21st.  Accompanied  by  Spittler,  and  a  son  of  Le  Grand,
from  Foudai,  Ban  de  la  Roche,  we  went  ten  miles  up  the
Rhine  to  Beugen,  to  visit  an  interesting  establishment  for
eighty  poor  orphans  of  both  sexes,  and  for  twenty-four  young
men,  who  are  educated  for  schoolmasters  in  institutions
where  the  pupils  support  themselves  by  manual  labour  of
various  kinds.  Zcller  and  his  wife,  who  are  the  superintend-
ents of  it,  are  persons  of  rare  piety;  it  is  from  an  appre-
hension of  religious  duty  that  they  occupy  these  stations;
Christian  love  and  kindness  are  very  conspicuously  prevail-
ing in  their  hearts ;  by  these  they  govern.  The  same
love  seems  to  flow  back  from  the  young  people  towards
them.  I  had  in  the  forenoon  a  satisfactory  meeting  in  the
establishment,  attended  also  by  the  people  of  the  country
near;  early  in  the  afternoon,  I  had  another  meeting  with  the
inmates  of  the  institution  much  more  select.  I  could  but
compare  this  house  to  that  of  Obed-edom,  on  which  the
Lord's  blessing  rested.  The  wife  of  Zcller  devoted  herself
in  very  early  life  to  the  Lord,  and  to  this  day  she  appears
to  be  faithful  in  endeavouring  to  perform  her  solemn  vow.
When  about  five  years  old,  she  was  playing  on  some
of  the  rocky  hills  of  the  country;  one  of  their  large  eagles
saw  her,  and  darted  down  upon  her  head;  a  man  with
a  gun,  not  far  distant,  watched  the  motions  of  the  eagle,  but
did  not  see   the   child;   he  fired  and  killed  the  bird,  at  the


342  1832.  [^T.58.
