In words as nearly like the above as I can give them, and in many others, did the brother exhort the church.

SUNDAY, August 25.  Attend meeting at the Flat Rock.  First Corinthians 1 is read.  Louis Nasselrodt and wife and Henry Strawdeman and wife were baptized.  I baptized them.

SUNDAY, September 1.  Meeting at our meetinghouse.  Colossians 2 was read.  Philip Bible and wife, Adam Hevner and wife, William Andes, Samuel Zigler, Christian Krider and old Mother Minick were baptized to-day.

SUNDAY, September 8.  Meeting at Stoner’s to-day.  Romans 6 was read.  I baptized Christian Krider’s wife to-day.

[With Elder John Kline to plan was to do; to propose in mind was to perform in act; ever though, let it be remembered, by the help of the Lord.  “His will, and not mine, be done,” was Brother Kline’s motto.  The following notes are word for word from the fly leaves of his Diary for the present year.  They are inserted here for two reasons.  First, to show that he formed a purpose and laid down a plan before acting.  In the following pages it will be seen how faithfully the plan laid out in the Diary was executed.  Second, to show something of the confidence reposed in his genuine honesty, and his business capacity as a man.—­EDITOR.]

I have in contemplation to take the following route to Ohio:  Start on the seventeenth of September, and on the eighteenth have an afternoon meeting at Parks’s, in Hardy County, Virginia [now West Virginia]; on the twenty-first to stop at Jacob Thomas’s in Preston County, Virginia; on the twenty-second to be at George’s Creek; on the twenty-sixth to be at Bull Creek, Columbiana County, Ohio; on the eighth and ninth of October to be at Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio; on the twelfth to be at Sugar Creek, in Allen County, Ohio; on the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth in Henry County, Indiana; on the evening of the twenty-third to be at Bear Creek, Montgomery County, Ohio.  Things which I have to attend to on my trip to Ohio and Indiana: 

To inquire of George Weaver about a legacy of William Toppin, orphan of Thomas Toppin.

Received of Jacob Hoover $73.42 to be paid over as follows: 

To George Hoover, $17.57
To Peter Fesler, 17.57
To Elizabeth Fesler, 38.28
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$73.42

To get some rents of Joseph Garber for Susanna Garber.

To pay over to Betsy Fesler,      $200.00
To pay over to George Hoover,       50.00

This money I received of Aunt Katy Hoover.

To collect some money of Mahoney and of John Kline for Ziglers.  I hold papers for the same.

To collect money of Jacob Leedy in Columbiana County, Ohio, for Peter Nead.

To collect money of John Garber, of Montgomery County, Ohio, for Solomon Garber, of Rockingham County, Virginia.  I am to let John Garber have the note if he pays $150.00.

TUESDAY, September 17.  Brother George R. Hedrick and I start from my home this morning, on horseback, for Ohio.  We dine at William Fitzwater’s, in Brock’s Gap, and arrive in the evening at Isaac Dasher’s on the South Fork, Hardy County, Virginia, where we stay over night.