SUNDAY, September 11.  Meeting at Brother Henry Wilson’s.  Luke 13 is read.  Night meeting at Brother Jacob Nickolas’s, in his house.  Subject, Rom. 13:11, 12.  Stay there all night.  Very pleasant weather.

MONDAY, September 12.  Come to Philippa, in Barbour County.  Stop at David Kline’s.  Dine at Peter Reid’s.  Afternoon meeting at Peck’s Run meetinghouse.  Acts 3 is read.  Stay all night at Philip Dupoy’s.  Fine day.

TUESDAY, September 13.  Come to Brother Joseph Houser’s, two miles from Buckhannon.  Meeting and love feast.  Matthew 20 is read.  Fine day and evening.

WEDNESDAY, September 14.  Meeting.  Subject, Acts 2:37, 38.  One man baptized.  In council Jacob Houser was elected speaker, and Brother Hess deacon.

THURSDAY, September 15.  Come to Wilson Osborn’s on Middle Fork river.  After dinner, cross the mountain to Valley river; stop and stay all night at William Kern’s.

FRIDAY, September 16.  Cross Cheat mountain, thirty-five miles, and get to Brother John Riley’s, where we stay all night.

SATURDAY, September 17.  Wonderful rain last night.  Waters higher than they have been in a long time.  Meeting at Liberty meetinghouse.  Subject, Luke 24:46, 47.  Stay all night at Adam Hevner’s.  Cloudy and misty, but waters partly run off.

SUNDAY, September 18.  Sky almost clear this morning.  Promise of a fair day.  Meeting again at Liberty meetinghouse.  Subject, “The Great Commission,” Matt. 28:18, 19, 20.  Come to John Riley’s, where we stay all night.  Clears up beautifully to-day.  Our congregations have not been large, but they have appeared to pay attention to what has been said.  A preacher of Brother Daniel Thomas’s power cannot fail to impress an audience.  He enjoys the rare ability of analyzing and arranging his subject matter in a way that makes its presentation easy to be understood.  I have observed a very important truth, and I am learning its lessons more and more every day, that people can be interested only in what they understand.  Uneducated people, and children even, will listen with attention to what they understand.  Paul perceived this truth.  Hence he said:  “I would rather speak five words with the understanding, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.”  Paul got at the very root of the truth, for his remarks imply that no man can make a thought clear to the mind of another unless it be first clear to his own mind.  “If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch together.”

MONDAY, September 19.  Dine at Adam Hevner’s; come to Greenbank, to Dunmore post office; then to Shenaberger’s, but we cannot get across the river.  We then go five miles down the river and cross on a bridge over to Knapp’s Creek, and stay all night at William Harper’s.

TUESDAY, September 20.  Afternoon meeting near Harper’s.  Subject, Heb. 12:12.  Stay all night at the widow Harper’s.

WEDNESDAY, September 21.  The widow Harper and Abraham Rankin are married this morning.  Meeting at Andrew Harold’s in Mt.  Vernon.  Subject, Matt. 7:21.  After dinner we cross the Alleghany mountain to Alexander Gilmore’s, on Back Creek.  Night meeting at Green Hill.  John 1 is read.  Stay all night at John Divner’s.  Much rain this morning.