Stealing by cutting the ends off of logs

There was a settlement in the West whose people were engaged in the lumbering business. They wanted a church, so they built one and called a minister. The preacher was well received until one day he saw some of his parishioners collecting logs that had been floating down the river. Each log was marked with the owner’s stamp on one end. The pastor saw his members pulling in the logs and sawing off the end where the telltale stamp appeared. The next Sunday he preached a sermon on the text “Thou shalt not steal.” His people congratulated him on his “Wonderful message.” However, that week, he saw his parishioners continuing to steal logs. This bothered him a great deal. So he went home and worked on a sermon for the following week. The topic was “Thou shalt not cut off the end of thy neighbor’s logs.” When he got through, the church membership ran him out of town. The hardest person to put under the correction of God’s Word is yourself. (Source Unknown).