Brethren and sisters in the Lord, dearly beloved:  Our greetings for this time have been exchanged, and the atmosphere of love in which we all have so freely breathed and moved since our first meeting together must soon be exchanged for the atmosphere of the world.  Our blessed Lord meant a great deal when he said:  “I am the door:  by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; and shall go in and go out, and find pasture.”  In meetings like this, and others we have for some while been attending we feel that our spirits and souls and bodies are visibly and experimentally in the fold, with the Great Shepherd in our midst.  We are “made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,” warmed and cheered by “the Sun of Righteousness.”

But the duties of life lay upon us the necessity of breaking up and departing to our business and our homes.  We must “go out,” out among the elements of the world, and do our part valiantly in the great conflict of life—­the conflict that forms our character and decides forever whether we shall reign with saints in glory, or be captives of hell.  Let us, brethren and sisters, be cheered with the Lord’s promise, that even out of the fold we shall find pasture, something to increase our love for the Lord and for one another, and strengthen our faith.  How tenderly the Lord speaks to us, as though he regarded us as his little children!  “I will not leave you comfortless:  I will come to you.”  “And lo, I am with you to the end of the world, ... until I receive you unto myself, for where I am, there shall ye be also.”  “In the world ye shall have tribulations; ... but be of good cheer, ... in me ye shall have peace.”  In giving to each other the parting hand and the holy kiss tears and good wishes are not out of place.  Connected with these a word of comfort to the feeble-minded, a word of encouragement to the brother or sister of weak faith, a word of gentle admonition whispered into the ear of the erring, a word of caution to the rich, lest they be exalted and trust in their uncertain riches, a word of approval and commendation to those who, like Barnabas, are full of good works, may do an amount of good which eternity alone can reveal.

And now, brethren and sisters, farewell.  Be steadfast, unmovable; always abounding in the work of the Lord; inasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Come to Carey for two o’clock meeting.  Sup at Dr. Joseph Myers’s.  At one A.M. take train for Columbiana.  Sup with Brother Quinter.  Stay with Brother Henry Kurtz.  Fine weather yesterday and to-day.

SUNDAY, June 6.  Get home.

From this time on to the first of August Brother Kline was mostly around home.  He wrote many letters to prominent brethren in nearly all of the States in which the Brethren had, at that time, representative men.  He also preached some funerals, for people die even in summer; and death claims all seasons for his own.