This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... A YEAR'S REVEALING I. The Meetings The revival meetings were held at the best time of the year--in the first week of June, just after the Minister had come back from his annual ten-days' holiday. Some of the older folk looked forward for months to the Sabbaths that immediately succeeded Mr. Garment's home-coming; there was a light in his cool gray eyes, and the touch of a heart-lift in his voice that seemed to fill the promise of the spring with new sweetness. The Minister spent his holiday in the little Invernessshire village where he was born, and chiefly in the company of an elder, bed-ridden sister. Nobody in the Glen had ever seen Miss Elspeth, although her name was reverently familiar at nearly every ingle-side. But everybody knew that, after a visit to his invalid sister, Mr. Carment saw the things invisible to common eyes with new clearness. He did not talk about the effect which his yearly home-going wrought upon his spirit; that was a thing too holy and deep for speech--an experience to be locked up in the innermost room of his soul among other unspeakable mysteries. If it had not been for the help which Janet McCormick gave them, the Glen folk might never have been able to account for the annual freshening of springs in the Minister's life--a freshening which the most dullsighted among them could scarcely fail to notice. There were one or two--uncertain of eye in earthly light, but strong and clear in their vision of the Land that has no need of sun in the day or moon by night--who dated their year by the sermons Mr. Carment preached after his return from the North; and Elsie McIntosh, who had been kept to the house all through the winter, invariably made her first appearance at the Kirk on the Sabbath after the Minister had...