I think it is almost the greatest lesson that we have to learn, to stand so fast in times of trouble as not to suffer loss.

If we would so conduct ourselves that the change of times and seasons should not have such an unfavorable influence on our minds, this would be one great point gained; it would enable us to meet the difficulties of the day in a better state to combat with them.
But if daily trials abounded of a nature the most likely to retard his spiritual progress, we shall see that He who had appointed his lot, provided in his faithfulness the needful corrective, and by the discipline of filial fear in the ministry of the word, kept him safe in his sanctuary.
The attendance of visitors at the meeting-house was often numerous, although it was seldom that they remained during the whole time of worship.

Meetings of this kind were very trying to John Yeardley's faith and feelings; but sometimes they were seasons of heavenly blessing such abundantly to make amends for past humiliation.
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6 .-- To-day the small meeting-house and passage were quite filled with strangers, and I was told many went away who could not get in, and some remained under the windows.

No creature on earth knows what my poor mind suffers when I go to meeting under such circumstances.