every little helps; drops make up the ocean. We cannot yet
produce anything; we are gathering intelligence, and endeavoring to
collect money; but I grudge that what we can spare should be idle in
the meantime; the cause is one; pay the magazines at once, and the
sermons if you have enough of my money. I hope to remit again in
September. I have a great wish to have a finger in your pie in some
way; if I must not subscribe past our own society, I may sell books
for yours.

"Ever, my dear friend, yours,

"I. GRAHAM."

To the same.

"1796-7.

"I thank my friend for her letter. I rejoice with you, and
bless the widow's God. He has indeed been so to us, to the full
amount of the promise. I have now much to sing of, little to
complain of; my dear girls and Mr. B---- go forward steadily, having
laid aside the weights of amusements and gayety, and seem determined
to follow the Lord fully through good and through evil report. Bless
the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. We have a full
school, and a very comfortable set of girls. The Lord has delivered
from all heavy burthens.

"Last week a considerable number of ministers and lay Christians
met for the third time, and established a society for sending
missionaries among the Indians, and also among the poor scattered
settlers on the frontiers. A sermon was preached in the evening in one
of the Dutch churches, 'The liberal deviseth liberal things,' etc.,
after which an address was read by the Secretary--our dear Mr.
Mason--which, when printed, I will send you.

"The society is to keep up a correspondence with your and the
other societies. If they can effect anything themselves, apart here in
America, well; if not, they will throw their subscriptions into the
common funds and get help from you. This view is very pleasant to us.
There is great need of itinerant preachers in our back settlements;
they are scattered, and no churches of any kind; even in some thick
settled counties they will not pay a minister. These are 'the highways
and hedges;' O that the Lord may compel them to come in.

"I. GRAHAM."

We next find Mrs. Graham administering consolation and imparting
instruction to a lady residing near Boston, Mrs. C----. With this lady
Mrs.