Excelsior and New Lisbon, Wis.
By George C. Tenney
LAST Sabbath I met with the few friends of the truth in Excelsior. As the result of our meetings, only about five have embraced the truth. These are people of moral worth. We pitched our tent in New Lisbon last week, and opened meetings Thursday evening. Have held five meetings, and there seems to be some interest, though we find spiritualism, skepticism, and Ingersollism prevailing, both in the churches and out. One aged man, who claimed to have been a Methodist for fifty years, said to us that he should choose to be hung rather than believe some statements in the Bible, and he did not think God would ever punish any one. These things are freely allowed in the churches, and yet the whole fraternity of orthodox clergymen join to raise the warning cry of "heresy" when the plain truths of the Bible are taught. G. C. TENNEY.