FRIDAY, September 29.  This day Brother Kline starts to the counties of Hardy and Hampshire.  He visits Isaac Dasher’s, James Parks’s, William Michael’s, Adam Cosner’s, Henry Cosner’s, Joseph Arnold’s, John Leatherman’s, Samuel Arnold’s, Adam Michael’s, Michael Lyon’s, Solomon Michael’s, Jacob Cosner’s, Martain Lantz’s, Enoch Hyre’s, Isaac Shobe’s, Chlora Judy’s, Peggy Dasher’s, and James Fitzwater’s.  He got home Thursday, Oct. 12, after an absence of two weeks.  He rode Nell.  I beg the kind reader to pardon the entry of the foregoing list of names.

The Editor will here tell a short story of what really took place very recently.  He happened to be at the house of one of his friends, and in looking through his library he discovered a very old copy of the life of Isaac N. Walter, who had been dead over forty years.  He remarked to the lady of the house:  “I see you still have on hand a copy of the life of Isaac N. Walter.”  “O, yes, and that is the most precious volume to me in all the library.  You see from its appearance that it has been handled very freely.  Mr. Walter used to come to our house, and whilst papa was not a member of his church he and papa thought a great deal of each other; and whilst I have but a childhood recollection of him, reading that book carries me back in thought to the old home place where I was raised, and calls up the thousand and one pleasant memories of my early days.”  Thus she went on; and very soon opened to the place where the date of one of Mr. Walter’s visits to her father’s house was given.  She could no longer restrain her tears, but excused them by saying:  “You know a woman never forgets her first love, and that is the love of her childhood home.”

On this trip Brother Kline baptized Josiah Simons and James Hilkey, October 7.

SUNDAY, October 15.  Meeting at our meetinghouse.  I baptize eleven persons to-day.  They are Noah Rhodes and wife; Frederic Kline and wife; George Wine and wife; Susanna Showalter; Jacob Sanger; John McKee; Catharine Fink, and Polly Wampler.

SUNDAY, October 22.  Meeting at the Lost River meetinghouse.  Matthew 28 is read.  Philip Fitzwater and Catharine Sowder are baptized.

SUNDAY, October 29.  Meeting at John Glick’s, in Shenandoah County.  After meeting I baptize John Glick and wife.  Stay all night at John Neff’s.

SUNDAY, November 12.  Meeting at our meetinghouse.  This day I baptize John A. Showalter; Mary Kline; Mary Kesler; Anna Hoover, wife of Emanuel Hoover, and Mrs. Fogel.

SUNDAY, November 26.  This day John Bowman and I take a steamer at Alexandria and attend a Methodist church in Washington City.  After looking around at the gorgeous displays of artistic ornamentation in the structure and finish of the building itself, and being comfortably seated in a pew cushioned with silk velvet, with my feet resting on a Brussels carpet, I was ready to hear.  The first thing I heard was a sort of chant, with organ accompaniment.  But