Archive-name: Humour/paytrans.txt Archive-author: Archive-title: Pay for your Transgression Offerings had been down the past several Sundays and the preacher decided he had to do something to change the trend. The next Sunday, as the plate was being passed he said "Brothers and Sisters, I don't like to have to do this, but there is a man in the congregation who is having an affair with another parishioner's wife, and if there is not at least five dollars in the collection, I will reveal his name. Later, as he counted the money he found 2O five dollar bills, and a two dollar bill with a note that read "Forever hold your peace, I'll have that other three dollars before sundown." --