A Scotch minister in need of funds thus conveyed his intentions to his congregation:
"Weel, friends, the kirk is urgently in need of siller, and as we have failed to get money honestly we will have to see what a bazaar can do for us."
It is said that the farthing was coined in response to a demand from Scotchmen for a satisfactory coin for the collection box. It"s value is a fourth of a cent.
A minister was on his vacation in the country. A neighboring church heard of it and asked him to preach while their own pastor was away.
He consented and, on the Sunday when he was to supply, he and his boy walked across the fields to the church. In the vestibule there was a box for voluntary contributions and the minister after feeling around in his pocket found fifty cents which he dropped in. After the sermon, the elders came up to express their appreciation for his fine sermon and then remembered they hadn"t yet paid him. They generously decided to give him all the collection for that Sunday and on opening the contribution box they found exactly fifty cents. The minister accepted it and went on his way home. After walking some distance the boy noticed his father was very silent evidently pondering over something, so he said, "Father, how much did you get?"
The father replied "Fifty cents, son."
"Why father, that"s just what you put in, wasn"t it?" asked the boy.
"Yes, son."
Both walked along in silence for some distance further, then the boy spoke up and said: "Father, if you had put more in, you"d have got more out, wouldn"t you?"
Tight, who had money to burn but was apparently afraid of fire, happened in a church one day when a collection was being taken for foreign missions. Eventually the collector reached Tight, but Tight didn"t make any motions like producing beautiful coin.
"Pardon me," said the collector, placing the box before Tight, "we are taking a collection for foreign missions. Wouldn"t you like to add a little to the amount?"
"No, sir!" was the decisive rejoinder of Tight. "I never give to foreign missions."
"Then take a little out of the box," softly responded the collector.
"The money is for the benefit of the heathen."
A church in Kansas was raising funds for a new church and the minister was calling on members for subscriptions. One of the pillars of the church rose and said: "I subscribe five dollars." Just at that instant a piece of plaster fell on his head. Half stunned he mumbled "f-f-five hundred dollars" and the minister prayed "Oh Lord, hit him again."
CONUNDRUMS
A party of young people were amusing themselves by guessing the answers to conundrums. One of them asked, "Why is the pancake like the sun?"
"Because it rises in der yeast and sets behind der vest," was the answer given by a brilliant young Swede.
They were discussing that joke about getting down off an elephant.
"How do you get down?" asked the jokesmith for the fourth time.
"You climb down."
"Wrong!"
"You grease his sides and slide down."
"Wrong!!"
"You take a ladder and get down."
"Wrong!!!"
"Well, you take the trunk line down."
"No, not quite. You don"t get down off an elephant; you get it off a goose."
COOKERY
"So your husband kept house and cooked his own meals while you were away. Did he enjoy it?"
"He says he did; but I notice that the parrot has learned to swear during my absence."
"My husband has had indigestion for the past month."
"Really! I"m so sorry! I had no idea you were without a cook."
OFFICER--"Is that soup ready, Jones?"
OFFICER"S SERVANT--"No, sir, the stove went out, sir."
OFFICER--"Went out! Then why don"t you light it again?"
OFFICER"S SERVANT--""Cos it went out by the roof, sir."
"How do you like my pound cake, dearie?" asked Mrs. Newlywed.
"Why, er-er-er," stammered Mr. Newlywed, "I don"t think you pounded it enough, did you?"
She had not been married long. She made a pie for dinner. During the meal she hesitatingly remarked to her husband:
"I think I left out something and the pie isn"t very good."
After taking a bite he sadly replied: