se, most of them are remarkable
for sustained fervour, persuasiveness of tone, and practical common
sense. We give a few extracts from some of the principal works, to
illustrate Hannah More's methods of appealing to the conscience and
awakening spiritual concern.

"There are two things of which a wise man will be scrupulously
careful--his conscience and his credit. Happily, they are almost
inseparable concomitants; they are commonly kept or lost together; the
same things which wound the one usually giving a blow to the other; yet
it must be confessed, that conscience and a mere worldly credit are not,
in all instances, allowed to subsist together....

"Between a wounded conscience and a wounded credit, there is the same
difference as between a crime and a calamity. Of two inevitable evils,
religion instructs us to submit to that which is inferior and
involuntary. As much as reputation exceeds every worldly good, so much,
and far more, is conscience to be consulted before credit--if credit
that can be called, which is derived from the acclamations of a mob,
whether composed of 'the great vulgar or the small'"--_Christian Morals_
(chapter xxiv.).

"One cause, therefore, of the dulness of many Christians in prayer, is
their slight acquaintance with the sacred volume. They hear it
periodically, they read it occasionally, they are contented to know it
historically, to consider it superficially; but they do not endeavour to
get their minds imbued with its spirit. If they store their memory with
its facts, they do not impress their hearts with its truths. They do not
regard it as the nutriment on which their spiritual life and growth
depend. They do not pray over it; they do not consider all its doctrines
as of practical application; they do not cultivate that spiritual
discernment which alone can enable them judiciously to appropriate its
promises, and apply its denunciations to their own actual case. They do
not use it as an unerring line, to ascertain their own rectitude, or
detect their own obliquities."

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"The discrepancies between our prayers and our practice do not end here.
How frequently are we solemnly imploring of God that 'His kingdom may
come,' while we are doing nothing to promote His kingdom of grace here,
and consequently His kingdom of glory hereafter."

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"Prayer draws all the Christian graces into its focus. It draws Cha