The first great workers were passing away, most of them, as is usually the case, dying on Pisgah, seeing most distinctly the future results of their work, but scarcely permitted to enter upon the full realisation of it. In 1791, in the eighty-fourth year of her age, died the revered Countess of Huntingdon; her last words, “My work is done; I have nothing to do but to go to my Father!” No chronicle of convent or of canonisation, nor any story of biography, can record, a more simple, saintly, and utterly unselfish life. To the last unwearied, she was daily occupied in writing long letters, arranging for her many ministers, disposing of her chapel trusts; sometimes feeling that her rank, and certain suppositions as to the extent of her wealth, made her an object upon which men were not indisposed to exercise their rapacity. Still, as compared with the state of society when she commenced her work, in this her closing year, she must have looked over a hopeful and promising future, as sweet and enchanting as the ineffably lovely scenery upon which her eyes opened at Castle Doddington, and the neighbouring beauties of her first wedded home. [Illustration: JOHN WESLEY’S TOMB, CITY ROAD, LONDON. ] In 1791, John Wesley, in his eighty-eighth year, entered into his rest, faithfully murmuring, as well as weakness and stammering lips could articulate, “The best of all is, God is with us!” Abel Stevens says, “His life stands out in the history of the world, unquestionably pre-eminent in religious labours above that of any other man since the apostolic age.” It is not necessary, in order to do Wesley sufficient honour, to indulge in such invidious comparisons. It is significant, however, that the last straggling syllables which ever fell from the pen in his beloved hand, were in a letter to William Wilberforce, cheering him on in his efforts for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade. Charles Wesley had preceded his brother to his rest in 1788, in the eightieth year of his age. [Illustration: JOHN WESLEY. M.A. BORN JUNE 17, 1703; DIED MARCH 2, 1791. CHARLES WESLEY. M.A. BORN DECEMBER 18, 1708; DIED MARCH 29, 1788. “THE BEST OF ALL IS, GOD IS WITH US.” “I LOOK UPON ALL THE WORLD AS MY PARISH.” The Wesley Monument. ]