saac, and Jacob, who carried them
through the days of their pilgrimage, and brought them safe to a city
which hath foundations, bring you there too, and bless you all the
remaining days of your journey till you get home! I am going to see
several serious friends this evening, who would be glad, I know, to
receive a message from one who has had so much experience of a Saviour's
mercies. What shall I say to them?"

"Tell them, sir, with my Christian love and respects, that you have been
to see a poor dying old man, who wants nothing at all in this world but
more grace to praise the Lord with."

So ended our first interview. I could not help reflecting, as I returned
homewards, that, as the object of my journey to the infirmary had been to
carry instruction and consolation myself to the poor and the sick; so the
poor and the sick were made instrumental to the conveying of both
instruction and consolation to my own heart in a very superior degree.

I saw him four or five times afterwards, and always found him in the same
happy, patient, thankful, and edifying state of mind and conversation.
The last time I was with him, he said, "Sir, I long to be at my heavenly
home, but I am willing to remain a traveller as long as my Lord and
Master sees good."

He died {203} not long after my last sight of him, in the steadfast
assurance of faith, and with a full hope of immortality.

Footnotes:

{87} The mother died not long after her daughter; and I have good reason
to believe that God was merciful to her, and took her to himself.

An interesting account of a visit recently made to the Dairyman's cottage
appeared in the _Christian Guardian_ for October 1813. A still more
recent visit to the good old Dairyman (who still lives, at the age of
eighty-two) has been made by the author of this narrative. (_June_ 1814)

The good old Dairyman died in 1816. His end was eminently Christian.

{97} "Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of
these is charity" (1 Cor. xiii. 13)

{98} This circumstance took place before the late abolition of the slave
trade.

{103} The day has since arrived, when the persevering efforts of Mr.
Wilberforce to accomplish this happy purpose have been fully answered.
_The slave trade is abolished_! The Church of God rejoices at this
triumph of the cause of Christ over the powers of darkness.

{105} In the course of conversation, he sometimes addressed me with the