Report from Bro. Cottrell.
By Roswell F. Cottrell
I AM continuing my labor at Shelby Basin, with an increasing interest. The meetings have been small, but the larger portion of those who have attended are convinced of the truth, and a considerable number have signified it by rising in the congregation. Another decided last evening to keep the commandments—not only to confess them, but to do them. May the others resolve to do likewise. Alas! how many will see the truth and not obey, and be left without excuse, self-condemned, and no plea to make but that the world had their hearts. May the dear friends here not be of that class. R. F. COTTRELL. Feb. 19, 1866. At a still later date Bro. Cottrell writes: Since my report of our Monthly Meeting at Shelby Basin, I have been holding further meetings in the place. Have spoken at the school-house some twenty times in all. A good work is begun. Four have embraced the commandments since my former report; and others are interested, and, I trust will soon decide to obey. The traveling and the weather has been variable, sometimes quite bad. The meetings have not been so large on this account, yet there have been a few that have been almost constant and very attentive hearers; and those most interested, and who are investigating and embracing the truth, are of the candid, reliable and respectable portion of the community, those whose influence, we have reason to hope, will tell in favor of the cause. May God bless all these friends, whose noble, Berean-like reception and investigation of the truth has endeared them to me. God grant that I may meet them in the promised kingdom. R. F. C.