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From: wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim Wall)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Religious Joke
Message-ID: <3095@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 17:45:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 17:45:08 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Apr-84 04:21:38 EST
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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   There was a town that was beset by a great flood, with the water
rising by the minute. A local preacher was sitting atop the single
story church watching the water rise.  One of his parisheners comes
by in a rowboat to save the preacher, but he won't budge. He said
'I have faith in the  Lord, He won't let me drown'; and so the man
in the rowboat rows off to safety.  Sometime later (and the water 
a few feet higher) the civil patrol boat comes by and tries to get the
preacher to abandon his rooftop, but again the preacher wouldn't be
swayed: ' The Lord will not let me drown, for I have complete faith
in Him'.   With the water dangerously close and still rising at an
alarming rate, a helicopter swoops down and the rescuers plead with
the preacher to be lifted to safety. However the preachers faith was
complete, and he once again refused on his complete faith in the
Lord and his knowlege that the Lord would not let him down. As it ends
up, the river continues to rise and the preacher is swept away and 
drowns.
   Later in Heaven, the preacher goes to see the Lord, and says ' I 
believed in you, and prayed to you to save me, why did you let me
drown?'  To which the Lord replied: 'What did you want? I sent you 
two boats and a helicopter didn't I?'

						-Jim
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