The Diary does not contain anything of special interest on their way home.  Brother Kline noted the distance traveled over each day, from the time they left Brother Jacob Kurtz’s till he arrived at his own home.  According to his report the whole distance was 264 miles.  This they made in eleven days.  Their average daily rate of travel was just twenty-four miles.  They arrived at his house on the evening of the twelfth, having left Brother Kurtz’s the morning of the second day of October.  Brother Kline often notes some reference to the satisfaction of getting back home after a long absence; and it is painful to find a record the exact reverse in this instance.  But no murmur at the Divine Will, or word of impatience or complaint against any one is to be found on the page of the Diary.

From this time to the close of the year Brother Kline never went far from home.  A few marriages solemnized, funerals preached, neighborhood medical visits, and near-by meetings attended make the sum of his work from home.  His afflicted wife required his daily attentions.

THURSDAY, January 21.  Perform the marriage ceremony of Josiah Wampler and Mary Kline.

TUESDAY, February 23.  Go to Michael Wine’s and perform the marriage ceremony of Isaac Harpine and Barbara Wine.

THURSDAY, March 4.  Perform the marriage ceremony of William Andes and Catharine Miller, at the widow Miller’s in the Forest.

WEDNESDAY, March 31.  Dr. Newham is at my house to-day.  We start my new electro-magnetic machine, and give Anna an electric shock, in the hope of its vitalizing her enfeebled nerves.  Dr. Newham regards her case as not being out of the reach of relief by a course of protracted and judiciously applied medical treatment.

THURSDAY, April 1.  Council meeting at the Brush meetinghouse.  Perform the marriage ceremony of Seth Alger and Rosina Fifer.

SATURDAY, April 3.  Abraham Knopp and I go to Page County.  Call to see old Sister Gibbons who has reached a very high age.  We read and prayed with her, and her heart seemed to overflow with joy.  She said:  “I love all the friends of Jesus.  Brethren, I will soon be gone; but I hope the Lord may leave you here many years yet to do his blessed will, by calling many sinners from darkness to light, and by comforting his saints as you have comforted me this day.”  When we took leave of her she said:  “Farewell:  and may the God of love and peace be with you.”  Sister Gibbons is the mother of Samuel Gibbons, and is now living with him on the Hawksbill Creek, not far from the town of Luray, in Page County, Virginia.

SUNDAY, April 4.  The brethren and sisters meet us very early this morning for prayer and exhortation on the visit; after which the regular public meeting opens.  John 5 is read.  Dine at Isaac Spitler’s, and stay all night at Henry Gander’s.

FRIDAY, April 16.  Abraham Knopp and I go to Lost River.  Attend the burial of Celestine Whitmore’s child.  Age, seven years, four months, and one day.  In afternoon Jacob Pope and I go on to the visit.  Stay all night at Henry Moyers’s.