He had translated the New Testament for their use.

At parting with his new friends he embraced them, gave them his blessing, and wished them a prosperous journey.

"I felt myself," says J.Y., "comforted and strengthened by this visit." On the way to Heppenheim, he continues, (to which place they next directed their course), I felt quiet, in mind, and was once more assured that we were in the way of our duty.

As I thought of the difficulties which might await us, these words were brought to my remembrance, "Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." Crossing the Rhine, at Mannheim, they stopped, on the 12th, at Duerkheim, where they became acquainted with Ludwig Fitz, a man of a frank and inquiring disposition.
For three years, writes J.Y., he has held meetings in his house; in the commencement he had to suffer no little persecution.

On his entering our room he observed that it was the Lord who had thus brought us together.