The Power of Faith: Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.Graham, Isabella
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The Power of Faith: Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.
Graham, Isabella
Christian biography; Graham, Isabella, 1742-1814
"Having married, a few years after, Dr. John Graham, surgeon to
the 60th British regiment, she accompanied him first to Montreal, and
shortly after to Fort Niagara. Here, during four years of temporal
prosperity, she had no opportunity, even for once, of entering the
habitation of God's house, or hearing the sound of his gospel.
Secluded from the waters of the sanctuary and all the public means of
growth in grace, her religion began to languish and its leaf to droop.
But the root was perennial--it was of the seed of God, which liveth
and abideth for ever. The Sabbath was still to her the sign of his
covenant. On that day of rest, with her Bible in her hand, she used to
wander through the woods, renew her self-dedication, and pour out her
prayer for the salvation of her husband and her children. He who
'dwelleth not in temples made with hands,' heard her cry from the
wilds of Niagara, and strengthened her with strength in her soul.
"By one of those vicissitudes which checker military life, the
regiment was ordered to the island of Antigua in the West Indies. Here
she met with that exquisite enjoyment to which she had been long a
stranger--the communion of kindred spirits in the love of Christ: and
soon did she need all the soothing and support which it is fitted to
administer; for in a very short time the husband of her youth, the
object of her most devoted affection, her sole earthly stay, was taken
from her by death. The stroke was, indeed, mitigated by the sweet
assurance that he slept in Jesus. But a heart like hers, convulsed by
a review of the past and anticipation of the future, would have burst
with agony, had she not known how to pour its sorrows into the bosom
of her heavenly Father. Trials which beat sense and reason to the
ground, raise up the faith of the Christian, and draw her closer to
her God. O, how divine to have him as the rock of our rest when every
earthly reliance is a broken reed.
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