her
pupils--attentive to their peculiarities of character--happy in
discovering the best avenue of approach to their minds--possessing in
a high degree the talent of simplifying her instruction and varying
its form, she succeeded in that most difficult part of a teacher's
work, the inducing youth to take an interest in their own improvement,
and to educate themselves by exerting their own faculties.

"In governing her little empire, she acted upon those principles
which are the basis of all good government, on every scale and under
every modification--to be reasonable, to be firm, and to be uniform.
Her authority was both tempered and strengthened by condescension. It
commanded respect while it conciliated affection. Her word was law,
but it was the law of kindness. It spoke to the conscience, but it
spoke to the heart; and obedience bowed with the knee of love. She did
not, however, imagine her work to be perfected in fitting her eleves
for duties and elegance of life. Never did she forget their immortal
nature. Utterly devoid of sectarian narrowness, she labored to infuse
into their minds those vital principles of evangelical piety which
form the common distinction of the disciples of Christ, the peculiar
glory of the female name, and the surest pledge of domestic bliss. Her
voice, her example, her prayers concurred in recommending that pure
and undefiled religion without which no human being shall see the
Lord. Shall we wonder that her scholars should be tenderly attached to
such a preceptress; that they should leave her with their tears and
their blessing; that they should carry an indelible remembrance of her
into the bosom of their families; that the reverence of pupils should
ripen with their years into the affection of friends; and that there
should be among them, at this day, many a wife who is a crown to her
husband, and many a mother who is a blessing to her children, and who
owes, in a great degree, the felicity of her character to the
impressions, the principles, and the habits which she received while
under the maternal tuition of Mrs. GRAHAM?

"Admonished at length by the infirmities of age, and importuned
by her friends, this venerable matron retired to private life. But it
was impossible for her to be idle. Her leisure only gave a new
direction to her activity. With no less alacrity than she had
displayed in the education of youth, did she now embark in the relief
of misery. Her benevolence