They were on the lake ice-fishing
When the church bells began to ring.
They could hear the organ music
And the people begin to sing.

Hank was the first one to mention
How very bad his conscience hurt.
But they both kept right on fishing…
“Well my conscience is clear,” said Bert.

“You have no excuse for missing,
So I know the guilt you must feel.
I couldn’t have gone anyway,
‘Cause this morning my wife took ill.”

Have you ever noticed that the same excuse that will keep you out of church wouldn’t even slow you down when it comes to fishing or a football game or shopping or something that you really like to do?

In Conscience, two buddies are discussing this very fact. One knows that he has no good excuse for not being in church but the other couldn’t have gone anyway because… Well read the poem and find out.