REVISITING THE EARTH

BY JAMES L. HILL, D.D.

Author of "The Immortal Seven," "The Scholar's Larger Life," "The Worst Boys in Town," "Favorites of History," "The Century's Capstone," "Memory Comforting Sorrow," "A Crowning Achievement," etc.

RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
BOSTON

Copyright, 1920, by Richard G. Badger

All Rights Reserved

Made in the United States of America

The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

THE LITTLE SEMINARY OF LETTERS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Revisiting the Earth
CHAPTER II. The Picture Land of the Heart
CHAPTER III. The Dearest Spot on Earth to Me
CHAPTER IV. The Land of Used-to-be
CHAPTER V. Seen Through the Long Vista of Departed Years
CHAPTER VI. Where we Played Mumble-the-Peg
CHAPTER VII. The Scene of the School Fights
CHAPTER VIII. Touching a Long Slumbering Chord
CHAPTER IX. What Had Become of the Old Eccentricities
CHAPTER X. To See and Feel the Past
CHAPTER XI. A Return to One's Holy Land
CHAPTER XII. Looking up the Sons of Well-Remembered Mothers
CHAPTER XIII. Things that had Passed Away "Still Live"
CHAPTER XIV. Where a Visitant Sees More than a Resident
CHAPTER XV. Where I Met Myself
CHAPTER XVI. Retracing the Old Paths
CHAPTER XVII. Going Back to my Padan-Aram
CHAPTER XVIII. A New Knock at an Old Door

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Little Seminary of Letters

"I Remember, I Remember the House Where I Was Born"

The Little Sanctuary

Paradise Lost—Before the Salem Fire

Paradise Regained—After the Conflagration

The Meeting of "The Senate"

A Seat of Learning Full of Memories

The Grounds of the Beloved College

The Greatest Pleasure Given To Man

REVISITING THE EARTH

CHAPTER I

REVISITING THE EARTH

To revisit the earth after one's departure from it has always been a common wish among men. The frequency with which this desire is expressed in biographies and in literature, keeps the project alive, and works it to the front in one's plans. Benjamin Franklin presents the thought in such attractive dress that we incline to adopt it for a programme. There is one item in his proposition that calls for argument at the bar of public opinion. It touches the length of the interval that should be suffered to