The Power of Faith - Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham
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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 |
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