tionate testimony to the
kindness of her dear master and mistress.

The surgeon's mate of the regiment was a young man whom Dr.
Graham had early taken under his patronage. The kindness of his patron
had so far favored him with a medical education, that he was enabled
to succeed him as surgeon to the regiment.

Notwithstanding the slender finances of Mrs. Graham, feeling for
the situation of Dr. H----, she presented to him her husband's medical
library and his sword: a rare instance of disinterested regard for the
welfare of another.

This was an effort towards observing the second table of the law,
in doing which she was actuated likewise by that principle which flows
from keeping the first table also. Nor was the friendship of Dr. and
Mrs. Graham misplaced. The seeds of gratitude were sown in an upright
heart. Dr. H----, from year to year, manifested his sense of
obligation, by remitting to the widow such sums of money as he could
afford. This was a reciprocity of kind offices, equally honorable to
the benefactors and to them who received the benefit: an instance,
alas, too rarely met with in a selfish world.

It may here be remarked, in order to show how much temporal
supplies are under the direction of a special providence, that Dr.
H----'s remittances and friendly letters were occasionally received by
Mrs. Graham until the year 1795; after this period her circumstances
were so favorably altered as to render such aid unnecessary; and from
that time she heard no more from Dr. H----, neither could she learn
what was his subsequent history.

It may be profitable here to look at Mrs. Graham, contrasted with
those around her whose condition in the world was prosperous. Many
persons then in Antigua were busy and successful in the accumulation
of wealth, to the exclusion of every thought tending to holiness, to
God, and to heaven. The portion which they desired they possessed.
What then? They are since gone to another world. The magic of the
words, "my property," "an independent fortune," has been dispelled;
and that for which they toiled, and in which they gloried, has since
passed into a hundred hands; the illusion is vanished, and unless they
made their peace with God through the blood of the cross, they left
this world, and alas, found no heaven before them. But amidst apparent
affliction and outward distress, God was preparing the heart of this
widow, by the discipline of his covenant, fo