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._"

The Bible is a unit. The sum of its love and truth culminates in the
declaration that "the Son of man came to seek and to save that which
was lost." The portion of the chapter read in your hearing, which
immediately precedes my text, is a sufficient introduction to it. The
history of Zaccheus therein given is,