IMH 75:2 209

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Sunday, May 22nd.

A day in which the sun shone through a hazy veil of clouds
and felt hotter than yesterday. Not much indication of rain. No
one of us got off the place or far from the house till two o'clock
when I went a-horseback to Bethlehem. A pretty good sized
congregation listened to Mr. Moore as he preached on the old
subject of the prodigal son. Truth compels me to say that he
seemed to me to handle the subject as well or better than the
great Poucher did last February. I stopped at Fowler's a short
time as I came home. I found Wat, Em and the children just
arrived here but of course they could'n't stay long.