TUESDAY, June 6.  Begin the discussion of questions.  Get through with the slave question by noon.  All night on the ground.

WEDNESDAY, June 7.  Get through with business by eleven o’clock, and the meeting breaks up.

SUNDAY, July 23.  This day Joseph Miller and I start to the counties of Pendleton, Hardy, Randolph, Pocahontas, and Highland.  I ride Nell.

These two brethren were absent on this journey precisely three weeks to the day.  I fear it would be tedious to the reader to trace them day by day and step by step through all the ways they went.  Not a day passed in which they did not fill one appointment for preaching, and often two.  Brother Kline felt at home among the mountains.  He had a lively appreciation of the sublime in nature; and more than once does he note the grandeur of some mountain’s lofty summit over which he passed; the majestic power of some falling stream; or the awful solitude of some deep forest.  It was mainly a timbered country through which they passed.  The regions traversed by the Alleghany mountain proper were in that day still in a state of nature; and the scattered inhabitants very nearly in the same state.  Many of them live very remote from any railroad or other public highway.

At a private house, in Randolph County, he says:  “Extensive forests of very tall and straight timber which would be exceedingly valuable for building and other purposes, could it be gotten to market, cover large sections of Randolph, Pocahontas, Tucker and other counties further west.  But as time goes on population will increase; and after awhile the urgent demands for the timber and other productions of these regions will cause roads to be constructed for their transportation to markets.  We should not be backward in our efforts to secure permanent foothold for the truth as we hold and practice it.  Many here cannot read for themselves; and it pains my heart to find how poorly they have been instructed in the things pertaining to the way of salvation.  The small amount of preaching they hear is not often of an instructive character.  It appeals to the feelings, but does not inform the mind.  This I learn by conversing with them.  They are told to believe, it is true; but what their faith is to lay hold of, and what the Lord requires them to do that they may serve him acceptably, is not made clear to their minds.  It is not to be inferred that all are on the low plane of intelligence I have described.  There is here and there an exception.  But the exceptions are rare.  And in our preaching we aim to speak, as did Paul, ‘as to babes.’  As to natural capacity, and their capability of attaining to high intelligence in the things of men and God, things human and divine, under the hand of adequate instruction, I regard them as being equal to any people in our State.”

The two brethren continued in the company of each other throughout this journey.  They got home Sunday, August 13.