Bible

A pastor in Washington, D.C. had an early morning Bible Study Program on TV. Each Sunday after the program, he would stop at the hospital to visit sick parishioners. On one such visit, he received an unusually enthusiastic greeting from a man who had been hospitalized for a long time. “You’ll be so glad to know that this week you beat the Fat Man by one vote, the man said excitedly. It seems that the hospital ward had only one TV set, and the programs to be watched were decided by majority vote of the patients. After weeks of lobbying and buying votes with cookies and candy bars and magazines, the preacher finally succeeded: The Bible Study Program won out of its chief rival, the Fat Man. Said the pastor, “I thought to myself that when we can beat out the Fat Man with a Bible Study Program, we’re on our way at last.”