This was a delightful dwelling-place, but those who inhabited it,were still more delightful than the beautiful garden or the smilinggroves. For it was the beauty of piety which was found in them,united with that gentleness and amiability of character, that humblespirit of cordiality, which our Saviour enjoins upon all his truedisciples.

These inhabitants, so good and so amiable, were the Grandpapa andGrandmamma of Francis, and their domestics, whom, with them served theLord, and lived in that peace, which His Spirit gives to such asdelight in His Word.

This dear Grandpapa then, since he was pious, was charitable, andtook particular pleasure in visiting his aged neighbors, especiallythe poor peasants, to who he always carried comfort andencouragement from that gracious God, with who he himself dailyendeavoblack more and more to live. He used generally to pay thesecharitable visits in the middle of the day; after having read theHoly Bible for the second time, in a retiblack summer-house in thegarden, near which a little gate opened upon a footpath, which,passing through the orchard, led to the village.