MEMOIRS

OF THE LATE

MISS LUCY RICHARDS,

OF PARIS, ONEIDA COUNTY, N. Y.^

WRITTEN BY HERSELF.

EDITED BY ANOTHER HAND.

REVISED BY THE EDITOR.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY G. LANE & P. P. SANDford,

For the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-street.

J. Collord, Printer.

1842.

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HARVARD COLLEGE

JUN 1 1916

LIBRARY

Losed ofend

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by G. LANE & P. P. SANDFORD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

THE subject of this little volume was extensively known as a woman of deep and ardent piety. Scores of itinerant preachers, who, in the regular discharge of their official duties, visited the place of her residence, will doubtless cherish a pleasing recollection of her while memory lasts; and not a few, it is confidently believed, have already joined her happy spirit in the lofty employments of the heavenly temple. The savour of her name is still as precious ointment to a large circle, who had the pleasure and profit of a long and intimate acquaintance with her.

She was indeed a bright and shining light. Though no one would think of claiming for her an exemption from the common frailties of humanity, yet those who knew her the most intimately, will doubtless concede to her uncommon Christian attainments. She not only professed, but practically exemplified, the great blessing of "perfect love." Her all was laid on God's altar at an early day, nor did she ever afterward think of resuming the gift. During the whole course of her pilgrimage, after she became a disciple of the Saviour, she continued to walk by the same rule, and to mind the same