t interest their
opening life, and it passes out everywhere. I know that in India, and
China, and Australia, and Canada--and I might go on with half the
countries in the world--there has been talk in many a distant home of
what has happened here. It may very well be that at this moment your
names are on many lips as letters of English news have come in lately
from England, and your welcome of us will travel out to the ends of the
earth, so great is the power of "a city set upon a hill." And when you
pray that we may be Christian gentlemen in the life that is coming, I say
it lies a great deal in your own hands. Help us by so smoothing our path
in all ways so that your honour may be our honour and your work our work,
and that as we are grateful to you to-night so the world outside may be
grateful to you also for work hereafter, and that none shall go out of
Uppingham School and shall not carry wherever he goes a thankful memory
of Uppingham town, and that whenever the name of Uppingham is heard in
any part of the world it shall be that of an honoured place, with no
divided interest, but one place working wisely, so that the world may be
grateful for good work done, as we to-night are grateful for the welcome
given, grateful for the lightening of our burdens, grateful for the
possibility of good work in the future, most grateful for the happy homes
you have given us in welcoming us home so fervently. I thank you most
heartily in the name of the school and the masters and myself for this
address, which I trust will for ever remain not the least honoured relic
of this school."

The Headmaster sat down again amid much cheering from the audience of
townspeople, to which the small party of boys present found voice to make
no ineffective answer in three salutes 'for Uppingham town.'

* * * * *

CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

Footnotes:

{12} "Prom. Vinct.," 904.

{19} _The Times_, Friday, April 14th, 1876.

{46} "Fifty Years of my Life," Albemarle, p. 308.

{66} Believers in augury are too seldom confronted with the negative
instance. May we then invite their attention to the following? The
address was published in a paragraph of _The Times_, but the words "under
the same leadership" were omitted. Nevertheless, to the discredit of
omination, under the same leadership the school did return.

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