WEDNESDAY, September 25.  Breakfast and feed in Darlington at Dunlap’s tavern.  Then on to New Middletown to Daniel Summers’s; and this evening reach Brother Henry Kurtz’s in Columbiana County, where we stay all night.

THURSDAY, September 26.  Meeting at Brother Haas’s.  Hebrews 8 is read.  Love feast this evening.  Come back to Brother Kurtz’s and stay all night.  Paul has told us more than once of the joy he felt, and how his heart was refreshed on meeting dear brethren and sisters whom he had not seen for a time.  In meeting the brethren and sisters here and elsewhere we experience much of the same feeling.  They everywhere make us feel at home, and show us more love and give us more attention than we deserve.  What a blessed thing it is to be filled with the love of Christ!  This implants love in the heart for the Brethren.  John says:  “We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren.”  This is the first-fruits of the tree of life in our hearts.

FRIDAY, September 27.  Go westward through Greene, Salem, Damascus, Westville, and on to Brother Joseph Bollinger’s, where we stay all night.

SATURDAY, September 28.  Meeting.  John 3 is read.  Evening meeting at Brother Metse’s, where we stay all night.  Hebrews 12 is read.  Begins to snow this evening, and continues all night.

SUNDAY, September 29.  Meeting in the Franklin Lutheran church.  Matthew 7 is read.  After meeting we come to Brother David Sommers’s.  Evening meeting.  John 10 is read.  Stay all night with Brother Sommers.  The weather has cleared up.

MONDAY, September 30.  Visit Michael Dickey who is very sick.  We then attend a meeting at Eli Dickey’s, in Starke County.  Galatians 3 is read.  Stay all night with Brother Dickey.

TUESDAY, October 1.  On westward, through Canton, Massilon, Brooklin, Dover, Wayne County, to Brother Jacob Kurtz’s, where we have night meeting.  Matthew 9 is read.  Fine weather.

WEDNESDAY, October 2.  Pass through Jefferson, Pittsburg, and on to Brother Lucas’s, where we have meeting.  Second Corinthians 2 is read.  I spoke awhile on the last verse, particularly on these words:  “Corrupting the word of God.”  In the margin the translation of this part of the verse is somewhat different, and, if I mistake not, is sustained by the German of Luther.  It is this:  “Making merchandise of the word of God.”  I regard this as the more literal of the two renderings.  But they both mean very nearly the same, with this slight difference, that the one strikes more at the cause, while the other regards particularly the effect of “handling the word of God deceitfully.”  Men who make merchandise of the Word of God are exactly in line with the Pharisees as the Lord described them:  “Verily, they have their reward.”  Jesus says:  “Provide yourselves purses which wax not old; a treasure in the heavens which faileth not.”  But those who make merchandise of the Word of God provide purses for themselves, for