The Golden Phones

Posted By: Nancy
Date: Wednesday, 9 August 2000, at 4:59 p.m.

The Golden Phones

It seems a man in Topeka, Kansas, decided to write a book about churches
around the country. He started by flying to San Francisco, and started
working east from there. He went to a very large church and began taking
photographs, etc. He spots a golden telephone on a wall and is intrigued
with a sign that reads "$10,000 a minute."

Seeking out the pastor he asks about the phone and the sign. The pastor
answers that this golden phone is, in fact, a direct line to Heaven and if
he pays the price he can talk directly to God. He thanks the pastor and
continues on his way. As he continues to visit churches in Seattle, Boise,
Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, and on around the
United States, he finds more phones, with the same sign, and the same answer
from each pastor.

Finally, he arrives in Virginia. Upon entering a church in Richmond, lo and
behold, he sees the usual golden telephone. But THIS time, the sign reads
"Calls: 25 cents."

Fascinated, he requests to talk to the pastor. "Reverend, I have been in
cities all across the country and in each church I found this golden
telephone, and have been told it is a direct line to Heaven and that I could
talk to God, but, in the other churches the cost was $10,000 a minute. Your
sign reads 25 cents a call. Why?"

The pastor, smiling benignly, replies, "Oh, my son, that's very easy to
explain. You see, you're in the South now and, of course, it's a local call
from here."

 

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