CHARITY.

Thus, in obedience to what Heaven decrees,
Knowledge shall fail, and prophecy shall cease;
But lasting Charity's more ample sway,
Nor bound by time, nor subject to decay,
In happy triumph shall for ever live,

CHARITY,

CHARITY-Duties of.

He who receives a good turn, should never forget it; he who does one, should never remember it. Charron.

receive.

Prior.

True charity, a plant divinely nursed,
Fed by the love from which it rose at first,
Thrives against hope, and in the rudest scene,
Storms but enliven its unfading green;
Exub'rant is the shadow it supplies,

Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies.
Cowper.
Gently to hear, kindly to judge. Shakspeare.

CHARITY-Benevolence of.

Give to him that asketh thee; and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. St. Matthew.

The secret that does make a flower a flower
So frames it that to bloom is to be sweet,
And to receive to give.

No soil so sterile, and no living lot

So poor, but it hath somewhat still to spare
In bounteous odours. Charitable they
Who, be their having more or less, so have
That less is more than need, and more is less
Than the great heart's goodwill. Dobell.
CHARITY-Binding on all.

Charity is a universal duty, which it is in every man's power sometimes to practise; since every degree of assistance given to another, upon proper motives, is an act of charity; and there is scarcely any man in such a state of imbecility, as that he may not, on some occasions, benefit his neighbour. He that cannot relieve the poor, may instruct the ignorant; and he that cannot attend the sick, may reclaim the vicious. He that can give little assistance himself, may yet perform the duty of charity, by inflaming the ardour of others, and recommending the petitions which he cannot grant, to those who have more to bestow. The widow that shall give her mite to the treasury, the poor man who shall bring to the thirsty a cup of cold water, shall not lose their reward. Johnson.

It is proper that alms should come out of a little purse, as well as out of a great sack; but surely where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy; it is a tribute imposed by Heaven upon us, and he is not a good subject who refuses to pay it. Feltham.

The charities that soothe and heat and bless, Lie scattered at the feet of men like flowers. Wordsworth.

CHARITY-Exercise of.

When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks of unkindness, which may have escaped in our intercourse with them! How careful should such thoughts render us in the fulfilment of those offices of affection which may yet be in our power to perform; for who can tell how soon the moment may arrive when repentance cannot be followed by reparation? Bishop Heber.

CHARITY-Misapplied.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame. Southey.

CHARITY-Objects of.

Nothing seems much clearer than the natural direction of charity. Would we all but relieve, according to the measure of our means, those objects immediately within the range of our personal knowledge, how much of the worst evil of poverty might be alleviated! Very poor people, who are known to us to have been honest, decent, and industrious, when industry was in their power, have a claim on us, founded on our knowledge, and on vicinity and neighbourhood, which have in themselves something sacred and endearing to every good heart. One cannot, surely, always pass by in his walks for health, restoration, or delight, the lone wayside beggar, without occasionally giving him an alms. Old, care-worn, pale, drooping, and emaciated creatures, who pass as by without looking beseechingly at us, or even lifting up their eyes from the ground, cannot often be met with, without exciting an interest in us for their silent and unobtrusive sufferings or privations. A hovel, here and there, round and about our own comfortable

dwelling, attracts our eyes by some peculiar appearance of penury, and we look in, now and then, upon its inmates, cheering their cold gloom with some small benefaction. These are duties all men owe to distress; they are easily discharged; and even such tender mercies as these are twice blessed.

Chalmers.

Let your charity begin at home, but do not let it stop there. Do good to your family and connections, and if you please, to your party; but after this look abroad. Look at the universal church, and, forgetting its divisions, be a catholic Christian. Look at your country, and be a patriot; look at the nations of the earth, and be a philanthropist. Henry Martyn.

CHARITY-Posthumous.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing. Colton.

Defer not charities till death. He who does so is rather liberal of another man's substance than his own. Stretch.

CHARITY-Semblance of.

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity. Hutton.

CHARITY-produces Thankfulness.

God is pleased with no music below so much as in the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows, of supported orphans, of rejoicing, and comforted, and thankful persons. This part of our communication does the work of God and of our neighbours, and bears us to heaven in streams made by the overflowing of our brother's comfort. Jeremy Taylor.

CHARITY-True.

That charity alone endures which flows from a sense of duty and a hope in God. This is the charity that treads in secret those paths of misery from which all but the lowest of human wretches have fled: this is that charity which no labour can weary, no ingratitude detach, no horror disgust; that toils, that pardons, that suffers; that is seen by no man and honoured by no man; but, like the great laws of nature, does the work of God in silence, and looks to a future and better world for its reward. Sydney Smith.

CHARITY-the Chiefest Virtue.
Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
Chrysostom.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. CHARITY-Want of.

