His successor, Mr.Nehemiah Walters, came to live with him, and held a good deal of conversation with him.
"There is a cloud," he said, "a dark cloud upon the work of the Gospel among the poor Indians.

The Lord renew and prosper that work, and grant it may live when I am dead.

It is a work which I have been doing much and long about.

But what was the word I spoke last?
I recall that word.
_My doings_.

Alas! they have been poor and small, and lean doings, and I'll be the man that shall throw the first stone at them all." Mather relates that he spake other words "little short of oracles," and laments that they were not correctly recorded; but it appears that he gradually sank, and died in his eighty-seventh year of age, at Roxbury, in the year 1690.