Three Canadians from Guelph, Archie, Leanne and Scott decided to write a book about famous churches around the world. So they each bought a plane ticket and took a trip to see friends from Tiree now living throughout the world. On his first day they were inside a church taking photographs with Babs Humphry from Wisconsin when they noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read "$10,000 per call". The Canadians, being intrigued, asked a priest who was strolling by what the telephone was used for. The priest replied to Archie that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 you could talk to God. The Canadians thanked the priest and went along his way. Next stop was in Austalia to get Ian Lamond to tour the Canadians around. There, at a very large cathedral, they saw the same golden telephone with the same sign under it. The Canuks wondered if this was the same kind of telephone they saw in Wisconsin and Leanne asked a nearby nun what its purpose was. She told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 she could talk to God. "O.K., thank you," said Leanne. The three then travelled to throughout other churches around the world. In every church theysaw the same golden telephone with the same "$10,000 per call" sign under it. The Canadians, upon leaving Louis MacDougall's Victoria Island croft where they saw the same telephone in a nearby church decided to travel to another isle, this time in Scotland to see if the Scots had the same phone. They arrived at the Isle of Tiree, Scotland, and again, in the first kirk they entered, there was Lachie Brown speaking on the same golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read "40 pence per call." Scott was surprised so he asked Lachie about the sign. "Lachie, we've travelled all over the world and we've seen this same golden telephone in many churches. I'm told that it is a direct line to Heaven, but in the price was $10,000 per call througout the world. Why is it so cheap here on the Isle of Tiree, Scotland?" Lachie smiled and answered, "You're on the Isle of Tiree, Scotland now, son - it's a local call". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.geocities.com/tireehomecoming < A'Bhuain website May 22-26, 2006 Isle of Tiree, Scotland Gathering