“’Other foundation can no man lay, than that which is laid, Christ Jesus.’

“Do I, O my God, seek for or desire any other foundation?  Are not all my hopes for time and eternity built on this foundation?  Is not Christ all my salvation and all my desire?  Do I not embrace thy covenant just as it is, believing that thou givest unto me eternal life, and that this life is in thy Son, whom thou hast given ’to be a covenant of the people.’  Iniquities prevail against me; but thou wilt not only purge them away, but wilt subdue them.  Sin shall not have dominion over me, for I am not tinder the law, but under grace.”

To Miss Walker, Edinburgh.

“NEW YORK, 1812.

“My dear Miss Walker, I think, is in my debt; but that is no reason why I may not inquire after her health and welfare, and through her, of that of her brother, sister, and other dear friends yet in their pilgrimage.  My dear, dear Mrs. Walker lives in my affections, and surely what concerns her children can never be to me a matter of indifference.  Your dear brother’s persevering kindness and tried friendship have written gratitude in indelible characters on my heart.  ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed;’ and such was he.  I trust the Lord has rewarded and will reward him.  I have still in my possession many dear remembrances of your worthy mother; her sensible, pious letters, some of which have proved prophetic, are among my treasures.  What a lovely group presses upon my memory at this moment, united to Jesus and to one another on earth, and the union is now perfected in heaven.  Your dear mother, Mrs. Brown, dear Mrs. Randall, and Lady Glenorchy, all zealous for the welfare of the widow and orphans, whose way lay peculiarly through Vanity Fair, and whose spirits were too much assimilated to the wares there exhibited, and most unworthy of all the care and pains they bestowed upon her.  Tell my then dear pastor the pilgrim is not lost; he will find her in the 18th chapter of Ezekiel:  he may remember that he and dear Doctor Erskine gave me over to the Lord when leaving Edinburgh.  Well has he kept the charge, though I have not my part, after all the chastisements and charges received.  But he is ’the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.’

“I am now a happy Mary, enjoying the full sense of pardon and the light of his countenance in the meantime, and the full prospect of being soon with him, made like him, and capacitated to praise him.

“I.  GRAHAM.”

“SABBATH, January 18.

“Dr. R——.  ’By grace ye are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God.’

“All is of grace, all is free gift, or we wicked, wretched sinners, could have no interest in it.  Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift of Jesus Christ, given for a covenant of the people.  Thanks be unto God for the gift of faith, by which we apprehend this covenant, and become interested in him, as the salvation of our souls.  Thanks be unto God for life to work; for new principles and new motives, new desires, new hopes, new fears, and, in some measure, new conduct.  All of grace, and to the God of grace be all the glory.