“But it hath not pleased God in this plan to deliver the believer at once from indwelling sin.  This is the subject of the Christian warfare, the race, the good fight.  Now the believer receives life, and is called to work.  ’Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do.’  All the promises in this blessed Bible are his, they are yea and amen in Christ; Christ himself is his; his Spirit dwells in him.  The believer is united to Jesus by as real a union as the branch to the vine, the members to the head, the building with the foundation.  Yet sin dwelleth in him, and is to be expunged by constant applications to Christ in prayer; by means of watching, striving, fighting—­fighting under his banner.  In his blessed word we are informed where our strength lies, what our weapons, what our armor.  But what can I say on those subjects? the whole word of God is on the subject of redemption; to this refer the whole labors of Christ’s ministers, and the whole dispensation of God’s providence.

“Are these things so?  My Juliet, this is not the doctrine of any one church.  About these subjects there is no dispute.  Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Independents, all agree in these great things.  And are these things so indeed?  O, my Juliet, where is the time to be spared for plays, assemblies, and such numerous idle parties of various descriptions?  I must stop; the subject is great, and we have many excellent treatises on the various parts of it, by able, pious men.  It would be improper to crowd it thus into a letter, unless to instigate to further investigation.

“Farewell; I ever am, my dear Juliet,

“Yours affectionately,

“I.  GRAHAM.”

The delicate state of health to which one of her granddaughters was reduced in 1808, made it necessary for her to spend the summer season for five successive years at Rockaway, Long Island, for the advantage of sea-bathing.  Mrs. Graham went with her, it being beneficial to her own health also.  In this place she met with many strangers; the company residing there treated her with much affection and respect.  She always attended to the worship of God morning and evening in her room, and was usually accompanied by some of the ladies who boarded in the house.  Her fund of information, vivacity of manner, and the interest which she felt in the happiness of all around her, made her society highly valued and pleasing.  Few of those ladies who stayed with her at Rockaway for any length of time, failed to express, at parting, their esteem for her, and they generally added a pressing invitation for a visit from her, if ever she should travel near where they dwelt.

The following is one of her sweet meditations while at Rockaway: 

“ROCKAWAY, August, 1809.