“ A SUMMARY. From a file of letters on hand, from the different parts of the country, we make the following extracts for the satisfaction of the churches and elders who are scattered abroad. As many false alarms are raised by designing men, that the church is breaking up and will soon be dissolved, and to make their falsehoods more current with the people, have added to it, lately, that our stone meeting house is giving way at the foundation, and will soon fall, and that in consequence of its disposition to give way, we had ceased to work on it. ”

“ We are confident that there never has been a time since the church commenced, that the prospects have been more flattering than they are at present. In all parts of our country, multitudes are enquiring after truth. So numerous are the calls, that if the number of elders were three to every one, they could not supply them. ”

“ If a man may be called eloquent who transfers his own views and feelings into the breasts of others—if a knowledge of the subject, and to speak without fear—are a part of the more elevated rules of eloquence we have no hesitancy in saying ORSON PRATT was eloquent ”

“ The Lord has been with me and blessed me with a few more sheaves, for which I rejoice in God my Savior; the cause of our heavenly Father is prospering exceedingly in this section of the country, and there are calls for preaching on the right hand and on the left, and I am not able to attend to them all. The church in this place has 28 members.—We have lost one of our number—sister Hannah Corbet, a worthy member: she departed this life on the 16th of Dec. ”

“ So we say concerning Alexander, Dudley and co. let them exert themselves with all their power, for they will find it a harder task to "kick against the pricks," than to reform, as they call it, masons and sectarians,—they have undertaken a task to [o] great for them: the arm of Omnipotence is too potent for "school boys," and this they will find after they have exhausted all their power. ”

“ The people in our own neighborhood continue to believe the evil reports which are circulating through the country, and will not let us have an opportunity of telling them what we do believe; and they prevent every person they can from hearing for themselves ”

“ In Laoni Village, Pomfret, Chautauque county, there is a church which was represented at the conference—20 members in good standing.
The church at Freedom, where the conference was held, has 74 members in good standing.
There was a little church in Hanover, Chautauque county, consisting of 11 members which was represented by elder Hadlock: they have much persecution, but count it all joy, being deeply rooted in the faith. ”

“ We would do injustice to the gentleman were we to omit stating, that in all the discourses, of the like character, that we have ever heard it has never fallen to our lot to hear so much harmony in the arrangement of quotations from the sacred book. ”

“ Extract from the Brookville Enquirer The following is taken from the Brookville (Ia.) Enquirer; and we copy it into the Advocate to show our friends the different feeling with which the elders of this church are received. All we have to say now on the extract, is that the Editor could not have been a sectarian—We judge him to be a Republican, and a gentleman. ”