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 Good morning. I really appreciate the opportunity to speak today, and especially on somebody that I really love.

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 Steve said I could choose whichever woman I wanted to, and it's a pleasure to choose Hannah Moore.

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 I know you've had a series, so you've had Mary first, and I want to call her a woman of faith.

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 Lady Jane Grey, I think she's a woman of courage, and Elizabeth Saunders, a woman of compassion.

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 This week we're going to look at Hannah Moore, and I want to say she's a woman of words, of words.

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 So Hannah Moore, one of the reasons I love her was she's not like other women.

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 She's not like the other women of her day who have children and stay at home and do embroidery and play the piano.

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 And do some singing.

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 She was actually really different.

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 She was single.

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 She was independent.

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 And apparently it was said she had a smart pen and a smart tongue.

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 So there are times where she could be quite sarcastic and quite brutal in what she said.

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 Hannah was born in 1745 in England.

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 It was a trade town called Bristol where she was born.

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 She was one of five sisters, and all of them remained single all of their lives.

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 She was the sort of young one who was protected and coddled.

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 Because she was so clever, everyone recognised that, and because her health was not good.

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 But she wasn't just clever, she had a fantastic imagination.

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 And she composed her first poem, apparently, when she was four years old.

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 Her father had been a teacher, and the sisters decided to follow his example, and they set up a school.

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 The older sisters were teachers, and the younger ones went to the school and grew up to be teachers as well.

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 When Hannah was only 22, she got engaged to a landowner.

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 His name was William Turner.

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 It seemed that they were a good match, because they were quite good friends.

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 She was often at his estate, and she took over the design and the gardens around the estate.

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 So she spent a lot of time doing that with him.

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 And when the wedding day came closer, he put off the date.

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 They kept on being engaged, then he put off the date again.

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 Then they're engaged for six years.

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 Can you imagine?

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 Six years.

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 And then finally, the last wedding date, the ceremony starts, and he leaves her at the altar.

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 After six years.

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 Isn't that terrible?

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 You would think this is devastating.

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 But there was, in that time, if you were engaged to someone, it was a really big commitment.

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 And he was actually legally liable to then look after his fiancée.

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 So he gave her a generous yearly income each year for the rest of her life.

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 And it surprised me, too, that later on they were reconciled and became very close friends.

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 I'm not sure that I could do that.

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 So is it?

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 Hannah did not become bitter, even though this has happened in her life.

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 But she really trusted God's plans for her.

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 And in fact, it's interesting that because she didn't get married,

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 opportunities for her opened in a way that wouldn't have been open if she was a married woman.

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 So Hannah moved to London.

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 And she wanted to develop, you know, she wanted to be a woman of words to write.

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 So she wrote plays for the theatre.

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 And she published poetry.

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 And she became actually very successful.

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 And she made some money.

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 She started to hang out with the rich and the powerful and the educated in their salons,

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 where they used to have, you know, evenings where they would have music and poetry.

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 She had grown up in an Anglican sort of traditional church.

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 And we're not exactly sure when she was converted.

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 But we've got a few little hints.

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 There was, at one stage, she wrote a, she read a book, sorry, by John Newton.

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 And she was really struck by it.

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 So she then visited this minister's church.

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 When she was so fascinated that she started talking to him a lot about faith.

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 And I think that's when she was converted.

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 She did say that evangelicalism was a vital, experimental religion.

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 And by that she meant it wasn't just the head, but it was the heart.

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 Later on, John Newton, some of you might have heard of him.

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 Have you heard of him?

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 The most famous thing about him is that he wrote Amazing Grace, the song Amazing Grace.

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 He became very involved in the abolition of slavery movement.

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 And part of the reason was that he had been involved in the slave trade himself.

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 He had been on slave ships.

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 He had seen the slave trade for what it was and the evil that was there.

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 And when he became a Christian, he wrote this song, recognizing what he had done in the past,

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 but celebrating the grace of God that had led to his forgiveness, the gospel.

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 So Hannah became quite close to John Newton, but he also met another famous man, William Wilberforce.

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 And again, probably some of you have heard of him, some not.

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 Soon they became close friends and they would work together as reformers in England.

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 William Wilberforce was a very wealthy man.

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 He was also a member of the English Parliament.

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 And like Hannah, he had a conversion experience.

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 And I love the connections.

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 He too had gone to John Newton.

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 Newton became a mentor of his as well.

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 And Wilberforce, because he had been so struck by the gospel,

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 he thought that perhaps he should give up his privileged position

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 and perhaps be a minister himself.

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 But when he went to Newton, Newton gave him this advice.

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 He said,

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 Stay at your post and neither give up work nor throw away wealth.

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 Wait and watch for occasions, sure that he who put him at his post would find him work to do.

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 So Wilberforce's work became to begin to lead the campaign for the abolition of slavery.

