MONDAY, April 13.—­Brother Kline, in company with Brother Frederic Kline, went to Brock’s Gap on the yearly visit.  He says:  “We found some of the members in a very poor condition.  One sister, in particular, moved my feelings deeply.  Her husband is somewhat dissipated and does not provide for his family as he should.  She is the mother of three small children; and, judging from their present appearance, they have undergone a good deal of suffering for want of food and clothing.  None of them have any shoes; and the thin coverings they have on are so patched and darned that one can hardly tell the kind of goods they were originally made of.

“I inquired how they were off in the way of food.  She replied that they had about a peck of corn meal in the house and several bushels of potatoes buried in the garden; and she reckoned they could do right well till she could get some more washing and other work to do.  I gave that patient, uncomplaining sister three dollars out of my own pocket money.  ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’  There is a day coming when we shall more fully realize this truth than now.”

THE YEARLY VISIT CONTINUED.

TUESDAY, April 14.—­“We have found a quiet and peaceable state of feeling in the Brotherhood generally.  There is, however, among the younger members, too great a tendency to conform to the world in dress and conversation.”

MEETING AT BENJAMIN BOWMAN’S.

FRIDAY, April 17.—­“His son, Samuel Bowman, was baptized to-day, and the subject of discourse was the baptism of Jesus as recorded in Mark’s Gospel.  John seems to have been a sort of open link by which the chain of prophecy in the Old Testament was united with the chain of its fulfillment in the New.  As a prophet, he went forth in the spirit and power of Elijah.  But Elijah of old uttered his prophecies surrounded by midnight darkness.  John utters his in the light of the rising Sun of Righteousness; and they all point to the future glory of that Sun.  The Sun rose publicly from the waters of Jordan in the person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when the Spirit of God in the form of a dove descended upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, ‘This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’

“What a recognition!  What a reception!  And will not our heavenly Father meet every true-hearted believer in the same way, as he rises from the baptismal wave?  Not visibly, to his natural eye; not audibly, to his natural ear; but by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with his spirit that he is a child of God.  For ’baptism is the answer of a good conscience toward God.’  This is its first blessed power.”

Sermon by Elder John Kline.

A Funeral Sermon at Sunafrank’s in Brock’s Gap, Sunday, April 26.

    TEXT.—­Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour cometh, and now is,
    when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they
    that hear shall live.—­John 5:25.