From the time of his return from this journey to the close of the year he did not venture far from home in a northern direction.  On the twelfth day of August he and Jacob Wine went on the yearly visit prior to the visit council.  They had to go to the counties of Pendleton and Hardy, as the members in those counties were included in the district over which Brother Kline was one of the overseers.  They held visit councils over there, and on their return home the two brethren were arrested and taken before the military authorities on the eighteenth day of August, 1863.  Brother Jacob Wine came home with Brother Kline to Brother Kline’s house.  They had been there but a short while when they were both arrested.  They gave a satisfactory account of their business in those two counties, and were accordingly released.  On the twenty-fourth, just six days after the previous arrest, he was picked up again and required to give account of himself.  This he did in a humble, truthful way, and was again let go.  The following is on the last page of the Diary for this year.

In this year, 1863, I have traveled 4,260 miles, all on horseback.  I have preached thirty-eight funerals:  fourteen for children under five years of age; eight for children between the ages of five and ten years; six for persons between the ages of ten and twenty years; three for persons between twenty and thirty years; two for persons between thirty and forty years; two for persons between forty and fifty years; three for persons over eighty years of age.

In the last five and one-half months of our beloved brother’s life, or that portion of it which he lived between the first day of January, 1864, and the fifteenth of June, the memorable day of his death, are not very full of interest.  By this it is meant that the state of war in Virginia, together with the hopeless condition of the Confederacy and the demoralizing tendency of that condition upon the soldiery of the land, raised insurmountable barriers in the way of activity on his part.  We find him mostly at home, save that he was much called to see the sick and preach funerals in his immediate vicinity.

SUNDAY, May 1, he attended meeting at Green Mount for the last time.  He preached from Luke 19:7.  The Editor was present, and still retains some recollections of his line of thought; so that by means of these, together with the Diary notes of this discourse, a tolerably just reproduction of it may here be given.  He seemed to be more than usually pathetic in his delivery.  In one of his tender appeals he caught the writer’s eye, and he can never forget the irresistible but refreshing flow of tears that followed.

    TEXT.—­“And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he
    was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.”