Revisiting The Earth, by James L. Hill, D.D

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Author

Hill, James Langdon, 1848-1931

Title

Revisiting the Earth

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Produced by Roberta Staehlin, David Garcia, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Nostalgia

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Text

eBook-No.

36697

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36697

Release Date

July 11, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.REVISITING THE EARTH
2. 2.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
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.REVISITING THE EARTH
6. 6.CHAPTER I — REVISITING THE EARTH — To Open Books that are Sealed — Let Me Drop a Hint Here Like a Seed — Pausing for a Fore-taste — Waymarks of the Journey — The Mind's Re-invigoration — The Re-creation of the World — Blessing in the Guise of an Excursion
7. 7.CHAPTER II — THE PICTURE LAND OF THE HEART — The Vine Must Have the Wall — " The Man Returned who Left these Haunts a Boy " — "I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN" — The Gate to Life — Footprints on the Sands of Time — Things Sweet to Remember — THE LITTLE SANCTUARY
8. 8.CHAPTER III — THE DEAREST SPOT ON EARTH TO ME — The Glory of Life in its First Spring — The Rule of the Shekel — The Last Wish of Ambitious Minds — Strikes a Chord Unconsciously — Old Home Looks Young Again — The Odor of Apple Blossoms
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — THE LAND OF USED-TO-BE — Dolling Up — Fitted for a Day Sure to Come — Flights of Oratory — Choosing the Front Subject — Educating Themselves — A New Impetus — The Onward Upward Course
10. 10.CHAPTER V — SEEN THROUGH THE LONG VISTA OF DEPARTED YEARS — What is Your Problem — On the Road to Learning — The By-product of Development — Best When Most Catching — The Love of Conquest — The Impulse From Incentive and Reward — The Fascination of Matching Abilities and Efforts — The Tug of War
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — WHERE WE PLAYED MUMBLE-THE-PEG — Developing a Real and Fixed Deformity — An Increased Reverence for the Human Organization — The Open-door Policy — Our Knives Confiscated by Teachers — Happy Hours by Living Streams — Healing in the Pool — And That Reminds Me — One of Life's Schools — Loafing and Laboring — Foibles of the Famous
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — THE SCENE OF THE SCHOOL FIGHTS — Precipitating a Fracas — Sectional and Factional Fights — Suffering From Personal Collision — Birch, Beech, and Willow Were the Branches Taken — America's Unhappy Hour — Putting on the Character with the Coats of Gentlemen — New Facings to Old Opinions — Fair to Illustrate by the Best Examples
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — TOUCHING A LONG SLUMBERING CHORD — The Past at Least is Secure — Where a Critical Struggle was Beginning — Rising Young Men — Tendency to Exaggerate Rather than to Daguerreotype — The Practice Has Boomerang Implications — Things with a Difference — The Changing World — PARADISE LOST—BEFORE THE SALEM FIRE] — PARADISE REGAINED—AFTER THE CONFLAGRATION — The Unexpected Happens — The Past Looks Like a Dream — Achilles Pondered in His Tent
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — WHAT HAD BECOME OF THE OLD ECCENTRICITIES — Forgetting all Except One Truth — Personalities of Rarest Types — Poet of the One-Hoss Shay Said, "No Extra Charge" — Links with the Past — Boys Did Not Know What to Make of Them — Heroes and Fine Old Gentlemen — Sounds a Characteristic Note — Some Incongruities of Character
15. 15.CHAPTER X — TO SEE AND FEEL THE PAST — People Looked, People Wondered, People Praised — Making Hay While the Sun Shines — The Death of the Mortgage — A Heaven-sent Device — They Were a Family Again — How Much Like Folks — Absence of the Big Stick — An Outlaw in the Herd — Testing Mighty Principles by Small Experiments — The Home of the Angels — New Forms of Matter, New Crystallizations — A Lesson that Will Last a Lifetime
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — A RETURN TO ONE'S HOLY LAND — Casting a Reflection Means Nothing Bad — The Glory of Supremacy — Silent Sentinels of the Silent Years — Sunny Silent Homes — Heart Histories Laid Open — A Legacy of Pleasant Memories — The World Teaches an Attentive Mind — Where New Chapters Begin — Nothing Insignificant, Nothing — Halcyon Days — There's a Reason
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — LOOKING UP SONS OF WELL-REMEMBERED MOTHERS — Consecrated Their Talents to Elevation of Humanity — A Reproof to Defamers of Human Nature — One an Illustration of Many — The Lure of the Store — He Lived With His Mother's Spirit — THE MEETING PLACE OF "THE SENATE" — Astonished as if He Had Seen a Vision — Retrospect is Cheering — No Love Like Mother Love — " Turning the Bend in the Road " — Presence of Our Celestial Helpers — Out of Evil Cometh Good — Pushed by Unseen Hands
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — THINGS THAT HAD PASSED AWAY "STILL LIVE" — Books Written by Ourselves — A Hard Road to Travel — Teaching and Learning — Transported Back to the Past — A Boy a "Feeble Beginning of a Mighty End" — Human Nature Unchanged — The Coronation of Labor — Not Criticism, Just Description — To Go to the Top, First Go to the Bottom — The Renewal of the Face of the World — Cables Binding to Safe Moorings — A Fashion that is Wearing Away — Time Can Obliterate as Well as Create — A Table of Priorities — A SEAT OF LEARNING FULL OF MEMORIES — Tremendous Trifles — Critical Periods
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — WHERE A VISITANT SEES MORE THAN A RESIDENT — A Sort of Homesickness — Recollections of Other Years — Through Tears of Memory — Unterrified Visitors — When the World was Young — You Can't Paint the Sunrise — Another Relic of the Past — " A Flood of Thoughts Comes O'er Me " — THE GROUNDS OF THE BELOVED COLLEGE — Stepping Into the Past — The College Empire — Just How it Feels — Just Plain Friends — Rekindled Fires — Fortune Keeps Her Own Secrets — Some Social Features — " Fixing Up " — He Had no Pet Virtue — A Disposition to Build Tabernacles
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — WHERE I MET MYSELF — The Old and New — Words Pale and Inadequate — " Far Away and Long Ago " — Stepping Stones in Recent History — THE GREATEST PLEASURE GIVEN TO MAN — Worthy of Unstinted Praise — Time Tries All Things — The World a Wheel — Pigs is Pigs
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — RETRACING THE OLD PATHS — The Land We Love — Lines Cast in Pleasant Places — Andover is Different — Where Every Prospect Pleases — A World of Tender Memories — Andover's Crowning Glory — A Man of Noble Parts — A Soul Melted Into a Voice
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — GOING BACK TO MY PADAN-ARAM — First View of Intimate Friends — Cupid's Marksmanship — Remember Lot's Wife — The Supply is Not Exhausted — Heart Histories — Women Not Gone to the Dogs — Shall the Union Survive — Lights in Their Dwellings
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — A NEW KNOCK AT AN OLD DOOR — Lost Facts of Local History — Publicity is Light — Cupid All Smiling — The Royal Families — A Social Revolution — The Glory of the Commonplace — The Missing Link — Money in all Pockets — The Wine of Sweet Remembrance — Ancientness is Falling Off — " Stray Historical Facts Corralled " — The By-products of Development

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