[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 X 8/34
4.) On the 11th of the Twelfth Month they left home, and during the next two months were closely occupied in visiting various meetings from Yorkshire to Devonshire. Their service commenced with an encouraging meeting at Monyash, in Derbyshire. 13_th_ .-- The first meeting we attended was at Monyash.
It was larger than we had expected, in consequence of strangers coming in, and proved rather a lively commencement to our spiritual course of labor. On the 14th they held a meeting in the Potteries, in a cottage belonging to one of the few Friends in the place.
Word having got abroad that strangers were expected, many of the neighbors came in, so that the rooms below-stairs were filled: it was a refreshing time.
They found in the woman to whom the cottage belonged a bright example of piety and charity. She has been, says J.Y., a cripple from her childhood; but is able to maintain herself by keeping a school for little children; she is not unmindful, also, to help her poorer neighbors out of her small earnings. At Bristol, where they arrived on the 1st of the First Month, 1830, they rested a few days at H.and M.Hunt's. We had, says J.Y.much pleasure in being in this family.
Bristol is the largest meeting we have in our Society in England, and to me it was a very trying one on the First-day morning.
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