are true Brethren wherever we find them.  There may be some hypocrites, God knows; but I know of none.  Brother Hedrick and I have repeatedly discoursed on this subject in our travels together, and neither he nor I have in a single instance met with a brother or sister that has not, in our presence at least, shown something of the gentleness and meekness of Christ.  We are made to feel at home wherever we go among them, and these considerations strengthen our faith and encourage the assurance that the Gospel which we as a band of Christians preach and practice, and which works mightily in the hearts of the dear Brethren everywhere, is of God.  “By their fruits ye shall know them.”

FRIDAY, October 11.  Still westward through Cameron, to Brother Fullhearts, where we feed our horses and get dinner.  We then cross the White river to Muncie in Delaware County, and stay all night with David Bowers.  Rough, windy and rainy day.

WEDNESDAY, October 16.  Visit the following named families, in nearly all of which we find members of our Brotherhood.  We first visit Sowerwine’s, then Joseph Coffman’s, Sheets’s, Jacob Good’s, Absalom Painter’s and George Hoover’s.  At the last-named place we have night meeting and stay all night.  We are now in Henry County, Indiana.

THURSDAY, October 17.  Meeting at Jacob Brunk’s.  Mark 1 is read.  Then to Peter Fesler’s, where we have night meeting.  Acts 3 is read.  Stay all night with Brother Fesler.

FRIDAY, October 18.  Come to Middletown and get a letter from home.  Glad to hear that all are well, but sorry to learn of some deaths.  Leaving Middletown, we go eastward to Brother David Hartman’s, in Wayne County, where we stay all night.  Raining all day, and in afternoon it falls in torrents.

SATURDAY, October 19.  Love feast at Brother Abraham Hoover’s.  John 1 is read.  Stay all night at Brother David Hartman’s.  Clear and cold.

SUNDAY, October 20.  Forenoon meeting.  Acts 3 was read.  I spoke on verse twenty-second:  Subject, “The Great Prophet.”  Meeting again at one o’clock.  I speak on Mark 1:27.  Text:  “And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this?  What new doctrine is this?”

The Jews could well ask the question set forth in the text:  “What new doctrine is this?” To them the teachings of Christ were all new.  Whilst he came not to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill, nevertheless his fulfillment of them was so spiritual, so essentially holy, so pure in motive, so beneficent in act, that the Jews were entire strangers to it:  or probably better, it was strange and new to them.  Even Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews, failed to perceive what Jesus meant when he told him about the nature and necessity of the new birth.  Our Lord manifests something of surprise at the ignorance and stupidity of Nicodemus.  Such ignorance as Nicodemus exposes in the presence of Christ appears to us as wholly inexcusable, when we look at what had already been taught on the subject of a change of heart, or regeneration, in the law of Moses and the prophets.