For the next six days Brother Kline is confined to his room.  Dr. Jacob Driver, a very well informed and successful Botanic Physician, is called to the case.  His treatment is so judicious and active that by Thursday, May 1, Brother Kline is able to ride out.  Dr. Jacob Driver was born and raised in Rockingham County, Virginia.  He gave rise to a numerous family, and in the autumn of 1852 moved and settled in Allen County, Ohio.  His children all became members of the order of the Brethren.  His son Jacob is now an active minister in the Sugar Creek congregation in the above County.  Dr. Jacob Driver died in Allen County about the year 1867, deeply lamented by all who knew him.  He and his wife, in their early days, became members of the Brotherhood.  He was a son of Peter Driver, a brief notice of whom has been given.

TUESDAY, June 3.  Meeting and love feast at our meetinghouse.  Revelation 2 is read.

SATURDAY, June 7.  Meeting in the grove near the Brick meetinghouse, on Middle river.  Many people gathering.  Acts 3 is read.  From present appearances there will be a very large concourse of people at this Annual Meeting.

SUNDAY, June 8.  Meeting in the meetinghouse and also in the grove.

MONDAY, June 9.  The Yearly Council opens.  Take in the questions.  Transact some business.  Good order prevails, and a spirit of love and union abounds.  If by these meetings we can foster and preserve the unity of the faith and order of our beloved Brotherhood, so that wherever we may go among our Brethren we may be able to see eye to eye and face to face as to the doctrines we preach and the order of Christian life we uphold, our highest aim will have been reached.  It may be that as time goes on and knowledge is increased new things will come up demanding consideration; but I sincerely hope and pray no departures from what we now regard with so much love and unanimity as the will of the Lord will ever take place.

TUESDAY, June 10.  All the queries and business items left over from yesterday are taken up and disposed of to-day.  The Annual Meeting breaks up in good feeling, but with the sad forecast that some present to-day will never attend another Yearly Meeting.  Be it so.  In heaven no farewell tears are shed.  It is not the parting that makes one sad.  It is the how and the where and the when we shall meet again that break up the fountains of our hearts.

WEDNESDAY, June 11.  Meeting in the Methodist church in Harrisonburg.  Brother Daniel P. Saylor spoke on the Great Commission, Matt. 28:19, 20.  He showed great boldness of speech.  He shuns not to declare the whole counsel of God.  Many were present to hear a sermon from a minister of our faith for the first time in their life.  I have sometimes feared that Brother Saylor’s love for souls is at times obscured by the severity of his speech in the stand, and by the austerity of his manner among the people.  Whilst Christian propriety does set limits to “becoming all things to all men,” still, as far as consistency will allow, God’s ministers should show great love for the people in their associations with them.  Some preachers, I believe, do more good out of the stand than in it.  They do this by little acts of kindness and little words of love.