At  Dusseldorf  there  are  some  valuable  and  benevolent
persons.  But  since  we  left  Zwolle  our  spirits  have  continued
day  by  day  to  be  greatly  depressed  ;  darkness  and  ignorance
prevail  to  a  high  degree  among  the  Roman  Catholics  where
we  have  travelled.  I  felt  anxious  also  on  my  own  account,
how  far  my  health  would  allow  me  to  prosecute  our  journey;
but  since  coming  to  Elberfeld  we  have  been  comforted  and
cheered  various  w^ays ;  letters  from  England  and  America  do
not  represent  the  spread  of  the  cholera,  and  the  mortality
thereby,  such  as  to  warrant  the  statements  that  we  have
seen.  Here  also  we  met  with  a  number  of  those  pious  indi-
viduals with  whom  I  mingled  years  ago,  at  a  time  when  they
were  under  severe  trials,  and  when  the  Lord  condescended
to  cause  the  consolations  of  his  Gospel  to  flow  among  them
in  such  a  peculiar  manner  that  the  remembrance  of  it  con-
tinues to  be  fresh  with  many  of  the  people,  both  of  Elber-
feld and  Barmen,  which  are  only  two  and  a  half  miles
apart.
Seventh  month,  29th.  Since  I  was  here  a  meeting  has
been  established  at  Barmen,  composed  of  persons  who
have  become  convinced  of  our  religious  principles  ;  some  of
these  are  in  a  tender  state  of  mind.     This  morning  we  had


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a  meeting  with  them ;  there  was  a  solemn  covering  over  us
during  the  time  we  spent  in  silence  together,  attended  with
an  evidence,  as  we  thought,  that  this  people  are  owned  of
the  Lord,  and  are  acquainted  with  the  teachings  of  his
Spirit,  through  the  influences  of  which  they  are  enabled  to
perform  acceptable  worship  unto  God  in  spirit  and  in  trutli.
