At 3 o’clock we had a sweet interview with Professor Neander, an aged man of a striking figure and a Jewish countenance, pervaded by heavenly calmness, and illumined by the bright shades of gospel light.  His eyes are become dim through excessive study; his heart is very large, full of love and hope in Jesus Christ.  He seemed pleased to hear some account of the order of our Society, particularly with regard to the ministry and gospel missions, observing, “With you, then, there is liberty for all to speak when moved by the Holy Spirit, just as in the primitive church.”  This observation led us to several points of our discipline, and he seemed delighted that a society existed whose practice, in many things, came so near to that of the primitive church.  Before parting the spirit of supplication came over us, under which prayer was offered, particularly for this aged servant of the Lord.  His disinterestedness is great.  The king will sometimes give him money, that he may take relaxation in going to the baths, &c.  But so susceptible is his heart for many who are necessitous, that he will often give to others all that he has received.  The good king has then to repeat his gift, and send him away almost by force from his labors.

After these choice visits, John Yeardley says:—­

24_th_.—­A ray of light and hope has broken in upon our gloomy path,—­not into Russia; there Satan is still permitted to hinder; but in this city.

They spent two days at Rixdorf, the village alluded to above, three miles from Berlin, where was a small congregation of Bohemian Brethren, who took refuge there in 1737.  The women of the society held religious meetings by themselves twice a week.  These meetings had been instituted many years before by Maria Liestig, to whom John and Martha Yeardley were introduced, and whom they found to be of a meek and intelligent spirit.  She gave them a relation of her extraordinary conversion, which John Yeardley published in No. 3 of his Series of Tracts, under the title of the Conversion of Mary Merry.  They held a meeting in the village, in which they both had to “speak closely on the necessity of silence in worship.”  They had also a small meeting at their hotel in Berlin, when “the gospel message flowed freely, in speaking of the spiritual dispensation in which we live, and the progress of light.”

On the 29th they left Berlin, and went to the beautiful watering-place of Warmbrunn, in Silesia.  The dwellings of the laborers in Silesia struck them as being of a wretched description.  “What they do.” says J.Y., “in a rigorous winter, like the last, I cannot tell; they appeared to be mostly.  Roman Catholics.”

They resided a month at Warmbrunn.  Some of the simple incidents which befel them there form the subjects of the following extracts:—­

5 mo. 10.—­Yesterday was a thorough rainy day; but in the afternoon, to our surprise, came in eight men together, who had heard of strangers having arrived in Warmbrunn to visit those who love the Saviour.  We explained to them our religious principles; their countenances brightened when we spoke of the Spirit being poured out upon all—­sons and daughters.  A sweet feeling was present with us, and supplication was offered under much solemnity.