“This is the golden chain that binds us together on earth, and will forever bind us together in heaven.  As the rain first comes from the sea, and after refreshing and beautifying the land goes back to the sea again, so it is through us, Brethren, that the love we receive from Christ here will be made perfect and return to him there.  Oh, Brethren, ‘let us not love in word only, but in deed and in truth.’”

WEDNESDAY, May 4.  Peter Nead and Daniel Garber started to the Annual Meeting.

SUNDAY, May 22.  Meeting at the Linville’s Creek meetinghouse.  Brother Kline spoke briefly on Acts 2.  He said:  “As this is the traditional day on which the Holy Spirit was poured out in a miraculous way, so that the whole house wherein the apostles and brethren were sitting was filled with his presence, so that they were all baptized in the Holy Spirit and in the heavenly fire, we think it good to meditate and speak upon these things.

“It may be that we err by believing that each apostle was endowed with the gift of all the tongues here enumerated.  It would be natural, I think, for those who spoke the same tongue to sit or stand together in companies.  We may, even at the present day, see examples and instances of this in large cities and public places.  Here we see a group of Germans.  There, a company of Swedes, or Dutch, or Italians.  People of the same nationality as naturally seek for each other as birds seek for their own kind.

“The order appears beautiful to our minds in the light of this interpretation.  Each apostle was gifted by the Spirit to speak in one tongue at least.  If we go to the pains to count, we will find there were nearly as many apostles as nationalities represented.  In this way all could speak at the same time; each one to his own group or class of hearers, in gentle tones of voice; and all in the house hear at least one speak in the tongue in which he was born.  This interpretation relieves the mind of the apparent confusion which seems to have pervaded that assembly, from a mere cursory reading of the account given of it in the second chapter of the Acts.

“I pray God, that our dear Brethren in Yearly Meeting to-day and to its close may all, like the apostles, be of one mind and speak the same thing.”

SUNDAY, June 5.  Meeting at the Dry Fork.  Brother Kline made a few remarks upon Eph. 5:14, “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

“We called upon the drowsy, sleeping sinner to arise from his deadness and indifference, pointing him to the promise that Christ would shine upon him and give him the light of life.  Whilst speaking on this subject to-day, I related what was said to be a well authenticated fact which I lately read.

“An Indian, one evening, tied his canoe fast to a tree not far above the falls of Niagara.  Feeling that all was secure, he lay down in his canoe and went to sleep.  Just about the break of day the fastening from some cause got loose.  Very probably the cord was untied by some mischievous person.  The Indian continued to sleep.  Noiselessly the canoe glided down the stream, nearer and yet nearer the awful brink, softly rocking its sleeping victim to destruction.  Just before the frightful leap, roused by the thunder of the cataract, the poor Indian awoke, only in time to see himself hurled into eternity.