Down South they tell about one old Baptist minister who preached every Sunday on baptism by immersion. His folks agreed with his doctrine, but they were tired of hearing the same subject dealt with every week.

The deacons undertook to solve the problem through diplomatic means. They complimented him on his pulpit skills and suggested to him that he was such a natural preacher that they wanted to try an experiment. They wanted to hand him a piece of paper with a scripture lesson on it just before he stepped into the pulpit. "We believe that you’re so good," they said, "that you can preach a great sermon with no preparation at all ” just that slip of paper."

What preacher could resist an approach like that? So, the deacons got busy searching the Scriptures for a text which was totally unre…