THE

POWER OF FAITH:

EXEMPLIFIED IN

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF THE LATE

MRS. ISABELLA GRAHAM,

NEW-YORK.

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will es-

humility.

tablish the border of the wIDOW.

PROV, XV. 25. 33.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED BY J. SEYMOUR, No. 49 JOHN-STREET.

1816.

(L. S) B

Southern District of New-York, 85.

OE it Remembered, That on the twenty-second day of February, in the fortieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Divie Bethune, of the said district, hath deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit:

"The Power of Faith: exemplified in the Life and Writings of the late Mrs. Isabella Graham, "of New-York. The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is hu "mility. The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the "widow. Prov. xv. 25. 33."

In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned:" And also to an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."" THERON RUDD, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS.

LIFE of Mrs. Graham

Devotional Exercises

Provision for her last journey through the Wilderness, and passage over

Jordan

Poetry

LETTERS.

Page

9

73

203

254

To Mrs. Grandidier,

271

Extracts of Letters to P―, chiefly written when she was in affliction

To Mrs. G-y

275

304

Extracts from letters written to Mr. and Mrs. B—, while in Britain,

for the benefit of Mrs. B's health, in 1801 and 1802

308

To the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with small Children,

April, 1800

To the same, April, 1806

On opening a School for poor children; addressed to the Teachers who

volunteered their services

Extract from the concluding part of Mrs. Graham's last Will and

Testament

Lines on the decease of Mrs. Graham

The profits arising from the sale of this edition will be equally divided between "the Society for the support of poor widows with small children," and "the Orphan Asytum Society."