CHAPTER VIII.
_THE MEETING AND ITS MISSIONARY WORK_.
The Methodist church in the village is doing now, as it has always done, a good and noble work for Christianity and the cause of public morals; but it has not escaped the trials which are permitted sometimes to afflict the Church militant.

Years ago, when the congregation was first organized, it erected a small but very pretty frame meeting-house.

In the course of time the people became dissatisfied with the location of the house of worship; and as they had a good offer for the site, they sold it and bought a better one in another quarter.

Then they put rollers under the building, and as soon as it was off the ground the purchaser of the lot began to build a dwelling-house on the site.

It was slow work pushing the church along the street, and before they got far somebody discovered that the title of the new site was not good, and so the bargain was annulled.