AIRDRIE.- Our progress has lately been of the most cheering description. Since wrote you last we have been highly favoured with a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Our pastor, Mr Dunn, baptized twenty-seven, thirteen males and fourteen females, Sep. 18; on Nov. 20, five; on Dec. 18, four; on Dec. 25, three; and on Jan. 8, two. is only twelve months since Mr D. came amongst us, and upwards of seventy have been added to the church. May they all prove faithful unto death. A good work has also been going on at Drumclare, where, in May last, our pastor organized a church of twenty-four members; now they number about ninety, most of whom have been baptized by our pastor.
Mr Abercrombie now acts as the pastor of the church, and his labours have been greatly blessed. A marvellous change has been effected in the village which was once notorious for its drunkenness and blasphemy. But the song of the drunkard has been changed into a hymn of praise and the bold blasphemer has become a humble worshipper. In short, the people in their hearts and in their lives seem to have become new creatures - old things are passed away, and all things are become new.
May they all hold fast their confidence in Christ Jesus unto the end.
From, "The Baptist Reporter," February 1860, page 59.