She has obtained a triumph over that foe who shall break the arm of valor, and strike off the crown of kings.  ’The fashion of this world passeth away.’  Old Time approaches towards his last hour.  The proudest memorials of human grandeur shall be food for the conflagration to be kindled when ’the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire.  Then shall he be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe.’

“There are those perhaps, in the present assembly, who repute godliness fanaticism, and the sobriety of Christian peace the gloom of a joyless spirit; but who cannot forbear sighing out, with the prophet of mammon, ’Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.’  If they proceed no further, their wish will not be granted.  None shall die the death of the righteous, unless by a rare dispensation of mercy, who do not live his life.  They only are fit to be with God who love God and keep his commandments.  In that day of transport and of terror which we shall all witness, how many of the thoughtless fair who now ‘sport themselves with their own deceivings,’ would give all the treasures of the east and thrones of the west to sit with Isabella Graham on the right hand of Jesus Christ.  If ye be wise betimes, ye may.  Now is the accepted time; to-day is the day of salvation.  The gospel of the Son of God offers you at this very moment, the forgiveness of your sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified.  The blessing comes to you as a free gift:  accept it, and live; accept it, and be safe; accept it, and put away the shudderings of guilt and the fear of death.  Then shall you too, like our friend, go in due season to be with Christ.  Your happy spirit shall rejoin hers in the mansions of the saved.  God shall bring you in soul and body with her when he makes up his jewels.  Then shall he gather his elect from the four winds of heaven, shall perfect that which concerneth them, and make them fully and for ever blessed.  Be our place among them in that day.’

EXTRACT FROM MRS. GRAHAM’S
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

“My children and my grandchildren I leave to my covenant God—­the God who hath fed me all my life with the bread that perisheth, and the bread that never perisheth; who has been a Father to my fatherless children, and a Husband to their widowed mother thus far.  And now, receiving my Redeemer’s testimony, John 3:33, I set to my seal that God is true; and believing the record in John’s epistle, that God hath given to me eternal life, and this life is in his Son, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot unto God, and being consecrated a priest for ever, hath with his own blood, entered into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for me.  I also believe that he will perfect what concerns me, support and carry me safely through death, and present me to his Father, complete in his own righteousness, without spot or wrinkle.  Into the hands of this redeeming God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I commit my redeemed spirit.”