Case of Hannah More
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among them until they are Christians, as she says. Their eldest son,
today sixteen years of age, is a pious and devoted young man. They
have partially adopted the health reform, and I think will fully come
into it erelong, and like it. He has ordered the Health Reformer. I
showed him some copies which I brought
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“I hope and pray that he may yet embrace the holy Sabbath. Sister
Thompson does believe in it already. He is wonderfully set in his own
ways, and of course thinks he is right. Could I only get him to read the
books I brought, the History of the Sabbath, etc., but he looks at them
and calls them infidel, and says they seem to him to carry error in their
front, when, if they would only read carefully each sentiment of our
tenets, I can but think they would embrace them as Bible truths and see
their beauty and consistency. I doubt not but that Sister T. would be
glad to immediately become a Seventh-day Adventist were it not that
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her husband is so bitterly opposed to any such thing. It was impressed
upon my mind that I had a work to do here before I came here; but
the truth is present in the family, and if I can carry it no farther, it
would seem that my work is done, or nearly so. I do not feel like being
ashamed of Christ, or His, in this wicked generation, and would much
rather cast in my lot with Sabbathkeepers and God’s chosen people
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“I shall need ten dollars at least to get to Greenville. That, with
the little I have earned, might be sufficient. But now I will wait for
you to write me, and do what you think best about forwarding me the
money. In the spring I would have enough to go, myself, and think
I should like to do so. May the Lord guide and bless us in our every
undertaking, is the ardent desire of my heart. And may I fill that very
position my God allots for me in his moral vineyard, performing with
alacrity every duty, however onerous it may seem, according to his
good pleasure, is my sincere desire and heartfelt prayer
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“Hannah More.”
On receiving this letter, we decided to send the needed sum to
Sister More as soon as we could find time. But before we found the
spare moments we decided to go to Maine, to return in a few weeks,
when we could send for her before navigation should close. And when
we decided to stay and labor in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and
New York, we wrote to a brother in this county to see leading brethren