we have to do.”  There should be no spots in our feasts of love.  All should be unspotted love and purity in Christ Jesus.  Otherwise our services may not be acceptable to him.  If there be anyone amongst us to-day who feels and knows in his own heart that he is a fornicator or profane person as Esau was, any one that is conscious of having in himself any feeling of bitterness towards the body or any member of it; I hereby, according to authority from the Lord, admonish such not to approach the table of the Lord.  Such sins should be publicly confessed before the church; and according to the words of the Lord, the church has authority to loose the brother or sister from such sins, when deeply and duly repented of.  “Whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.”

But I here entreat all to think soberly.  Let none stay away from the table of the Lord on account of a feeling of unworthiness before God.  “For the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:  a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”  When we are meek and lowly in heart under a deep sense of unworthiness and shortcomings, then it is that the spirit is bearing witness with our spirits.  Though free from sin, still our Lord confessed that he himself was “meek and lowly in heart.”  Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.  He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

After such exhortations and instructions the brethren and sisters joined in singing that heart-cheering old hymn: 

  “Arise, my soul, arise;
    Shake off thy guilty fears: 
  The Bleeding Sacrifice
    In my behalf appears. 
  Before the Throne my surety stands;
  My name is written on his hands.”

We have had good weather all this day and night, and a fine meeting.

MONDAY, October 16.  Between this date and the twenty-third Brother Kline, in company with Anna, his wife, visited the following named families:  Daniel Glick’s, David Wampler’s, Widow George Kline’s, Samuel Miller’s, Jonas Wampler’s, Daniel Wampler’s, Jacob Hoover’s above Staunton, Joel Garber’s, Jacob Zigler’s, Christian Kline’s, Jacob Wine’s, Martain Good’s, Joseph Miller’s, Daniel Garber’s, Frederic Kline’s, Jacob Earley’s and Flory’s.  He attended a number of meetings in connection with the foregoing visits, and reports the Brethren and relatives generally well.

WEDNESDAY, October 25.  Brother Kline started to Hampshire County, West Virginia.  He went by way of the South Fork and Moorefield in Hardy County, West Virginia; and got to Brother Nicolas Leatherman’s by Thursday night, after two very hard days’ ride on horseback.  On this journey he visited John Leatherman’s, Daniel Arnold’s, Joseph Arnold’s, David Good’s, Solomon Michael’s and others.  He attended a love feast and one other meeting at Arnold’s meetinghouse, and had night meeting at Solomon Michael’s.  Here his subject was the baptism of John.  From Solomon Michael’s he went to Brother Stingley’s in the west part of Hardy County, West Virginia, where he met and filled an appointment for preaching.  From this place he went to Parks’s; and on