This is a hoot, but I suspect that minister didn’t appreciate it.

HYMN No.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 hymn-leader stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, nearly laughing, ‘For our closing hymn, let us sing Hymn No. 365, ‘Shall We Gather at the River.’