Then, when I re-
turned and went into my new parish, I could use
some of my salary every month toward repaying
the loan. These monthly payments, he explained,
could be as small as I wished, but each month the
interest on the amount I paid would cease. I glad-
ly took his advice and borrowed seven hundred
dollars. After I returned from Europe I repaid the
loan in monthly instalments, and eventually got my
bonds, which I still own. They will mature in 1916.
I have had one hundred and five dollars a year from
them, in interest, ever since I received them in 1878
--more than twice as much interest as their face
value--and every time I have gone abroad I have
used this interest toward paying my passage. Thus
my friend has had a share in each of the many visits
I have made to Europe, and in all of them her
memory has been vividly with me.
With my return from Europe my real career as
a minister began. The year in the pulpit at Hing-
ham had been merely tentative, and though I had
succeeded in building up the church membership to
four times what it had been when I took charge, I
was not reappointed. I had paid off a small church
debt, and had had the building repaired, painted, and
carpeted. Now that it was out of its difficulties it
offered some advantages to the occupant of its pul-
pit, and of these my successor, a man, received the
benefit. I, however, had small ground for com-
plaint, for I was at once offered and accepted the
pastorate of a church at East Dennis, Cape Cod.
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