“Blest be the dear uniting love
    That will not let us part,”

the meeting closed, and we gave each other the parting hand about 10 A.M.

Have night meeting at Brother John Ogg’s on way home.  Speak from part of Luke 13, and stay thirteenth night with Brother Ogg.

THURSDAY, May 31.  Stay fourteenth night at Thomas Clark’s.

FRIDAY, June 1.  Stay fifteenth night at Jacob Cosner’s.

SATURDAY, June 2.  Meeting at Rorabaugh’s on New Creek, in Hampshire County, Virginia.  Acts 10 is read.  Get to Enoch Hyre’s and stay sixteenth night.

SUNDAY, June 3.  Meeting at Enoch Hyre’s.  Part of Acts 2 is read.  Polly Stambaugh is baptized.  Cross the mountain to Leonard Brake’s, where I stay seventeenth night.

MONDAY, June 4.  Attend the burial of Frederic Dove in the Gap.  Age, eighty-seven years, two months and seventeen days Stay at Dove’s eighteenth night.

TUESDAY, June 5.  Attend the burial of Brother Nasselrodt, near Dove’s.  Age, sixty-one years, five months and twenty-eight days.  In the evening get home.

FRIDAY, August 17.  Attend the burial of Elizabeth, daughter of William Hevner, in the Gap.  She died of typhoid fever.  I speak from these words in Psalm 103:  “Surely, man’s days are as grass:  as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:  ... and the place thereof shall know it no more.”  Her place in the home is sadly vacant.  We can only bow in tearful sympathy with the bereaved family.

THURSDAY, September 6.  Perform the marriage ceremony of William Miller and Sarah Shoemaker, and the same for Levi Runion and Elizabeth Aubrey.

FRIDAY, September 7.  This day Brother Kline started on another journey to Hampshire County, Virginia.  He attended a succession of meetings and love feasts both going and returning, as was his custom.  He got home September 21, after an absence of just two weeks.  He does not forget Nell.  On the evening of his arrival home he says:  “On the journey from which I have just returned, Nell has carried me 221 miles.  If Martin Luther and John Wesley are correct in their opinions, Nell may be rewarded for her uncomplaining faithfulness, in a future state of existence.  But as we have no assurance of this, I desire to reward her in this world as well as I can, for her gentle and untiring service.  I think the comfort of brutes generally is not thought of as much as it should be.  Solomon says:  ’The righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.’  Prov. 10:12.  Solomon deals out a bit of very cutting sarcasm here, in the subordinate clause of his proposition; but it is fairly merited by such as are cruel to brutes.  People do not, I am sure, regard the comfort of brutes as they should.  There are, here and there, noble exceptions; but horses labor faithfully for us, and very often the only reward they get is harsh treatment and scanty feeding.  The Lord has graciously given to man the supremacy over the brute creation.  But man should not show his supremacy by acting the part of a tyrant; but, like a wise ruler, ‘do justice and love mercy.’  Whatever else may be brought against me on the day of judgment, I am resolved, by the help of God, that no brute shall there, in fact or figure, rise up and say:  ‘You mistreated me intentionally.’”