Emma Hodgson is the daughter of a clergyman of Rochdale: she had been some time on a visit at Thomas Barrow's and went with the family to the meeting at Bentham when we were there, and was much reached and tendered therein; and attending the meeting at Wray last evening she declared after her return that she was fully convinced of the truth.
Returning to John Yeardley's diary for this year, we find some passages from which profitable instruction may be gathered.
11 _mo._ 8 was the Monthly Meeting at Settle; my dear love and I both attended.

To me it was a poor low season; if there were any good, I was too much like the heath in the desert,--I knew not when it came.

In addition to this, it felt as if I had to mourn over the barren state of some others.

O, how I dread the state of a lukewarm Quaker! May I ever be preserved from this sorrowful state of a lukewarm Quaker! I believe it is often the means of bringing a damp over our solemn assemblies.
12 _mo._ 7 .-- _Query._ What is the most likely means for me to adopt to approach nearer to holiness?
_Answer._ To spend more time in retirement silently to wait upon God.

The more conversant I am with him, the more I shall know of his will and receive power to do the same.