REPORT FROM BRO. SNOOK.
By B. F. Snook
I ARRIVED at the Millersburg church on the 19th inst., and preached to a large and attentive audience. Sabbath we enjoyed good meetings. Sunday we held a business meeting, in which we transacted the following business: 1. Appointed two brethren to act as elders of the congregation until they prove themselves, and then they will be set apart by the laying on of hands. 2. The brethren adopted the plan of systematic benevolence. 3. Elder Graham's case was considered. The whole church recommended the following statement: "That Eld. Graham came among them as a brother of the same faith. They of course received and treated him as such; but very unhappily for them and the cause. Elder G. has proved to be a hypocrite, a willful liar. This they wish all to know, that no others may be deceived by him as they were. These brethren are holding their own, but I fear have not made much progress in the message. However they have done well considering their trials. It was a sorrow to my heart to see some who ought to set a better example, still using that most filthy and dirty weed, tobacco. I hear some of our brethren complain of "hard times," of "being in debt,"—"hard pressed to clothe their children." Yet these brethren must have their tobacco, coffee and tea. They however are so poor that they can give nothing to the Lord. May God help all such to cease applying his means in the Devil's cause—to reform themselves—to leave off all such filthiness of the flesh, and to love and serve the Lord. B. F. SNOOK.