Letters--Formation and success of the Orphan Asylum-- Inscription for Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Hoffman--Labors in the New York hospital and among female convicts--Miss Farquharson, first American missionary to foreign lands-- Visit of Rev. Dr. Morrison and others--Letter to her children at the Springs--Letter to Mrs. Juliet S.--Visits Rockaway--Reminiscence of Elderslie--1806-1809, .............. 250 CHAPTER X. NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY--ASSOCIATIONS FOR PRAYER-- HAPPY OLD AGE. Letters--Bible Society organized--Efforts for the revival and extension of religion--Admissions to the communion-- Narrow escape from drowning at Rockaway--Barrenness of preaching without Christ--Devotional exercises--Letters to Miss Van Wyck and James Todd--Happy old age--Letter to Mrs. C---- in affliction--Letter to Mrs. G.Y.--Prayer for ministers--Magdalen Society--Lancasterian school-- 1809-1811, ................................................... 270 CHAPTER XI. DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES AND LETTERS. Indwelling sin lamented--Day of fasting--Happiness of the aged Christian--Sermon in the state-prison--Happy reminiscences--Two grandchildren unite with the church-- Unfaithfulness to people of the world lamented--Rich temporal blessings--Letter to Mrs. J.W.--Day of fasting-- 1812-1814, ................................................... 309 CHAPTER XII. CLOSING LABORS FOR THE POOR--SICKNESS AND DEATH. Society for the promotion of industry among the poor-- Sunday-school of eighty children--Love of evangelical books Last two weeks--Communion--Last sickness--Peaceful death--Character by Dr. Mason--Epitaph--1814, ................ 348 PROVISION FOR PASSING OVER JORDAN. Scripture extracts--Meditations--Poetic effusions, ............... 379 LIFE OF MRS. ISABELLA GRAHAM. _______________ CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE--RESIDENCE IN CANADA. Mankind take an interest in the history of those who, like themselves, have encountered the trials and discharged the duties of life. Too often, however, publicity is given to the lives of men splendid in acts of mighty mischief, in whom the secret exercises of the heart would not bear a scrutiny. The memoirs are comparatively few of those engaged in the humble and useful walks of active benevolence, where the breathings of the soul would display a character much to be admired, and more to be imitated.