pounds.

She indulged the hope of seeing a union of exertion, among all
Christian denominations, for sending the gospel to the heathen. How
delighted would she have been with the missionary societies of
London and elsewhere, had her life been spared to behold their
extensive operations.

She sold her estate of Barnton that she might apply the money to
a more disinterested object than her personal accommodation, and that
her fortune might be expended with her life, "I recollect here," said
Saurin in one of his sermons, "an epitaph said to be engraven on the
tomb of Atolus of Rheims: _He exported his fortune before him into
heaven by his charities--he Has gone thither to enjoy it_."

This might be truly said of Lady Glenorchy. In her manner she
discovered great dignity of character tempered with the meekness and
benevolence of the gospel. Her family was arranged with much economy,
and a strict regard to moral and religious habits. She usually
supported some promising and pious young minister as her chaplain,
which served him as an introduction to respectability in the church.
With very few exceptions, all those who entered her family as servants
were in process of time brought under religious impressions. So far it
pleased the Lord to honor her pious endeavors to render her family one
of the dwellings of the God of Jacob.

Mrs. Graham had the honor of attending the death-bed, and of
closing the eyes of this distinguished child of God. It had been Lady
Glenorchy's express desire that Mrs. Graham should be sent for, if
within twenty miles of her, when such attendance should be necessary.

The following letter to a daughter, two months later, gives us
another illustration of the self-denial and anxiety for the salvation
of the soul, with which Mrs. Graham personally ministered to the needy
and the suffering, and how skilfully she improved these scenes for the
benefit of others.

"EDINBURGH, September, 1786.

"MY DEAR DAUGHTER--Such a scene as I have been witness to!--poor
M. B---- is gone to her last abode; her state is fixed for ever. I
attended her sick-bed for eight successive days and nights, except
perhaps for an hour that I lay down in the same room. I held by life
to the very last, because I feared she was not in a fit state to die.

"She took every medicine that was prescribed for her, which I
administered with my own hand; but the tim