A minister concluded that his church was getting into
serious financial troubles.
Coincidentally, by chance, while checking the church
storeroom, he discovered several cartons of new bibles that
had never been opened and distributed. So at his Sunday sermon,
he asked for three volunteers from the congregation who would be
willing to sell the bibles door-to-door for $10 each to raise the
desperately needed money for the church.
Peter, Paul and Louie all raised their hands to volunteer
for the task. The minister knew that Peter and Paul earned their
living as salesmen and were likely capable of selling some bibles
but he had serious doubts about Louie. Louie as just a little
local farmer, who had always tended to keep to himself because he
was embarrassed by his speech impediment. Poor little Louis
stuttered very badly. But, not wanting to discourage poor Louis,
the minister decided to let him try anyway. He sent the three of
them away with the back seat of their cars stacked with bibles and
asked them to meet with him and report the results of their
door-to-door selling efforts the following Sunday.
Anxious to find out how successful they were, the minister
immediately asked Peter, "Well, Peter, how did you make out
selling our bibles last week?"
Proudly handing the reverend an envelope, Peter replied, "
using my sales prowess, I was able to sell 20 bibles, and here's
the $200 I collected on behalf of the church."
"Fine job, Peter!" The minister said, vigorously shaking
his hand. "You are indeed a fine salesman and the Church is
indebted to you."
Turning to Paul, he asked "And Paul, how many bibles did
you manage to sell for the church last week?"
Paul, smiling and sticking out his chest, confidently
replied," I am a professional salesman and was happy to give the
church the benefit of my sales expertise. Last week I sold 28
bibles on behalf of the church, and
here's $280 I collected."
The minister responded, "That's absolutely splendid, Paul.
You are truly a professional salesman and the church is also
indebted to you."
Apprehensively, the minister turned to little Louie and
said, "And Louie, did you manage to sell any bibles last week?"
Louie silently offered the minister a large envelope. The
reverend opened it and counted the contents. "What is this?" the
minister exclaimed. "Louie, there's $3200 in here! Are you
suggesting that you sold 320 bibles for the church, door to door,
in just one week?"
Louie just nodded. "That's impossible!" both Peter and
Paul said in unison. "We are professional salesmen, yet you claim
to have sold 10 times as many bibles as we could."
"Yes, this does seem unlikely," the minister agreed. "I
think you'd better explain how you managed to accomplish this,
Louie.."
Louie shrugged. "I-I-I- re-re-really do-do-don't
kn-kn-know
f-f-f-for sh-sh-sh-sure," he stammered. Impatiently,
Peter interrupted. "For crying out loud, Louie, just tell us
what you said to them when they answered the door!"
"A-a-a-all I-I-I s-s-said wa-wa-was," Louis replied,
"W-w-w-w-would y-y-y-you l-l-l-l-l-like t-t-to b-b-b-buy
th-th-th-this b-b-b-b-bible f-f-for t-t-ten b-b-b-bucks
---o-o-o-or--- wo-wo-would yo-you j-j-j-just l-like m-m-me
t-t-to st-st-stand h-h-here and r-r-r-r-r-read it t-to
y-y-you?" |
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