Fate of a Godless Town.
By G. W. A.
THE following paragraph, which is cut from a religious paper reminds us of the prophetic words of old—"They that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." Let infidels read it and tremble.
G. W. A. “Some German infidels founded a town in Minnesota, which was named New Ulm, stipulating that no church should ever be placed on the town plot on pain of its reversion to the original owner. The settlers spent their Sabbaths in revelry, and threatened to hang or drown any preachers who should disturb them with the gospel. On one Sabbath last summer they made an effigy of the Saviour, and burned it on the public street. Before the next Sabbath the Indian outbreak began, and the savages assaulted this impious community, and destroyed between 150 and 200 houses, completely desolating the place. The dance hall, which escaped the general wreck, was afterwards used as a place of religious worship by the volunteer troops who were stationed there, and the gospel of Jesus was thus preached in the very place where his religion had been scorned, and he so grossly insulted and reviled.”