Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 712 pages of information about Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary.

Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 712 pages of information about Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary.

FRIDAY, August 6.  This day he and Brother John Wine start to the northwestern counties of Virginia, and cross over into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Regularly, they have meetings every day.  They visit Nicholas Leatherman’s, John Leatherman’s, and Samuel Arnold’s in Hampshire County, Virginia.  They visit David Beachley’s, John C. Lichty’s, and Elias K. Beachley’s; also Jonathan Kelso’s, David Livengood’s and Franklin O. Livengood’s, all in Maryland.  We next find them at Brother Flanigan’s, on Hughs’s river, where they stay all night.

SUNDAY, August 15.  Meeting.  Speak on the Great Commission.  Roger Davis and wife baptized.  Meeting in the afternoon.  Continue on the same text.  Stay all night with Brother Martain Cochran.  Fine weather.

MONDAY, August 16.  Meeting at Slab meetinghouse.  Speak on John 4:  29.  Dine at Brother Cochran’s.  Sup at Brother Roger Davis’s, and have meeting at early candlelight.  Brother John Wine speaks from Rom. 1:  16.

TUESDAY, August 17.  Get back to Oakland.

WEDNESDAY, August 18.  Meeting at Thomas Clark’s.  Speak from Matthew 12.  Meeting in afternoon at Isaac Hays’s.  Martha and Mary, or the one thing needful, was our subject.  Stay at Brother Lee’s.

THURSDAY, August 19.  Meeting at Greenland, in Hardy County, Virginia.  A woman from Germany, in Europe, is baptized to-day.  Dine at Samuel Barbee’s, and stay at James Parks’s.  The two brethren had several other meetings by the way, and on

MONDAY, August 23, they reached home.

FRIDAY, September 24.  Meeting and love feast at our meetinghouse.  Andrew Crist and wife, Silas Turner, and Catharine Showalter were baptized to-day.

SUNDAY, October 17.  This day Christian Shoemaker, George
Rodecap and his mother, and William Ford and his wife were baptized.

MONDAY, October 18.  Brother Kline started on another trip to Maryland.  Among the names of those whom he called on, or passed a night with, we notice Samuel Zimmerman, Jacob Saylor, Sister Jordan, Philip Boyle, John Roop, John Bowman, D.P.  Saylor, William Nipe, Peter Grassnicker, Daniel Rickerd, Jacob Wolf, and Mrs. Nipe.

WEDNESDAY, October 20.  Love feast at Beaver Dam.  Fine weather, and a large gathering of people.  Much brotherly love, and general good order.

THURSDAY, October 21.  Meeting at the Pipe Creek meetinghouse, and one at night at New Vinson.

FRIDAY, October 22.  Meeting at the Meadow Branch meetinghouse.

SUNDAY, October 24.  Love feast at the meetinghouse, near
Brother William Nipe’s.  Large gathering and fine weather.

Brother Kline attended several other meetings on this trip; and on

SUNDAY, October 31, he reports himself at the Flat Rock meetinghouse, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, replying to a discourse on feet-washing delivered shortly before by J.P.  Cline, a Lutheran preacher of the same county.  In his reply Brother Kline proves himself “a master of his bow:  his arrows never miss.”  I here present some points in this reply: 

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