WEDNESDAY, June 19.  It is now delightful weather, and Brother Kline is this day on the Great Cheat mountain, filling two appointments at a place which he calls Marsh’s.  The Great Cheat mountain lies west of the Alleghany proper, and for many miles ranges nearly parallel with it.  A branch of Cheat river drains the valley between the two.  The people in this section are mainly employed in rearing cattle and sheep.  The lands are well adapted to grazing.  But in most localities of this country meetings for preaching and other religious services are rare, and the Gospel is seldom heard.  Brother Kline’s heart ever leaned toward destitute regions like these.  He would say:  “I occasionally find one whose sense of sin has so mellowed his heart that, like a ripe apple, he is ready to fall by a gentle touch of gospel truth.”

FRIDAY, July 1.  Yesterday I had meeting at Josiah Simmon’s, and to-day have meeting at the same place.  I speak from 1 Peter 1:19.  TEXT.—­“Ye were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ.”

I tried to set before these dear people the only hope of salvation.  I told them about the Son of God; that he was born of a woman, a pure virgin who conceived him not of man, but of the Holy Spirit of God; that his birth was heralded and announced by an angel from heaven who named him Jesus before he was born, for, said the angel, “He shall save his people from their sins.”

When he came to be a man about thirty years of age he was publicly baptized by John the Baptist in the river Jordan, “and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove upon him:  and, lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”  Jesus lived a life of sinless purity, going about doing good, teaching the people the way of everlasting life; healing the sick; raising the dead to life; giving sight to the blind; hearing to the deaf; cleansing the lepers, and casting devils and evil spirits out of people who were subject to the evil powers by which they were possessed.  All these things are related by the four evangelists.  Jesus also taught the people many things by parables, in which he set forth his great love for them; what he was able and willing to do to save them from their sins, and what it was necessary for them to do to be saved.

But the Jews would not accept the truth he told them.  They were a very proud and self-righteous people, and were not willing to be instructed in things they vainly believed they understood better than Jesus did.  He called on them to repent of their sins.  They denied their being sinners.  He told them he was the Son of God, and that he came down from heaven.  They would not believe this:  and just because he taught and did things contrary to the way their proud and selfish hearts thought right, they arrested Jesus the Lord of glory, took him before their high priest, gave him a mock trial, and had him crucified.