is same
inviting Saviour will say, 'Because I have called and ye refused,
stretched out my hand and no man regarded, I also will laugh at your
calamity, and will mock when your fear cometh.'

"Improve this dispensation, my dear child; beg of the Lord to
search you and try you, and see that your hopes be well grounded.

"Your affectionate mother,

"I. GRAHAM."

The following to her beloved friend Mrs. Walker, shows the
impressions made on the mind of Mrs. Graham by visiting _the place
of her nativity and the scene of her struggles with this world's
adversity_, when the hand of God was heavy upon her.

"EDINBURGH, September, 1787.

"MY DEAR MADAM--I have been on a jaunt for nearly three weeks; my
school mostly dismissed, the remainder I left with Miss S----.
Goodness and mercy have followed me, and the Lord has taken care of my
house also in my absence. Yours was put into my hand on my return, and
brought fresh cause of thankfulness; your observation, that we were
mutually feeding on the same allowance, continues to hold. I too have
been considering the works and doings of the Lord, and many of them
have been renewed in my memory by the scenes I have passed through.

"I visited the seat of my juvenile years with my dear and only
brother. There I recollected the days of my vanity, and the Lord's
patience and long-suffering; my repenting, my returning, his
pardoning, his blessing; my backslidings, his stripes and
chastisements, his restoring and recovering, yea, many and many times.
There, too, I found my old acquaintances no more; most of them had
finished their course under the sun; some I could still clasp in the
arms of faith, as united to the glorious Head, and now singing the
song of Moses and the Lamb. From the idea of others, I was obliged to
turn away and say, 'The Judge of all the earth shall do right.'

"I recollected a lowly cottage, where lived a pious father,
mother, two daughters, and a son; where the voice of prayer seldom
ceased, the voice of complaint was seldom heard: not one stone
remained upon another; only the bushes which surrounded it, and the
ruins of a little garden, the seat of secret communion of each with
their God in turn; for one little earth-floored place was all their
house-convenience, and in the winter's storm their little cow-house,
built under the same humb