The Annals of the Poor

by Legh Richmond

[...]purpose of redemption and grace! "While infidels may scoff, let us adore!" After the service was concluded I had a short conversation with the good old couple and their daughter. She told me that she intended to remain a week or two at the gentleman's house where her sister died till another servant should arrive and take her sister's place. "I shall be truly obliged," said she, "by an opportunity of conversing with you, either there or at my father's when I return home, which will[...]."

146 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2007

About the author

LEGH RICHMOND (1772–1827) was born in Liverpool, England. He attended Trinity College in Cambridge and received his B. A. and M. A. degrees. The young clergyman entered the ministry at the Isle of Wight. When he read Wilberforce’s "Practical View of Christianity," he had a spiritual awakening, and respectfully named his son Wilberforce. On the Isle of Wight he met ‘The Dairyman’s Daughter,’ ‘The African Servant’ and ‘Little Jane.’ After seven years he moved to London and then to Turvey, where he wrote, "The Fathers of the English Church."