THE FIRST POINT.--_He was truthful._ He never spoke positively about anything without first examining the matter carefully; and even then he said about it only what he knew to be true. How different this habit from that of many who speak positively about things which they do not well understand, or which they are for the most part ignorant of! THE SECOND POINT.--_He never spoke evil of any one._ It is not to be understood from this that he spoke _good_ of every one. On the contrary, he spoke freely of the sinner and to the sinner; warning him of his danger and pointing him to his impenitent doom. But it is to be understood that he never spoke evil to _injure_ any one. Whatever he said in that way was to reform and to bless. His heart overflowed with love to all. THE THIRD POINT.--_He was temperate._ During a long personal acquaintance with him, I never knew or heard of his taking a drink of ardent spirits or intoxicating liquor of any kind. If he ever did use any at all, it was only as a _medicine_. But as he was very temperate in his eating, and judiciously careful of himself generally, he was rarely ever sick. THE FOURTH POINT.--_He was abstemious._ This, in connection with strict temperance and pure morality, made him a clean man. His mouth was not polluted with _chewing tobacco_. His nose was not defiled with _snuffing tobacco_. His breath was not vitiated with _smoking tobacco_. He consequently never used tobacco in anyway. My dear young reader, in all the love of my heart, I urge you to "go and do likewise, that it may be well with thee." LIFE AND LABORS OF THE MARTYR MISSIONARY ELDER JOHN KLINE. We have no certain account of the time and place at which Brother Kline was set forward to the ministry of the Word. On Sunday, Feb. 8, 1835, he spoke for the first time after his appointment to the ministry of the Word. This much, at least, is inferred from its being the first entry made in his Diary. He, and Elder Daniel Miller, from near the head of Linville's Creek, in Rockingham County, Virginia, were together at John Goughnour's, west of the town of Woodstock, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. The meeting was at Goughnour's dwelling house. Brother Miller put John Kline forward to take the lead in speaking. Brother Kline had previously selected the subject, and thought upon it, to be ready, in the event of his being required to take the lead in speaking. Matthew 11 was read; and Brother Kline took his text. It was verses 4, 5 and 6 of the chapter read. These are the words: "Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me."