THE WORKER IN CHRIST'S VINEYARD. was endowed with a vigorous intellect, and sound common sense and judgment. Both Jacob More and his wife were serious and religious. Mr. More was a Tory and a High- Churchman, although his family had been strict Presbyterians. He had had two great uncles, captains in Cromwell's army ; and his mother had belonged to a zealous Nonconformist family, who, in former days, had boarded a minister at their own house, and had often assembled secretly at midnight to worship GOD according to their own way of thinking, while one of the party, with a drawn sword in his hand, kept watch at the door. In course of time five daughters were blooming around this excellent, attached couple. The eldest, born in 1738, was named after her mother, -Mary. Elizabeth was born in 1740; Sarah, 1743 ; Hannah, Feb. 2, in the memorable year 1745 ;; and Martha, 1759. Little Patty being so much the junior caused Hannah for many years to occupy the distinguished post of pet and plaything in the household. She was vivacious and pretty; and even in her earliest infancy was remarkable for a good memory and a ready wit. Her aptitude for learning and her thirst for knowledge were evinced at a very tender age; for when her mother first commenced teaching her to read, she found, to her astonishment, that the little girl, although but three or four years old, had already made considerable progress, bypaying eager 6
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