A Minister was completing a temperance sermon. With great emphasis he said, “if I had all the beer in the world, I’d take it & pour it into the river.”

Then with even greater emphasis he said, “And if I had all the wine in the world, I’d take it & pour it into the river.”

And finally, shaking his fist in the air, he said; “And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river!” Sermon completed, he then sat down.
Then the Choir Director stood up & announced; “Let us sing Hymn #345;
Shall We Gather at the River.”