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ECTORY OF MORELAND:

OR,

MY DUTY.

Pupil. What shall I do to be forever known?

Tutor. Thy duty ever.

Pupil. This did full many who yet sleep unknown.

Tutor. O, never, never!

Think'st thou perchance that they remain unknown,
Whom thou know'st not?

By angel trumps in heaven their praise is blown,
Divine their lot.

BOSTON:

J. E. TILTON AND COMPANY.

1860.

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according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

J. E. TILTON AND COMPANY,

fice of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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ECTORY OF MORELAND.

CHAPTER I.

"Thou sendest thousand blessings from on high,
Who dost Thy servant through deep waters lead;
The tender heart, the careful hand, the eye

That watches all my need."

WILLIAMS.

HE PRAYERS of

congregation are desired

for a sick person." By "his announcement, the gregation of St. James's Church, in the village of

›reland, was such a day as we would wish Christmas always to

was startled, one bright Christmas morning.

The clear, cold air gave a glow of health to every

ving thing.
stled with a silvery frost-work.

Each tree, shrub, and spire of grass

A few hours' rain

previous night, upon the new-fallen snow,

red

had ren

the travelling smooth and slippery, and the peal

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