. Go to see my old friend, Joseph Funk, and
succeed in bringing about a better state of feeling on his part toward
me. He became reconciled. He had been somewhat ruffled in his feelings
by my "Strictures and Reply" to his published writings on baptism and
feet-washing. Dine with him; then home.
SATURDAY, October 11. Meeting and love feast at the Lost River
meetinghouse. Stay all night at Celestine Whitmore's.
SUNDAY, October 12. Meet at the Lost River meetinghouse. In council
Moses Myers is elected speaker. Stay all night at John Basehore's.
MONDAY, October 20. Dine at John Fulk's. Have night meeting at Jesse
Mitchell's. Stay there all night.
TUESDAY, October 21. Have night meeting at George Cowger's. Stay there
all night.
WEDNESDAY, October 22. Morning meeting at the widow Henkel's. Night
meeting at George Kesner's. Stay there all night.
THURSDAY, October 23. Forenoon meeting at Isaac Judy's. Stay all night
at Manasseh Judy's.
FRIDAY, October 24. Go to John Judy's; then to D. Henkel's and to
Solomon Hours's, and back to John Judy's, where we have meeting. After
preaching we repair to the clear water of Mill Creek, and I baptize
seven persons. Stay all night at Jacob May's.
SUNDAY, November 2. Meeting at our meetinghouse. I this day baptize
ten converts, whose names follow: David Rhodes, Daniel Zigler, George
Moyers, William Fifer and wife, J. Crist and wife, Mary Whisler,
Rebecca Trissel, and Katy Showalter.
SATURDAY, November 15. Council at Green Mount. Benjamin Funk and W.C.
Thurman regularly elected and put in as ministers of the Word.
SUNDAY, November 16. Meeting at the Plains meetinghouse. Harrison
Daugherty and Anna Prophet are baptized by Samuel Wampler, while I go
and baptize Harvey Elger.
WEDNESDAY, November 19. Go to Katy Mullen's. Her sister Diana and her
mother are both buried in one grave at Rader's church. Jacob Stirewalt
and I speak on the occasion from Rev. 14:13. Age of Diana, fifty-three
years; mother, seventy-one years.
FRIDAY, November 21. Preach the funeral of Mrs. William Hevner in the
Gap. Age, seventy-first year. A kind and good mother in her family,
and a friend to me has she been.
THURSDAY, December 4. Go to Henry Neff's; draw money for the brethren;
go to Harrisonburg and to Solomon Garber's.
FRIDAY, December 5. Council meeting at Beaver Creek meetinghouse.
Daniel Thomas is ordained. Stay with him all night.
SATURDAY, December 6. Come to Harrisonburg; fix mat
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