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With all this she carried on her literary work, and some of her writings were tremendously popular, especially “Village Politics, by Will Chip;” and who has not read “The Shepherd of Saulsbury Plain?” Wilberforce said he would rather present him- j self before Heaven with that book than with “ Peveril of the Peak.” Scores of the most
a scholarly men and women of the time read and admired these works. She wrote a book
I of advice on the education of the little Princess Charlotte of Wales, by request of the
1 queen. Bishop Foster, who was employed as tutor to the young princess, says that he
I gained more information on the subject of his duties from this book than from all his
;! other reading. She wrote novels which to the mere novel reader would, no doubt, seem
like a dialogue of Plato. I can not speak at any length of her “ Practical Piety,” her ; “ Christian Morals,” or of her wonderful essay on the character and writings of St. Paul.
How well she used her ten talents intrusted to her!
Hannah More’s influence was almost world-wide. It was felt in America, in Ger- : many and in P'rance, in Persia, in Iceland and in far off Ceylon. I can not help but
think we are indebted to Hannah More in some degree for what we have in this Expo- „• sition from these distant countries and from the islands of the East. Who can tell?
It is a rich legacy that she has bequeathed to us of what one woman could be and do. She raised the standard of womanhood for all time. The great and expansive principle of love was the soul of all she did and wrote. It was from this that she reaped the reward of a celebrity commensurate with all future time.
Let us raise a monument of praise to her greatness.