My friend E. Dahl and I went out for a quiet walk.  It was a lovely Sabbath morning; the sky cloudless, and the sun shining brightly on the water as it rapidly foamed down the cliffs.  After gathering a few cranberries we seated ourselves on a shady rock to meditate.  All was silent around—­nothing heard but the shepherd-boy playing his horn; the sound coming from the distant mountains into the wooded valley where we sat, first shrill, then softening into a simple irregular note.  My friend asked me what I thought the instrument was.  It is made, said he, of a goat’s horn, and is blown to keep the fox from taking the young lambs, and as a means of communication with other shepherds when widely separated on the mountains; the sound of this horn also keeps the sheep from straying.

They arrived at Christiansand on the 19th; and Endre Dahl, finding a vessel sailing for Stavanger, engaged a passage in it for himself.  After parting with him, John Yeardley writes:—­

E. Dahl and I have been closely united in the gospel bond; he has been a truly affectionate sympathizer and efficient helper.  I am thus, he continues, left alone in a strange land; but I do feel a peaceful and a thankful heart to my Heavenly Father that he has in mercy blessed me with light, strength, and faith to go through this service in Norway.  Imperfectly has it been performed, I know; but I have done what I could, and a song of thanksgiving is due to my Lord.

John Yeardley returned by Germany to England.  At Obernkirchen, near Minden, where some persons had not long before been convinced of Friends’ principles, he had a meeting, in which he was joined by a number of Friends from Minden.  A few years before, Thomas Arnett, from America, desired to hold a meeting for worship in this place, but was prevented by the police.  The object was now accomplished by engaging a room without the limits of the state of Bueckeburg, in which the town is situated, and within the Hessian frontier, which includes, in fact, a part of Obernkirchen.

A public meeting for worship in that place (says John Yeardley, in a letter written after his return home,) was such a new thing, that on our arrival we found a press of persons whom the room could by no means contain.  The landlord readily granted us his barn, which was commodious, and we threw open the large doors into the yard, which was seated; besides which, the people stood in numbers.  We had a solemn meeting.  There is a little company who hold a meeting at Obernkirchen; several of these have suffered on account of their religions scruples in refusing baptism to their children, &c.  These we invited after meeting to take coffee with us, about thirty persons, all serious.  It was a delightful occasion.  After the coffee we had a sweet parting meeting with this truly interesting company.  We had been given to expect that, although we had taken the precaution to pitch our tent without the limits of the intolerant place, the police would be present, and would most probably disperse our assembly.  But no such thing;—­all was quiet.