the same channel, oil and trimming for his lamp.  Great was the honor; dignified the service; but lost to me for ever.  I passed by on the other side.  Blessed, blessed Jesus; thou good Samaritan, who pouredst the oil and wine into his wounds, and tookest him, not to an inn, but to those mansions in the skies which thou, with thine own blood, purchasedst for him; sanctify, O sanctify to me this thy providence; pardon my neglect.  Saviour, wash me in thy blood, and sanctify and bring good out of even my transgression.  By thy grace, let it be a means of stirring me up to more watchfulness, that I may meet the opportunities afforded me in thy providence, to occupy till thou come.”

“DECEMBER, 1802.

“The lovely plant which the Lord had blasted, which brought down our hearts with grief, which he had restored and clothed with smiling health and comfort, again sickened, declined, wasted; every means proved ineffectual; the Lord refused the healing virtue.  He was brought to town to be near the physicians, but the Physician of Israel aided them not.  Disease increased; with pain, sickness, convulsion, much he suffered, and long; he had a taste of the bitterness of sin, but no part of the curse:  that the Redeemer drank and expended; and having by his atoning blood purged this little one from his sins, and perfected all his redeeming work in his soul, he received him into his own heavenly abodes.  It is well, all well.  Amen.”

Mrs. Graham lived alternately with her children Mrs. Bethune and Mrs. Smith until 1803, when Mrs. Smith removed from New York.  After that time she made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Bethune until her departure to her heavenly home.  They loved her not only from natural affection, but for her superior worth.  They believed that her prayers brought a blessing on the family, as the ark of God did to the house of Obed-Edom.

“MARCH, 1803.

“I read this day the 36th chapter of Ezekiel, and pleaded God’s promises from the 22d verse to the end, for myself, for my children, and for my children’s children; for the church of God throughout the world, in particular for this country, for Britain and Ireland, France and Germany, where his name was once known, and his gospel flourished.  That the Lord would ‘build the waste places and repair the breaches;’ that he would ‘purify the sons of Levi,’ fill all pulpits with able, faithful ministers of the new testament, who shall ’declare the whole counsel of God;’ and that wherever his name is recorded, the Holy Ghost might fill the place, and convince the hearts of preachers and hearers, of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; might take of the things of Christ and show unto them; and that the great Head of the church might regulate and overrule all these breaches, differences, and shakings in his churches.