Here are two more short excerpts from my current reading – Selina. Countess of Huntingdon by Faith Cook. (See this post). These two are, interestingly, on a related topic. “An anecdote is told of the Countess’s attempts to influence those who worked for her. On one occasion, she spoke with a man repairing a wall.…

I have long maintained that, next to the Scriptures, there are few books that encourage and inspire more than the biographies of believers. I haven’t had much chance to read biographies for a while but am currently delighting in Faith Cook’s superb account of the life of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791). I will, in…