th pleased God
in his plan to finish at once a justifying righteousness; it is his
own work, and was finished in that awful hour when he announced it in
his last words on the cross. John 19:30. To this nothing of ours is to
be added, with this nothing of ours mixed; it is for ever perfect, it
is God's gift made ours in the hour when we first believe, receive it,
rest our souls upon it.

"But it hath not pleased God in this plan to deliver the believer
at once from indwelling sin. This is the subject of the Christian
warfare, the race, the good fight. Now the believer receives life, and
is called to work. 'Work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do.'
All the promises in this blessed Bible are his, they are yea and amen
in Christ; Christ himself is his; his Spirit dwells in him. The
believer is united to Jesus by as real a union as the branch to the
vine, the members to the head, the building with the foundation. Yet
sin dwelleth in him, and is to be expunged by constant applications to
Christ in prayer; by means of watching, striving, fighting--fighting
under his banner. In his blessed word we are informed where our
strength lies, what our weapons, what our armor. But what can I say on
those subjects? the whole word of God is on the subject of redemption;
to this refer the whole labors of Christ's ministers, and the whole
dispensation of God's providence.

"Are these things so? My Juliet, this is not the doctrine of any
one church. About these subjects there is no dispute. Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, Baptists, Independents, all agree in these great
things. And are these things so indeed? O, my Juliet, where is the
time to be spared for plays, assemblies, and such numerous idle
parties of various descriptions? I must stop; the subject is great,
and we have many excellent treatises on the various parts of it, by
able, pious men. It would be improper to crowd it thus into a letter,
unless to instigate to further investigation.

"Farewell; I ever am, my dear Juliet,

"Yours affectionately,

"I. GRAHAM."

The delicate state of health to which one of her granddaughters
was reduced in 1808, made it necessary for her to spend the summer
season for five successive years at Rockaway, Long Island, for the
advantage of sea-bathing. Mrs. Graham went with her, it being
beneficial