After a most refreshing supper and a little rest we were ready to engage in the sacred duties of worship.  Brother Kline very kindly took the lead in the services, and in a very plain way delivered one of the best discourses I have ever heard on Col. 1:12.  This is the TEXT:  “Giving thanks to the Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.”

He showed, in a very impressive way, that if an heir to an estate is not qualified to appreciate that estate, to enjoy it by making a right use of it, it can do him but little good.  From this thought his mind ascended heavenward; and he said that heaven, with all its glory and bliss, can never be a desirable inheritance to any but to those who are qualified or prepared for it.  Those who are thus qualified are described in the text as “the saints in light.”  He then drew a most lively picture of the difference between a saint in light and a sinner in darkness.  It almost chilled my blood to see how low in the scale of intelligent beings the one stands contrasted with the lofty elevation of the other.

The next day we repaired to the Shenandoah mountain to procure medical herbs.  We went up into a very deep and rich hollow, where it looked as if the rays of the sun could hardly penetrate, and soon I saw his face light up with something that evidently pleased him.  “Ah! here it is,” said he.  “What is here?” I asked.  “Don’t you see this patch of Ginseng?” he replied.  “Is this Ginseng?  It is my first sight of it.”

As I was much younger than he I insisted upon using the hoe; but no!  He was so pleased that he seemed to want to do all the digging himself.  When a supply of Ginseng was obtained we went to the top of the ridge, where we found a considerable quantity of Seneca-Snake-Root, an article very much in demand at the present day.

The next thing sought for was the Red Raspberry.  We hunted and hunted, and were on the point of giving up the quest, when, at the extreme head of a very rough mountain hollow, we discovered a “patch” of the bushes.  They were full of berries of a bright scarlet, resembling somewhat in form the common raspberry, but in some other respects they were quite different.  They were very beautiful.  If the plant would bear domestication it would be highly ornamental.  Having filled a “poke” with the raspberry leaves, we set out to return to the place where we had left our horses.  I doubt exceedingly whether I could have found the spot; but his familiarity with the mountains generally, and his acute perception of topographical relations in particular, enabled him to find the place without difficulty.