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
Mrs. Graham's epitaph on a tablet in the Pearl-street church, is
associated with that of her son-in-law Mr. Bethune, to whom before his
connection with the family she was a spiritual mother; who prepared
her memoir, wrote and printed tracts for her widows, imported Bibles
for her to distribute, replenished her charity purse when exhausted;
with whom she took sweet counsel and walked to the house of God in
company; and for whom she was pleased to leave the written and
honorable testimony: "He stands in my mind, in temper, conduct, and
conversation, the nearest to the gospel standard of any man or woman I
ever knew as intimately. Devoted to his God, to his church, to his
family, to all to whom he may have opportunity of doing good, duty is
his governing principle; cast upon his care, under God he nourishes me
with kindness," etc. They have entered into rest. One sepulchre
contains their sleeping dust, and one monument bears the following
tribute to their memory:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
DIVIE BETHUNE,
MERCHANT OF THIS CITY,
WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 18, 1824, AGED 53 YEARS;
AND OF
ISABELLA GRAHAM,
HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW,
WHO DIED JULY 27, 1814, AGED 72 YEARS.
THEY WERE BOTH NATIVES OF SCOTLAND.
THIS MONUMENT
IS REARED BY HIS BEREAVED WIDOW AND HER ORPHAN DAUGHTER,
AS A TESTIMONIAL OF TWO SERVANTS OF JESUS CHRIST:
THE ONE A RULING ELDER IN HIS CHURCH, THE OTHER A MOTHER IN ISRAEL;
WHO, LIKE ENOCH, WALKED WITH GOD,
LIKE ABRAHAM, OBTAINED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH,
AND, LIKE PAUL, FINISHED THEIR COURSE WITH JOY.
THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES,
AND THEY REST HERE TOGETHER IN THEIR GRAVES.
"THE BLESSING OF HIM THAT WAS READY TO PERISH CAME UPON THEM; AND
THEY CAUSED THE WIDOW'S HEART TO SING FOR JOY." JOB 29:13.
"OH HOW GREAT IS THY GOODNESS, WHICH THOU HAST LAID UP FOR THEM
THAT FEAR THEE; WHICH THOU HAST WROUGHT FOR THEM THAT TRUST IN THEE
BEFORE THE SONS OF MEN!" PSA. 31:19.
PROVISION
FOR
MY LAST JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS
AND
PASSAGE OVER JORDAN.*
*Found in Mrs. Graham's pocket after her decease.
"'Prepare you victuals, for within three days ye shall pass over
this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God
giveth you to possess it. When ye see the ark of the covenant of the
Lord your God, and the priests bearing it, then ye shall remove and go
after it: that ye may know the way by which ye must go, for ye have
not passed this way heretofore.'
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