We sometimes sigh under the weight of our burden on account of poor Germany, from which land the accounts continue unsatisfactory.  Mannheim, where we had such a sweet little meeting with a few pious persons last year, is now being bombarded; also in several other parts of the Rhine the insurrection is not yet subdued.  Our friend Dr. Murray returned on Second-day last from a tour through part of France, Belgium and the Rhine.  He told us he was obliged to return after having proceeded as far as Mayence, as the steamers were interrupted in their course beyond that place, south.  This is the very line which we had thought to pursue; we cannot tell how soon an alteration may suddenly take place for the better.  We must wait in patience, faith and hope.

The political horizon soon became clearer, and they resumed their journey on the 2nd of the Eighth Month.  They again passed through Belgium, stopping at several places, and distributing a large number of religious tracts.

On reaching Elberfeld they were received in a very cordial manner by R. Hockelmann, and they held a satisfactory meeting in that city with a company of serious persons, originally Roman Catholics, who had at first followed Ronge, but afterwards separated from him.  John Yeardley says of them: 

They are rejected by the Lutheran and Reformed Churches.  They have adopted the name of German Catholics to attract the Romanists to them.  There is real life of religion with some of them; perhaps with still a little obscurity on some important points of doctrine.  Light does not always shine clearly all at once; nor is it always obeyed, so as to be received in its fulness.

Still more interesting was a meeting they had at Muehlheim on the Ruhr, where, it will be remembered, they found an open door for their ministry on their first continental journey.  We give the narrative in John Yeardley’s words:—­

8 mo. 17.—­On our arrival at Muehlheim we received a visit from the three pastors resident here and in the neighborhood, along with Pastor Bochart, from Schaffhausen, whom we had known some years before.  One of them, Schultz, immediately asked me if we were not the parties who had held a meeting in a school-room in this place twenty-four years ago.  We entered very fully into the awakening that had taken place in this neighborhood.  The spiritual seed of Tersteegen has never died out; and they told us of a person, Muehlenbeck, in Sarn, who represents those who are acquainted with the interior life.  The youngest minister said directly, I will fetch him.  In an hour’s time he came again, accompanied by a middle-aged man, much like a good old Friend.  He recollected us again, and spoke of our meeting.  When we went to see him the next day in the village, he took us to the house in which he had lived in 1825, and placing me in the centre of the room said, There stood thou twenty-four years ago, and preached the gospel in this room; there sat thy dear wife and her friend, with the young man who interpreted for her.