THURSDAY, April 13.  Council meeting at the Mill Creek meetinghouse.  Brother Isaac Long is elected speaker, and Christian Hartman deacon.  Brother Isaac Long gives promise of great power in the Word.  He has a very good voice for both speaking and singing.  I do not wish to attach undue weight to this most wonderful gift of God, but when the head is stored with knowledge and the heart with the love of truth, the human voice is one of the great means by which God makes known the saving virtue of his Word.

FRIDAY, April 14.  Council meeting at the old meetinghouse.  Brother John Thomas is elected to the deaconship.

SUNDAY, April 30.  Meeting at our meetinghouse.  Samuel Wampler and wife baptized.

THURSDAY, May 11.  Perform the marriage ceremony of George Wine, son of Samuel Wine, and Lydia Good, daughter of Jacob Good.

MONDAY, May 22.  This day Brother Kline starts to the Annual Meeting.  He gets to Cumberland on the twenty-third, where he meets Brother E.K.  Beachley, who takes him to his home.  The same evening he attends a love feast at a meetinghouse near by.

FRIDAY, May 26.  He attends a union meeting at the Middle Creek meetinghouse, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

SATURDAY, May 27.  He has meeting near Brother David Lichty’s.  I will clothe the skeleton of this discourse as best I can.  Acts 10:34, 35.  TEXT.—­“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him.”

It required a miracle to convince Peter that any besides Jews were to be favored with the Gospel.  But a man of his stamp of character, hard to be convinced, resolute even to drawing the sword in defense of his friend or faith, is not likely to be imposed upon by false appearances, nor deceived by unreliable promises.  Just such a man Jesus needed, and just such a man Jesus chose to be foreman in his little band of disciples.  But when all doubt was removed from Peter’s mind, his faith became to be a part of himself.  Its roots branched out into every part of his nature, and permeated his entire self.  Well could Jesus say of the TRUTH which Peter so nobly confessed, and to which he so nobly adhered in the later years of his life by a faith that bore the test of fire:  “Upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”  Such faith ever has been and ever will be the foundation on which his church stands.

But now Peter clearly sees that the Gentiles are “fellow heirs with the Jews,” and equally entitled to the right of becoming members of “the household of faith.”  “God is no respecter of persons:  but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him.”  Neither social, moral nor political caste, nor age, sex, color nor condition impose any barrier to God’s acceptance.  Peter was taught this by his vision; and this is the meaning of the text.  But whilst God is thus impartial, we must not forget that his acceptance of any and every one depends upon their acceptance of him.