THURSDAY, February 26.  Go to David Kline’s and perform the marriage ceremony of Abraham Neff and Elizabeth Kline.

TUESDAY, March 3.  Perform the marriage ceremony of Josiah Sowder and Elizabeth Dove.

SATURDAY, March 21.  Abraham Knopp and I go to Lost River.  Stay all night at Jacob Motz’s.

SUNDAY, March 22.  Meeting at the Lost River meetinghouse.  Luke 24 is read.  Come to Abel Dove’s and perform two marriage ceremonies; one for Isaac Whetzel and Catharine Dove; the other for Michael Myers and Julia Ann Dove.  Stay all night.

SUNDAY, April 5.  Meeting at the Flat Rock.  John 6 is read.  Brethren sent out on the yearly visit.  I and Jacob Wine go together.  We stay all night at the widow Cherryholms’s in Brock’s Gap.

TUESDAY, April 7.  We get through with the visit.  The members generally expressed themselves as being in sympathy and full fellowship with the church.  We hope they told the truth.

WEDNESDAY, April 8.  Council meeting at the Flat Rock.  Jacob Wine is elected speaker.  He gives promise of becoming an able and active worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

FRIDAY, April 10.  Council meeting in the Brush meetinghouse.  Joseph Miller, son of Daniel Miller, is elected speaker.  John Wine, son of Samuel Wine in the Brush, and John Miller, are elected to the deaconship.

SATURDAY, April 11.  Council meeting in the old Garber meetinghouse.  Solomon Garber is elected speaker.  He likewise gives promise of becoming a very useful man in his calling.  Surely the Lord has established a beautiful order in his house.  “Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven.”  When the church fairly chooses a brother to any office or service, to the ministry of the Word or to attend to the temporal duties connected with keeping the Lord’s house according to order, he need no longer question as to whether the Lord has called him or not.  The Lord uses the church to show his will in these things.  “Lo!  I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”  I was once very much impressed with the answer a beloved brother gave in the presence of some three or four others, just outside the meetinghouse, after an election had been held just about an hour before.  The church had voted for two, only one of whom was needed.  The vote had been so nearly a tie that the brother elected had a majority of but one.  Some one asked:  “Are we to infer from this that the Lord wanted both of these brethren elected?” The brother above referred to answered promptly, “No, he only wanted to show that both were fit for the place.”

Michael Flory and Samuel Long are elected to the deaconship.

FRIDAY, April 17.  Go on the visit in the Cove, in company of Jacob Mathias.

SATURDAY, April 18.  Finish the visit in time to have council meeting in the Lost River meetinghouse.  In all my visiting this spring but very little complaint or dissatisfaction has been laid.  Our council meetings, too, have been harmonious.  The members generally show a heartfelt will to live in the church, to be built up in the church, and to help to build up the church so long as the church keeps house according to God’s order.