bliss; for he is the resurrection and the life of every one that loves him.  It is the privilege of every one to enter into life through the narrow gate.  But I cannot enter for you, nor tread the narrow way, nor obtain a crown of glory for you.  This is your own individual choice, your own individual work—­nay, it is the Lord’s merciful, loving, gracious work in you, for without him you can do nothing.  But when you believe in him and love him with all your heart, he finds a resting place in your soul, and he then comes to be to you individually “the way, the truth, and the life.”

The next eight days were almost entirely occupied in filling appointments previously made through letters from Brother Kline.  We have to wonder a little when he found time to write them.  But he was his own secretary on gratuitous service, and he never even so much as presented a bill for stationery or postal expenditures.

FRIDAY, September 21.  This day finds the two brethren at Union meetinghouse, in the Barker settlement, in Barbour County, Virginia.  Brother Miller spoke at this meeting from John 3:7.  Space alone forbids the insertion of his plain, practical sermon to-day.  They found, as usual, a hearty welcome here; and in truth the same may be said of every place they visited.  And why not?  Even these primitive people were quick to perceive and appreciate the good will with which they had come.  Besides, they made themselves sociable and entertaining in the families under whose roofs they found shelter.  Brother Kline had an inexhaustible fund of information gained by reading and traveling, and he was not reserved in the way of keeping it all to himself.  Brother Kline was what may be called a good conversationalist.  He did not flood your attention with words, nor bore you with tiresome narratives of great exploits in which he was the hero.  He would tell you of sights he had seen, and experiences he had had in traveling and otherwise, in a way that would so absorb you in the narrative that you lost sight of the man.  He always aimed to exalt his subject and not the speaker.  This was true in his preaching as well as in his conversations.

SATURDAY, September 22.  They came to Brother Elias Ovel’s for dinner.  In the afternoon preaching in the meetinghouse and love feast at night.  Brother Miller served.

TUESDAY, September 25.  They had meeting at Brother Peter Feiga’s.  An election was held in which Samuel Feiga was elected speaker, and Tobias Moser deacon.  They staid all night at Thomas Clark’s.

Brother Kline got home from this journey Sunday evening, October 7.  Brother Miller got home the next day.  They were gone three weeks and four days.

MONDAY, December 31.  At home.  I have this year traveled, mostly on horseback, 4,286 miles, and preached forty-two funeral sermons.

SATURDAY, January 5, 1856.  At home.  Cold; snows very fast all day.

SATURDAY, January 12.  Snows all this day again, very fast.  Sleighing is likely to be fine for a while; a rare occurrence in our State.