We were often low and discouraged, but help was mercifully extended in the time of need.

I often wish I had more faith to go forth in entire reliance on the Divine Arm of power, for truly in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.
On the conclusion of this engagement followed a month of quiet but industrious occupation at home.
12 _mo_.

25 .-- A month has been spent in the quiet, in reading, writing, and many other things in course.

Leisure being afforded, I have spent a good deal of time in reading diligently and attentively the Holy Scriptures, I trust to some profit.
After this seasonable pause, John and Martha Yeardley were much occupied with a projected change in their place of residence, which issued in their removal, in the spring of 1831, to Scarborough.

The motive which induced them to make choice of this place, and the feelings under which the change was accomplished, are fully unfolded in the Diary.
We have for some time been on the look-out for a change in our residence.
Inclination would have led us to remain in our own Monthly Meeting, but a strong impression that it might be right for us to remove for some time to Scarborough, has remained with us ever since we visited that place in the Seventh Month, and has always stood in the way of our fixing elsewhere, although very often have we tried to put it from us.