I love this word “cry.”  It carries with it to my mind the cry of an innocent child to its parent, when it fears danger or feels the need of something.  Brethren, such let our cry to the Lord ever be.  There is never any dallying with words in the mouth of a little child.  Its requests, though they may not always be wise, are always sincere, and sincerity is what the Lord most loves, and hypocrisy is what he most abhors.  “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye can not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

THURSDAY, September 19.  They had meeting at a schoolhouse near Brother Brumbaugh’s.  They spent the night at Jacob Burket’s.  The next day they came to Brother Samuel Coxe’s, in Logan’s Valley, and spent the afternoon in writing letters.  I here note an example of Brother Kline’s exactness.  He this afternoon wrote a letter to Brother Henry Koontz.  He notes the main points in the letter.  One is that he wants Brother Koontz to be at the Flat Rock meetinghouse on December 8, at 10 o’clock, without fail.

SATURDAY, September 21.  They came to Brother Jacob Beck’s, and had night meeting in the Baptist meetinghouse near by.

SUNDAY, September 22. Delightful morning. This is the first entry for the day.  Brother Kline was not unappreciative of the beautiful.  This must have been one of those bright and balmy mornings witnessed only in September months, and rarely then.  Nature is in her calmest mood.  Summer is just bidding farewell, with a smile of promise that he will return again, and as a proof of his good will lays all the rich treasures he has gathered for us into the lap of Autumn, who is at hand to receive them.

We have morning and afternoon services in the Baptist church here.  In the morning meeting “The Strait Gate” is the subject.  In the afternoon, “The Departure of Paul.”  Acts 20:36, 37.  TEXT.—­“And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all.  And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him.”

The first impression made on the mind upon reading this text is the great love which these tender-hearted disciples had for Paul.  But we need not be surprised at this, when we remember the great love which the tender-hearted Paul had for them.  The elders of the church at Ephesus, and probably many of the sisters and lay brethren, had come to Miletus to have Paul take affectionate leave of them before taking sail for Jerusalem.  He also desired to give them a parting exhortation and offer prayer with them on their behalf.  The words of the exhortation are recorded in the chapter read, but the words of the prayer are not.  We are not sure that the prayer was audible.  It is possible to think they all kneeled together and thus prayed with and for each other, but mostly for Paul.  From the secret chambers of their hearts the still small voice of loving prayer ascended to the ear of him whose throne is heaven, and whose footstool is earth.  Be this as it may,