At Barmouth, instead of convening the people to hear the word, they had to exercise a Christian gift of a different kind—­the gift of spiritual judgment.

9 mo. 19.—­On entering Barmouth we thought of a meeting with the inhabitants; but on feeling more closely at the subject the way did not appear clear; there was something which we could neither see nor feel through.  This power of spiritual discrimination is very precious.  How instructive it is to mark our impressions under various circumstances and at different times!

9 mo. 25.—­At Ruthin we obtained information respecting the few individuals at Llangollen who profess with Friends, and set off to pay them a visit.  We arrived at the beautiful vale of Llangollen to dinner, and alighted at the King’s Head Inn, at the foot of the bridge, which afforded us a fine view of the Dee.  There are at present only four or five persons who meet regularly as Friends.  They live scattered in the country, and are in the humbler walks of life; but we thought them upright-hearted Christians who had received their religious principles from conviction.  We saw them on First-day morning in the room where they usually meet, and again in the evening at our inn, and were much comforted in being with them.  The room where they meet is in such [an obscure situation] that we should never have found it without a guide.  We thought it right to procure them a more convenient room, which we did.

27_th_.—­In the evening we had a public meeting in the Independent Chapel, which was crowded; there is much openness in the minds of the people to receive the truths of the gospel.  Before the assembly separated, we proposed to them to establish a school for poor children; several present their conviction of the want of such an institution, and the minister was so warm, in the cause that he proposed their commencing without delay.

28_th_.—­We went to Wrexham, and had a meeting in the evening.  The notice was short, but the people came punctually, and a precious time it was.  After it was over several bore testimony to the good which had been extended to them that evening, and were ready to cling to the instruments, inviting us to have a meeting with them when we came again that way.

This favored time, at the close of our labors among a people whom I much love, seemed like a crown on our exit from long-to-be-remembered Wales.  My heart was humbled in reverent thankfulness to the Father of all our mercies, who had graciously preserved us in outward danger, and sustained us in many an inward conflict.

At Coalbrookdale they bade an affectionate and gospel farewell to the Friends with whom they had been so closely united in this long journey, and returned to Burton on the 20th of the Tenth Month.

In the Eleventh Month they made a circuit through Lancashire, taking all the meetings of Friends in course.  They found “several meetings chiefly composed of such as had joined the Society on the ground of convincement, mostly in places where no ministering Friend resided.”  In visiting one of these small meetings, John Yeardley relates a circumstance in the gospel labors of his friend Joseph Wood:—­