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 distrus