SUNDAY, July 16.  I baptize Magdalena Moyers and Barbara Tusing.  We stay all night at Charles Snider’s.

FRIDAY, August 11.  Attend harvest meeting at the Flat Rock.  It behooves us, at these meetings, to be on our guard, lest we fall into a feeling of self-satisfaction.  I mean by this that it is possible for us to become so well satisfied with ourselves now that we have returned thanks to the Lord for the rich gifts of his love, in the bountiful harvest we have just gathered, that we have no need of being watchful as to the use we make of it.  Brethren, if our thankfulness be from the heart, this very feeling will lead us into a desire to make a right use of what the Lord has given.  Perhaps it would be better for us to take up more time at our harvest meeting in talking about the ways and means of using the gifts of God, and how best to apply them to the end that will do most good to one another and the poor, and thus most honor and glorify him.  I made remarks similar to these, and think that I will speak more on the same line of thought to-morrow.

SATURDAY, August 12.  Harvest meeting at our meetinghouse.  After meeting, go up to Isaac Ritchey’s in Brock’s Gap, and stay all night.

SUNDAY, August 13.  Jacob Stirewalt, a Lutheran minister, preaches and administers the sacrament at Sowders’s church to-day.  I happen to be present, and am reminded of my boyhood experience in Pennsylvania, when I used to be in the Lutheran church on such occasions, and when it often fell to my lot to pump wind for the organ.  In the afternoon we have meeting at Jacob Whetzel’s.  I stay all night at James Fitzwaters’s.

SUNDAY, August 27.  Meeting at Daniel Garber’s.  Matthew 13 is read.  Brother Daniel Miller baptized three persons to-day.  This day also Samuel and Joseph Good and their wives are baptized.

FRIDAY, September 15.  Creek and river very high.  A great freshet.  A very wonderful washout occurred in the side of the North mountain, above Turleytown, back of Elijah Baker’s.  It is supposed to have been caused by a waterspout or cloud-burst, as it is sometimes called.  A great flood of water seemed to fall on the side of the mountain on a small patch of ground, uprooting trees, overturning rocks, and carrying all in one huge mass into the hollow below, where they lodged.  The flood, rolling on, carried off Moses Pumphrey’s milk-house, and did some other damage.

WEDNESDAY, October 4.  Meeting and love feast at Beaver Creek.  Hebrews 12 is read.  The brethren and sisters were exhorted to “follow after peace, and the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord; to take heed lest any fall short of the grace of God by living unholy lives.”  Whilst it is the duty of the housekeepers to look after the purity and order of the church at all times, still it does appear that a special eye should be had on the body at the times of our love feasts.  “All things are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom