REPORT FROM BRO. CORNELL.
By M. E. Cornell
BRO. SMITH: Since my last report I have held meetings in several places. At Townsend I gave four lectures, but the going was so bad that only a few were out to hear. In fact, it has been so rainy and muddy most of the time since I came to this State that it was of no use to try to get up an interest in a new place, and many that are already interested could not attend meetings. So it will be seen that there has been a very slim chance to ascertain what the real degree of interest is in this State. By request of Bro. Coon I went to Wakeman and gave several discourses in the Episcopal church; some few appeared interested, but the weather was so unfavorable that there could not be a regular attendance. Four subscribed for the Review, and it is expected that a few will keep the Sabbath. Bro. Coon took great pains to get the light before his neighbors, but for the most part they manifested no desire to hear the evidences of our positions. Bro. Coon and family were very kind to us, and were not forgetful of our needs. If any of the brethren should be passing that way, they will find a hearty welcome at Bro. Coon's. Bro. Tillotson conveyed us to the cars at Sandusky city, where we arrived just eight minutes too late for the cars, and had to wait fourteen hours. Here was a chance for reflection. The cars would wait only their appointed time—will it be so with the car of salvation? "Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Heb. iv, 1. We were very sorry to come short of car-time; but oh! what will be the feelings of those who come short of eternal life? When the cars left Sandusky that morning at ten minutes past eight o'clock, some were taken and others left; so it will be when the saints are gathered and the chariots of God start for the eternal city. No doubt the time of their departure has nearly arrived. In the evening we called into the Baptist meeting and heard the Eld. point out to his members their fall, their coldness and indifference to their high profession. If he had only applied Rev. xviii, 2, and called them "Babylon," the testimony would have been complete. But after such a strait testimony it was surprising to hear him extol the church. Said he, "Once the people of God were persecuted, but now the church is respected and powerful. It is the most honored institution in the world—second to none." Mr. Brittan, the noted Spiritualist Editor from N. Y. city, had been there, giving a course of lectures, and had created considerable excitement, and obtained many subscribers for his paper. Alluding to this the Baptist Eld. said, "There has been too much attention paid to the devil in this city for the last few weeks; we had better attend to the things of God." I learned that Mr. Brittan had a large attendance, and many were praising his eloquence and endorsing his sentiments. I was told that a man in Milan was at a circle, and being very skeptical, pushed his tests so far that the spirits got vexed, and taking the horn or trumpet, gave him such a "rap" on his nose that he carried the marks several days. The "all signs" are fast multiplying in the land. The frog-like spirits are scattered over the whole world, and their "wonders" are fast deceiving the inhabitants of earth, and preparing them to be gathered to the valley of Jehoshaphat, to perish in the great battle of Armageddon. "Time now is closing, Jesus will come,
Signs are fulfilling, earth's pillars groan."
Republic, O., Dec. 26th, 1858.