t to
be with God who love God and keep his commandments. In that day of
transport and of terror which we shall all witness, how many of the
thoughtless fair who now 'sport themselves with their own deceivings,'
would give all the treasures of the east and thrones of the west to
sit with Isabella Graham on the right hand of Jesus Christ. If ye be
wise betimes, ye may. Now is the accepted time; to-day is the day of
salvation. The gospel of the Son of God offers you at this very
moment, the forgiveness of your sins, and an inheritance among them
that are sanctified. The blessing comes to you as a free gift: accept
it, and live; accept it, and be safe; accept it, and put away the
shudderings of guilt and the fear of death. Then shall you too, like
our friend, go in due season to be with Christ. Your happy spirit
shall rejoin hers in the mansions of the saved. God shall bring you in
soul and body with her when he makes up his jewels. Then shall he
gather his elect from the four winds of heaven, shall perfect that
which concerneth them, and make them fully and for ever blessed. Be
our place among them in that day.'
EXTRACT FROM MRS. GRAHAM'S
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
"My children and my grandchildren I leave to my covenant God--the
God who hath fed me all my life with the bread that perisheth, and the
bread that never perisheth; who has been a Father to my fatherless
children, and a Husband to their widowed mother thus far. And now,
receiving my Redeemer's testimony, John 3:33, I set to my seal that
God is true; and believing the record in John's epistle, that God hath
given to me eternal life, and this life is in his Son, who, through
the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot unto God, and being
consecrated a priest for ever, hath with his own blood, entered into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for me. I also
believe that he will perfect what concerns me, support and carry me
safely through death, and present me to his Father, complete in
his own righteousness, without spot or wrinkle. Into the hands
of this redeeming God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I commit my
redeemed spirit."
Mrs. Graham's epitaph on a tablet in the Pearl-street church, is
associated with that of her son-in-law Mr. Bethune, to whom before his
connection with the family she was a spiritual mother; who prepared
her memoir, wrote and printed tracts for her widows, im
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