A hat was passed around a church congregation to take up an offering for the visiting minister. Presently it was returned to him… embarrassingly empty.

Slowly the parson inverted the hat and shook it meaningfully. Then raising his eyes heavenward, he exclaimed, „I thank you, Lord, that I got my hat back from this congregation.”

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