Would you like someone to practice your sermon on? No. No thank you, child. Mother and I...

Pollyanna: [She has gone to Reverend Ford with a message from Aunt Polly, and finds him a little way from his wife in an outdoor setting where they are picnicking, practicing an angry, scolding sermon. She give him the note, and he starts opening it] Would you like someone to practice your sermon on? Reverend Paul Ford: [distracted, trying to read Aunt Polly's note] No. No thank you, child. Pollyanna: Mother and I used to be an audience to my father when he was practicing his sermons. [He ignores her] Pollyanna: He was a minister too, you know. Reverend Paul Ford: [still distracted] Yes yes, so he was. Pollyanna: Do you like being a minister? Reverend Paul Ford: [somewhat stunned] Do I like being a- [defensive, slightly hostile] Reverend Paul Ford: Now, why would you ask a thing like that? Pollyanna: Oh... the way you looked just then. Reminded me of my father. Once I saw him sort of sad like that, and I asked him. Reverend Paul Ford: [suddenly interested] And what did he say? Pollyanna: Hmm, said he was glad he was. But it made him sad sometimes. He just couldn't seem to get through to his congregation. Reverend Paul Ford: [a little more friendly] Sounds familiar. I suppose every minister of God faces the same problem. Pollyanna: Mmm, I suppose. Reverend Paul Ford: [keenly interested] Tell me, did your father ever solve the problem? Pollyanna: Well, he read something one day that he said helped him. Reverend Paul Ford: In The Bible? Pollyanna: No. Just something he read someplace. He had it put on this chain. He wore it always. It's all I have of his. [She opens the locket around her neck, and tries to read the inscription, but it's too close] Pollyanna: "When you look for the bad... " Ooh! It always makes me cross-eyed. Reverend Paul Ford: May I? Pollyanna: [agreeing] Mm! Reverend Paul Ford: [reading] "When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will."-Abraham Lincoln. Pollyanna: He was the President. Reverend Paul Ford: Yes. Yes, I know. But I never heard that before. Pollyanna: Neither had my father. Anyway, he said it started him thinking. And from then on, he was going to look for the good in people. That's when we both started searching The Bible for the texts. Reverend Paul Ford: [confused] The texts? Pollyanna: Yes. You know. My father called them the glad passages. [He still looks confused] Pollyanna: You know! The happy ones, like, mmm, "Shout for joy!" or "Be glad in the Lord." You know, like that. There are eight hundred happy texts, did you know that? Reverend Paul Ford: I didn't know that. Pollyanna: Yes, well there are. And, you know, my father said, if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be happy and rejoice, he MUST have wanted us to do it. [remembering the time] Pollyanna: Oh, I'd better be going now. I'm sorry to have interrupted your practice. I'll see you later. Goodbye, Reverend Ford. [She leaves] Reverend Paul Ford: [reading Aunt Polly's note aloud] ''Dear Reverend, I've taken the liberty of Jotting down a few thoughts, and some text from Matthew, which I thought you might want to use in your sermon tom-'' [to himself] Reverend Paul Ford: Oh, my God. What have I done? What have I done?