rnally minded cannot and do not love God,
nor take pleasure in his service. Life is love; and love is life. The
spiritual _life_ that is lost by sin is what Jesus came to redeem and
save, and this life is man's love. Man's LOVE is perverted. It is
turned away from the Lord God and the neighbor, and directed to self
and the world. And when a man loves himself more than God, and the
world with its sinful lusts and pleasures more than he does his
neighbor, he is carnally minded.

Now let us turn to the Lord's words. In the Gospel recorded by Luke a
certain lawyer is represented as asking the Lord this question:
"Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus said unto
him: "What is written in the law? how readest thou?" He answering
said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and
thy neighbor as thyself." Jesus said unto him, "Thou hast answered
right: this do, and thou shalt live."

Brethren, does not this look like the key to salvation? Does it not
open the door to a view of eternal life and blessedness? Our Lord
says: "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
When any one gives his heart to God in love like this, I think he is
in a saved state. And is it not a great salvation? Perfect love of
that which is good is perfect peace, because it drives evil from the
heart, which is the cause of all human misery. But the Lord, and the
Lord only, can change man from darkness to light and from death unto
life. He is the only Savior. He saves man by his Word and Holy Spirit.
He stands at every man's door and knocks. If any man will open the
door, he will enter that man's heart and dwell with him forever; and
Christ in the heart is salvation and eternal life.

THURSDAY, May 14. Go to Abraham Funk's. George Sellers is nearly well,
and in fine spirits. At half past five o'clock I start to the Annual
Meeting. Stay all night at Jacob Wine's.

FRIDAY, May 15. Dine and feed at Newman's furnace. Then go up through
the Trout Run valley, cross the Church mountains and get into the Lost
River valley near the place where the river disappears at the base of
the mountain. Stay all night at Landes's. I have seen no scouts or
pickets to-day.

SATURDAY, May 16. Get dinner at Jonathan Flory's, and stay all night
at Abraham Miller's.

SUNDAY, May 17. Stay at Brother Abraham Miller's all day. Have
preaching in the afternoon.