CHARITY.

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, I drooping, and emaciated creatures, who pass us 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 80 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.

CHASTITY.

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.

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.

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 cal culation 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.

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

CHEERFULNESS.

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.

CHEERFULNESS-Qualities of.

Helps.

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

I have always

which women call bilious is most inimical to habitual cheerfulness; and that which girls call having nothing to do, but which I should call idleness, is equally so. strongly recommended exercise as the first rule for preserving health; but there is an exercise in domestic usefulness which, with out 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 happiest 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 affficted with cold feet and headache, but above all, with impatience and irritability, so that they can scarcely make a pleasant reply

CHILD.

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 other piece, and what different means can be used to avoid the stroke or turn its conse

quences against him. 3rdly, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily. This habit is best acquired by observing strictly the laws of the game. Lastly, we learn by chess the habit 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

CHILD.

CHILDHOOD.

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,

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

couched;

Unthought of, unexpected as the stir

sure or soundings of your thought; it will not judge how much you should believe; whether

Or from before it chasing wantonly

The many-coloured images impressed
Upon the bosom of a placid lake. Wordsworth.

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

CHILD-A Sleeping.

But now, sleep on! His cheeks are reddening into deeper smiles, And shining lids are trembling o'er his long Lashes, dark as the cypress which waves o'er

them. 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

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.

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

Beddoes.

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