r future usefulness--to be
a blessing, probably to thousands of her race, and to enter finally on
that "rest which remaineth for the people of God."

Her temporal support was not, in her esteem, "an independent
fortune," but a life of dependence on the care of her heavenly Father:
she had more delight in suffering and doing his will, than in all
riches. "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he
will show them his covenant." To those who walk with God, he will show
the way in which they should go, and their experience will assure them
that he directs their paths. "Bread shall be given them, and their
water shall be sure." She passed through many trials of a temporal
nature, but she was comforted of her God through them all; and at last
was put in possession of an eternal treasure in heaven, "where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, nor thieves break through and steal." May
this contrast be solemnly examined, and the example of this child of
God made a blessing to many.

In anticipation of her approaching trial, with which her own life
might be suddenly terminated, Mrs. Graham _set her house in
order_, and wrote the two following letters: one to her friend Mrs.
Grandidier, to whom and her husband Capt. Grandidier, she committed
the charge of her family and affairs; the other to her father in
Scotland, commending her children to his protection. Her tender and
affectionate appeals to each of them in respect to their own eternal
welfare, are a beautiful specimen of that Christian fidelity and love
of the souls of men which so strongly characterized her future life.

"ST. JOHNS, Antigua, 1774.

"MY DEAR MRS. GRANDIDIER--The long and steady friendship which
has subsisted between us, in sickness and in health, in prosperity and
adversity, ever the same, without change or diminution, leaves me no
room to doubt that it will extend to my little family, and that you
will be as ready, to the utmost of your power, to befriend them, as
you have been to the dear father already gone, and your friend, who
is, perhaps, about to follow.

"If it should please God to take me away in my approaching
confinement, I leave you and Capt. Grandidier full power to dispose of
every thing in this house, and belonging to me in this island, as you
shall think most for the advantage of my little family. You know my
extreme tenderness for their dear father made me unable t