November 5, 1887
We met at 42 Islington where we received a great deal of valuable instructions from President Jeasdale. We were appointed to our fields of labor. I was appointed along with James Booth who had come with the same company to labor in the Manchester Conference under the Presidency of Wm. G. Phillips. We started this day from Liverpool to Manchester and reported ourselves to the president. He received us kindly and told me that I could go and visit friends for two or three weeks as long as I was doing good. We started from Manchester at 4 p.m. after we had had a good wash and changed our clothes. We arrived at Stockport at Brother Booth’s brother who received us very kindly. He had no bed to lodge us but there was an old lady next door who invited us in to lodge with her for nothing. She kept regular lodgers that worked at mills and it being Saturday night there were two of them drinking and making noise till 2 a.m.
November 6, 1887
And then they waked up early next morning and talked so that nobody could sleep. After breakfast I went to Marple and I went to James Openshaw’s, my brother in-law. At first he took me to be another man and told me he knew me and asked to come in. I asked him about John and Hannah. He told me they were middling. His wife asked him who I was. He said it is Wilmot. No, I said, you are mistaken; I am Thomas Beard, your brother in-law. He was quite surprised and could not speak for some minutes. His wife then came forward and shaked hands with me and sent one of her girls to tell her uncle and aunt, who very soon came up to see me. After dinner John took me to his house. I had not seen them for 25 years before. They all received me very kindly. At night I went with them to their chapel which is the congregation religion. It was a lot of formal rites that was made by the cunning craftiness of man and had never been commanded of God and there was no scripture to advise it to be done.
November 7, 1887
I went to George Wilmott’s. He and his wife were glad to see me but did not know me again for it was 25 years since they saw me.
November 8, 1887
I went to Whaley Bridge and went and visited many old friends who received me kindly and introduced me to new ones.
November 9, 1887
I stayed here and visited and preached to many old neighbors. I stayed around doing the same work bearing my testimony till November 12 when I left Bugsworth for Marple. In the afternoon I went with John to see Samuel at Stockport. He and his family received me very kindly. He took me through the gas works where he is a foreman. We went back to Marple.
We met at 42 Islington where we received a great deal of valuable instructions from President Jeasdale. We were appointed to our fields of labor. I was appointed along with James Booth who had come with the same company to labor in the Manchester Conference under the Presidency of Wm. G. Phillips. We started this day from Liverpool to Manchester and reported ourselves to the president. He received us kindly and told me that I could go and visit friends for two or three weeks as long as I was doing good. We started from Manchester at 4 p.m. after we had had a good wash and changed our clothes. We arrived at Stockport at Brother Booth’s brother who received us very kindly. He had no bed to lodge us but there was an old lady next door who invited us in to lodge with her for nothing. She kept regular lodgers that worked at mills and it being Saturday night there were two of them drinking and making noise till 2 a.m.
November 6, 1887
And then they waked up early next morning and talked so that nobody could sleep. After breakfast I went to Marple and I went to James Openshaw’s, my brother in-law. At first he took me to be another man and told me he knew me and asked to come in. I asked him about John and Hannah. He told me they were middling. His wife asked him who I was. He said it is Wilmot. No, I said, you are mistaken; I am Thomas Beard, your brother in-law. He was quite surprised and could not speak for some minutes. His wife then came forward and shaked hands with me and sent one of her girls to tell her uncle and aunt, who very soon came up to see me. After dinner John took me to his house. I had not seen them for 25 years before. They all received me very kindly. At night I went with them to their chapel which is the congregation religion. It was a lot of formal rites that was made by the cunning craftiness of man and had never been commanded of God and there was no scripture to advise it to be done.
November 7, 1887
I went to George Wilmott’s. He and his wife were glad to see me but did not know me again for it was 25 years since they saw me.
November 8, 1887
I went to Whaley Bridge and went and visited many old friends who received me kindly and introduced me to new ones.
November 9, 1887
I stayed here and visited and preached to many old neighbors. I stayed around doing the same work bearing my testimony till November 12 when I left Bugsworth for Marple. In the afternoon I went with John to see Samuel at Stockport. He and his family received me very kindly. He took me through the gas works where he is a foreman. We went back to Marple.
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