When Elijah crossed the river Jordan by a Ford and went up on high.
Clergyman—examining a Sunday School, Now, can any of you tell me what are the sins of omission?
Small Scholar—Yes, sir, they’re the sins you ought to have committed, and haven’t.
Rev. Goodman—Mr. Slick, our Sunday-school superintendent is a tried and trusted employe of yours, is he not?
Banker—He was trusted, and he’ll be tried if we’re only fortunate enough to catch him.
It is reported that Pope Gregory XVI offered his snuff-box to a Cardinal, who declined it, saying: No, your holiness, I have not that vice. To which the Pope replied in thoroughly human way, if it had been a vice you would have had it.