[Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley]@TWC D-Link bookMemoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel CHAPTER IX 18/28
This was prevented by the police; for although, they live in a very remote situation, they are strictly watched by the pastor, who wishes to compel them to come to his worship.
We were there only an hour or two, but a number of these innocent-hearted people came flocking to the house, and immediately settled into a silence truly solemn.
We could indeed say our hearts burned with love towards them. Two of these young men came to us the nest day, and spent most of the day with us.
One of them, Christian Speicher, told me he did not know how to express the satisfaction he felt to hear of a body of professing Christians in a distant land, who held the same religious principles as they in their isolated situation had been long seeking after and had been made willing to suffer for. During our stay under this hospitable roof [M.
Combe's at Wabern] it was an open house for all comers, and they were not few.
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