Crossing the Potomac at the Ferry, they go to Brother Letherman’s and spend the night.

FRIDAY, September 1.  Love feast at Brother Herschman’s in Middle Valley.  Luke 3 was read.  Three persons were baptized.  Next day the brethren go to Beaver Dam, and pass the night at John Garber’s.

At this time letter postage was very high, as much as twenty-five cents on some letters; and the transportation of mails very slow.  Regardless of this, however, by means of letters, Brother Kline knew just where to go and what to expect before starting on a journey.  Appointments for preaching, councils and love feasts fell in the line of his route from beginning to end.  Have a little bit of patience, please, and let me quote the entries just as I find them in the Diary for this journey.  If they do not interest you, they may interest others deeply, especially the children and the grandchildren of the good people named in them.

SUNDAY, September 3.  Love feast at Beaver Dam.  Luke 14 was read.  Three persons were baptized.

MONDAY, 4.  Visit Brother Deah’s and Saylor’s, and stay all night at Joseph Engle’s.

TUESDAY, 5.  Meeting at Pipe Creek.  Luke 16 was read.  Stay all night at Peter Royer’s.

WEDNESDAY, 6.  Meeting at Rupp’s.  John 1 was read.  Stay all night at Christian Royer’s.

THURSDAY, 7.  Stay at Brother Keeney’s.

FRIDAY, 8.  Love feast at Brother Keeney’s.  John 18 was read.

SATURDAY, 9.  Visit Jacob Myers’s.  Stay all night at David Brillhardt’s.

The families visited in the order of Brother Kline and Brother Flory’s route were as follows:  Christian Longenacker’s, John Zug’s, Abraham Zug’s, Daniel Zug’s, Jacob Gipe’s, John Gipe’s, Abraham Harshey’s, Shoemaker’s, Brother Myers’s on the other side of the Susquehanna, Andrew Deardorf’s, David Pfoutz, Fogelsanger’s, John Stauffer’s, Brother Royer’s, Brother Holsinger’s, Welty’s, Fahrney’s, Joseph Emert’s, Eschleman’s, David Kinsey’s, Brother Martain’s, James Tabler’s; Carter’s, in Frederick County, Virginia, Jonas Goughnour’s, in Shenandoah County, Virginia; and home Tuesday, October 3.

Brother Flory and I did not separate for one day or night on this journey.  He preached a good deal, and has, I think, left a very good impression.  He related a little incident about a local preacher with whom he was personally acquainted, and which he stated for a fact, that has several times amused me.  It came in at a suitable place in one of his discourses.  The preacher had been regularly receiving one hundred dollars a year from his Conference, for stated preachings to several poor congregations not far from his home.  The preacher owned a farm and a mill, both at the same time; and with the two combined he became independent.  His brethren saw this and concluded that he ought no longer be paid the hundred dollars a year; so the pay was withheld.  But his preaching stopped as suddenly as his pay.  When asked about the cause of this he pointed to his mill wheel and said:  “Do you suppose that that wheel will run if you keep the water off?”