The Painting Lesson

A Scottish tradesman, a painter called Jack, was very

interested in making a pound where he could. So he often

would thin down his paint to make it

go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got away with this

for some time. Eventually the Presbyterian Church decided to

do a big restoration job on one of their biggest churches.

Jack put in a painting bid, and because his price

was so competitive, he got the job. And so he set to, with a

right good will, erecting the trestles and putting up the

planks and buying the paint and thinning it down with the

turpentine.

Well, Jack was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job

nearly done, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of

thunder. The sky opened,

and rain poured down, washing the thin paint from all over

the church and knocking Jack fair off the scaffold to land on

the lawn.

Now, Jack was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the

Almighty, so he fell on his knees and cried, "Oh, God!

Forgive me! What should I do?"

From the thunder, a mighty voice spoke: "Repaint! Repaint!

And thin no more!"