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| | History of St. John's |
 | | As years passed the Protestant Church in central and eastern Germany and in the Scandinavian countries took on the characteristics of Lutheranism, with its emphasis on liturgy, while in Switzerland, France, southwestern Germany, and the Netherlands, the Reformed Church with its emphasis on preaching, was the stronger. |
 | | The old Church on its lovely hill, overlooking the beautiful valley with its widely sweeping west~ward curve, witnessed the burnings, the scalpings, the countless raids, the hurry of flight, the steadier plodding sound of marching feet; and after it all was ended, when the final victory was won, it welcomed the homeless home. |
 | | The lands north of the church were thereupon sold to the highest bidder for the sum of $6025, with the rights of the school district excepted and the church cemetery inviolate until the graves should be removed to Prospect Hill. |
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