“I rejoiced in the Lord’s work, and was thankful that the one, the only thing I had asked for her, was now completed.  I saw her delivered from much corruption within, from strong and peculiar temptation without.  I had seen her often staggering, sometimes falling under the rod; I had heard her earnestly wish for deliverance from sin, and when death approached she was more than satisfied:  said she had been a great sinner, but she had a great Saviour; praised him and thanked him for all his dealings with her—­for hedging her in, for chastising her; and even prayed that sin and corruption might be destroyed, if the body should be dissolved to effect it.  The Lord fulfilled her desire, and, I may add, mine.  He lifted upon her the light of his countenance; revived her languid graces; increased her faith and hope; loosed her from earthly concerns, and made her rejoice in the stability of his covenant, and to sing, ’All is well, all is well; good is the will of the Lord.’  I did rejoice, I do rejoice; but O Lord, thou knowest my frame; she was my pleasant companion, my affectionate child; my soul feels a want.  O fill it up with more of thy presence; give yet more communications of thyself.

“We are yet one in Christ our head—­united in him; and though she shall not return unto me, I shall go to her, and then our communion will be more full, more delightful, as it will be perfectly free from sin.  Christ shall be our bond of union, and we shall be fully under the influence of it.

“Let me then gird up the loins of my mind, and set forward to serve my day and generation, to finish my course.  The Lord will perfect what concerns me; and when it shall please him, he will unclothe me, break down these prison-walls, and admit me into the happy society of his redeemed and glorified members:  then ’shall he wipe away all tears from my eyes,’ and I shall taste the joys which are at his right hand, and be satisfied for evermore.”

Mrs. Graham made it a rule to appropriate a tenth part of her earnings to be expended for pious and charitable purposes.  She had taken a lease of two lots of ground on Greenwich-street from the corporation of Trinity church, with a view of building a house on them for her own accommodation; the building, however, she never commenced.  By a sale of the lease, which her son Mr. Bethune made for her in 1795, she got an advance of one thousand pounds.  So large a profit was new to her.  “Quick, quick,” said she, “let me appropriate the tenth before my heart grows hard.”  What fidelity in duty; what distrust of herself.  Fifty pounds of this money she sent to Mr. Mason in aid of the funds he was collecting for the establishment of a Theological Seminary.  Her own version of this matter we have in a letter to her familiar friend Mrs. Walker, of Edinburgh: 

“1795.

“MY DEAR MRS. WALKER—­My last informed you that we had been made to taste of the Lord’s visitation—­the yellow-fever—­but in great mercy had been spared in the midst of much apparent danger.  I have now in my house a girl who lost both father and mother, and many whole families were cut off; my house was emptied; my school broken up; we confined to town, and heavy duty laid upon us at the same time.  I trembled again for fear of debt; but ’the Lord brought meat out of the eater.’