CHAPTER VIII.
THE SECOND CONTINENTAL JOURNEY.
1827-28.
PART I .-- GERMANY.
After John and Martha Yeardley had visited their friends at home, their minds were directed to the work which they had left uncompleted on the continent of Europe; and, on their return from the Yearly Meeting, they opened this prospect of service before the assembled church to which they belonged.
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18 .-- Were at the Monthly Meeting at Highflatts, where we laid our concern before our friends to revisit some parts of Germany and Switzerland, and to visit some of the descendants of the Waldenses in the Protestant valleys of Piedmont; and, on our way home, our friends and some other serious persons in the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey.

Our dear friends were favored to enter most fully and feelingly into our views, and under a precious solemnity, a general sentiment of unity and concurrence spread through the meeting, which constrained them, (as the certificate expresses it) to leave us at liberty, accompanied with warm desires for our preservation.

Hearing the certificate read brought the concern, if possible, more weightily than ever upon me, and a secret prayer was raised in my heart that we might be enabled to go through the prospect before us to the honor of Him who has called us into his work.
They attended the Quarterly Meeting in the latter part of this month, and returned by way of Ackworth, where, says John Yeardley, We had a comfortable parting with dear Robert and Hannah Whitaker, in their own room.

E.W.has passed with us through the deeps, and has indeed been a true spiritual helper to us under our weighty exercises of mind.
On the 8th of the Seventh Month they set out, and on the 17th attended the Meeting of Ministers and Elders in London.
The Morning Meeting was a precious and refreshing time to our poor tried minds.