| 666 Commencing Saturday, October 18, there was a reunion held in Leeds, England, Elder Thomas Taylor presiding. The following other ministers participated: James Baty, S. F. Mather, Samuel Platts, Henry Greenwood, Joseph Dewsnup, Sr.
A church at Farm Creek, Iowa, was dedicated October 19. On October 30, Isaac F. Scott, who in 1847 was one of the editors and publishers of the New Era, published at Voree, Wisconsin, as an opposition paper to the movement of James J. Strang, died at his residence near Pardeeville, Wisconsin.
November 3 a church near Coldwater, Michigan, was dedicated, Columbus Scott preaching the sermon and E. C. Briggs delivering the dedicatory prayer.
On November 10 Elder J. A. Robinson wrote from Knobnoster, Missouri, that he and Elder F. G. Pitt had just dedicated a new church at that place.
Under date of November 19 Elder J. J. Cornish wrote from Coleman, Michigan, relating some of his experiences in the missionary field. One instance is so unique in its character that we insert it:
Last week a United Brethren minister challenged us to discuss baptism and the laying on of hands, with the signs following them that believe.
Bro. A. Shippy came for me to come and discuss the same. But when I came the minister denied challenging any of us, but it was proved that he had made it so broad that it meant any one of the Saints. He, after some talk, said he would discuss the subject of baptism, but afterwards refused to discuss any subject whatever. In the close of his speech last Sunday morning he gave liberty for any one to speak who loved the Lord, but before he took his seat he said: "Any one can speak who do not bring in their doctrine. Those who believe in doctrine can not speak, and those who believe 'these signs shall follow them that believe' can not speak in my meetings; I positively refuse to allow them, now and for ever."
In the Herald for November 22 appears an editorial entitled "Deliver Them Up," which sets forth the position of the church regarding the laws of the land and the light in which they should be regarded by the church. It reads as follows:
There is one item of the commands to the church to which we desire to
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