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of the Medal Struck by order of the United Committee,
to Commemorate it: Ropes of the Test & Copronation Acts.

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Pub Dec 11629. by Mels Holdsworth &Ball 18 St Pauls Church Yard London

CONGREGATIONAL

MAGAZINE,

FOR THE YEAR 1829.

NEW SERIES,

VOL. V.

TWELFTH VOLUME FROM THE COMMENCEMENT.

LONDON:

Printed by J. Dennett, Leather Lane, Holborn:

PUBLISHED BY HOLDSWORTH AND BALL,

18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

M DCCC XXIX.

CONREGATIONAL MAGAZINE.

JANUARY, 1829.

BOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.

MEMOIR OF TH REVEREND LEGH RICHMOND, M. A.*

FEW men of the presentlay have been better known, or mre generally loved and respected,han the Rev. Legh Richmond. Without possessing very extraordinary parts or learning, the decision of hischristian character, the suavity of his manners, and his anxious desire to promote the best interests of his fellow creatures, gave him an influence of a very extensive and powerful description over the christian public of this country. His connexion with the Tract Society was productive of great benefit to that important Institution; while it opened a field of labour to Mr. Richmond peculiarly adapted to his genius and talents.

The

life of such a man was a great public blessing, and his death must be regarded as a loss not likely to be soon or effectually repaired.

It affords us great pleasure to receive, and to recommend to our readers, a memoir of this excellent individual, in all respects worthy of him, and calculated, we conceive, to extend his usefulness, even after his departure. It is impossible, we think, to read this book, without catching some

thing of the spirit which belonged
to the subject of the volume, and
which appears to be breathed by
its respectable author.
It is a
happy mixture of narrative and in-
structive counsel; both illustrative
of the principles and practice of
the Gospel, and bearing upon the
various relations which Christians
sustain.

"Legh Richmond was born at Liverpool, on January 29, 1772. It was his privilege to have a most estimable mother, endued with a superior understanding, which had been cultivated and improved by an excellent education and subsequent reading; and who, with considerable natural talents and acquirements, manifested a constant sense of the importance of religion.

parent anxiously instructed him, from his infancy, in the Holy Scriptures, and in the principles of religion, according to the best of her ability; a duty which was subsequently well repaid by her son, who became the happy and honoured instrument of imparting to his beloved mother clearer and more enlarged views of divine truth than were generally prevalent during bable that the seeds of piety were then the last generation. It seems highly prosown, which in a future period, and under circumstances of a providential nature, were destined to produce a rich and abundant harvest.

"This affectionate and conscientious

"Ye that are mothers, and whose office it more peculiarly is to instil into the

A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond, A. M. of Trinity College, Cambridge; Rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire; and Chaplain to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent. By the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, A. M., Rector of Burton-Latimer, Northamptonshire; and Vicar of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. London: Seeley and Sons, Fleet Street. 1828.

N. S. No. 49. VOL. XII.

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