We must bear in mind, too, that this journey was undertaken more than fifty-eight years ago.  A very large part of the country through which he had to pass was yet in a state of virgin forest.  No railroads bore the lightning trains on their bosoms.  Very few houses in much of the country were to be seen; and many of these offered little besides shelter, and some barely that.  There were hardly any bridges.  Broad and deep rivers had to be forded on horseback, or crossed in what the Indians called a CANOE.  This is a kind of long boat made from the body of a single tree, by cutting or burning out the inside, and leaving the bottom, ends and sides like a trough.  He reports having crossed some streams in this kind of a boat.  His life was several times endangered by crossing deep waters.

SATURDAY, September 12, he arrived at Abbey Arnold’s, in Hampshire County, West Virginia.  On the thirteenth he attended a love feast at Daniel Arnold’s nearby, and reports a very joyful meeting with the Brethren whom he had not seen for a time.

MONDAY, September 14, he took leave of the Brethren in Hampshire County, and directed his course through Maryland into Pennsylvania; and on Friday, September 18, he crossed the Ohio river, two and one-half miles below Acreton.  He was ferried across in a flatboat.

SUNDAY, September 20, he arrived at Brother George Hoke’s.  He says:  “I have been exposed to some bad weather, and have passed over some bad roads; but to meet such a dear and kind brother as George Hoke, and be received in such a pleasant way as I have been by the dear brother and family, is more than a compensation for all the exposure and toil it has cost.”

As nearly as I can, I will now give the substance and manner of a conversation which took place the same evening between Brother Kline and Brother Hoke.  The Diary is silent upon it, but Brother Kline related it to me himself in the year 1862.  Brother Jacob Miller, of Greenmount, Virginia, told me afterwards that Brother Kline had related the same to him.  The weather being a little cool and damp, the two brethren sat by the fire.  I will name the parties in the order of the conversation.

KLINE.—­Why do not we ordain deacons in the same way the seven were ordained at Jerusalem?

HOKE.—­Do you think the seven were deacons?

K.—­Yes, I have always thought so.

H.—­I do not think they were.

K.—­Well, here is a difference of opinion between brethren.

H.—­Let us try to get together on this point.

K.—­I desire, above all things, to know the truth, and to see eye to eye with all the Brethren on every point of Holy Writ.