=22.= Spent in our house preparing to take things back to Brother Green's, Seward County. Sarah and I slept in our house all night. =23.= Staid all day again at house. Bro. J. W. Figard came to take our things. =27.= Came to Seward County, Brother Green's. Stopped at noon in the timber of the Blue River. =Oct. 1, 1874.= Eldership meets in West Ohio. May God bless their deliberations. Worked till noon. At 3:15 P. M. started for York County, twenty-six miles. Could not reach it. Stopped at Brother Everett's. =3.= About this time the West Ohio Eldership has passed through another session. I now begin another year's work. =5.= Drove home. Found my dear companion well. How happy we are to be alone this eve in our little home! How sweet the home where love reigns! Oh the love that unites our hearts! How pure and strong, and still increasing! How happy I am! How blessed and favored! =6.= Worked at cupboard and helped my dear wash. =7.= Provided and arranged things for wife. Dear creature wept this morn that I had to be away again so soon and long. =9.= Came to Brother Berry's [Polk County]. P. M., in my house. Wrote some letters. Preached in the Bense Schoolhouse, 2 Pet. 2:11-14. Staid in my house tonight. =10.= Visited and talked with nearly all the members of the church. Many are cold and indifferent. Many have strife and bickerings. Oh shame! Great God, save this church, of whose piety and devotion I have so often boasted. Some are spiteful at me because I touched the god of this world. Brother Mc---- raved and foamed over at me. God pity and forgive the poor graceless man. Thank God for grace to endure unruffled his abuse. Staid all night in my house. =12.= Started for home, anxious to see my blessed wife. This is the longest we have been apart since our marriage--five days. How long the time seems to me, notwithstanding I have been very busy! How lonely she must be! God bless her. Came by way of Seward. Dear Sarah had been way out on the prairie waiting for me. =20.= Started for the Oliver Schoolhouse, about twelve and one half miles to the northwest. Dear wife felt so bad to see me leave. The dear creature wept bitterly. Oh, how it pained my heart to leave her feeling so sad! Green's folks were absent, which made it more lonely. O God, must I tear myself away from the dear wife bathed in tears? But 'tis the cause of Christ and I must go. O Lord, comfort her loving heart. =24.= Started for Fillmore County. Drove against a very heavy wind. =25.= Sabbath. At 11 A. M. preached, Psa. 48:14. The old sod was full of hearers.