A new Pastor in a small Oklahoma town 

spent the first four days making personal 
visits to each of the members, inviting 
them to come to his first services.

The following Sabbath the church was all 
but empty.

Accordingly, the Pastor placed a notice in the 
local newspapers, stating that, because the 
church was dead, it was everyone's duty to 
give it a decent Christian burial. The funeral 
would be held the following Sabbath afternoon, the notice said.

Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In 
front of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. 
After the Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and 
invited his congregation to come forward and pay their final 
respects to their dead church.

Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the corpse of a 
"dead church," all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin.

Each "mourner" peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away 
with a guilty, sheepish look. In the coffin, tilted at the correct 
angle, was a large mirror!