If you said to him, 'You're a scoundrel,' he'd say, with that smooth smile of his, 'Yes, that's so.' A minister should have more backbone.

The long and the short of it is, I consider him a reverend jackass.

But, of course, this is just between you and me.

When there are Methodists in hearing I praise him to the skies.

Some folks think his wife dresses too gay, but _I_ say when she has to live with a face like that she needs something to cheer her up.