Though a moderate Calvinist, he embraced us at once on the broad principle of Christianity.  We became acquainted with him two years ago, but think him now much deeper in the root of real religion.

11 mo. 19.—­We called yesterday evening on our dear friend Owen, and met there a pious lady, Fanny Passavant.  We had much serious conversation, I hope to profit, at least to our own minds; for we were given to see a little the importance of the situation in which we stand, and the necessity of being, in our intercourse with these religious persons, wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

1828. 1 mo. 13.—­We have had much satisfaction in becoming acquainted with Ami Bost.  He was one of the first who bore testimony to the light which broke forth in the corrupt church of Geneva, and he suffered much in defending the doctrines of the New Church.  In Germany he was, with his wife and six or seven children, driven from town to town by the police, for holding religious meetings in his house, and for refusing to have his children baptised.  His sentiments in the office of the ministry and the appointment of preachers, are in perfect unison with those of Friends; also on the ordinances of the Supper, &c.

1 mo. 20.—­During the greater part of our stay at this place I have felt my mind extremely poor, but a secret desire and prayer has been maintained to be preserved in patience, believing it to be as necessary to learn to suffer as to do.  And although it is apparently little we can do here, we have felt repeatedly the assurance that it is the ordering of Best Wisdom, and as such we are well satisfied.

After our little morning meeting we went to dine with dear Captain Owen, and spent the remainder of the day with a few religious friends there.  When the evening reading was finished, we had a solemn time under the seasoning influence of divine love.  Our hearts were too full for any religious communication, except supplication, which was offered both by my dear M.Y. and myself.

Martha Yeardley also gives an account of this meeting, and of a visit they paid to the Female Prison.

Before our departure for Lausanne and Neufchatel, a relation of Mary Ann Vernet’s kindly attended us to the female prison, and introduced us to others of the committee; and in the evening we had a religious opportunity with the few confined there, during which they evinced much feeling.  Our interesting companion told us the next morning that she trusted the circumstance would be blessed to them.  We had also a very interesting opportunity at Charles Owen’s the evening before we left, at which was present, as often before, a very precious friend of ours, of the name of Fanny Passavant, a single woman, very rich, yet who lives in great self-denial, and gives almost all she has to feed the poor.  She is what they call in this country a very interior character; which means one that cherishes the inward life.  In her company we often felt baptized together, and she gave us strong recommendations to some of the same class at Neufchatel, who are desiring to learn in the school of Christ.—­(Letter to Elizabeth Dudley.)