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Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel

CHAPTER VIII
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He has left a widow and two children, not only to weep for him, but also to feel bitterly his loss in a pecuniary way.

We intend to recommend their situation to some of our benevolent friends in London.

My heart is much affected in having to commence my journal on a foreign shore by recording such an afflicting event.

And, as it regards ourselves, how much we have which calls for thankfulness that we have so mercifully escaped.
From Rotterdam they directed their course to Pyrmont, passing through Gouda, Utrecht, Arnheim, and Muenster; at the last place they were laid by from the heat and weariness.

They reached Friedenthal on the 4th of the Eighth Month, and John Yeardley makes the following reflections on re-entering his German home:-- As I find myself again in this country, many thoughts of former days spring up in my mind.


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