SATURDAY, February 24.  Raise the new meetinghouse on Lost River.  Stay all night at Silas Randall’s.

TUESDAY, March 26.  My dear old father dies this night, at forty minutes past three o’clock in the morning.  He has lived to a great age, has seen all of his children settled in life and doing well, has served his day and generation to good purpose by a faithful discharge of duty as a husband and father in his own family; as a kind and ever-obliging neighbor in his community; and far, very far outweighing all these, he has honored his God by embracing the faith set forth in the Gospel of the Son of God, the faith that works by love, that purifies the heart, and that overcomes the world.  All great endings are but great beginnings.  The end of our Savior’s life on earth was but the beginning of his life of ineffable glory and exaltation in heaven.  As the Head is, so shall the members be.  In his own measure, as it hath pleased the Lord to give my father grace, so shall his reward in glory be.  Death is the door through which we enter life.

  “Farewell! we meet no more
    On this side heaven: 
  The parting scene is o’er,
    The last sad look is given,

  “Farewell!  O may we meet
    In heaven above: 
  And there, in union sweet,
    Sing of a Savior’s love.”

THURSDAY, March 28.  Daniel Miller and Benjamin Bowman preach father’s funeral.  The earth that covers the body and hides it from sight does not bury our hopes.  The anchor of the soul is sure and steadfast.  It has its hold upon the things within the veil, which are eternal and immovable.  I will not sorrow as those who have no hope.  Father’s age was eighty years, eight months and twenty-two days.

Sermon by Elder John Kline.

Preached at Old Father Kagey’s, Sunday, March 31.

    TEXT.—­For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man
    perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.—­2 Cor. 4:16.

Our heavenly Father makes known to his children the things necessary for their instruction in the way of a holy life, that they may do his will in all things and live well-pleasing to him at all times.  To this end many precious promises are held up to our spiritual vision, and many encouragements set forth to animate us to love and duty.  Hence Paul says:  “For this cause we faint not.  Even though our outward man perish,” that is, show signs of decay and approaching death, “yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”  This natural body in which we live and move, in which we serve and suffer, is what Paul calls “the outward man.”  Elsewhere it is called “a natural body.”  It is the offspring of the natural act of generation between the father and mother, and is in its nature bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh.  This is why it is called a natural body.  In the text it is called “the outward man,” because it is the external part of the man; is visible;