THE WORKER IN CHRIST'S VINEYARD. inhabitants that even constables dared not penetrate the boundaries of the savage, lawless locality. The sisters, however, although warned that their lives would be inperil, resolved to visit the uncouth region, and attempt to carry thither their ameliorations. They braved all dangers fearlessly, encouraged by their former efforts, and the result was that their success here, as elsewhere, seemed magical, although they had to "fight their battles o'er again" with thick-headed, ignorant farmers, and teach the teachers to whom they wished to entrust the chief care of the poor children. In a short time they had secured above twelve hundred pupils, founded benefit clubs at three-halfpence a-week for poor women, and introduced many advantages and improvements. Hannah's health, and that of " poor Patty," was wretched during all this labour ; from her childhood Hannah had been subject to constant attacks of indisposition, but now they recurred at terribly short intervals. The personal fatigue attending their philanthropic labours was naturally very great ; the distance of the schools was such that during each visit the sisters were obliged to sleep in the vicinity. Buoyed up by implicit reliance on Him in whose service they were engaged, how - ever, they never failed or yielded under the weight of their burden. In the course of 1792, the poison of French revolutionary sentiments was spreading to such a mischievous extent, that letters from persons of 36
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