TUESDAY, October 6.  Come to Brother Levi Wilmot’s.  Preach the funeral of Brother Powers’s wife.

WEDNESDAY, October 7.  Dine at Abraham Summerfield’s.  Then to William Adamson’s at the mouth of Seneca Creek, where I stay all night.

THURSDAY, October 8.  Dine at Daniel Judy’s.  Stay all night at Adam Ketterman’s on top of the South Fork mountain.

FRIDAY, October 9.  Get home.

SUNDAY, October 25.  Meeting at Hoover’s schoolhouse.  I
baptize John Lamb and wife, and Mary Hoover.

SUNDAY, November 1.  This day Brother Kline and Jacob Miller are together at a meeting in a place called Powell’s Fort.  This is a very singular conformation of country.  It is entirely surrounded by high mountain walls, with the exception of one notch or outlet for drainage and a road.  It is about twenty miles south of Winchester, Virginia.  Some well-to-do people live in this secluded abode.  It is likewise the point to which it is said that Washington had resolved to retreat, with his army, rather than surrender to the British, in one of the dark periods of the Revolutionary War.  On this visit to the Fort Brother Jacob Miller baptized three persons.

From this time to the close of the year, Brother Kline was mostly employed in writing his “Apology and Defense of Baptism.”  He finished the work on the thirty-first day of December.  In the year 1857 he traveled 3,967 miles.

FRIDAY, February 5, 1858.  Attend council meeting at the Old meetinghouse.  Brother John Thomas is forwarded; Joseph Early is elected to preach the Word; and Benjamin Byerly is elected to the deaconship.

SATURDAY, February 27.  Council meeting at our meetinghouse.  Brother Samuel Zigler is elected to preach the Word.

MONDAY, March 8.  This day a snow falls about one foot in depth.

WEDNESDAY, March 10.  This day completes the fortieth year of my married life.

FRIDAY, March 26.  Council meeting at the Brush meetinghouse.  George Wine, son of Samuel Wine, and John B. Kline are each elected to the deaconship.

MONDAY, May 10.  Brother Kline and Martain Miller, in company of each other, start to the Annual Meeting.  On the following Friday they arrived at Brother J.P.  Ebersole’s, Ohio.

Between Saturday, May 15, and Friday, May 21, the two brethren in company of each other attended four meetings, and visited families as follows:  Abraham Ebersole’s, Daniel Rosenberger’s, Jacob Leedy’s, Jonathan Dickey’s, Michael Baserman’s, Jacob Miller’s, Samuel Miller’s, Daniel Miller’s, Abraham Miller’s.

FRIDAY, May 21, after dinner, they go to Lima and wait for the train, which does not come in till ten o’clock at night.  It had run off the track near a place called Forest.  The Diary note says:  A man was killed here by the western train while we were waiting.  He got between the woodpile and the cars.  Death overtook him without a moment’s warning.  If unprepared to die, how sad the thought