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esteemed them: in another point of view I was happily permitted 

 to adopt the decision of the venerable patriarch, " O my soul ! 

 come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, 

 be not thou united !" The volume of Truth was my study; and 

 its divine lessons were pathetically enforced in the annual letters 

 of my beloved parents, and the revered preceptor of my youth. 

 He constantly corresponded with me during my absence, and 

 lived more than twenty years after my last return, a bright example 

 of piety and virtue; until, at the advanced age of ninety, he was re- 

 moved from works to rewards. Such was the Reverend David 

 Garrow, of Hadley, a name beloved; a memory revered! 



The gentleman of whom I have related the preceding anec- 

 dote became an eminent pattern of Christianity, as a husband, 

 father, friend, and master; in a word he walked worthy of his 

 high and holy vocation. His house was the house of prayer, and 

 the incense of praise arose morning and evening from his assem- 

 bled family. Painfully could I reverse this picture; hope, deli- 

 cacy, inclination, forbid me ! 



In a few years it pieased that all-wise Being, in whose hands 

 are the issues of life and death, to afflict his approved servant, 

 now well prepared for the awful change, with a long and trying 

 illness. Finding his last hour approach, and having taken leave of 

 his wife and children, as the concluding act of his life, he wrote 

 an earnest and affecting letter to a friend who had been his chief 

 associate in the false creed of philosophy, but had not, like him, 

 returned to that source of truth, " the merchandize whereof is 

 better than silver, and the gain thereof than fme gold ! to that wis- 



