There is a wonderful time-honored story that many of you will remember, but I don’t think you’ll mind hearing it again. Some of our young people may not be familiar with it.  It’s truly a golden oldie. It’s about a country preacher who announced that on the following Sunday he would preach on the story of Noah and the Ark. He gave the scriptural reference for the congregation to read ahead of time.

However, a couple of mischievous boys in the church noticed something interesting about the placement of the story of Noah in the Bible. So they slipped into the church and glued two pages of the large Bible in the pulpit together.

On the following Sunday the preacher got up to read his text. He was reading, of course, from the King James Version of the Bible. “Noah took himself a wife,” he be…