Lilliland Priest is Missing

aron Von Lodge was the head of a small country known as Lilliland near Switzerland. The time was the early 1900s.

Lilliland has numerous churches of various religions. Father Staub was a very popular priest at the Episcopal Church. His Sunday morning mass was always very crowded.

Before coming to the Episcopal Church in Lilliland, Father Staub was in Canterbury, England for 20 years.

Father Staub held a Wednesday morning mass that was attended mostly by tourists and visitors to Lilliland. Following the Wednesday morning mass, Father Staub would hold a meeting of the church elders. When Father Staub failed to show up for the meeting with the church elders one Wednesday, the elders sensed something was wrong. Father Staub was missing and foul play was suspected.

It turned out that Father Staub, while walking through the church, came across two thieves who were stealing a golden cross off the wall. The thieves grabbed the cross, and Father Staub, and hid out in a cabin in the Alpine Mountains that no one knew about. Father Staub realized that the two thieves were unknown to him but were two young men who were he judged to be in their early 20s. The priest asked his captors what they were planning to do and it quickly became apparent that they were uncertain as to their plans. They obviously had never stolen anything before, nor had they every kidnapped anyone before. Father Staub said to them that whatever they sowed, so shall they reap. They had no idea what the priest meant by that so he tried again. Whatever in life you plant, you shall harvest. That worked a little better. Then the priest said that this one crime would foster another and another until they would become outcasts to their families, friends and themselves. The young men said that they wanted to make amends and return the cross and the priest and become members of the church, not outlaws.

The priest blessed them and everything turned out very well.