."

She lived five and a half years at Clifton, tranquilly waiting for the
end, and attending, as far as failing strength would permit, to the
distribution of her charities, the work of her schools and the
entertainment of friends.

Almost to the last she retained unimpaired the use of her faculties. The
intellectual vivacity of early days often reappeared. During one of her
illnesses some one remarked, in allusion to the struggle of the remnant
of sin in a person recently awakened to the truth, "The old man dies
hard!" "The old woman dies hard!" exclaimed the invalid. At eighty-three
she said, "I have too many petty cares at that age when the grasshopper
is a burden. I have _many_ grasshoppers, and seem to have less time and
more labour than ever."

Her last days were spent almost entirely in prayer, invoking blessings
on those around her and on the village work which lay so near her heart.
She said to a friend during her last illness, "To go to heaven, think
what _that_ is! to go to my Saviour who died that I might live! Lord,
humble me, subdue every evil temper in me. May we meet in a robe of
glory! Through Christ's merits alone can we be saved... Lord, I
believe--I _do_ believe with all the powers of my weak, sinful heart.
Lord Jesus, look down upon me from Thy holy habitation; strengthen my
faith, and quicken me in my preparation. Support me in that trying hour
when I most need it! It is a glorious thing to die!" No vanity or
self-praise on the ground of her life's labours ever found a place in
her thoughts. Some one began to speak of her good deeds. "Talk not so
vainly," she exclaimed; "I utterly cast them from me, and fall low at
the foot of the cross." She sank gradually, and without pain, and on
September 7, 1833, quietly passed away.

There are few thoughtful students who will hesitate to rank Hannah More
with the leading religious and educational reformers of the eighteenth
century. In essential matters she was a kindred spirit with Whitfield,
Wesley, Raikes, and others, and worked, in the way marked out for her by
God, for the regeneration of her country.

With regard to her books, she believed they would be little read after
her death. To a considerable extent her judgment has been verified. Her
writings were a continual seed-sowing, which later workers fertilised,
and brought to maturity.

They were republished in eleven volumes in 1830. Besides the prominence
given to their religious or moral purpo