titude of
reason and judgment. No longer can we judge of excellence, no longer
love what God loves. Our wills no longer straight with his will, but
crooked, opposing God, and choosing evil instead of good. 'O Israel,
thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help.' Amen, says my
soul, in thee is my help."

"NEW YORK, October 3, 1793.

"'One shall say, I am the Lord's, and another shall call himself
by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto
the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.' Isaiah 44:5.

"I, as one, subscribe to the truth of all that God has said: I,
as one, subscribe my assent to all he has done. I set my amen to his
well-ordered covenant, well-ordered in all things, and sure. And this
is the covenant, even Christ, the sum and substance, for he hath given
him to be a covenant of the people. The whole and every part of it is
God's covenant. To me it must be a testament, the new testament in
Christ's blood. To me it must be a covenant of gifts and promises. I
can be no party, having nothing to give; nothing with which to
covenant. He hath said, 'Thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy
help.' Amen. Be my help, my deliverer.

"'Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved; for I am
God, and there is none else.' I do look unto thee alone for salvation.
Thou art God; there is none else: besides thee there is no Saviour.

"'I will pour water on the thirsty, and floods on the parched
ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy
offspring.' Amen. I yield my soul into thy hand, dry and parched, to
receive thy showers of reviving, quickening, fructifying grace."

Writing about this date to her beloved friend Mrs. O---- of
Edinburgh, Mrs. Graham, for the encouragement of her friend, gives
her, in confidence, the following record of her own Christian
experience:

"It is now. I think, thirty-five years since I simply, but
solemnly, accepted of the Lord's Christ, as God's gift to a lost
world. I rolled my condemned, perishing, corrupted soul upon this
Jesus, exhibited in the gospel as a Saviour from sin. My views then
were dark compared with what they now are: but this I remember, that
at the time I felt heart-satisfying trust in the mercy of God, as the
purchase of Christ; and for a time rejoiced with joy scarce
supportable, singing almost continually the 103d Psal