So much had been effected by those new powers, before the subject of the preceding biographical sketch closed his life, that their operation could not escape his notice, and doubtless excited touching reflections upon the comparatively insignificant results of his own manual industry.

But Robert Walker was not a man of times and circumstances; had he lived at a later period, the principle of duty would have produced application as unremitting; the same energy of character would have been displayed, though in many instances with widely different effects.
With pleasure I annex, as illustrative and confirmatory of the above account, extracts from a paper in the _Christian Remembrancer_, October, 1819: it bears an assumed signature, but is known to be the work of the Rev.Bobert Bamford, vicar of Bishopton, in the county of Durham; a great-grandson of Mr.Walker, whose worth it commemorates, by a record not the less valuable for being written in very early youth.
'His house was a nursery of virtue.

All the inmates were industrious, and cleanly, and happy.

Sobriety, neatness, quietness, characterised the whole family.

No railings, no idleness, no indulgence of passion, were permitted.