Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Precedence. [ARTICLE]

Precedence.

A dispute about precedence once arose upon a circuit between a bishop and a judge; and after some altercation the latter thought he should quite confound his opponent by quoting the tallowing passage: “For on these two hang all the law and the prophets.” “Do you not see,” said the judge, in triumph, “that even In this passage we are mentioned first?” “I grant you,” replied the hlshop; “you hang first.”