HANNAH MORE, THE WORKER IN CHRIST'S VINEYARD. " GOD has a bright example made of her. "-CowLEY. IN the middle of the last century there lived, in the hamlet of Fish-ponds, in the parish of Stapleton, Gloucestershire, a very worthy family, in compara- tively humble circumstances. The father, Jacob More,-whowas descended from arespectable family at Harleston, Norfolk,;having been originally in- tended for the Church, had received a learned education ;" but the unfavourable termination of a lawsuit having deprived him, while yet a youth, of an inheritance to which he had expected to succeed, he had been compelled to relinquish his hopes î and being obliged to depend on his personal exertions for support, he quitted his birth-place, and accepted the officeof Supervisor ofthe Excise in Bristol. After some time, however, he obtained a situationmore congenial to Ms tastes,-the mastership of the Free School, at Fish-ponds, Stapleton, when, being settled there, he married, in Ms thirty - seventh year, about 1737, Mary, the daughter of Mr. John Grace, a small but respectable farmer,,who, though she had received but aplain education, as suited her position in life, o
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