It is my hope that the God of love, in the analogy of the spiritual order of things, may have kindled in our hearts his sacred fire, and will condescend to maintain and increase it in time and in eternity.
Since that time we have continued our meetings without interruption: our number has not yet exceeded six or seven.

We do not force the work, but, recognising that it is the Lord alone who has begun it, I feel daily more and more that He alone ought to direct it.
A portion of this summer and autumn was occupied by John and Martha Yeardley with holding public meetings for worship within the compass of Pontefract and Knaresborough Monthly Meetings.

Amongst the notices in the Diary of these meetings, are the following:-- 8 _mo_.

16 .-- A public meeting at Wooldale, to which name many more people than could get into the house.

The Friends said they never saw so large a meeting in that place.