St. Paul.

A woman who wants a charitable heart, wants a pure mind. Haliburton.

CHARITY-Warmth of.

Charity resembleth fire, which inflameth all things it toucheth. Erasmus.

CHARITY-in Word only.

When thy brother has lost all that he ever under the utmost extremities of poverty and had and lies languishing, and even gasping distress, dost thou think to lick him whole again only with thy tongue? South.

CHASTITY-Admiration of.
Thou, my love, art sweeter far than balmy
Incense in the purple smoke. Pure and
Unspotted as the cleanly ermine, ere
The hunter sullies her with his pursuit.

CHASTITY-Advantages of.

Davenant.

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and

She's chaste as the fanned snow
Twice bolted o'er by the black northern blasts.
Lee.

CHASTITY-Sanctity of.

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacquey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
And in clear dream, and solemn vision,
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear;
Till oft converse with heavenly visitants,
Begin to cast and teem on the outward shape,
The unpolluted temple of the mind,
And turn it by degrees to the soul's essence,
Till all be made immortal.
Milton.

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch,
Is God's fair bride; and maidens' souls are
such.
Decker,

CHASTITY-Virtues of.

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex, than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or, that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. Addison.

CHEATING-Guards against.

For the dull world most homage pay to those
Who on their understanding most impose.
First man creates, and then he fears th' elf;
Thus others cheat him not, but he himself,
He hates realities, and hugs the cheat.
And still the only pleasure's the deceit.
So meteors flatter with a dazzling dye,
Which no existence has but in the eye.

No men on earth can cheer like Englishmen. who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downward. Dickens. CHEERFULNESS-Advantages of

Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time-he will do it better-he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous -a spirit all sunshine-graceful from very gladness-beautiful because bright. Carlyle.

A sad tires in a mile.
A merry heart goes all the day,

Shakspeare.

CHEERFULNESS-Enjoyment of.

Cheerfulness is always to be supported if a man is out of pain, but mirth to a prudent man should always be accidental. It should naturally arise out of the occasion, and the occasion seldom be laid for it; for those tempers who want mirth to be pleased, are like the constitutions which flag without the use of brandy. Therefore I say, let your precept be. "Be easy." That mind is dissolute and ungoverned, which must be hurried out of itself by loud laughter or sensual pleasure, or else be wholly inactive. Steele.

CHEERFULNESS—a Life-Inspiration. Be cheerful, no matter what reverse obstruct your pathway, or what plagues follow in your trail to annoy you. Ask yourself what is to be gained by looking or feeling sad when troubles throng around you, or how your condition is to be alleviated by abandoning yourself to despondency? If you are a young man, nature designed you "to be of good cheer;" and should you find your road to fortune, fame, or respectability, or any other boon to

which your young heart aspires, a little thorny, consider it all for the best, and that these impediments are only thrown in your way to induce greater efforts and more patient endurance on your part. Far better spend a whole life in diligent, aye, cheerful and unremitting toil, though you never attain the pinnacle of your ambitious desires, than to turn back at the first appearance of misfortune, and allow despair to unnerve your energies, or sour your naturally sweet and cheerful disposition. If you are of the softer, fairer portion of humanity, be cheerful, though we know full well that most afflictions are sweet to you when compared with disappointment and neglect; yet let hope banish despair and illforebodings. Be cheerful; do not brood over fond hopes unrealised, until a chain, link after link, is fastened on each thought, and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the travelling monument of despair and melancholy. Helps.

CHEERFULNESS-Qualities of.

Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. Haliburton. CHEERFULNESS-a Sign of Wisdom. The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. Montaigne.

CHEERFULNESS-in a Wife.

A cheerful temper-not occasionally, but habitually cheerful - is a quality which no wise man would be willing to dispense with in choosing a wife. It is like a good fire in winter, diffusive and genial in its influence, and always approached with a confidence that it will comfort and do good. Attention to health is one great means of maintaining this excellence unimpaired, and attention to household affairs is another. The state of body

which women call bilious is most inimical to babitual cheerfulness; and that which girls call having nothing to do, but which I should call idleness, is equally so. I have always strongly recommended exercise as the first rule for preserving health; but there is an exercise in domestic usefulness which, without superseding that in the open air, is highly beneficial to the health of both mind and body, inasmuch as it adds to other benefits the hap: piest of all sensations, that of having rendered some assistance or done some good. Let me entreat my young readers, if they feel a tendency to causeless melancholy, if they are afflicted with cold feet and headache, but above all, with impatience and irritability, so that they can scarcely make a pleasant reply

when spoken to,-let me entreat them to make a trial of the system I am recommending

