Laugh-In:  In 1962, after I had been preaching only a few months at Sistersville WV, the brethren asked me to preach a Gospel meeting there. It was a good meeting, resulting in several baptisms and restorations — but not on the particular night on which the following incident occurred. As the people gathered, one man named Brookover sat down near the front and promptly went to sleep. [He was on medication which inclined him to be very drowsy]. As the singing began, he awoke and sang with us, but when the preaching began he promptly went back to sleep. As I preached, he gradually scooted down in the pew, and eventually he began to snore. A few snickers went over the audience. His snoring got louder and louder, until loud laughter began first in one area, then another. It got so funny I couldn’t preach any more, so I stopped and said, “Will one of you awaken our brother?” Someone later suggested that they should have said, “You waken him; you put him to sleep!” But they were merciful and spared me that. Instead, Bill Cokeley slid across the pew and elbowed Brookover in the ribs, whereupon everyone roared with laughter. Brookover jumped awake, thought I must have told a joke, and himself started laughing. At that, the laughing only became louder. After a while it died down and I started to preach again, but it was no use. I couldn’t say more than a half dozen words until the