not if you have any right to entail slavery on these poor creatures.
If any fall to your share, do set them at liberty."

On the 8th of June, Mrs. Graham wrote to her mother, expressing
her gratitude for her husband's safe return, and noticing some
gratifying indications of the calm and peaceful state of his mind:

"You would be surprised to hear the doctor preach. He says we
ought to be thankful; we have hitherto been richly and bountifully
provided for; we ought not to repine, nor doubt, seeing we have the
same Providence to depend upon; that we ought not to set our hearts
upon any thing in this world; being very short-sighted, we cannot know
what is proper for us. Having done for the best, when we are
disappointed, we ought to rest satisfied that either what we wish is
not for our good, or it will in some future dispensation of Providence
be brought about another way and in a fitter time. Indeed, my dear
mamma, in some things he is a better Christian than I am. _May God
make him so in every thing._"

Thus was the Lord preparing his servant for what was so soon
to follow--not his dismission from the regiment, which he so
ardently desired, but from this world and its temptations and snares.
Mrs. Graham's prayers were answered, but "by terrible things
in righteousness."

She added a request that her mother would receive her eldest
daughter, who, though at the early age of _five years_, she
feared would receive injurious influences from the corrupt state of
society around her, and accordingly, not long after, sent her to
Scotland; but before her arrival, her grandmother had been called to a