THURSDAY, May 31.  Start homeward.

SUNDAY, July 22.  Meeting at Turner’s schoolhouse in the Gap.  Brother Solomon Garber is with me.  Mark 12 is read.  Dine at the widow James Turner’s, and go to James Fitzwater’s, where we stay all night on our way to some of the western counties of Virginia.

The counties to which the two brethren were going are included in West Virginia, which, as is well known, was organized a State during the Rebellion.  The people living among the mountains are generally hospitable, and much attached to the scenes of their childhood and that wild freedom of nature found in the mountains that surround them.  The motto engraved upon the State Seal of West Virginia is very expressive and appropriate, and in Latin reads thus:  “Montani liber semper sunt.”  Translated, it reads thus:  “Mountaineers are ever free.”  The people are noted for the attention with which they listen to the preaching of the Gospel.  Brother Kline often spoke of the pleasure it gave him to preach in these sections, because the Word was received with so much readiness.  His success among them proved this.  They were devotedly attached to him; and it is questionable if in any part of the Brotherhood deeper grief was felt over his martyrdom than that which filled the hearts of the brethren and sisters and friends in West Virginia.

MONDAY, July 23.  Cross the Shenandoah mountain over to the South Fork, and have meeting at Zion, in Hardy county, 2 Corinthians 5 was read.  Dine at Nimrod Judy’s, and in afternoon have a small gathering at Leonard Brake’s on the Fork four miles below Zion, for social prayer.  We then cross the Fork mountain to John Judy’s, on South Mill Creek, where we have night meeting, and stay all night.  Attended three meetings to-day; and traveled thirty-three miles on Nell’s back across two very high mountains.

TUESDAY, July 24.  Meeting at Isaac Judy’s, about four miles higher up on the same creek.  Brother Solomon Garber spoke from Luke 24:26, “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?” He spoke with much clearness and order in his mind.  After dinner we traveled by way of the Upper Track, across the South Branch mountain, sixteen miles, to Solomon Harman’s, near the North Fork.  Stay there all night.

WEDNESDAY, July 25.  On this journey Brother Kline has noted the distance traveled over between one point and the next in most cases.  Thus:  Come to William Adamson’s at the mouth of Seneca (five miles); then to Seneca meetinghouse (two miles); find a congregation; speak from John 3:14, 15, 16.  Come to Jesse Harper’s (two miles); dine; then to widow Cooper’s (eight miles); stay all night.

THURSDAY, July 26.  Meeting at widow Cooper’s; subject, Luke 14; dine; then have meeting at soldier White’s.  Subject, 1 John 3:4; then come to Abraham Summerfield’s, where we stay all night.  Fine day.

FRIDAY, July 27.  Come to Levi Wilmot’s (sixteen miles), and have a two o’clock meeting.  Subject, Matthew 5.  Stay there all night.