The convenience store clerk got...
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The convenience store clerk got off late and walked home in the dark. He took the shortcut through the cemetery, as he did every night. But he didn't know about the open grave. Since he didn't know about it, and didn't see it, he fell in it. He tried to climb out, but the sides were steep and slick, and he couldn't reach the top. He gave up and decided to try to nap until daylight when someone might come by to help. He stretched out in the bottom of the grave. During the night, some college fraternity brothers on a freshman initiation drove into the cemetery. They pushed the freshman out of the car and into the grave. Laughing at their own cleverness, they drove away. Knowing the frats would like any excuse to do more mischief to him, the freshman waited until the lights and noise of the car had faded, then he tried to climb out. The store clerk watched him slide back. Again he tried. He slid back. He reached up to try a third time. That's when he heard the story clerk say, "You'll never make it up that way." BUT HE DID! You'll never make it that way. That's what they told Jesus at Nazareth. Paul at Antioch. Peter at Rome. Amos at Bethel. Elijah at Mount Carmel. Samson in the Philistine arena. Luther, again at Rome. Livingstone in England. Stanley in his search for Livingstone. It's what they told Bell about his telephone. And what they told the patriots of the American Revolution. -- Mosley
