A pastor had on his desk a notebook labeled, “Complaints of members against members”.

When one of his people called to tell him the faults of another, he would say, “Well, here ¹s my Complaint Book, I’ll write down what you say, and you can sign it. Then, when I have to take the matter up officially, I shall know what I may expect you to testify to.”

The sight of the open book and the ready pen had its effect. “Oh, no, I could not sign anything like that.” – And no entry was made. The minister says he kept the book for forty years, opened it a thousand times, but never wrote a line in it.

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