On First-day, the 11th, they attended Pastor Majors’ meeting in the morning, and in the afternoon appointed a meeting of their own in the same place, at which some hundreds were present.

It was a precious tendering season; much openness was felt in preaching the word, and I trust many hearts were reached by the power of the Holy Spirit.  At 7 o’clock we held our usual meeting in the room at the inn, to which came many of our friends; and I trust we were again favored with the presence of the Divine Master.  To conclude the evening, we went to Professor Ehrmann’s, where we partook of tea, fruit, wine, &c.  It felt to us a true feast of love.

This has been a day of much exercise; but best help has been near in the time of need, and I feel sweet peace.  There is a great awakening in this place; thirty of the young women are preciously visited.  In accompanying them home, some of them expressed to me that it had been a blessed and happy day, they hoped never to be forgotten.  These dear lambs are near to us in gospel love, and I am glad they have such a minister in Pastor M.:  he stands quite alone, not being connected with any other Society.

In reading of days spent like that which has just been described, we see in a striking manner what was the nature of that work of the ministry for which John Yeardley was prepared at Barnsley and Bentham by so many deep baptisms and sharp trials of his faith and obedience.  The stage on which he was called to act was not the most public; the part which he had to perform was unobtrusive; but when the value of strengthening the weak, comforting the afflicted, and, above all, skilfully dividing the word of truth in the anointed ministry of the gospel, comes rightly to be estimated, it cannot be said but that the fruit was in some sort commensurate with the power of the call and the extent of the preparation.

The next day and the succeeding were occupied by John and Martha Yeardley in an excursion to the Ban de la Roche, of which the former gives the following account in his Diary.

12_th_.—­In company with Majors, we set off at 6 o’clock to the Ban de la Roche.  We had a most delightful drive by the side of the river, flowing along the fertile meadows:  the hills on each side variegated with trees of almost every color, and occasional vineyards added to the richness of the scene.  After travelling twelve leagues, we arrived at Foudai, where we met with an affectionate and hearty welcome from the whole family of the Legrands.  The two families live together in one house, with their lovely children.  We took tea with them, and then proceeded up Steinthal to Waldbach, to the house of the late pious Oberlin.  Pastor Raucher’s wife and daughter were out when we arrived; but we spent a little time with the dear old Louise, who is lively in spirit, us to be near her.  The pastor’s wife and daughter came home in the evening, and received us with open arms.  We spent the night there, and they accompanied us the next morning to the Legrands’ to breakfast, about a league in distance.  After we had breakfasted, we requested a chapter might be read, and then had a precious meeting with them.  We were so knit together in spirit, that we could hardly separate from one another.  They accompanied us, on leaving, all the way up the hill, when we again took an affectionate farewell.