The Church, God's appointed guardian of the poor, or, The poor man's advocate
By: by the Rev. Herbert Smith, B.A., curate of Stratton, and chaplain to the new Forest Union Workhouse, Hants
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Poor; Poor laws; Almshouses; Working class; Labor movement; Labor; New Forest Union Workhouse
Other titles: Poor man's advocate
Notes: Collection, re-issued with a special title page, of 14 separately published pamphlets, eight of which were issued together under the title: The poor man's advocate, in 1839.

Reproduction of the original from the Congregational Library & Archives.
Table of contents: title: A letter to the people of England in behalf of the deserving poor; title: A second letter to the people of England ...; title: A letter to the bishops and parochial clergy in behalf of the deserving poor; title: A second letter to the bishops and parochial clergy ...; title: A letter to the labouring classes in their own behalf; title: A second letter to the labouring classes ...; title: A letter to the Poor Law Commissioners in behalf of the deserving poor; title: Letters to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham ... and the Rev. Thomas Chalmers ... on the poor law question; title: A letter defending the new poor law, in reply to a letter to the Rev. Herbert Smith, by a layman; title: Correspondence with the Poor Law Commissioners on the principle and working of the new poor law; title: Part II. Correspondence with the Poor Law Commissioners ...; title: An account of a union chaplaincy; title: An account of the situation and treatment of the women with illegitimate children in the New Forest Union Workhouse; title: An account (continued) of the situation and treatment of the women with illegitimate children in the New Forest Union Workhouse.