THURSDAY, September 22.  We return to Gilmore’s and get our horses, having walked from there to Green Hill and back to Divner’s.  From Gilmore’s we cross over to Jackson’s river, and have meeting at Valley Chapel.  Brother Daniel Thomas preached to-day.  His subject was 1 Cor. 1:8.  Go with James Terry and take dinner with him.  Night meeting at Valley Chapel.  Subject, “The Conversion of Saul.”  Stay all night at James Terry’s.

FRIDAY, September 23.  Come to new meetinghouse on Stony Run.  Preach the funeral of Robert Gwynn.  Subject, Heb. 9:28.  Dine at David Stephenson’s.  Come to Godlove Hindgartner’s; night meeting; subject, Matthew 11, three last verses.  Fine day.

SATURDAY, September 24.  Morning meeting at Hindgartner’s.  Subject, Matthew 7, last paragraph.  After dinner preach the funeral of old man Robinson’s wife.  Subject, 1 Peter 1, last three verses.

SUNDAY, September 25.  Meeting again at Hindgartner’s.  Subject, Heb. 12:14.  I could wish that thousands could have heard Brother Daniel Thomas to-day.  As he spoke of the holiness without which no man shall see the Lord, setting forth in strong and clear light what it is to live a holy life, tears of penitence fell from many eyes.

MONDAY, September 26.  Come across to Liberty meetinghouse, on the Bull Pasture river in Highland County, Virginia.  Subject, Luke 8:18.  Dine at Dr. Pullen’s; then come to Amos Deahl’s on the Cow Pasture river in the same county and stay all night.

TUESDAY, September 27.  Come by way of the Calf Pasture river, in Augusta County, to the pleasant home of Brother Daniel Thomas, who seems very well pleased to find himself at home again and all well, after an absence with me of four weeks to the day.  In Isaiah 52:7 we read these words:  “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good; that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth.”  These words prophetically set forth the Lord in the beauty of his holy life and good will toward men.  His feet symbolize his outward life.  This was beautiful in the highest degree.  No angry word, no impure thought, no covetous feeling, no revengeful motive, no unholy desire ever found a place in his heart; but, instead of these, gentleness, goodness, meekness, kindness, temperance, mercy, forgiveness, and charity, or universal and unvarying good will toward men, characterized the whole of his good life as the outflow of his good heart.  In respect to these graces of our Lord, Brother Daniel Thomas sets an example worthy of imitation.  In the four weeks we have spent together I have not heard a word from his lips that I thought unwise, or seen an act of his body or hands that I thought not good.  This is my testimony of him in secret before God.

WEDNESDAY, September 28.  Get home.