From this it will be seen that George Moore was no ordinary youth; and before he had been travelling for his firm long, they discovered his value.  So did another firm, which found he was taking away their business, and offered him L500 a year to travel for them.  But George told them nothing less than a partnership would satisfy him; and as they were determined to secure his services they gave it him, and at the age of twenty-three George Moore became junior partner in the famous house of Groucock & Copestake, to which the name of Moore was then added.

His fortune was thus early made, and his business life was one continued series of successes.  He had an immense capacity for work, and boasted that for twelve years he laboured sixteen hours a day.

Yet his energies were not confined to business.  After a time, when he no longer needed to work so hard for himself, he took up various charitable schemes, and by his intense vigour soon obtained for them remarkable support.  The Commercial Travellers’ Schools was one of the institutions in which he took great interest.  These schools were built at a cost of about L25,000, the greater portion of which he obtained.

In his native county, in his house of business; everywhere George Moore became famed for his liberal gifts.  He spent L15,000 in building a church in one of the poorest districts of London.  He visited Paris just after the siege to assist in the distribution of the funds subscribed in England; and to many charitable schemes he subscribed with a generous hand.

In November, 1876, he was knocked down in the streets of Carlisle by a runaway horse, and carried into the hospital to die.  He had expressed a wish when he was in good health to be told when he was dying; so his wife said to him, “We have often talked about heaven.  Perhaps Jesus is going to take you home.  You are willing to go with Him, are you not?”

“Yes,” he replied; “I fear no evil ...  He will never leave me, nor forsake me.”

A MAN WHO ASKED AND RECEIVED.

THE STORY OF GEORGE MUeLLER.

In the year 1805 was born in Prussia George Mueller, whose orphanages at Ashley Down, Bristol, may be regarded as one of the modern wonders of the world.

His father intended that George should become a minister, but the lad in his early days showed no signs of a desire to set apart his life to good works.  He had the misfortune to lose his mother when he was fourteen years old, and though he was confirmed in 1820 no deep impression had been made by God’s grace in his heart.

When he was sixteen he went to Brunswick, and putting up at an hotel lived expensively, and had to part with his best clothes to pay the bill.  Later on, for leaving an hotel without paying, he was put in prison, and had to stay there till the money was sent for his release.

He had, indeed, grown so hardened that he could tell lies without blushing.  He pretended to lose some money which had been sent to him, and his friends gave him more to replace it.  He got into debt, and pawned his clothes in order to procure the means to go to taverns and places of amusement.