And now, Brethren and friends, to make a brief application of some of the great principles laid down, I will say that the Lord’s Supper is the great love feast which he has prepared for you, for me, for all.  This great love feast, of which our own ordinance by his appointment, and bearing the same name, is a beautiful and fitting emblem, is neither more nor less than the bountiful provisions Christ has made for the salvation of all.  These provisions are the great truths of his Word, filled with his love.  The Lord Jesus says:  “I am the bread of life.”  To the Jews he said:  “Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died.”  “If any man eat of the bread which I shall give him, he shall live forever.”  When we are faithfully obeying the Lord from love in our hearts, we are eating this life-giving bread.  Every truth which the Lord has revealed, and by which the spiritual man is fed as to his soul, may be regarded as a component part of this great feast.

Jesus said to the tempter:  “Man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”  The tempter here meant material bread for the body, and the Lord answered him according to that meaning.  This is the kind of bread, material bread, with which the devil seeks to satisfy every demand of our being.  It embraces everything the natural appetite of man craves.  The devil is ever seeking to lead men to feed on the husks which the swine do eat, and to be satisfied with that kind of food.  But the blessed Lord Jesus resists the tempter, and continually seeks to lead men into a higher, nobler and heavenly life.  He says to every sinner:  “Arise, and go to thy Father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned before heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.”  This is repentance.  This is the first move man makes in the way of approach to the feast the Lord has prepared.  “Man liveth by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”  This embraces all of Revealed Truth.  Every law, every precept, every prophecy, every parable has some outflowing, healing virtue, some life-imparting power.  We touch the hem of its garment when we read or hear in sincerity of heart.  O sinner, come and partake of this feast, and thy soul shall live.

We stay all night with David Longenacre.

MONDAY, September 23.  On towards Ohio.  Dine and feed our horses at Brother David Wise’s.  This evening we are at Hays’s tavern in Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, where we[1] stay all night.

TUESDAY, September 24.  Go to Hickorytown where we feed our horses and get breakfast.  Then on through Burgitsville and Florencetown to Frankford, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where we feed and dine at Duncan’s tavern.  Then on to Georgetown, where we cross the Ohio river in a horse-boat, and stay all night at Smith’s tavern.  A lonesome ride to-day, because we have seen no Brethren.

    [1] Brother Kline in the Diary almost invariably puts it “Stay
    all night.”  I am not willing to depart from his usage in
    this.—­ED.