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 Wilberforce did lots of other things that Hannah got involved in too.

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 He, in the Parliament, put up laws and laws to try and change what was happening with the slave trade in England.

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 He was also behind sending evangelical chaplains to New South Wales for us.

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 So there's a connection with Australia as well.

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 The most significant society, though, that they're involved with was the Society for Affecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

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 Before the slave trade, I want to tell you about...

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 I'm missing some slides here.

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 Can I go back to the beginning?

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 Stuck.

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 Ah, thank you so much.

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 The Sunday schools.

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 The work that Wilberforce first encouraged Hannah to do to use her time and her wealth were Sunday schools.

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 This links in really well with the YouthWorks College, you know, the ad and the promotion.

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 And I had to put this in because I love kids and youth ministry.

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 In 1789, Wilberforce visited Hannah at her home.

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 And he went for a walk around the villages around her house.

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 When he saw the poverty of the villages that were there, he was really quite distressed.

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 And he came home and he said, you know, we have to do something about this.

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 The children cannot read or write.

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 They don't know about Jesus.

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 There were hardly any ministers there to care for their spiritual life.

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 And then he took Hannah and his sister, her sister Patty, to come and see what the villages were like.

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 Hannah was troubled too.

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 And she said, there was but one Bible in all the parish.

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 And that was used to prop up a flower pot.

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 So she was, you know, this didn't seem a place that knew anything about the gospel.

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 The women didn't know at first what to do.

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 But they did hear about this new movement called the Sunday School Movement.

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 And the Sunday schools, they were not like our schools.

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 They were actually church on a Sunday.

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 They were real schools where the children of the lower class, who perhaps couldn't read or couldn't write,

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 they met in the morning, sort of at the church, like we are here today.

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 And they learnt reading, writing, arithmetic.

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 And then in the afternoon, they learnt to memorise the Bible and to memorise the catechism,

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 which was kind of a summarising of what Christians believed.

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 In the Sunday schools, the children who got good marks and were well behaved, won prizes like coins and books and Bibles and even combs and clothes.

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 They also had picnics, Sunday school picnics.

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 Has anyone been to a Sunday school picnic?

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 It sort of shows my age that I went to Sunday school picnics.

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 It's sort of, when they did it was a big time of a feast at a rich person's house in the gardens.

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 And they used to feed people cake and roast beef and plum pudding.

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 In Australia, I read somewhere that the children had been given sugared wine as well.

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 So, back in the day, interesting.

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 I wouldn't do that today in your Sunday schools, Ash.

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 These picnics were community events.

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 So, the parents came along, friends came along, people in the community came along.

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 In one of Hannah and Patty's Sunday schools, 517 children came to the feast, to the picnic.

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 And there were 4,000 parents and friends watching on.

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 So, these Sunday schools grew from these little villages and spread out because of the work of Hannah and her sister.

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 Sunday schools.

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 The other work that Hannah did was through her writing.

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 She wrote many books.

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 She was a woman of words.

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 Early in her life, I said before, she wrote plays and poetry.

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 But she was encouraged by her friends to think about other ways to use this gift.

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 And write short Christian stories instead.

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 She wrote stories about ordinary people and their lives.

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 And stories that kind of had a moral at the end, a Christian moral.

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 They were also produced very cheaply, so poor people could read them.

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 They were called the cheap repository tracks.

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 And Hannah wrote over 100 stories.

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 Stories like The Apprentice's Monitor, The Carpenter, or The Danger of Evil Company, The Gin Shop.

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 And her most popular book was The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain.

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 She was trying to influence and bring the gospel to both children and their parents.

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 And actually, she made a lot of money from these tracks as well.

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 And used the money for the evangelical societies that she and her friends were setting up.

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 And also for supporting ministers as well.

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 So she used her gifts to write these books and to do her writing.

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 But also, she became very involved in the movement for the abolition of slavery with William Wilberforce.

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 So that's him on the screen.

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 Now, the slave trade was an evil trade.

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 Our slaves were transported from West Africa to the colonies.

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 And sold there.

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 And many of the slave trips were British.

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 Apparently, Britain was responsible for one-fifth of the slave trade.

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 Slaves also grew and produced goods like cotton and sugar and rum in the Americas and in the Caribbean.

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 And then these goods were imported back to England.

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 There were a lot of slaves in Britain itself, which I actually didn't realise until I was researching this.

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 Between 1690 and 1807, there were around 1.8 slaves that were brought to England.

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 And Bristol was a big centre of slavery.

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 The 500,000 of these slaves were brought to Bristol, where Hannah had grown up.

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 William Wilberforce and Hannah, they were part of a small group of evangelical friends called the Clapham sect.

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 And it wasn't a sect like we think of a sect.

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 It was just a group of friends that met at the little village of Clapham.

