SUNDAY, May 24.  Visit George Copp’s, Joseph Long’s, Christian Gipe’s, and stay all night at Abraham Gipe’s.  In all my visits I make it a point not to leave a house without making an effort to speak on the subject of religion, and say something that may leave an impression for good.

MONDAY, May 25.  Meeting.  Acts 10 is read.  Visit Brother Shank’s, and stay all night at David Zug’s.

TUESDAY, May 26.  Meeting.  Romans 6 is read.  Visit George Fesler’s, Michael Fesler’s, and stay all night at Benjamin Landis’s.

WEDNESDAY, May 27.  Visit Daniel Zug’s and several other families; and at 11 o’clock meeting begins preparatory to love feast this evening.  First Peter 1 is read.  Stay all night at Brother Minick’s.

THURSDAY, May 28.  Meeting at 11 o’clock.  John 5 is read.  In afternoon visit John Royer’s, and stay all night at George Keller’s.

FRIDAY, May 29.  Yearly Meeting begins.  Many brethren and sisters present.

SATURDAY, May 30.  The Yearly Council closes at noon.  Much love and union exists in the Brotherhood.  Public meeting this afternoon, and love feast to-night.  Much spiritual joy is manifested by the singing of hymns and the offering of prayers.  May our heavenly Father grant that the same love and union may continue with us to the end of the world.  Our Yearly Meetings will continue to do much good so long as they show to the world our love for one another.  “Hereby shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love for one another.”

From this meeting Brother Kline set his face homeward, but on the way he managed to attend six appointments for preaching, and two love feasts besides.  In tracing his course on his journeys, and noting the amount of active service he performed in the way of preaching and visiting, one is forcibly impressed with the proofs he gives of the order and system that must have characterized and attended his labors.  Not unfrequently he has one or two appointments ahead for every day in the week; and with only a very few exceptions in the whole course of his life, and they were on account of sickness, he never failed to meet the congregations that were looking for him.  Soon after getting home from this journey he attended to gathering the grass and grain harvests on his own farm.  He reports twenty-eight tons of hay made this year.  He likewise had a tolerably large wheat harvest.  About the eighteenth of June heavy rains set in, and they continued to fall at intervals of only a day or two apart for the next six or seven weeks.  The Diary reports a very heavy rain on Sunday, June 28.  From this time on for the next six days it reports a flooding rain every day, and very high waters.  The grain suffered very much on account of continued wet weather for many days following.  This has ever since been known as “the wet harvest.”  Much of the wheat sprouted in the head before it could be cut; and much of what stood in shocks suffered in the same way.  The Diary for July 15 says:  “We finished hauling in our grain to-day, some of which had stood in shocks over three weeks.  Such extraordinary seasons come along once in a while; but I do imagine it will be a good while in the future before people can generally say, ’I never saw such a wet harvest as this,’ alluding to the one they may then be passing through.”