The missing bicylce

The minister of a small village had lost his bicycle and suspected that one of the congregation had stolen it.

One of the deacons advised the minister that the best way to catch the culprit was to preach a sermon on the ten commandments and to watch the faces of the congregation carefully when he got to 'Thou shall not steal'.

The minister began his sermon in fine style but lost the thread of his argument and ended the sermon in a complete muddle.

"What went wrong?" asked his friend, the deacon, afterwards. "Well," said the minister, "the sermon was going well until I got to

'Thou shalt not commit adultery' and then I remembered where the bicycle was."