price in our hand; we take this
gift, and offer back, as the price of our redemption, his atoning
sacrifice, his all-perfect righteousness; and on this ground we are
entitled, by his own plan, which he prepared from first to last, to
plead for the full accomplishment of all the promises in the Bible:
for the pardon of sin; yea, for an entire new nature.

"O, my son, open your Bible, go to your knees, look out words
there fit for your case; present them humbly before God, turn all the
promises you find there, all the offers, all the calls, all the
commands, all the threatenings into prayer--for you of yourself can do
nothing--and ask that God, for Christ's sake, may pour out on you the
spirit of prayer. I know not how to have done; yet I well know, unless
the Lord soften your poor obdurate heart, it will still remain hard.
O, my son, be willing to put it in his hand, to receive his salvation,
and give yourself up to his guiding. I beg you will read with care the
15th chapter of the gospel of Luke. The Lord spoke these parables to
show how very willing he is to receive returning sinners. Your mother
and all your sisters are willing to follow his example; return to us,
my son. We will watch over you we will pray over you, and we will try,
by every endearing method, to restore you not only to health, but to
comfort. Your sisters wish you to come; all your friends are willing
to receive you; we will not upbraid you.

"Do, my dear, leave Greenock; come out to us by any way you can
find, I will pay your passage here; or if you can get to any port in
America, you can write me from that, and I will get you forwarded
here; and, after you are here, if you still wish to follow the sea, we
can get you a berth in some trading vessel from this. All your friends
here send best wishes. And now, my son, I commend you to the Lord. O,
that he may bless this to you,

"Your affectionate mother,

"I. GRAHAM."

The last intelligence that Mrs. Graham received of her
unfortunate son was in a letter from himself, dated Demarara, 1794, in
which he states that he had sailed from Amsterdam in a Dutch vessel;
was taken by the French, and retaken by the English; had arrived at
Demarara in the ship Hope; and should he not soon hear from his
mother, would return to Europe with a fleet which was shortly to sail
under convoy. Mrs. Graham notices this event as follows: