke, though. The Scotchman Scotch-man took for the text of his funeral sermon, 'And the beggar died.' "