Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1913 — Hanging Prophets. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Prophets.

"A little, girl at our morning service yesterday,’’ said Rev. James E. Craig, “knelt beside her mother while the commandments were being read. When the rector said, ‘On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets,’ the little girl whispered : “ ‘Mamma, how many—-s* “‘Shi’ hissed her mamma. “ ‘But, mamma, how many prophets are there?' _ “ ‘Why, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Habbakuk, Jonah, Haggal, Malachi, Zephaniah, dearie. I can’t think of all of them without looking them up, but I fancy there must have been about twenty.’ “Twenty? And they hanged ’em all on two commandments?’ ”