I replied, "May the God of Abraham, Isaac, 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 word "Massa," for "Master," according to the well known habit of the Negro slaves in the West Indies; and sometimes 'Sir,' as he was taught since his arrival in England; but the former word seemed to be most familiar to him. {107} A kind of shell-fish, which abound in the place where we were, and which stick to the rocks with exceeding great force. {121} Song of Solomon i. 5. {203} The foregoing conversation took place on September 22, 1808, and is faithfully related.