As there are very few meetings of Friends in Wales, the chief part of their service was beyond the limits of the Society.  They met with great openness in many places from the Methodists and other preachers and their congregations.  From the notes which John Yeardley made of their religious labors in this journey, we select several passages.

9 mo. 13.  Aberystwith.—­Our first object was to inquire for a place of meeting.  We found they were all engaged for that evening, which detained us here a day longer than we had expected; but this little detention enabled us to make acquaintance with two of the Independent preachers, to whom we became much attached in gospel fellowship, A. Shadrach and his son.  The father preaches in Welsh, and the son in English.  It was comforting to us to meet with two such pious, humble-minded Christians, laboring diligently to forward the cause of religion.  They kindly offered us their chapel for the evening, and after the meeting they both expressed much satisfaction in having been favored with such an opportunity.

9 mo. 15.—­We arrived pretty early at Machynlleth, which is a clean little town.  We did not know but that we might have proceeded on our journey after having refreshed ourselves and our horses; but, E.D. feeling much interested for the people of the town, it seemed best to have a meeting with them.  I walked out, and seeing a good meeting-house, inquired to what persuasion of people it belonged, and found it was an Independent chapel, and that the minister lived about a mile and a half in the country.

The prospect of being unable to make the people understand us was discouraging; for in the streets there was nothing to be heard but Welsh.  However there was no time for reasoning, it being near twelve o’clock, and all must be arranged by seven in the evening.  After some difficulty we found the preacher, a kind-hearted pious man, who readily granted his chapel, and undertook to act as interpreter should occasion require.  This was the only place where we adopted the vulgar mode of giving notice by the town-crier, so common on all occasions in this country; but the time was short, and many of the people were not able to read our English notices, which we generally filled up for the purpose.

The meeting was pretty fully attended, and the people were mostly quiet, considering there were many who could not understand.  When E.D. sat down the minister repeated in substance what she had said; for, not being used to speak through an interpreter, she declined his giving sentence by sentence.  When he had done, I felt something press on my mind towards the poorer classes present, who I was sure could not understand English:  so I stepped down from the pulpit, and placing myself by the minister, requested he would render for me a few sentences as literally as he could.  This he did kindly, and, I believe, faithfully, to the relief of my mind.  He then addressed a few words on his own account to the assembly and dismissed them.  We regretted the want of the native language, as we could not have the same command over the meeting as would otherwise have been the case.