as a Sunday-school, and consisted of nearly eighty
scholars. She was translated from this work of faith on earth, to
engage in the sublimer work of praise in heaven.

For some weeks previous to her last illness she was favored with
unusual health and much enjoyment of religion; she appeared to have
sweet exercises and communion in attending on all God's ordinances and
appointed means of grace. She was also greatly refreshed in spirit by
the success of Missionary and Bible Societies, and used to speak with
much affection of Mr. Gordon, Mr. Lee, Mr. May, and Dr. Morrison, with
whom she had been acquainted when in New York, on their way to
missionary stations in India and China.

Mrs. Graham was very partial to the works of Dr. John Owen, Rev.
William Romaine, and Rev. John Newton, and read them with pleasure and
profit. One day she remarked to Mr. B----, that she preferred the
ancient writers on theology to the modern, because they dealt more in
italics. "Dear mother," he replied, "what religion can there be in
italics?" "You know," said she, "that old writers expected credit for
the doctrines they taught, by proving them from the word of God to be
correct: they inserted the scripture passages in italics, and their
works have been sometimes one-half in italics. Modern writers on
theology, on the contrary, give us a long train of reasoning to
persuade us to their opinions, but very little in italics." This
remark of hers has great force, and deserves the serious attention of
those who write and those who read on theological subjects.

On the two Sabbaths preceding her last illness she joined in
communion at the Lord's table. On the 10th of July, 1814, at
Greenwich, and on the 17th at her own church in Cedar-street. On each
week preceding these seasons she attended three evenings on religious
exercises; on Thursdays at the Orphan Asylum, on Friday evenings the
preparation sermons, and on Saturday evenings at the prayer-meetings.
She appeared lively, and expressed comfort in those religious seasons,
and continued actively useful until the very day on which her
illness commenced.

On the morning of the 17th she attended the Sabbath-school with
her daughter and grandchildren. Thus the Lord was pleased to direct
that she should lead her children's children into the walks of
usefulness before she took her flight to heaven, and impose a pleasing
obligation on them that they should follow her steps. Of the