CRESSINGHAM RECTORY.

FAMILY CONVERSATIONS

ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

2.

BY

ELIZABETH ANNE HENDRY.

The Mind, dispatched upon her busy toil,
Should range where Providence has blessed the soil
Visiting every flower with labour meet,

And gathering all her treasures sweet by sweet,
She should imbue the tongue with what she sips,
And shed the balmy blessing on the lips.

COWPER.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

1836.

104.

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

CRESSINGHAM RECTORY.

CHAPTER I.

A father, whose authority in show

When most severe, and mustering all its force,

Was but the graver countenance of love.

A mother too,

That softer friend.

COWPER.

IN a pleasant village in the county of Sussex, within a few miles of the sea-coast, resided Mr. Carlton, a clergyman, whose life was a bright example of the doctrines of the Gospel he professed to teach. He was zealous and indefatigable in the discharge of his ministerial duties, and a kind and attentive friend to the poor of his parish. He had held a fellowship at Oxford,

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