THURSDAY, March 11.  My dear aged mother passes away from earth to-day, at 1 o’clock.  She has been a good mother.  I rejoice in the thought that from her bright home in heaven, if saints are permitted to look down upon earth, she can still witness the fruits of her good example and influence, manifest in the well-doing of all her children, and most of her grandchildren.

FRIDAY, March 12.  Take Anna over to Brother Samuel Kline’s, where our dear mother now lies a corpse.

SATURDAY, March 13.  Mother is buried to-day.  Her age was eighty-one years, three months and twenty days.

MONDAY, March 22.  This day Brother Kline started to Maryland.  As usual on such journeys, he visited many friends and Brethren, among whom he mentions D.P.  Saylor, Jacob Saylor, Howard Hillery, Brother Cover, Joseph Engle, Philip Boyle, Israel Engle, Brother Rupp, Jesse Royer, Betsy Engle, William Deahl, Abraham Deahl, Brother Rhinehart, and others.  He preaches and prays as he goes; leaving behind him good examples, good instructions, good doctrines, with prayers and good wishes for all.  What a life of good works!  He returned home Thursday, April 1.

THURSDAY, April 15.  Council meeting at the Flat Rock meetinghouse.  John Neff is elected speaker.

FRIDAY, April 16.  Council meeting at our meetinghouse.  John Zigler is elected to the deaconship.

SATURDAY, April 17.  Council meeting at the Brush meetinghouse.  Jacob Miller is advanced in the ministry of the Word.

SUNDAY, May 16.  Attend a meeting in the Campbellite church in Baltimore.  I meet Brother D.P.  Saylor there.  He speaks from Heb. 12:1, 2.  Outlines of his discourse.  TEXT.—­“Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us; and let us run with patience the race that is set before us; looking unto Jesus.”

He said:  The book of Hebrews is, in one respect, the most extraordinary book in the New Testament.  It sets forth Christ the Lord to us in a somewhat new light, and new relation.  All the other books of the New Testament are mainly occupied in setting forth Jesus as the atoning Savior.  But this book is preeminently taken up with Christ the anointed High Priest of our profession.  The other books tell what Jesus has done to redeem the world from sin.  This book tells what he is now doing to save his people.

In his admonitions and instructions Brother Saylor beautifully referred to the Olympic games celebrated by the ancient Greeks once every four years.  From these the figure of running a race, given in the text, was borrowed.  A man cannot run long and well with a load on his back.  You have no doubt seen the fabled demigod Atlas pictured with the world on his shoulders.  I have often thought of that old Grecian representation of avarice, as being something like a true picture of many professors of the Christian religion at the present day.  You see the old myth struggling along with this big