not simply to run into the kitchen and trifle with the servants, but to set about doing something that will add to the general comfort of the family, and that will, at the same time, relieve some member of the family of a portion of daily toil. I fear it is a very unromantic conclusion to come to, but my firm conviction is, that half the miseries of young women, and half their ill tempers might be avoided by habits of domestic activity. Mrs. Ellis. CHESS-Morals of.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money. Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a great variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence and the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we learn,-1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action; for it is continually occurring to the player, "If I move this piece, what will be the advantage of my new situation? What use can my adversary make of it to annoy me? What other moves can I make to support it, and to defend myself from his attacks?" 2ndly, Circumspection, which surveys the whole chess-board, or scene of action, the relations of the several pieces and situations, the dangers they are respectively exposed to, the several possibilities of their aiding each other, the probabilities that the adversary may take this or that move, and attack this or the used to avoid the stroke or turn its conseother piece, and what different means can be quences against him. 3rdly, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily. This habit is the game. Lastly, we learn by chess the habit best acquired by observing strictly the laws of of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favourable change, and that of persevering in the search of resources.

Franklin.

CHILD-Characteristics of a.
Loving she is, and tractable, though wild;
And innocence hath privilege in her
To dignify arch looks and laughing eyes;
And feats of cunning; and the pretty round
Of trespasses, affected to provoke
Mock chastisement and partnership in play.
And, as a faggot sparkles on the hearth,
Not less if unattended and alone
Than when both young and old sit gathered
round

OHILD.

And take delight in its activity,
Even so this happy creature of herself
Is all-sufficient: solitude to her

Is blithe society, who fills the air
With gladness and involuntary songs.
Light are her sallies as the tripping fawn's,
Forth startled from the fern where she lay
couched ;

Unthought of, unexpected as the stir

Of the soft breeze ruffling the meadow flowers;
Or from before it chasing wantonly
The many-coloured images impressed
Upon the bosom of a placid lake. Wordsworth.

CHILD-Description of a.

O thou bright thing, fresh from the hand of
God,

The motions of thy dancing limbs are sway'd
By the unceasing music of thy being!
Nearer I seem to God when looking on thee.
'Tis ages since he made his youngest star,
His hand was on thee as 'twere yesterday.
Thou later revelation! Silver stream,
Breaking with laughter from the lake divine,
Whence all things flow! O bright and singing
babe,

What wilt thou be hereafter!

CHILD-an inestimable Loan.

Smith.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan;-take all heed thereof, in all carefulness employ it :—with high recompense, or else, with heavy penalty will it one day be required back. Carlyle.

CHILD-the Neglected.

The child, in her grief and neglect, was so gentle, so quiet, and uncomplaining, was possessed of so much affection, that no one seemed to care to have, and so much sorrowful intelligence, that no one seemed to mind or think about the wounding of. Dickens.

Half open, from beneath them the clear blue Laughs out, although in slumber. Byron.

CHILD-Sympathy of a.

A child's eyes! those clear wells of undefiled thought; what on earth can be more beautiful! Full of hope, love, and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of

CHILDHOOD.

the great pleasures of life, as one passes a raro flower, without plucking it or knowing its value. A child cannot understand you, you think speak to it of the holy things of your religion, of your grief for the loss of a friend, of your love for some one you fear will not love in return; it will take, it is true, no measure or soundings of your thought; it will not judge how much you should believe; whether your grief is rational in proportion to your loss whether you are worthy or fit to attract the love which you seek; but its whole soul will incline to yours, and ingraft itself, as it were, on the feeling which is your feeling for the hour. Hon. Mrs. Norton.

CHILD AND FATHER.

Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms,

And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,
To hail his father; while his little form
Flutters as wing'd with joy. Talk not of pain!
The childless cherubs well might envy thee
The pleasures of a parent!
Byron.!
CHILD AND FATHER-Duties of.
There stands before you
The youth and golden top of your existence,
Another life of yours: for, think your morning
Not lost, but given, pass'd from your hand to
his,

The same except in place. Be then to him
As was the former tenant of your age,
When you were in the prologue of your time,
And he lay hid in you unconsciously
Under bis life. And thou, my young master,
Remember there's a kind of God in him;
And, after heaven, the next of thy religion.
Thy second fears of God, thy first of man,
Are his, who was creation's delegate,
And made this world for thee, in making thee.
Beddoes.

CHILDHOOD-Development in.
The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
CHILDHOOD-Discipline in.

Milton.

Young people who have been habitually gratified in all their desires, will not only more indulge in capricious desires, but will infallibly take it more amiss when the feelings or happiness of others require that they should be thwarted, than those who have been practically trained to the habit of subduing and restraining them, and consequently will, in general, sacrifice the happiness of others to their own selfish indulgence. To what else is the selfishness of princes and other great people to be attributed? It is in vain to think of cultivating principles of generosity and beneficence by mere exhortation and