Mrs. Graham had the honor of attending the death-bed, and of closing the eyes of this distinguished child of God.  It had been Lady Glenorchy’s express desire that Mrs. Graham should be sent for, if within twenty miles of her, when such attendance should be necessary.

The following letter to a daughter, two months later, gives us another illustration of the self-denial and anxiety for the salvation of the soul, with which Mrs. Graham personally ministered to the needy and the suffering, and how skilfully she improved these scenes for the benefit of others.

“EDINBURGH, September, 1786.

“MY DEAR DAUGHTER—­Such a scene as I have been witness to!—­poor M. B——­ is gone to her last abode; her state is fixed for ever.  I attended her sick-bed for eight successive days and nights, except perhaps for an hour that I lay down in the same room.  I held by life to the very last, because I feared she was not in a fit state to die.

“She took every medicine that was prescribed for her, which I administered with my own hand; but the time appointed to end her mortal state had arrived, and go she must.  She lived four days after the physicians had lost all hope, and I think I never witnessed greater distress.  I watched every word with anxious care to find if any breath of prayer was to be heard; but alas, I had no such satisfaction.  As she was insensible after the first few days, it was not to be expected she could either think or pray.

“O, why will sinners resist the grace of God, and spend the precious time given to seek and find it in thoughtless folly?  What can they do, on such a bed of distress, who have no God?  Time misspent and gone—­opportunities unimproved and gone—­calls resisted never to be repeated—­death hunting the soul through every avenue of life—­a dreadful, unknown, unthought of eternity at hand—­an awful Judge, and no Advocate secured to plead.  A time was when a kind Saviour was expostulating with them:  ‘Why will you die?’ ’Hear, and your soul shall live;’ ’Ask, and you shall receive; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you;’ ’Look unto me and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth;’ ’Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon;’ ’Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters’—­blessings purchased by Christ:  pardon of sin, reconciliation with God, a new heart and spirit, all that is necessary for time and eternity—­’He that hath no money,’ no merit, no good about him, no claim upon any account whatever, ’come, buy and eat, without money and without price;’ ‘Why spend ye your money,’ time, talents, affections, desires, ‘for that which is not bread,’ and cannot satisfy? ’incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you.  Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.  To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart.’