Report from Bro. Cottrell.
By R. F. Cottrell
Bro. White: Since my last report, I visited Cherry Creek, Chautauque Co., and the way seeming to be open, as the F. W. Baptist, is a free house, and—not occupied at the time, and as the Methodists had just closed a protracted effort, I commenced a series of meetings, the first two evenings in the Methodist house and then in the other. The weather and going were changeable; but when it was good there was a good attendance and a candid hearing. The number interested here was greater than at my former meetings already reported in the Review. Some confessed the truth frankly, and others had no objections to offer; but whether they will have a zeal of God sufficient to move them out in obedience, remains to be seen. Ah! here is the difficulty. How the truth would spread, if the people only had religion enough to obey their convictions of duty. I was sorry that there was not interest enough to obtain more subscribers for the Review. They took some books, however, and one subscribed for the Review and one for the Instructor. I still hope to see fruit of these meetings. And I still believe that that part of the State is a promising field of labor. I gave fifteen public discourses in this place. I returned home at the end of seven weeks from my departure, having preached forty times in all during my absence. R. F. Cottrell.