tridges on the mountains? No; in order to secure a more friendly reception among them, I will visit them under the plainest appearance, with my staff in my hand." He went as an apostle through their churches, and conversed with their elders, instructed their youth, visited their sick, and exhorted from house to house in such a manner as strengthened the faith and comforted the hearts of the simple people. At Nyon, in Switzerland, the place of his birth, he preached with such effect as the people had never witnessed before. They would gladly have detained him. An aged clergyman, after trying to persuade him to remain among them, said to Mr. Ireland: "O, sir, how unfortunate for this country; during my day it has produced but one angel of a man, and it is our lot to be deprived of him." When Mr. Fletcher left the town, a large concourse of weeping people crowded around his carriage and followed him two miles on his journey. He returned to Madeley after an absence of about three months.

In 1768 the Countess of Huntingdon founded a theological institution at Trevecca, in the County of Brecknock, in Wales. Her design was to give to pious young men an education for the ministry, under the care of tutors eminent both for learning and holiness. The students were admitted for three years without charge either for board, tuition, or clothing. She applied to Mr. Fletcher to take the presidency of the college. He accepted it as a call of Providence, but would neither resign his charge at Madeley nor reside at Trevecca; and for his services he would accept no compensation whatever. As the superintendent of this school of the prophets, the burden of his labour was to promote the spirit of piety among the students, deeming it far the most important qualification of a messenger of Christ.