s unmolested. Stay all night at Brother
Wilson's. Rain to-day.

SUNDAY, May 31. Come twenty-two miles to Nimrod Stradaman's, where I
dine and feed; then sixteen miles to James Fitzwater's, where I stay
all night. Fine day.

MONDAY, June 1. Come ten miles to Michael Wine's; get dinner, and in
afternoon cross the mountain and get home.

It may not be out of place to call the reader's attention to several
points of special interest connected with this journey of Brother
Kline to this the next to last Annual Meeting it was his privilege to
attend. Let the reader think of the distance to be traveled over in
going and coming--three hundred and thirty-four miles--all on the back
of his favorite Nell. Over a good road, in a time of peace, with
plenty of familiar friends by the way, such a distance with a good
horse would be but a delightful recreation to one accustomed, as was
Brother Kline, to horse-back riding. But a great part of his way lay
through a mountainous and thinly-peopled country, with only a path in
some places to direct his course; and, worst of all, he did not know
where he was safe from arrest, as army lines at this stage of the war
were almost constantly changing. How great, then, must have been his
love for the Brethren! Where can another man be found to compare with
him in fearless resolution to do what he believed would be pleasing to
the Lord and the Brethren, whom he loved more than he did his own
life! Neither was he encouraged by the Brethren at home to go. They
advised him not to go. But his heart was fixed; and his loving soul
would have been filled with melancholy sadness to have stayed at home
and thought of the warm hearts and kind hands he might have met by
going. He would rather see his Brethren and die, if necessary, than
_live_ without the sight.

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