The Baptists
Story★★★In the days of the Chicago gangsters, a Baptist preacher was held up one night by a bandit with a gun. “Stick up your hands,” he shouted. Holding his hands high, the minister pleaded with the bandit, “Why, you wouldn’t rob a poor Baptist preacher, would you?” “Are you really a Baptist?” asked the astonished bandit. “Yes, I am,” said the minister. “Put down your hands,” said the gangster, “I’m a Baptist myself.”
The point
A gun-toting robber called off his holdup the moment he learned his victim was a fellow Baptist.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous
To tell aloud
under a minute · 73 words