8 mo. 21.—­Monthly Meeting at Wooldale.  The meeting was exceedingly crowded with strangers; there was not room in the house to hold all who came.  I had been very low all the morning, and to see such a number of people at the meeting sunk me low indeed.  I was enabled to turn inward to Him from whom help alone comes; and blessed be his holy Name, he did not forsake me in the needful time, but was pleased once more to give strength and utterance to communicate what came before me.  My certificates from Germany and Congenies were read and accepted, and many Friends expressed much unity and sympathy with me on my return to them, which was a comfort and strength to me.

On the 1st of the Ninth Month, he again went to London.  During his stay in the city, he took the opportunity of visiting the Industrial Schools at Lindfield, founded by William Allen; a kind of institution which always engaged his warmest sympathy and approbation.

With the new turn which was given to the course of his life by his betrothal to Martha Savory, it is not surprising that he should have considered his residence abroad to be brought, in the order of Divine Providence, to a natural termination, and that he now turned his attention to taking up his abode again in his native land.  In selecting a place of residence, he seems to have had no hesitation in making choice of the neighborhood of Barnsley; the spot, as the reader may remember, which seemed to him, when he was obliged to remove to Bentham, as that which had the first claim upon his gospel services.  The state of his mind, whilst preparing his intended residence at Burton, the same village where he used to attend meeting in his early days, may be seen by the following memorandum:—­

9 mo. 26. At York.—­It was a large Quarterly Meeting.  Living ministry flowed freely, and I thought even poor me was a little refreshed:  but I have been for a long time in a deplorable state, in a spiritual sense.

Since the Quarterly Meeting, my time and thoughts have been much occupied in fitting up our intended residence at the cottage at Burton; and I may truly say, I have been cumbered about “many things,” which, I think, has kept my mind in a poor, barren state.  O the many weeks that I have had to sit with my mouth in the dust to bemoan my own inward misery!  My conflict of mind has been increased by the trying state of my precious mother’s health.  My attendance on her in this poorly state, and at this season of the year, when I lost my poor dearest Bessie, reminded me strongly of my dear departed lamb.

Before his marriage with Martha Savory was accomplished, he was called upon to attend the deathbed of his mother, and to follow the remains of his father to the grave.

11 mo. 16.—­On the 3rd I left the cottage, and took my luggage to go from Barnsley by the coach to London.  Stepped down to take leave of my dear mother, but found her so weak that I could not at all think of leaving her; and was indeed glad that I did not go, for the dear creature continued to grow weaker and weaker till a quarter past three o’clock on Seventh-day morning, 4th of Eleventh Month, when she peacefully breathed her last.  She was fully sensible to the close, and also fully sensible that her end was near.