ing,
unresting, swift of foot, and with an unquenching passion for souls,
and the hardships of those early times left their abiding impress upon
his body, though he still retained his natural vigor of mind. A
journey now and then in quest of health brought cheerful patience, but
his work was done, while still sixty years of age. Like another
Whitefield he had worn himself out in his Master's service, yet he was
content that foundations had been laid, and others might build, while
he shared their joy.

He lived in stirring times, and belonged to a sect that moved the
world, recreating the national conscience, without disturbing the
religious world with a new heresy. In 1807 the slave trade in the
British Empire was abolished, and the Methodist revival introduced a
new philanthropy, which brought a fresh impulse into the nation for
the reforming of the prisons, greater clemency to the penal laws, with
a noble and steady attempt to better the condition of the profligate
and the poor, and the first impetus toward popular education. Limited
in his range of vision by distance from the great centres of
civilization, and absorbed in his noble task of leading men in their
quest after godliness, he still kept in touch with the larger
questions which affected the nation, so far as the literature of that
day permitted.

His closing years were spent in the quietness of his own home, with an
occasional service suited to his failing health. With a sublime
simplicity and faith in the goodness of women, he found a continual
benediction in his wife, who was a lady of good judgment, possessing a
cheerful spirit, and as earnest as he in her yearning after holiness
of heart and life, and a burning zeal for the salvation of souls. Born
in Boston, Massachusetts, where she frequently heard Whitefield
preach, she came with her parents to Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, and
settled there, when the British troops evacuated her native city, and
in the summer of 1781 she was converted under the ministry of William
Black. For the long period of forty-three years of married life, she
was the devoted companion and helper of her husband in every good
work. The training of five children devolved solely upon her, as she
was left alone during the long and frequent absence of her husband on
his missionary tours, yet she complained not, but counted it an honor
to share the joys and sorrows of a Methodist itinerant. With the true
instinct of a mother she go