Just before the occurrence of the last dream, his faith in the heavenly source of the invitation which, whether waking or sleeping, he had received, to go over and help his Christian brethren on the Continent, was confirmed by a prophetic message from John Kirkham, who, in the course of his religious travels, again visited Yorkshire.

8 mo.—­Our dear friend, John Kirkham, from Earl’s Colne, Essex, slept at our house on Second-day, the 7th, and had a meeting with our few on Third-day.  How wonderfully was he enlarged; and I could not but admire how he was favored to speak to the states of some present.  I could set my seal to every word he uttered, and say, This is the very truth.  Before he left us he had a select opportunity in our family, and said a great deal stout being faithful to our own vision.  He seemed to answer a question in my mind as fully as I had any right to expect; for I had almost asked it as a sign that if I were not deceived in my vision he should be led to speak on the subject.  He said emphatically, “We cannot be faithful to the vision of another man, we do not know it except it be revealed to us; but we must be FAITHFUL TO OUR OWN VISION.”

On the 9th I accompanied him to the Monthly Meeting at Settle, and I once more desired that, if my feeling in former times had not deceived me, this servant of the Lord might be led to speak on the same subject; and indeed he scarcely said anything else but what had the strongest bearing on my request.  What encouraging favors do I receive at the hands of so good a Master!

A few months later we find the charge to foreign labor renewed, with intimation of the wide field in which he would have to work; an intimation which was amply verified in his future travels.

11 mo. 26.—­At meeting something involuntarily entered my mind like this, I will make thee a preacher of righteousness to many nations.  I felt not only a desire to be made willing to be sent, but also a desire to be prepared.

A few days after noting this impression he thus communes with himself on this topic, which now began to absorb the greater portion of his thoughts.

12 mo. 3, First-day.—­As I walked alone to the meeting this morning, I thought within myself, What can be the cause that I so often feel drawn in spirit towards the land of ——?  My thoughts have now for a long time past so frequently and so involuntarily revolved on the subject that I begin to be very jealous over them, and to query whether it is the workings of self-imaginations.  If this is the case, O that I may be relieved from them.  But however unaccountable my feelings may be, a secret love towards some unknown souls in ——­ is so strong at times, that if I had wings I should for my own inward peace visit them in body as I now do in spirit.  It seems as if my spiritual eye saw in those parts what we may call a seed (the seed of the kingdom sown in the heart) that wants to take