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ported Bibles for her to distribute, replenished her charity purse when exhausted; with whom she took sweet counsel and walked to the house of God in company; and for whom she was pleased to leave the written and honorable testimony: "He stands in my mind, in temper, conduct, and conversation, the nearest to the gospel standard of any man or woman I ever knew as intimately. Devoted to his God, to his church, to his family, to all to whom he may have opportunity of doing good, duty is his governing principle; cast upon his care, under God he nourishes me with kindness," etc. They have entered into rest. One sepulchre contains their sleeping dust, and one monument bears the following tribute to their memory: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF DIVIE BETHUNE, MERCHANT OF THIS CITY, WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 18, 1824, AGED 53 YEARS; AND OF ISABELLA GRAHAM, HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, WHO DIED JULY 27, 1814, AGED 72 YEARS. THEY WERE BOTH NATIVES OF SCOTLAND. THIS MONUMENT IS REARED BY HIS BEREAVED WIDOW AND HER ORPHAN DAUGHTER, AS A TESTIMONIAL OF TWO SERVANTS OF JESUS CHRIST: THE ONE A RULING ELDER IN HIS CHURCH, THE OTHER A MOTHER IN ISRAEL; WHO, LIKE ENOCH, WALKED WITH GOD, LIKE ABRAHAM, OBTAINED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH, AND, LIKE PAUL, FINISHED THEIR COURSE WITH JOY. THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES, AND THEY REST HERE TOGETHER IN THEIR GRAVES. "THE BLESSING OF HIM THAT WAS READY TO PERISH CAME UPON THEM; AND THEY CAUSED THE WIDOW'S HEART TO SING FOR JOY." JOB 29:13. "OH HOW GREAT IS THY GOODNESS, WHICH THOU HAST LAID UP FOR THEM THAT FEAR THEE; WHICH THOU HAST WROUGHT FOR THEM THAT TRUST IN THEE BEFORE THE SONS OF MEN!" PSA. 31:19. PROVISION FOR MY LAST JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND PASSAGE OVER JORDAN.* *Found in Mrs. Graham's pocket after her decease. "'Prepare you victuals, for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you to poss
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