SATURDAY, May 10.  Stay at Brother Young’s first night.  A great concourse of people on the ground.

SUNDAY, May 11.  We have a very fine day.  Preaching at several points.  An immense assembly to-day.

MONDAY, May 12.  Meeting is organized.  Committees formed.  Go to rooms and take in queries.  Stay all night on the meeting grounds.  Rain all day and cold.

TUESDAY, May 13.  Begin to discuss questions.  Rain all day and night, and unpleasant.  Stay all night on the meeting grounds.

WEDNESDAY, May 14.  Continue the discussion of questions.  Close at half past five o’clock.  Stay again on meeting grounds.  Although we have some differences of opinion among us on minor points of order and usages, I am happy to know that in all great matters of doctrine and practice we are one.  Whilst the meeting was in progress I was made to think of what Solomon says in the book of Proverbs about the locusts.  “The locusts,” says he, “have no king, yet go they forth, all of them, together in bands.”  We have no human king over us as pope, cardinal or bishop, with self-assumed authority and dignity; yet we hold together.  We acknowledge allegiance to but one king, and he is out of human sight.  He is the King of glory.  But of him we can say with an apostle:  “Whom having not seen we love; in whom, though now we see him not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”

On my way home from the meeting I visited Peter Fesler’s, Jacob Miller’s, Samuel Freys’s, Allen White’s, Absalom Painter’s, William Mason’s, John Strough’s, John Miller’s, Joseph Funk’s, George Hoover’s, and John Snideman’s, all in Indiana.  I also preached at a number of points in Indiana and Ohio.

SATURDAY, May 24.  This evening David Bowman and I get to Abraham Aerbach’s in Ohio.

SUNDAY, May 25.  Go to Bowman’s meetinghouse, where I speak from Hebrews 12.  Dine at David Miller’s, and stay all night at Isaac Miller’s.

TUESDAY, May 27.  Night meeting at the meetinghouse near Peter Nead’s.  Stay with Brother Nead.

WEDNESDAY, May 28.  Meeting at the same place.  Sup with John Varner.  Stay with Isaac Miller.

THURSDAY, May 29.  Meeting at Reipsam’s meetinghouse.  Love feast this evening.  Stay with Philip Grabil till one o’clock in the night, when we start for Springfield to take cars for home.  Stop over a few days in Hampshire County, Virginia, and arrive home safe on Thursday, June 5.

TUESDAY, June 17.  This day I am fifty-nine years of age.  When I was young my ambition led me to hope that I might some day attain to distinction in the world, and leave an imperishable name.  I own with shame before my God, that my heart was full of vanity.  I now thank him that he has led me to know and feel myself but a poor sinner redeemed.  I am wholly dependent upon him for all that I am or ever shall be.  Lord Jesus, may I live to glorify thee, and thee only.  I believe thy truth.  I trust thy love.  May thy glory be the end of all my efforts in life, and thy love the propelling power in all I do.  Hallowed be thy name, not my name. Thy will be done, not my will.  Give me grace thus ever to pray and to walk humbly before thee.