supplies are under the direction of a special providence, that Dr.
H----'s remittances and friendly letters were occasionally received by
Mrs. Graham until the year 1795; after this period her circumstances
were so favorably altered as to render such aid unnecessary; and from
that time she heard no more from Dr. H----, neither could she learn
what was his subsequent history.

It may be profitable here to look at Mrs. Graham, contrasted with
those around her whose condition in the world was prosperous. Many
persons then in Antigua were busy and successful in the accumulation
of wealth, to the exclusion of every thought tending to holiness, to
God, and to heaven. The portion which they desired they possessed.
What then? They are since gone to another world. The magic of the
words, "my property," "an independent fortune," has been dispelled;
and that for which they toiled, and in which they gloried, has since
passed into a hundred hands; the illusion is vanished, and unless they
made their peace with God through the blood of the cross, they left
this world, and alas, found no heaven before them. But amidst apparent
affliction and outward distress, God was preparing the heart of this
widow, by the discipline of his covenant, for future usefulness--to be
a blessing, probably to thousands of her race, and to enter finally on
that "rest which remaineth for the people of God."

Her temporal support was not, in her esteem, "an independent
fortune," but a life of dependence on the care of her heavenly Father:
she had more delight in suffering and doing his will, than in all
riches. "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he
will show them his covenant." To those who walk with God, he will show
the way in which they should go, and their experience will assure them
that he directs their paths. "Bread shall be given them, and their