The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-18
WARNS MINNEAPOLIS
DISASTER IS COMING
REV. GEORGE SHAW PAINTS A
PERIL LIKE SAN FRANCISCO.
Declares Boosting Of Wickedness
J. Brought Visitation Of God on, the
City Of the Golden Gate-People
Had Premonitions of Destruction to
Come.

aOut from San Francisco comes Rev.
George Shaw, modern prophet, a. lat
ter day Isaiah, to warn Minneapolis Of
coming destruction.
"When I heard that MINNEAPOLIS
had voted goodness. out and wickedness
in, [ said in my deepest heart, Min
neapolis is the next; city to be visit
ed.ssr Thus read the prophet at the
First Baptist. church last night. 49,
He affirmed that San Francisco was
visited with earthquake and fire, not
because it was wicked, but because it
boasted Of it's wickedness. By the same
token he failed :.to..show why Mime
apolis should suffer destruction, not be-
ing a boastful city: - - IT,
With raven black, straight hair, thin,
splrituelle features slender body, long
arms and expressive: hands,. Rev. Mr..
Shaw of San Francisco, standing in the
pulpit Of the FIRST Baptist church last
night, looked the typical Kentucky.
bred, Operator Of the Henry Clay. type,
and he did not lessen the impression by
his language. ..%.~>..*s 1850, =:
5tS, Destroyed Before Fire. = =
Mr.. Shaw was evidently not sent
forth on his mission by the commercial
bodies of San Francisco. If he was he
lssrecreant to his trust. He saws that
the city was thoroly destroyed before
esfire began on the Hateful morning of
April 1s. He believes that if one re:
turns to San Francisco in five years he
WILL find more ruins than anywhere, else
on4Eod's footstool,1 unless destruction
comes to some other city. He depre-:
Gates the professed. truths in the South.
ern Pacific roads pamphlet which
makes light of the action of the
earthquake and assigns. fire as the de-
strnctive agency. It is evident that
Mr. MT. Shaw is very dubious about the fu-
ture of the city. -. ~5<' - ~',-...:>., 49,.
Judgment on City. ~. -
esso said s ~ esR bsg& of San Il ss9
francisco s difficulties, I speak. in all
good faith, but I am here to speak my
convictions. I looked on the religious
aspect of the earthquake very largely,
assto whether it was a Judgment Of the
city It is against the spirit of. the
times to say God is vindictive and God
Furnishes sin, but I believe the calam.
itY.of San Francisco was visitation
ofsdivine Judgement. -. ~-0,, -
80 Let me tell you of San Francisco as
twas. San Francisco, had it's vices.
it's red light district. it's Chinatown; it
had ITS graft; it had it's 5000 saloons,
open twenty-four hours every day the
year round, paying an $84 year
license. It had its grocery stores and
ilauor-selling connected. Gambling
was on every corner. Vice was SO flag
rant that it almost made one blush to,
walk the streets. 81. -. :.
ssssYet, don't think it was for her
vices that God punished San Fran
cisco.
xsThere is no sin like losing all dis
taste for sin. The sin of boasting of
sinsssand I believe San Francisco as a.
city,Ecam to the place in her history
that she gloried in her sin as perhaps
no other city has DONE feel that
was the sin that brought the speedy
vengeance Of an almighty God.
ashsd San Francisco and not Seattle.
ESss1 believe God Almighty gave San.