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against you at the day of judgment ? One little 

 bread-shop — give us but that, and thousands un- 

 born shall call you blessed !' 



God be praised, the plea was successful ; and 

 he has met, before the throne of the Lamb, some 

 whose polluted garments were washed clean in 

 His blood, through the ministrations of a blessed 

 'bread-shop,' established by English Christians, 

 before that year had closed on the wretched popu- 

 lation of St. Giles. 



In 1833, he came again on his mission of love, 

 to rejoice over the work, and to stimulate us anew. 

 He then appeared as hale and hearty, in his green 

 old age, as before : but he had a witness within, 

 that the earthly tabernacle was beginning to fall. 

 He said to a dear brother, ' I am looking for pre- 

 ferment ;' and the upward glance, the finger point- 

 ed towards heaven, the joyous smile that spoke 

 not of this world's transitory possessions, all indi- 

 cated his meaning. How and where he put off 

 this mortal coil, I know not : but this I know — 

 that he had so put on Christ in the days of health- 

 ful vigour, and so served Christ in his generation 

 here, as to leave no shadow of doubt or solicitude 

 as to his beatic realization of all that his soul long- 

 ed after, in the presence of God. 



It is in my garden that I especially delight to 

 dwell on the memory of this endeared old man ; 

 recalling many of his beautiful adaptations in trac- 



