From the other entry we shall extract only a few words, but they are words fraught with deep instruction:—­

9 mo. 7.—­“Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.”  Without purity of heart we cannot see the pointing of the Divine Finger.

On the 18th of the Second Month, John Yeardley attended Pontefract Monthly Meeting, held at Wakefield.

It was, he says, a precious season; I felt my friends very near to me in spirit, and expressed to them in tenderness and love what lay on my mind; and in the conclusion the power and goodness of the Most High were so awfully felt that I could not forbear kneeling down to offer him thanks, and to supplicate that he would he pleased once more to bind up the breaches in the walls of our Zion, and grant that when we were separated one from another we might never he separated from his presence.

I now begin, he continues, to feel very anxious to set forward for my destination on the other side of the water.  What an awful situation mine appears to be!  O that faith and patience may be granted equal to the occasion!

1822. 2 mo. 26.—­I never read in my dear lamb’s diary but it feels to season my heart with good.  It is as though her writings were impregnated with a degree of sincerity and resignation which, were so eminently the characteristics of her innocent spirit.  O, I repeat it, that my precious Saviour may be pleased to appoint her angel spirit to be my guardian through life, until I shall be joined with her in heaven and we both unite in singing his praise.

About this time his brother, Thomas Yeardley, began to exercise the ministerial office.

3 mo. 3.—­Attended Woodhouse Meeting, which was to me a very trying one.  My brother Thomas spoke the feeling of my heart in something like these words:—­“They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them.”

3 mo. 18.—­This day was held the Monthly Meeting at Barnsley.  The Testimony concerning our much-esteemed friend Joseph Wood was read and signed by the meetings at large.  When I consider the legacy, so to speak, which this dear friend used to say he should bequeath to me, this language seems to prevail in my heart:—­“Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise.  As I was with Moses, so I will he with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”—­Joshua i. 2, 5.  This is an awful consideration; but why should any despair?  May not the faithful mind say, “This God is our God; he will be our guide, even unto death.”  I desire most sincerely to be kept in humility, whatever the probations may be which are necessary to fit me for the design of Him who hath given me life, breath and being.

On the 2d of the Fourth Month he quitted Barnsley, accompanied by his brother Thomas.

I think it a favor indeed, he says, to be relieved from a doubting mind as to whether I should go or stay; for I can truly say that, let the result prove what it may.  I go with an undivided heart.