EARTH-SHAKING SERMON
There was an Indian preacher out in New Mexico whose congregation was so scattered that he had to deliver his weekly sermons via smoke signals. It so happened that he was expounding the Gospel on the day the first atomic bomb was detonated. The earth shook, and he heard the distant rumble, and he saw the gigantic, mushrooming cloud. He looked down at his meager fire. He looked up at the immense cloud. Then he said wistfully, “Now that’s what I’ve been trying to say!” From The Seven Deadly Virtues, by Gerald Mann, 1979, Word, Inc., p. 9
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