Its a Adirondacks thing

"It's an Adirondack Thing! "

A man in Topeka, Kansas, decided to write a book about churches
around
the
country.

He started by flying to San Francisco, and started working east from
there. Going to a very large church, he began taking photographs and
making
notes. He spotted a golden telephone on the vestibule wall and was
intrigued with a sign which read "$10,000 a minute."

Seeking out the pastor he asked about the phone. The pastor answered
that
this golden phone is, in fact, a direct line to Heaven and if he pays
the
price he can talk directly to God. The man thanked the pastor and
continued
on his way.

As he continued to visit churches in Seattle, Austin, Michigan,
Chicago,
Milwaukee, and all around the United States, he found more phones,
with
the
same sign, and got the same answer from each pastor.

Finally, he arrived in Saranac Lake, NY. Upon entering a church in
the
middle of the Adirondack Mountains, behold, he saw the usual golden
telephone. But THIS time, the sign read "25 cents a minute"

Fascinated, he asked to talk to the pastor.

"Reverend, I have been in cities all across the country and in each
church,
I have found this golden telephone and have been told it is a direct
line
to Heaven and that I could talk to God, but, in the other churches the
cost
was $10,000 a minute. Your sign reads 25 cents a minute. Why is that?"

The pastor, smiling, replied, "Son, you're in the Adirondacks now.
This
is
God's country...it's a local call."