WEDNESDAY, October 1, he attended a union meeting in Welty’s meetinghouse, in which Brother Shaver served.

After attending several other meetings and making many visits, he started for home, where he arrived October 5.

TUESDAY, October 28.  Attend the funeral of Sister Gibbons.  She died yesterday at the home of her son Samuel Gibbons, near Luray, Page County, Virginia.  She grew old in years, but the service of the Lord was not old in her heart.  She passed from labor to reward at the high age of ninety-one years, lacking nineteen days.

WEDNESDAY, November 12.  Brother Kline started on another journey to Hardy and Hampshire Counties.  He held a night meeting at James Stump’s in Hardy; preached the funeral sermon of Brother Solomon Arnold; held a union meeting at Brother Benjamin Leatherman’s; attended morning meeting on

SATURDAY, November 15, at the meetinghouse; and held night service at Joseph Arnold’s.

SUNDAY, November 16.  He had forenoon meeting at William George’s and night meeting at Solomon Michael’s.  He filled six other appointments between this, and his return home, where he arrived Friday, November 21.  I find extended outline notes of but one sermon preached on this journey.  These I will here put in as good shape as I can.  He delivered this sermon at Jacob Keplinger’s, in the Gap, the night before he got home.  Jacob Keplinger was a Lutheran himself, and the sermon was preached right in a community of people of the same faith.  But they had respect for Brother Kline.  The religious warmth of his heart and the purity and simplicity of his life won for him the esteem and friendship of people wherever he went.

    TEXT.—­The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:  Neither
    shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom
    of God is within you.—­Luke 17:20, 21.

People never grow entirely out of their childhood feelings.  We naturally incline to value most what our eyes can see and our hands handle.  Our natures are so sentient that objects of sense please us best.  It is from this that object lessons attract the young.  They can best apprehend what their senses can grasp.  It is very difficult for the mind to grasp abstract truth.  But right here lies the basis of all true education.  The power to comprehend truth in the abstract, to take hold of its ramifications as subjects of thought, and reduce them to order in the mind, so as to develop and give them concrete form for practical ends in life, is education.

The Pharisees wanted a sign.  Even Herod hoped to see some miracle done by the Lord.  The reply of Jesus to the Pharisees was that “an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.”  And now they want to know when his kingdom will come.  My text is the Lord’s answer.  “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation.”  It is not something representative, with visible outlines and surfaces that you can perceive by means of your