Report from Bro. Cornell.
By M. E. Cornell
OUR new meeting-house at Norridgewock, Maine, was dedicated Dec. 9 and 10. These meetings were interesting and profitable. Many rejoiced with us in the privilege of assembling in so comfortable and commodious a house. The house cost about $2000, and is in debt only about $300. The Lord has prospered the work in a wonderful manner. The work was commenced in a very unfavorable time of the year, and was prosecuted in the midst of much opposition. It was built with free-will offerings, and carried through with harmony and general good feeling. Some of the people who reported that our workmen had quarreled and left the job, and that the building would be only fit for a barn or a railroad depot, must be somewhat astonished to see the best finished house in town, completed in the short space of nine weeks. This house, will no doubt, be a great benefit to the cause, being located at a central point among the surrounding churches, and friends of the cause. We have just organized a Sabbath-School with 36 scholars and eight classes, in which much interest is manifested by both parents and children. Next Sabbath we organize a large Bible Class, which we hope will be a blessing. They propose to go through the History of the Sabbath for their first lessons. We are rejoiced to hear a good report from several places in Maine. New friends are being raised up, and we begin to see fruit of labor that we had supposed was bestowed in vain. It is being gathered after many days. We rejoice in every sign of prosperity in the cause here and in every place; and with good courage we labor on in hope of life. Norridgewock, Me., Jan. 15, 1866.