nects
your profit with his own glory. You shall in this protracted
affliction manifest it, and hold out the word of life to those around
you.* You shall witness for him that he is the Lord, and besides him
there is no Saviour--that he gathers the lambs in his arms, and
carries them in his bosom--that he is to them a hiding-place from the
wind, and a covert from the tempest--as rivers of water in a dry
place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. That it is
he that teacheth them to profit, and leadeth them by the way that they
should go, and that in due time he will perfect all that concerns
them. Farewell.

*This prediction was remarkably fulfilled in the experience of
this dear young saint; an interesting account of whose illness
and death was published in the Christian's Magazine, and
afterwards as a Tract.

"Yours with affection,

"I. GRAHAM."

To the same.

"ROCKAWAY, Sabbath, 1810.

"MY DEAR, MY BELOVED ELIZA--I wrote you a few lines yesterday by
Mr. B----. I now propose to fulfil my promise. I expect an opportunity
to-morrow or next day, for I saw a great many carriages pass this way
to the tavern, as I suppose, from New York. It is a common thing with
some to come here on Saturday and return on Monday, to spend this
blessed day in pastime. You would not, I know, exchange situation's
with them; you would rather be suffering than sinning.

"It is your own observation that God does all in wisdom; in this
wisdom he is pleased to lengthen your day of affliction. Sin, my
darling, is the cause of all suffering; but is not always the
_immediate_ cause. Besides particular chastisement for particular
sins, there are afflictions to be filled up in the body of Christ--his
church--a measure of which, in kind and degree, is appointed by
unerring wisdom to each individual member. Col. 1:24. These sufferings
bear no part in atoning for sin, nor in redeeming our forfeited
inheritance. Christ trod the wine-press alone, and of the people there
was none to help him. He was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him; who when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high. Heb. 1:3. Again, 'And every priest,' in the Levitical law,
'standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same