Monday, August 25.  Preach funeral of Isaac Rorabaugh at Adam Mallow’s.  Age, nineteen years, three months and twenty-one days.  Stay all night at Jacob Hevner’s.

TUESDAY, August 26.  Forenoon meeting at the widow Henkel’s.  Afternoon meeting at George Cowger’s on the South Fork.  Stay there all night.

WEDNESDAY, August 27.  Forenoon and afternoon meeting at Jesse Mitchell’s.  Jesse Mitchell is appointed minister of the Word, and Hughey Ratchford is elected to the deaconship.

THURSDAY, August 28.  Stop at John Fulk’s on top of the Shenandoah mountain, and get home in the evening.

SATURDAY, September 6.  Attend the burial of Michael Homan.  Age, sixty-five years and eight months.  He was a highly respected citizen of our community.

SUNDAY, September 7.  Am called to preach the funeral of Evaline Aubrey’s child at the home of her father, William Hevner.  Diphtheria is raging.  It almost rivals the sword in its destruction of life.  The sword cuts down the men in middle life, and diphtheria cuts down the children.

SUNDAY, September 21.  Meeting on the South Fork mountain.  Old mother Kesner, Jane Kesner and Jane Rorabaugh baptized by me.  Stay all night at young Philip Kesner’s.

MONDAY, September 22.  Have night meeting and stay all night at the widow Henkel’s on top of the mountain.

TUESDAY, September 23.  Meeting at George Cowger’s on the South Fork.  After dinner I visit Jacob Hevner, who is sick, and stay with him all night.

WEDNESDAY, September 24.  Cross the mountain to Jesse Mitchell’s, and in the evening hold a love feast.  We are disturbed by Southern scouts who are present under the pretext of hunting up deserters from the army.  Stay all night at Samuel Trumbo’s.

THURSDAY, September 25.  Cross the Shenandoah mountain to Crab Run.  Council meeting.  Dine at Brother Isaac Whetzel’s, and stay all night at Brother James Fitzwater’s.

SATURDAY, October 4.  Attend love feast at Beaver Creek meetinghouse.  Stay at Martain Miller’s.

SUNDAY, October 5.  Meeting at the Beaver Creek meetinghouse.  Speak from John 14:1, “Let not your heart be troubled.”  Peace is the exact opposite of trouble.  And Jesus says:  “Peace I leave with you:  my peace I give unto you.  Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled; neither let it be afraid.”

To bring this subject to bear with due weight upon your minds I will spring this question:  Did our Lord ever utter a precept with which it is impossible for man to comply?  Wisdom and love answer with one voice:  He never did. “Let not your heart be troubled” is a precept.  It flows out of that fatherly love which ever warmed the Savior’s heart.  “Having loved his own, he loved them to the end.”  The Lord needed not that any should testify to him of man, for he knew what was in man.  He knew the uttermost of human power both to understand and obey his precepts and commands.  He therefore knows that we can keep our hearts from being troubled.  But man of himself can not do this.  Our Lord’s words, “Without me ye can do nothing,” apply as truly to keeping the heart from being troubled as to any other human effort.  In this as in all else pertaining to natural and spiritual life, we must be coworkers with God.