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The Preacher's Son

||The writer couldn't answer the question at the end of this story, can you?|| A preacher and his son set out to reach new lands with the good news of the gospel. On the journey there were lots of reasons to go back but the preacher encouraged his son that they keep going. Finally they saw a city where Christ had not been preached. The city had a strange rule for strangers; they killed them or enslaved them. Along the routes leading to the city were the bodies of strangers who had been brave enough to spy its secrets. The boy urged his father more fervently that they turn back but he refused. Upon entry they were seized. The father was condemned to death and the son imprisoned. The preacher assured his son that no harm would come to them and that his son remember numerous acts of deliverance from the Bible. Alas! The preacher was killed. The son was locked up with the few prisoners in the city, mainly women. His heart sank deep in sorrow as he sang his father's fav...