When Bishop Booth of Vermont died, a friend said: “I know where the bishop is tonight. His soul has gone to hell.” Then the friend added: “That’s the only place he can be happy; there’s such work to do there.”
A dark joke implying a bishop is happily working hard even in hell.
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