Indeed, when at the very last, as he lay almost lifeless, with closed eyes, Mr.Gericke began to sing the hymn, "Only to Thee, Lord JESUS CHRIST," he joined in with a clear melodious voice, and accompanied him to the end.

Two hours later, about four o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1798, Christian Friedrich Swartz breathed his last, in the seventy-second year of his age, and the forty-eighth of his mission service in India.
The cries and wailings of the poor resounded all night around the house, and Serfojee Rajah came from a distance to be present at his burial.

It had been intended to sing a funeral hymn, but the cries and lamentations of the poor so overcame the clergy, that they could scarcely raise their voices.

Serfojee wept bitterly, laid a gold cloth over the bier, and remained present while Mr.Gericke read the Funeral Service,--a most unusual departure from Hindoo custom, and a great testimony of affection and respect.
A few months later arrived the decision of the East India Company, that the weak and rapacious Ameer Singh should be deposed, and Serfojee placed on the throne.

He conducted himself excellently as a ruler, and greatly favoured Christians in his territory, always assisting the various schools, and giving liberal aid whenever the frequently-recurring famines of India brought them into distress.
Three years later, in 1801, Serfojee wrote to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, to beg them to order a "monument of marble" at his expense, to the memory of the late Rev.Father Swartz, to be affixed to the pillar nearest the pulpit.