WEDNESDAY, June 8.  Meeting at Greenland.  Speak on the “Great Supper.”  Dine at Solomon Michael’s; visit Michael and Thomas Lion’s; stay all night at James Hilkey’s.

THURSDAY, June 9.  Come to the Pine Swamp.  Dine at William Abernathy’s, and stay all night at John Abernathy’s.  Fine day.

FRIDAY, June 10.  Meeting at William Abernathy’s.  In afternoon pass through Bloomington, and on to William Broadwater’s, where I stay all night.  Cold and cloudy day.

SATURDAY, June 11.  Frost again this morning.  Come to David Beachley’s for dinner; then walk to meeting and back.  Meeting at Miller’s barn.

SUNDAY, June 12.  Meeting in three places:  in the Elk Creek meetinghouse, and in Miller’s two barns.  In the house I speak on Exodus 14:13.  I here give the text, and some of the leading thoughts in my discourse:  TEXT.—­“And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day:  for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more forever.”

No father, in seeking to quell the needless fears of his child, could ever use words more tender and pathetic than these.  They flow right from the heart, even from the heart of our Father in heaven.  I often think how appropriately they might be addressed to a dying saint.  These Egyptians, the temptations from our old nature, which, like hounds upon our track, are constantly trying to overtake us, will all be left behind as soon as the eyes are closed in death.  “Fear not; stand still; and see the salvation which the Lord will show to you to-day:  for the Egyptians whom you see to-day, you shall see them again no more forever.”  Precious words would these be to one sick at heart of sin and suffering, and longing to be freed from their power.  But these words may instruct us who are still healthy and strong, and hold our places in the ranks to perform our part in the battle of life.

This text has been criticised by some as being opposed to progress.  The command to “stand still” is the mark at which the criticism has been aimed.  But those who talk and think in this way fail to observe that the Lord did not say this to the hosts of Israel until after they had done all they could do, and gone as far as they could go.  And when they then became fearful, and in great danger of being seized by a panic, and scattered to the four winds, he gave them the wise counsel and glorious promise found in the text.  Its great lesson to us is implied rather than expressed.

FIRST. We are to do what God commands, and go where he leads the way. This should be our aim at this our Annual Meeting.  I sometimes fear that we do not think and act with an eye to spreading the Gospel as we should.  It is not the way for us to stand still before our part is done.  In this and adjoining States, many, in various sections, have never heard a genuinely true gospel sermon.  Why could not