He allowed no dissenter or methodist to interfere in the instruction of the souls committed to his cure: and so successful were his exertions, that he had not one dissenter of any denomination whatever in the whole parish .-- Though he avoided all religious controversies, yet when age had silvered his head, and virtuous piety had secured to his appearance reverence and silent honour, no one, however determined in his hatred of apostolic descent, could have listened to his discourse on ecclesiastical history and ancient times, without thinking, that one of the beloved apostles had returned to mortality, and in that vale of peace had come to exemplify the beauty of holiness in the life and character of Mr.Walker.
* * * * * 'Until the sickness of his wife, a few months previous to her death, his health and spirits and faculties were unimpaired.

But this misfortune gave him such a shock, that his constitution gradually decayed.

His senses, except sight, still preserved their powers.

He never preached with steadiness after his wife's death.

His voice faltered: he always looked at the seat she had used.