A minister accepts an invitation to speak at another church one Sunday, so he assigns his new assistant to officiate at his own church in his place.
When the minister gets home, he asks his wife what she thought of the his assistant's sermon. "It was the poorest one I ever heard," she said. "There was nothing to it at all. The fellow just went on and on and said nothing."
Later in the day, the minister dropped in on the assistant and asked how he got on. "Oh, very well, I think," the younger man replied. "I didn't really have time to prepare anything, so I just preached one of your unused sermons."
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