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.
Going to a very large church, he began taking photographs and making notes.
He spotted a golden telephone on the vestibule wall and was intrigued with a sign, which read "Calls: $10,000 a minute.."
Seeking out the pastor he asked about the phone and the sign. The preacher answered that this golden phone is, in fact, a direct line to heaven and if he pays the price he can talk directly to GOD.
The man thanked the preacher and continued on his way. As he continued to visit churches in Seattle , Dallas , St. Louis , Chicago , Milwaukee , and many cities and towns all around the United States , he found more phones, with the same sign, and the same answer from each pastor.
Finally, he arrived in Mississippi , upon entering a church in the beautiful Delta region of Mississippi , behold - he saw the usual golden telephone. But THIS time, the sign read "Calls: 35 cents"
Fascinated, he asked to talk to the preacher, "Preacher, I have been in cities all across the country and in each church I have 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 only 35 cents a call. Why?"
The preacher, smiling broadly, replied, "Son, you're in Mississippi now ... You're in God's Country.. It's a local call."
Why do Mississippians go barefoot? When you are in Mississippi you are on Holy ground!
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
Coming through in October, however my wife says she feels closer to God when ever I am behind the wheel. . ........But I will keep .$35 ready in case she is correct. and bare feet gets this ole yankee over??
In Indiana the call is free because GOD likes Indiana best out of all the states in our country and accepts all cost for the call. This was not true of Indiana until IU fired Bobby Knight and took the curse out of our state,oops,off our state. Man a chair just wizzed over my head!
Good One...
. ........But I will keep .$35 ready in case she is correct. and bare feet gets this ole yankee over??
