SATURDAY, April 17.  After getting through with the visit we have council meeting.  The reports brought in by the visiting brethren are mostly encouraging, and show a good spirit existing in the Brotherhood.

SUNDAY, April 18.  Meeting at the meetinghouse.  Luke 12 is read.  After meeting perform the marriage ceremony of Washington Cook and Anna Jane Parker at Brother Whitmore’s; then come to William Fitzwar’s and perform the marriage ceremony of Frederick Nasselrodt and Catherine Weatherholtz.  Get home at nine o’clock in the night.

THURSDAY, April 29.  Perform the marriage ceremony of William Halterman and Elizabeth May, at Samuel May’s, in the Gap.

SUNDAY, May 2.  Meeting at Nasselrodt’s in the Gap.  I baptized Lotty Koon.

TUESDAY, May 18.  On this day Brother Kline starts to the Annual Meeting.  He takes Anna and Sister Betty Knopp with him.  They get to the widow Nipe’s in the evening of the nineteenth.  He left Anna and Sister Betty at this place, whilst he went on to the Annual Meeting at Brother Jacob Deardorff’s, which opened Friday, May 21.  The business features of the meeting closed on Saturday, May 22; and on Sunday, May 23, he started back after the eleven o’clock service.  He found Anna somewhat more cheerful than usual.  She stood the trip remarkably well.  From some cause, I know not what, he gives not a word of comment on the state of feeling, matters considered, or anything else pertaining to it.

FRIDAY, May 28.  We have a love feast at our meetinghouse. Union in the evening. A fine day and good behavior.  Some of the older Brethren will no doubt know what Brother Kline means by the word union, here and elsewhere used in the Diary in a specific sense.

TUESDAY, June 8.  To-day I attended two buryings in one graveyard.  Christian Eversole, age, sixty-nine years; and Samuel Bowers, age, twenty years; both buried at the Brush meetinghouse.

SATURDAY, July 3.  Cross the Blue Ridge mountain to-day, and get to Henry Coverston’s late this evening.

SUNDAY, July 4.  Meeting in the Methodist meetinghouse.  John 4 is read.  I spoke as best I could on the Water of Life and kindred topics, but in this country we feel sadly the want of encouragement and sympathy which we are used to in our own houses and congregations.  Our doctrinal views and practices as a denomination are not well understood in Albemarle County, Virginia.  The prevailing denominations here are Baptists and Methodists.  We have one consolation, however, even here.  We can preach the Gospel to the poor, and they are ready to hear it.  But there is one barrier between us and the wealthy classes which will continue, God only knows how long; and that barrier is African slavery.  Many, seemingly good and reasonable people, in this country justify themselves in their own eyes, even on scripture grounds, for taking part in and encouraging the holding of slaves.  I fear, however, that the god of this world has blinded their eyes, so that seeing they see not, and hearing they understand not.