same date
is the last meditation in her diary.

"COMMUNION SABBATH, July 17, 1814.

"'Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him
not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls,' 1
Peter, 1:8, 9.

"I had requested to be brought to my Lord's banqueting-house, and
to be feasted with love this day. I ate the bread and drank the wine,
in the faith that I ate the flesh and drank the blood of the Son of
man, and dwelt in him and he in me. Took a close view of my familiar
friend Death, accompanied with the presence of my Saviour, _his
sensible presence_. I cannot look at it without this; it is my only
petition concerning it. I have had desires relative to certain
circumstances, but they are nearly gone. It is my sincere desire that
God may be glorified, and he knows best how and by what circumstances.
I retain my one petition,

"Only to me thy countenance show,
I ask no more the Jordan through."

Thus she arose from her Master's table, was called to gird on her
armor for a combat with the king of terrors, and came off more than
conqueror, through Him who loved her.

On Monday she appeared in perfect health, and visited and gave
religious instruction to the orphans in the asylum.

On Tuesday, the 19th of July, she complained of not feeling well,
and kept her room; on Thursday her disorder proved to be a
cholera-morbus, and her children sent for a physician. She thought
this attack was slighter than in former seasons. On Saturday, however,
she requested that Mrs. Chrystie might be sent for; this alarmed Mrs.
B----, knowing there existed an understanding between those two
friends, that one should attend the dying-bed of the other, Mrs.
Chrystie was a very dear friend of Mrs. Graham. For upwards of
twenty-four years they had loved each other, feeling reciprocal
sympathy in their joys and their sorrows; the hope of faith was the
consolation of both, and oftentimes it had been their delightful
employment to interchange their expressions of affection towards Him
whom having not seen, they loved, and in whom, though they saw him
not, yet believing on him, they rejoiced with joy unspeakable and full
of glory. On Mrs. Chrystie's entering the chamber of her friend, Mrs.
Graham welcomed her with a sweet expressive smile, seeming to