In the summer of 1800, Mrs. Graham again visited her friends in Boston, whence she wrote her daughter Mrs. B——­ as follows: 

“BOSTON, August, 1800.

“I yesterday received my dear J——­’s letter, which gives fresh cause for thankfulness.  The more my absence is lengthened, the less I am able to support the want of intelligence.  Let us all bless God together for all his mercies:  among those which are temporal, health is the chief; and I believe to most mothers it is more valued in their children than in their own persons.  I rejoice with you over our restored J——­y.  O that our covenant God may give the more important blessing of divine life.  You had need to be importunate for this, after the importunity exercised for natural life.  I thank God also for the alleviation of your own distress, for our dear D——­’s restoration from complaints less alarming so far as they existed, but which might have been the seeds of serious affliction.

“I could go on enumerating, for causes of thankfulness crowd into my mind; but all are swallowed up in the grand mercy, the distinguishing mercy of redeeming love to our souls.  Salvation, not only to me, but to my house.  Oh, all words fail here.  Read over with me, sing with me, in your heart, the 103d Psalm.  O my God, dare I even sigh in thy presence, under any temporal pain, or hurt of body or mind, with such a Father, such a Christ, such a Comforter, such a richly-furnished well-ordered covenant, such a constitution of grace and providence—­O, such an all in all, even ‘all the fulness of God.’  My God and the God of my seed, the God of my house; yea, and the God of my prodigal, who shall in heaven, if never on earth, join the song, ’To him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, be glory, honor, dominion, power, and praise, for ever and ever.  Amen.’  O shall a murmur ever pass these lips, shall this unthankful heart indulge even a sigh over any object but sin; shall I shrink from any cross with such a crown?  Father, glorify thy name.

“I have been to church; the subject, ’be not weary in well-doing.’  Many arguments were adduced for exertion; but the gospel was wanting.  O that my friends could hear our shepherd; he would sound his Master’s voice more in unison with their own hearts’ experience, and views of new covenant provision and gospel motives:  except in the Baptist congregations, the gospel is much mutilated here, and kept out of sight even by the few who are supposed to build upon it.

“Sabbath next brings round your—­I will add, my gospel feast.  I will endeavor to meet you to-morrow evening, and to have you all on my heart, then and on the Sabbath, in that one Lord, one faith, one Spirit, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in all redeemed to himself by Jesus Christ, and sanctified by that one Spirit uniting all.  What subjects!  I cannot attain to the comprehension, but I experience the truth and enjoy the comfort of them.”