John Zigler and wife, Celestine Whitmore and wife, and David Haller were baptized to-day.

I rejoice that these good people have cast in their lot with us; and hope that they will prove to be a blessing and an ornament in the church.  Brother David Haller is a very sensible and active man, with a young family, and he can do much for the good cause.  Brother Celestine Whitmore will exert a good influence on Lost River.  And Brother John Zigler will show to the world how an active business may be carried on in a godly way.  “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ, did put on Christ.”

History tells us that Xenophon, in his famous retreat from Cunaxa, wore a wolfskin about his shoulders and breast.  This was becoming to him as the general of an army of Greeks trained to slaughter, and bent on cutting his way through all opposition with the sword.  It might also have been a suitable covering for each soldier in his army; since the uniform of an army is thought to signify, in some measure, the spirit by which the soldiers are incited to action.

The uniform of the soldier in the army of the Lord should, therefore, signify the spirit and mind that is in him.  If the spirit is that of nonconformity to the world, so should the dress or uniform be.  If the spirit is that of meekness, humility, kindness, goodness, purity, peace and love, the dress of both sexes, each in its appropriate form, should correspond to these affections of the heart.

THURSDAY, October 20.  Brother Kline and Daniel Garber started to

THE GLADES.

The Diary does not say where THE GLADES are, but, from the churches and Brethren visited, it is inferred that they lie in the southern part of western Pennsylvania.

Among the places named at which they attended meetings may be mentioned Abraham Beachley’s; Myers’s schoolhouse; William Miller’s; Brother Blaugh’s; Berben; Brother Moser’s; Dr. Krone’s; Jacob Myers’s and Bearkles.  At the last-named place a council meeting was held at which brethren Cover and Fahrney were established in the second degree of the ministry.  “They both,” so the Diary says, “have a good report from those that are without, as well as from those that are within.”

On their homeward way our two brethren had night meeting at Abbey Arnold’s in Hampshire County, Virginia.  The last chapter of Revelation was read.  Brother Kline says:  “Toward the close of my discourse I gave a farewell invitation to sinners to come and take of the ’Water of Life freely.’  After meeting one man came to me and said that he was tired of drinking of the bitter waters of sin and thirsted for the sweet ‘Water of Life.’  I told him that our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life as revealed in his Word, is the Water of Life, that our loving acceptance of the truth of his Word as a matter of faith, and our living a life of obedience to God in conformity with that truth is drinking the Water of Life.  It then becomes eternal life to our souls.  I tried to encourage him to drink in this way; but I do not know what he may do.”