WEDNESDAY, October 14.  Our beloved brother now takes leave of the brethren and sisters in Ohio and starts on his way to Tennessee.  On the fifteenth he is ferried across the river from Cincinnati to Covington in a flatboat, and from this point he pushes on to Lexington, Ky., which he reaches on the seventeenth, having traveled from home to that point, 788 miles.  Think of it!  The toil of this journey, on horseback; over rough or bad roads; through thinly settled sections of country, and dark forests; in sight of Indians, and in hearing of wolves; more than sixty years ago; and all for Christ and a burning love for his people.  Well could he say what he publicly expressed at a love feast at the Linville’s Creek meetinghouse some years after this:  “I have a house that will accommodate fifty:  and a heart to accommodate a hundred if they could find room in my house.”

He pushed on, scaled the Cumberland mountains; got across the Cumberland and Clinch rivers as best he could, as both were high from the recent rains, and arrived

FRIDAY, October 23, at Christian Shank’s, in East Tennessee.  On the day before he stood by the tree that marks the spot where the States of Virginia and Kentucky corner on the line of Tennessee.  He says:  “I could not help thinking while there, What a glorious country we have in prospect, and what a goodly land it may come to be, if the people can be induced to turn to the Lord and become faithful followers of the meek and lowly Jesus.  What a work we have to do!  How much wickedness have I witnessed on my way since I left home!  In our way of looking at it, enough to sink a world.  By turning once around I can look over a part of three States; but how few of the followers of the Lord are found in each, compared with the number who know him not, and who ask not for him.”

He reports delightful weather.  After spending some days among the Bowmans, Zimmermans, Crouses, Garbers, Basehores, and others, attending love feasts, councils and appointments for preaching, he reports a night meeting at Hase’s schoolhouse.  This was on the night of

THURSDAY, October 29.  The people were somewhat Calvinistic in their views, and his discourse was so pointed in that direction that I will give a few thoughts presented in it.

Sermon by Elder John Kline.

Preached at Hase’s Schoolhouse, Tennessee.

    TEXT.—­Enter ye in at the strait gate.—­Matt. 7:13.

I tried to impress upon all present the danger of continuing in the broad road of sin.  This includes every lust of the flesh, everything the heart desires through the eyes, and all the pride and vanity of life.  I said to this audience:  I learn that there is quite a Calvinistic or predestinarian sentiment in this community; and from the expression of the countenances of some of you I fancy I hear some of you saying to yourselves:  “How can a dead man hear, except the Lord first give him life; or a blind man see, except the Lord first open his eyes?” I will answer your questions in order.