We stay all night at Andrew Turner’s.

SUNDAY, August 7.  Meeting at Hoover’s schoolhouse.  I baptize David
Hoover.

MONDAY, August 29.  Last night the sky presented a very wonderful appearance.  It was luminous with a scarlet light nearly throughout the entire night.  What it may portend I know not.  People may brand me superstitious, but I can not resist the impression that this, with other signs, betokens the shedding of blood in our land.

WEDNESDAY, August 31.  Daniel Thomas and I start on a journey to the western counties of Virginia.  Stay first night at Nimrod Judy’s, and have night meeting at Zion.  TEXT.—­John 15:3.

THURSDAY, September 1.  Meeting and love feast at John Judy’s on South Mill Creek.  Speak on John 14:6.

FRIDAY, September 2.  Meeting at Martain Wise’s, near the Upper Track.  Psalm 19:7, 8.

SATURDAY, September 3.  Cross the Branch mountain to William Adamson’s at the mouth of Seneca.  Seneca is a small stream from the east side of the Alleghany mountain falling into the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac.  The scenery at the mouth of Seneca is probably unsurpassed by any in Virginia.  The perpendicular walls of solid rock hundreds of feet high present a scene of surpassing grandeur.  Night meeting at the meetinghouse on Seneca.  Subject, Luke 24:46, 47.  Stay all night at the widow Cooper’s.  Brother Daniel Thomas is very much impressed with the sublime sights we witnessed to-day.

SUNDAY, September 4.  Meeting at 10 o’clock.  Subject, 1 Cor. 1:18.  Council in the afternoon.  Asa Jarman is elected speaker, and Washington Summerfield deacon.

MONDAY, September 5.  Meeting at Abraham Summerfield’s.  Stay all night at Brother Levi Wilmot’s.

TUESDAY, September 6.  Cross the Alleghany mountain; dine at Brother J. Simon’s; call at Samuel Pirkey’s; and stay at Charles W. Burk’s in Randolph.  We passed through extensive forests to-day of beautiful and majestic timber, comprising wild cherry, tamarack, sugar-maple and other kinds of trees which invite the woodman’s axe.  The means for transportation alone are wanting to make this an immensely profitable lumber region.

WEDNESDAY, September 7.  Go back to Brother Simon’s for dinner and have night meeting in the meetinghouse.  John 15 is read.  Heavy fog this morning, but a fair day follows.

THURSDAY, September 8.  Meeting again at the same place.  Same subject we spoke on yesterday continued to-day.  Brother Daniel Thomas is a host.  He possesses the rare ability to adapt his words and thoughts to the mental states of these plain-minded people.  “Milk for babes; strong food for men,” seems to be his rule.  And a wise rule it is.  I have to guard against “inordinate affection” for him.

FRIDAY, September 9.  Still in Randolph County.  Dine at John Simon’s, and stay all right at Henry Wilson’s.  Pleasant weather.

SATURDAY, September 10.  Meeting begins at one o’clock.  Love feast at night.  Fine day and evening.  Jacob Nickolas is elected to the deaconship.