Dr. Halford Luccock, former professor of homiletics at Yale Divinity School, loved to tell this incident from his personal experience. One day a policeman friend of his stopped him in the midst of street traffic and asked, "What is the degree which many preachers have which makes them doctors?"

Dr. Luccock answered, "It is usually a D.D. - Doctor of Divinity. Why did you ask?"

"Well," said the policeman, "down at the police station that is the most common entry on the charge sheet. To us it means, ‘Drunk and …