Under another date she adds:

"When we trace the tenderness of our Daysman's conduct through
the whole of his tabernacling here below, and add to this the many
gracious words which he spoke, and to these again what were spoken by
the disciples by his authority, can we refuse to cast all our burdens
on him, and to trust him with ourselves and them? You know how sweet
it is, in the time of tumultuous distress, when the spirit is
overwhelmed, when God's mercy seems clean gone for ever, and his
promise to fail, how sweet to get even a lean upon the Saviour; but
when he, as he does at times, takes the soul out of itself, and away
from forebodings, reasonings, and suppositions, to his own divine
attributes, and gives it a believing view of its interest in them all,
in his wisdom as unerring, his power as almighty, his goodness as
boundless, his faithfulness unchanging; when we add to these his
humanity, and consider that our High-priest was in all points tempted
as we are, yet without sin, and that he has a feeling for our
infirmities; when we find him listening to every petition--a widowed
mother for her son--the centurion for his servant--weeping with two
sisters over a brother's grave--embracing and blessing the little
children whom mothers, like you and me, pressed through the crowd, in
spite of the reprehensions of disciples, to present to him--accepting
the effusions of Magdalene's penitent heart with tender consolation, O
how near does this bring the Divinity to us, and how sweetly may we
confide in such tenderness. Oh my friend, He rests in his love. Let us
rest in our confidence. All shall be well."

When Dr. Witherspoon visited Scotland in the year 1785, he had
frequent conversations with Mrs. Graham on the subject of her removal
to America. She gave him at this time some reason to calculate on her
going thither as soon as her children should have completed the course
of education she had proposed for them. She had entertained a strong
partiality for America ever since her former residence there, and had
indulged a secret expectation of returning. It was her opinion, and
that of many pious people, that America was the country where the
church of Christ would preeminently flourish. She was therefore
desirous to leave her offspring there.

After some correspondence with Dr. Witherspoon, and consultation
with pious friends, her plan received the approbation of the latter;
and having had an invitat