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 Hannah, apparently she was the only woman in this group, which shows how distinctive she was in the first place.

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 Wilberforce's friends convinced him that he needed to do something, and he used his position in the parliament.

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 Meanwhile, Hannah and other friends worked really hard to shape public opinion.

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 They gathered evidence about how terrible the slave trade was, evidence and testimonies,

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 and went to different...

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 You know, the rich and the educated went into their living spaces and explained what was happening in the slave trade,

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 because many people just didn't know.

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 They didn't realise.

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 They organised a public boycott on sugar.

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 So people said, no, we're not having this sugar because it's produced by slaves.

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 I think this was really hard in England, because you know they're addicted to tea,

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 and they had sugar in their tea.

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 Another way is that the reformers tried to convince people of the evil of the slave trade was...

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 You can see this in this picture.

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 They took this picture around to different people and showed a slave ship with 500 people packed side by side in chains.

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 You know, it's a really shocking picture to show this is what happens on one of those slave ships.

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 Hannah also used her writing skills in their campaign.

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 She wrote stories about slaves, such as The Black Prince, A True Story, and True Stories of Two Good Negroes.

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 You know, forgive the language.

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 And Babé, A True Story of a Good Negro Woman.

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 She also wrote a poem called Slavery.

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 In this poem, it was really powerful because it actually affected people's hearts, their emotions.

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 She wanted them to think about, what if you were a mother and your children were taken away from you?

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 What if you were part of a family and the family was torn apart?

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 What about if you experienced the suffering and the evil that these slaves feel?

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 So I want to read the poem because it's so beautiful and so good.

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 This is the end of the poem.

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 Slavery is no more.

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 The dusky myriads crowd the sultry plain and hail that mercy long invoked in vain.

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 This is the vision.

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 Victorious power, she bursts their twofold bands and faith and freedom spring from Britain's hands.

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 And thou, great source of nature and of grace, who of one blood didst form the human race,

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 look down in mercy in thy chosen time, with equal eye on Africa's suffering clime.

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 Disperse her shades of intellectual night.

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 Repeat thy behest.

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 Let there be light.

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 Bring each benighted soul, great God, to thee.

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 And with thy wide salvation, make them free.

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 It's beautiful, isn't it?

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 And it was very popular.

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 A lot of people were horrified and were shaped by this beautiful poem.

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 Hannah said, and she insisted, that slaves were human beings, just like white people,

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 with families and children and dreams, and they were people made in the image of God.

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 She called them one blood.

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 Remember that from the poem?

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 A really important phrase, one blood.

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 This actually was an important phrase used by many Christians and even used in Australia.

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 Christians used it to, when they wanted to object to the treatment of indigenous people here in Australia.

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 They said, these people are one blood with us.

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 So after all this campaigning, all the writing, all the boycotts,

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 finally, in July 26, 1883, slavery was abolished in the British Empire.

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 Wilberforce's life object was achieved.

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 He died three days later.

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 And Hannah died two months later, after Wilberforce.

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 So, this is her when she's older.

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 What can we learn from Hannah Moore?

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 As I said before, many people have heard of William Wilberforce, but not of Hannah Moore.

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 And like many women in history, her story is not often told,

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 although she achieved so much, just like Wilberforce did.

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 So what can we learn from her?

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 She had plans for her life that were disappointed.

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 She had wanted to get married, and she didn't.

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 But God had opened other ways that she could serve him.

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 Because she was single and financially comfortable,

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 she was able to use the gifts that God had given her

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 in a way that she couldn't have if she had been married.

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 Her writing and her love of words had an incredible impact.

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 You know, maybe she wasn't in full-time ministry,

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 but she was able to do good in her country and helped build the church.

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 In the reading that we had today from Peter,

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 the Apostle Peter encourages us to do the same.

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 To use your gifts to do good and to build the church.

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 I want to read part of you, part of it.

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 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others

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 as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.

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 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God.

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 If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides,

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 so that in all things God may be praised.

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 Through Jesus Christ, to him be the glory and the power forever and ever.

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 Amen.

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 So in God's providence, where has God placed you?

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 Are you married?

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 Are you single?

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 Use your gifts.

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 Do you have the gift of writing?

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 Then write.

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 Do you have the gift of speaking?

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 Then speak the words of God.

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 Can you serve here at St. Paul's?

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 Then serve.

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 As Peter said, we should use whatever gifts we have been given to serve others,

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 just as Hannah did, and did it for the honour and glory of God.

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 Amen.

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 Let me just pray before we finish.

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 Father God, we thank you for the life of Hannah Moore

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 and all the other Christians who have lived before us.

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 Thank you for the example they are to us,

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 of people who believe the gospel and it changed their life,

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 and they served you with a heart of passion

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 and with perseverance through the ups and downs of their lives.

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 We pray that we might be like them,

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 for your honour and glory.

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 Amen.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you.