O vile weakness! On the 31st they saw the Agricultural School for poor children at Beuggen.
Amongst the boys were twelve young Greeks, who were being instructed in ancient and modern Greek, and in German.

They had been sent to Switzerland by the German missionaries, and most of them had been deprived of their parents by the cruelty of the Turks.

It was the intention of their benefactors that they should return to Greece to enlighten their countrymen.

Their religious instruction was based simply upon the Bible, without reference to any particular creed.
In the Greek school, writes John Yeardley, we observed a serious man about thirty years of age, who had the appearance of a laborer, learning Greek.
This was a little surprising, and led us to inquire the cause.

The inspector readily gratified us: and gratifying indeed it was to hear that this poor man had given up his work of ship-carpenter, from pure conviction that he was called to go and instruct the poor Greeks at his own expense.