enjoyed that tranquillity and contentment which ever accompany a
disinterested interchange of friendly offices. But this fort being
detached from other settlements, the garrison were deprived of
ordinances and the public means of grace, and the life of religion in
the soul of Mrs. Graham sunk to a low ebb. A conscientious observance
of the Sabbath, which throughout life she maintained, proved to her at
Niagara as a remembrance and revival of devotional exercises. She
wandered on those sacred days into the woods around Niagara, searched
her Bible, communed with God and herself, and poured out her soul in
prayer to her covenant Lord. Throughout the week, the attentions to
her friends, her domestic comfort and employments, and the amusements
pursued in the garrison, she used to confess, occupied too much of her
time and of her affections.

Here we behold a little society enjoying much comfort and
happiness in each other, yet falling short of that preëminent duty and
superior blessedness of glorifying, as they ought to have done, the
God of heaven, who fed them by his bounty, and offered them a full and
free salvation in the gospel of his Son. No enjoyments nor
possessions, however ample and acceptable, can crown the soul with
peace and true felicity, unless accompanied with the fear and favor of
Him who can speak pardon to the transgressor, and _shed abroad his
love in the hearts_ of his children; thus giving an earnest of
spiritual and eternal blessedness along with temporal good.

The commencement of the revolutionary struggle in America rendered
it necessary, in the estimation of the British government, to order to
another and very diverse scene of action the sixtieth regiment,
composed in a great measure of Americans.