A chief desideratum had been to find a Greek who should accompany them as guide into his native country.  “Ever since,” says M.Y., in a letter of the Twelfth Month, 1832, “we have resigned ourselves to this arduous mission, my dear husband has frequently said, ’If we are to go into Greece, how I wish we might find some companion for the journey, some Greek to conduct us into his country, to us altogether strange and unknown!’” A letter from Stephen Grellet to William Allen, which was sent down to J. and M. Yeardley, was the opportune means of supplying this want.  It spoke of a Greek girl then at the school at Locle, named Argyri Climi, who was exceedingly desirous of returning to Greece, and whose simple and teachable character recommended her at once to their attention.  “When,” continues M.Y., “we came to this part of Stephen Grellet’s letter, we were both deeply moved, believing that thus the way might be prepared before us.”

They communicated their thoughts on this interesting subject to M.A.  Calame, proposing when they visited Locle to take A. Climi as their companion into Greece.  During their sojourn in London they received a letter from A. Climi, written in French, in which that amiable young person signified the pleasure and gratitude with which she accepted their proposal.

Locle. 29th of April, 1833.

Excuse the liberty which I take of writing to testify my great gratitude for your kind intention to take me with you and bring me back to my country.  How could I have ventured to hope that I should have the happiness of being with such kind and beloved friends.  I cannot express the joy I felt when Mademoiselle Calame made your proposal known to me.  How great is the mercy of God!  How often might he have turned away his face from me and cast me off; but instead of forsaking me he has looked upon me in mercy, and shown me that he wills not that sinners should perish, but that they should have eternal life.  Was it not he who saved me from the hands of the Turks, and brought me to Switzerland, and placed me with charitable protectors, who are never weary of doing me good?  And now he has crowned it all, by giving you to me as guides and protectors in my long journey, and that I may settle again in my own country.

Your grateful

ARGYRI CLIMI.[6]

The meeting in London at which their prospect of foreign travel was ratified, was a time of spiritual favor.  With such credentials, and with a sense of the divine commission and guidance, clear and unmistakable, like that which John Yeardley enjoyed, many may be ready to exclaim, Who would not go forth on an errand like this to the ends of the earth!  Such may be reminded, for their consolation, that if the will is laid as an unbroken offering at the foot of the cross; if all their powers are consecrated to the Lord, and his Spirit is suffered to penetrate and transform every part of their being; though a field of labor such as that which was appointed to John and Martha Yeardley may not be appointed to them, they will, in an equal degree, inherit the blessing of doing their Lord’s will, and may rest in the promise, “They that wait upon Him shall not want any good thing.”