THE CHIEF END OF MAN

When Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler once put the question, "What is the chief

end of man?" to a gathering of Sunday-school scholars, he received for

an answer, "To glorify God and annoy Him forever." Another minister

relates that he once asked this famous question of a very much neglected

boy, "What is the chief end of man?" and the boy promptly replied, "Why,

I guess the end that has the hat on!"

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