Editor’s Note: This column mysteriously appeared in the Western Recorder offices . Perhaps we accidentally threw away its envelope, on which the sender was identified. Perhaps it was left by the same trolls who put typographical errors in the paper! Nevertheless, the mysterious origin of this epistle shouldn’t keep you from enjoying its wit.

A young man had just graduated from the seminary and was being interviewed for his first church. He had never been a pastor before.

The pulpit committee had him in a room examining him when the chairman said, “Son, do you know much about the Bible?”

He answered: “Why certainly I do. I’m a seminary graduate. I know all about the Bible.”

The chairman said: "Well; which part do you know the best? The Old Testament or the New Testament?"

He answered, "I know it all . . . the Old and the New Testament."

The chairman said: "Well, if you know so much: about the Bible, why don't you just tell us one of the familiar stories of the Bible...for instance, the Good Samaritan. Do you know the story-of the Good Samaritan?"

He said, "Why, certainly I do."

The chairman said, "Well, tell us the story of the Good Samaritan."

He said:

"Well, there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, who went down to Jerusalem by night and fell upon stony ground, and the thorns choked him half to death.
 

"And he said, 'What shall I do? I shall rise and go to my father's house.'
 

"And he rose and climbed up into a sycamore tree.

"The next day, Solomon and his wife, Gomorrah, came by and found him and took him down to the ark for Moses to take care of.

 

"But as they were entering the ark through the Eastern Gate, he caught his hair in a limb and hung there for forty days and forty nights. And he was afterward hungry, and the ravens came and fed him.”
 

"The next day, the three wise men came and took him down to Ninevah, and when he got there he saw Delilah sitting on the lawn.
 

"And he said, 'Chunker down, boys.'
 

"And they said, 'How many times shall we chunker down? 'Til seven times?'
 

"And he said, 'Nay, but until 70 times seven.'”
 

"So they chunkered down 490 times, and she burst asunder in their midst. And the disciples gathered 12 baskets of the garments that remained.
 

"'And in the resurrection whose wife shall she be?"'

The chairman of the committee said: "Brothers and sisters, I think we ought to call him. I know he's young, but he sure does know his Bible."

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