THE RECTORY 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, By angel trumps in heaven their praise is blown, BOSTON: AND COMPANY. 1860. X J. E. TILTON -Go Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by J. E. TILTON AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press, Cambridge: THE RECTORY OF MORELAND. CHAPTER I. "Thou sendest thousand blessings from on high, The tender heart, the careful hand, the eye congregation of St. James's Church, in the village of Moreland, was startled, one bright Christmas morning. It was such a day as we would wish Christmas always to be. The clear, cold air gave a glow of health to every moving thing. Each tree, shrub, and spire of grass bristled with a silvery frost-work. A few hours' rain the previous night, upon the new-fallen snow, had rendered the travelling smooth and slippery, and the peal |