Note from Bro. Cornell.
By M. E. Cornell
BRO. WHITE : The interest of this meeting is still good, though the people are slow to decide fully. Only fourteen have been baptized. About as many more we expect will go forward. We have decided to stay yet another seven days, for the following reasons: 1. Their spring wheat and oat harvest is now on hand. 2. There are many that are yet undecided. 3. There are several that want to be baptized, but could not be yesterday on account of a death in the neighborhood. Bro. McConnell's daughter died suddenly. He and his wife had been Methodists, but the minister and part of the trustees refused their house for the funeral. The Congregationalists opened their house, so I had many new hearers. Prejudice gave away anew. The course of the Methodists in refusing their house has disgusted the people much, and is deciding the course for many of their numbers. We now expect to go to Hadley next, twelve miles south-west of Lapeer. Bro. Sanborn has moved there, and wants the people to hear the truth. I was at Lapeer, found them in a low state, gave four discourses, had two meetings for social benefit. There is a great call for Bibles. I got eight from the depository at Lapeer, and they did not last here three minutes. We shall send for twenty-five more this week. Our Discipline takes well. Memphis, Mich., Aug. 10, 1863.