Today's Smile - The Sermon

For his Sunday sermon the vicar decided to lecture the congregation on the demons of drink. To press home his point he decided to use some props, a glass of water, a glass of whiskey and a matchbox containing two worms. After ranting on at great length on the subject he told the congregation he would give them a physical demonstration to illustrate how damaging alcohol could be. He took a worm from the matchbox and dropped in the glass of water. The worm was full of life and swam around vigorously in the glass. He then removed the second worm from the matchbox and dropped it into the glass of whiskey. Immediately, the worm shrivelled up and sank to the bottom of the glass. The vicar then addressed the congregation and asked them if anyone could tell him the moral of the story. A little chap at the back of the church jumped to his feet and shouted "drink plenty of whiskey and you'll never get worms".