THURSDAY, May 16.  Raise the mill, and in the afternoon go to the Gap and marry George Fawley and Catharine Fulk.

SATURDAY, June 1.  Love feast to-day at our meetinghouse.  Brother Daniel Barnhardt, of Roanoke County, Virginia, and Brother John Bowman, of Franklin County, Virginia, and Brother Peter Nead were with us.  We had much good speaking by the visiting brethren on the 10th chapter of John and other passages of Scripture.

SUNDAY, June 2.  Go to Daniel Miller’s to meeting.  Luke 14 is read.  I then go to Joseph Miller’s where I stay all night.

MONDAY, June 10.  This morning the intelligence comes of the sudden death of Reuben Yount.  He was found lying dead in the road.  It is supposed that he was killed by being thrown from his horse on his way home last evening.

TUESDAY, June 11.  Reuben Yount was buried to-day.  Age, twenty-five years and thirteen days.  Verily the sons of men sink into the grave like raindrops into the sea, and are seen no more.  As unexpectedly as the pitcher is broken at the fountain, even before it is filled with water, so unexpectedly does death come to many.

MONDAY, June 24.  Finish making hay.  We have about twenty-two tons in all.

SUNDAY, June 30.  Meeting at Frederic Kline’s, near Dayton, Virginia.  Six persons baptized.

SUNDAY, July 7.  Meeting at our meetinghouse.  John Kave and wife, Katy Keysayer, Betsy Holsinger, Polly Knopp, Katy Fry and Betsy Andes were baptized to-day.  Daniel Miller baptized them.

SATURDAY, July 27.  Harvest meeting at Copp’s schoolhouse in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

WEDNESDAY, July 31.  Harvest meeting at the Brush meetinghouse.

THURSDAY, August 1.  Go to harvest meeting at Daniel Garber’s meetinghouse.  Stay all night at John Myers’s in Augusta County, Virginia.

FRIDAY, August 2.  Love feast at the Brick meetinghouse.  Luke 14 was read.  One brother spoke impressively on the last three words in the first verse:  “THEY WATCHED HIM.”  Said he, “The enemies of the Lord most likely did this.  They were ever eager to find some ground of accusation against him.  But the Lord was not alone in this.  ’A servant is not greater than his lord.’  We, Brethren, are liable to be watched.  And I think I may say truthfully that we are watched not only by our enemies, but by our friends too.  But there is a great difference between the eye of an enemy and the eye of a friend.  The eye of an enemy seeks for faults with which to accuse and persecute; and when no real fault can be found the evil eye seeks to make faults by looking at our actions and motives in a false light, and if possible getting others to regard them in the same false light.  But not so the eye of a friend.  A wise father watches his children, not to find faults with which to accuse, but in love to correct by pointing out their evil tendencies and the end to which they lead.

“So, dear brethren and sisters, should we watch one another in the house of God.  We should never be quick to take offense when some brother or sister out of pure love for us kindly warns us of some fault that we may not be fully conscious of.”