Before separating, they say, the Scriptures were read, and some of the missionaries spoke on the importance of uniting in desire for a more general outpouring of the Spirit:  J.Y. also spoke much to the same effect.  It was, we trust, a profitable season; but the reflection arose on this occasion, as it has done on some others when among serious persons not of our profession, that if they would but suffer the degree of divine influence mercifully afforded thoroughly to baptize the heart with the true baptism, much creaturely activity would be done away, and the light of the gospel would shine in them and through them in much greater purity.

We paid and received visits, they continue, from some of the Interieurs whom we had known before, and had to lament something of a visionary spirit in the midst of right feeling.  We recommended simplicity, and close attention to the Scriptures and to the Shepherd’s voice.

One day John Yeardley went into the mountains to see an establishment called the Pilgrim Mission Institution, where he was interested in meeting three young men from Syria, who had come there to escape the scenes of war in their own country, and with the desire to be rendered capable of instructing their countrymen.

They left Basle on the 22nd, and entered Germany.  They were, for a time, a good deal embarrassed with the change of language from French to German, having had little or no occasion to use the latter tongue during their journey.  They stopped at Carlsruhe, where they called, with an introduction, on the Princess of Wuertemberg.

She received us, they say, very kindly, and we had a satisfactory interview with her, and also with an interesting female who has the charge of her children.  After much conversation with the princess in French, she introduced us to her three lovely children, and asked J.Y. to give them a word of exhortation.  We remained silent awhile, and, under a precious feeling, offered prayer for the divine blessing on this family and all its branches; after which the word of sympathy and exhortation flowed freely.  At parting, the princess took a cordial leave of us, and said she received our visit as a blessing from the Lord.

The next day they pursued their way towards Pyrmont.  Being weary with travelling, and their horses also needing rest, they tarried two days at Frankfort.  Here they saw their old friend Von Meyer; and spent much of their time in the company of Dr. Pinkerton.  “I was instructed,” says J.Y., “with seeing the charity and Christian meekness in which he daily lives.”

On the 3rd of the Sixth Month they reached Pyrmont, where they remained a few weeks.  They attended on the 2nd of the Seventh Month the Two-months’ Meeting, at Minden.  Many peasants were present in the meeting for worship, and on John and Martha Yeardley’s return to Pyrmont, some of them came to the meeting there on First-day, and begged the Friends to go to Vlotho to meet a company of their brethren.  They gave the peasants liberty to call a meeting at that place for Third-day, the 18th.