The minister of a city church a drink now and , but his passion was for peach brandy. One of congregants would make a bottle each Christmas. One year, when the minister to visit his friend, hoping for his Christmas present, he was not disappointed, but his friend him that he had to thank him the peach brandy from the the next Sunday.
In his haste to get the bottle, the minister hurriedly and left. So the next Sunday the minister remembered that he to make a public announcement that he was supplied alcohol from a of the church. That morning, his friend in the church with a grin on his , waiting to see the minister's .
The minister into the pulpit and said, "Before we , I have an announcement. I would very much to thank my friend, Joe, for his kind of peaches ... and for the spirit in they were given!"