Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1916 — The Best Passage. [ARTICLE]

The Best Passage.

A somewhat conceited clergyman, who was more celebrated for the length of his sermons than for their eloquence, once asked the late Father Healy what he thought of the one Just preached. “Well, sir," replied the humorist, “I like one passage exceedingly well." “Indeed, Father Healy, and pardon me for asking which passage you refer to?" “Well, my dear sir,” replied the wit, “the passage I refer to was from the pulpit in the vestry room.”