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.
J--- S---, the good old man, died in the Infirmary, in December 1808.