MONDAY, May 15.  Pass through a number of little towns and villages and at the end of forty-four miles to-day find ourselves pleasantly received by my very dear Brother George Hoke, with whom we stay thirteenth night.

TUESDAY, May 16.  Meeting at Brother Solomon Kiser’s.  Mark 1 is read.  Three persons baptized.  Stay fourteenth night at Brother Michael Sprinkel’s, near McDonelsville.

WEDNESDAY, May 17.  Get to Brother Jacob Kurtz’s, where I have the pleasure of meeting again the dear family that showed me so much kindness two years ago.  Stay fifteenth and sixteenth nights here.  If the meeting with those we love, and a brief stay with them, can give us so much joy here in our imperfect state, what will be the measure of our joy when we meet in that world where all is perfection, and partings are known no more!  “In his presence there is fullness of joy:  and at his right hand there are pleasures forevermore.”

THURSDAY, May 18.  Evening meeting here at Brother Jacob Kurtz’s, where we stay sixteenth night.

FRIDAY, May 19.  Meeting in River Brethren’s meetinghouse, near George Harting’s.  Luke 14 is read.  Come to Wooster, Wayne County, and stay seventeenth night at John Overholtz’s.

SATURDAY, May 20.  Meeting in the Campbellite meetinghouse.  John 4 is read.  Evening meeting at Brother John Shoemaker’s.  John 15 is read.  Stay there eighteenth night.  Heavy rain to-day and night.

SUNDAY, May 21.  Meeting at Brother Eli Dickey’s.  Revelation 21 is read.  Brother Benjamin Bowman gave us some delightful thoughts suggested by these words:  “Behold!  I make all things new.”  He said:  “This promise is generally thought to point for its fulfillment to the golden day when God’s people shall realize in fact what John saw in vision,—­’a new heaven and a new earth.’  I believe that day is coming.  I believe the tabernacle of God will be with men; that God will dwell with them in that Holy City, the New Jerusalem.  But I ask here, first of all, whence arises the necessity for making all things new?  If the existing order of things is faultless, why this renovation?  There must be imperfection, there must be a defect somewhere.  Whatever else these words may comprehend, I for one regard them as applying to the church as it will then appear, as Solomon describes it, ’comely as Jerusalem;’ the New Jerusalem he means; ‘and terrible’ in the power of its righteousness and truth, ‘as an army with banners.’

“Notice right here the striking similarity of the text to what Paul says.  What does my text say?  ‘Behold, I make all things new.’  What does Paul say?  ’If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.  Old things are passed away.  Behold, all things are become new.’  What is it to be in Christ?  It is to be filled with his truth as a sponge is filled with water when immersed in it.  It is to be filled with gospel light as a healthy eye is filled with light in the blaze of a clear day.  And when the spiritual eye is single,