The Editor was intimately acquainted with Dr. Driver; and as he and Brother Kline were lifelong friends and in later years of their lives brethren, a brief reminiscence of Dr. Driver will here be given:  Jacob Driver was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, about the year 1801.  His parents came from Pennsylvania, and their baptism into the church of the Brethren is noted in this biography.  About the year 1838, Jacob, their eldest son, became very strongly impressed with the rational and logical arguments given by Dr. Samuel Thompson in a work written and published by him entitled:  “GUIDE TO HEALTH.”  This guide indicated and represented the way from sickness back to health as being very short and easy to find, exempt from dangers and free from doubt.  Jacob Driver entered the field of medical practice, and his success in that line added enthusiasm to his faith, by which as time went on, mountains were removed.  He soon deservedly acquired the title of “Doctor;” and although not conferred by a medical college, still the title of “Doctor of Medicine” has rarely been conferred by diploma upon a man more worthy to hold it, or borne with the honors of better success.  His removal with his family to Allen County, Ohio, in the autumn of 1852, was deplored by many families in Rockingham, who had learned to depend upon him as their most trustworthy medical adviser.  He died in Allen County about the year 1867, leaving an excellent lineage of sons and daughters, among whom Jacob, his youngest son, is now an active minister in the church of the Brethren.  The ties of affection which bound the hearts of Brother John Kline and Jacob Driver into an inseparable union were those of a double brotherhood:  brethren in church, and brethren in medical practice.

SATURDAY, May 18.  Dine at John Bowman’s above Harrisonburg, and stay all night at Daniel Thomas’s.

SUNDAY, May 19.  Meeting in the Beaver Creek meetinghouse and at two other places near by.  A very great concourse of people on the ground.  The spiritual peace and composure of heart, however, usually manifest in the Brotherhood on all former occasions of this kind, is sadly interfered with now by the distracted state of our country.  But the weather is pleasant, and we hope to have a good meeting.  Preaching in the meetinghouse to-night, and also in Dayton, Virginia.

MONDAY, May 20.  The Annual Meeting opens to-day at Beaver Creek meetinghouse, in Rockingham County, Virginia.  First, organize for counsel; take in questions; have public preaching in forenoon.  “Much people.”  In afternoon form subcommittees.  Some rain and mist to-day.  Stay all night at Martin Miller’s.

TUESDAY, May 21.  Proceed with business to-day; work through four committees.  Cool but pleasant day.  Stay all night at Isaac Miller’s.

WEDNESDAY, May 22.  Get through with business by eleven o’clock, and the Annual Meeting breaks up, most of those present from the North as well as from the South carrying away with them heavier hearts than they ever before have borne from a meeting of this kind.  Many prayers were offered in the course of its progress in the behalf of our country.  The Shekinah of God’s care may be gloriously waving over our heads now, and we not able to see it.  The Red Sea is before us, but Jehovah will part its waters for us to go through unharmed.