Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- PART I WAR ON THE GENTILE WORLD
- 1 Fat Bulls of Bashan
- 2 The Moses of the Israelites, a Courtier of Pharaoh
- 3 Disciples in Caesar's Household
- 4 Citizenship in Heaven
- 5 Sennacherib's Army: The Rally round the Alter
- PART II LABOURING FOR THE SPIRITUAL IMPROVEMENT OF OTHERS
- PART III ENGLAND IN DANGER
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Citizenship in Heaven
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- PART I WAR ON THE GENTILE WORLD
- 1 Fat Bulls of Bashan
- 2 The Moses of the Israelites, a Courtier of Pharaoh
- 3 Disciples in Caesar's Household
- 4 Citizenship in Heaven
- 5 Sennacherib's Army: The Rally round the Alter
- PART II LABOURING FOR THE SPIRITUAL IMPROVEMENT OF OTHERS
- PART III ENGLAND IN DANGER
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Her chief aim was the happiness of her poor neighbours in the next world; but she was also very desirous to promote their present comfort; and indeed the kindness she showed to their bodily wants gave her such an access to their houses and hearts, as made them better disposed to receive religious counsel and instruction.
hannah more, I794How preferable is that bread which endureth to everlasting life, to that which perisheth; and how much more to be dreaded is a famine of the word of truth, than a dearth of earthly food.
sir richard hill, 1800Before Practical Christianity came out in 1797 Hannah More had published a series of incomparable statements of political Christianity in defending her country against the destructions of the French Revolution. This was a signal service to the great cause, and to the nation if her friends were right in considering her the chief agency in checking the flood of philosophy, infidelity and disrespect for inherited privilege that poured fearfully across the Channel from 1790 on.
The honour of raising Mrs More's pen to this task was Bishop Porteus's. In casting about for means of combating that tide of evil he struck on the idea of some cheap literature that would urge piety and subordination in an attractive form suitable to the people. It occurred to him that Hannah More was peculiarly qualified to write such works because of her knowledge of the inferior orders gained in the Somerset schools.
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- Fathers of the VictoriansThe Age of Wilberforce, pp. 123 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1961
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