In the year 1810, while bathing at Rockaway, she was carried by the surf beyond her depth, and for some time there was scarcely a hope of her regaining the shore.  Her grandchildren were weeping on the beach, and the company assembled there were afflicted but hopeless spectators of her danger.  At that moment of peril she prayed to the Lord for deliverance, but acquiesced in his will, if he should see fit to take her to himself in this manner.  Able to swim a little, she kept herself afloat for some time:  she became at length very faint; and when her friends on the beach apprehended her lost, they perceived that the waves had impelled her somewhat nearer to them.  A gentleman present, and her female attendant, stepped into the surf and extending their arms for mutual support, one of them was enabled to lay hold on Mrs. Graham’s bathing-gown and to pull her towards them.  When they brought her ashore she was much exhausted, and had swallowed a considerable quantity of water.  It was some hours before she revived, when she addressed the company in a very serious and impressive manner that affected them to tears.  Her health during the following winter was much impaired by the shock it had received.

“ROCKAWAY, June 15, 1810.

“Came here the first of the month, with the children in the whooping-cough.  No ‘church-going bell’ here, but the Lord is everywhere; and I have found him here, warming my heart with gratitude and contrition, and drawing it out in prayer for his people met to worship in his sanctuary.

“When at a distance from my own people, it has been my practice to join with whatever class of professing Christians might be near me.  Here it has been with the Methodists, who, I believe, enjoy communion with God.  Yesterday I went to a meeting of ——­, who lay great stress on good morals; but, O my God, what could I do, shut up with them?  Without the finished work of my Saviour, I could have no hope; without his law-fulfilling righteousness, I must stand a law-condemned sinner.

“The preacher yesterday took no text; in the course of his sermon he said the Scriptures were only secondary guides.  He began with the importance of thinking of death, and said it could not be possible for a rational being to live carelessly, with thoughts of death and eternity in view.  Is it so?  No; we see sinners die, under the full conviction that they are dying, as thoughtless as they have lived.

“He said, that by constantly attending to the motions of the Spirit and complying with them, Christians arrived at a state of perfection even here; and brought in that text, ’He that is born of God cannot sin,’ etc.  Spoke highly of watchfulness, and avoiding connection with the world; said a real Christian could not hold any office of power among men.  Paul held one, but he gave it up when he became an apostle.  Christ’s kingdom was not of this world.  Laws and officers were necessary among the men of the world, but not