From the last date given to the thirteenth day of September Brother Kline was called to engage with considerable activity in the practice of the medical profession.  There was much sickness in his own and adjoining neighborhoods.  His death record was very small in proportion to the number of his patients.  This fact alone establishes his success as a medical practitioner.  The writer has been a careful and candid observer of the different methods and medicines employed in the treatment of the sick for a period of fifty years, and he ventures to give it as his impartial verdict that the course of treatment of the sick, medically, pursued by Brother Kline and the other physicians of his school, was attended by as small a death rate as that of any school in the profession in his day or since.  In addition to this, convalescing and recovered patients were rarely heard to complain of any after effects of the disease or medicine.  Brother Kline was often heard to speak of this.  He would say:  “Our patients do not complain of rheumatism, weak joints, broken down nerves, rapidly-decaying teeth, impaired hearing or generally enfeebled constitutions.  We give no medicines which can leave any injurious after effects.”  But, after all, his heart was set on the ministry of the Word.  He regarded the life and health of the body as incalculably subordinate to the life and health of the soul.  This consideration incited him to untiring activity in preaching, praying, exhorting, singing, and to whatever else might instruct, comfort and encourage the child of God, or warn the sinner of his danger and bring him to Christ.

THURSDAY, September 13.  This day Brother Kline, in company of Martain Miller, starts on another journey to some of the western counties of Virginia.  He of late years begins to take company with him on these trips.  In the earlier part of his ministry he would often go alone, I guess because no one volunteered to go with him.  You remember Brother Daniel Thomas was with him on his last trip before this.  Now Brother Martain Miller goes.  Martain Miller was a brother of Daniel Miller, near Greenmount, Virginia.  He lived near the Beaver Creek meetinghouse, in Rockingham County.  His election to the ministry of the Word, his subsequent advancement, and his ordination are given in the Diary.  Whilst he was not regarded as a minister of great power in the stand, his influence in the councils of the church at home and abroad was felt and acknowledged.  A man like Elder Martain Miller, of ready and deep perception, can quickly arrive at just and wise decisions, which the man of ordinary mind might never be able to reach.  Hence the worth of such men as leaders in the realm of thought.