Children, ay, forsooth,

They bring their own love with them when they come,
But if they come not there is peace and rest;
The pretty lambs! and yet she cries for more:
Why the world's full of them, and so is heaven-
They are not rare.

648

Jean Ingelow: Supper at the Mill

As pure as a pearl,

Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 16.

And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.

649

Children are the keys of Paradise.

They alone are good and wise,

Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

650

CHOICE.

R. H. Stoddard: The Children's Prayer.

God made thee perfect, not immutable;
And good he made thee, but to persevere
He left it in thy pow'r; ordained thy will
By nature free, not over-rul'd by fate
Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Our voluntary service He requires,
Not our necessitated.

651

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 524.

Still to ourselves in every place consigned
Our own felicity we make or find.

652

Follow thou thy choice.

653

CHOLER.

Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 431.

William Cullen Bryant: Alcayde of Molina.

Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
654
Let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about.

655

CHRIST.

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. 656 Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Hail to the King of Bethlehem,

Who weareth in his diadem

The yellow crocus for the gem
Of his authority.

657

Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iii.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

659

Tusser: 500 Pts. Good Hus. Ch. xii.

Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace;

East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease:

Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,
Sing of glory to God and of good will to man!

Hark! joining in chorus

The heavens bend o'er us!

The dark night is ending, and dawn has begun.

660

Whittier: A Christmas Carmen. St. 3.

Again at Christmas did we weave

The holly round the Christmas hearth;

The silent snow possess'd the earth.

661

Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. lxxvii. St. 1.

The dawn of Christ is beaming blessings o'er the new-born

world.

662

H. H. Boyesen: Earl Sigurd's Christmas Eve.

Lo! now is come our joyful'st feast!

Let every man be jolly.

Each room with ivy leaves is drest,

And every post with holly.

Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke,
And Christmas blocks are burning;

Their ovens they with bak't meats choke,
And all their spits are turning.

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,

We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

666

Scott: Marmion. Canto vi. Introduction

No trumpet-blast profaned

The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
No bloody streamlet stained

Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn;
But, o'er the peaceful plain,

The war-horse drew the peasant's loaded wain.

667

William Cullen Bryant: Christmas in 1875. The sun doth shake

Light from his locks, and, all the way

Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

668

Henry Vaughan: Christ's Nativity.

CHURCH - see Cathedral, Clergyman, Religion.
Then might ye see

Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost
And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
Indulgences, dispenses. pardons, bulls,

The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft
Fly to the rearward of the world far off
Into a limbo large and broad, since called
The paradise of fools.

669

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. iii. Line 489.

What makes a church a den of thieves?
A dean and chapter, and white sleeves.
670
Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1285.
Who builds a church to God, and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name.
671
Church ladders are not always mounted best
By learned clerks and latinists professed.

672

Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 285.

Cowper: Tirocinium. Line 381.

"What is a church?" Let truth and reason speak;
They would reply "The faithful pure and meek,
From Christian folds, the one selected race,
Of all professions, and in every place."

Crabbe: The Borough. Letter ii.

673 What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. 674 Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. 675

Crabbe: The Borough. Letter ii.

Defoe: True Born Englishman. Line 1

CHURCHYARD- see Grave.

The solitary, silent, solemn scene,

Where Cæsars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,
Blended in dust together; where the slave
Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud
Resigns his power; the miser drops his hoard;
Where human folly sleeps.

676

CHURLISHNESS.

Dyer: Ruins of Rome. Line 540

My master is of churlish disposition,
And little recks to find the way to heaven,
By doing deeds of hospitality.

677

CIRCUMSTANCES.

And

Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc 4

grasps the skirts of happy chance,

And breasts the blows of circumstance.

678 CITIZEN.

Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. lxiii. St. 2.

Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth;
His word would pass for more than he was worth.
One solid dish his week-day meal affords,
And added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.

679

CLEANLINESS.

Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 343.

E'en from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.

680

Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 1269.

CLERGYMAN -see Church, Preaching.

Then shall they seek t' avail themselves of names,
Places, and titles, and with these to join
Secular power, though feigning still to act
By spiritual, to themselves appropriating
The Spirit of God, promised alike and given
To all believers.
681

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 516.

Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild,
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
A man he was to all the country dear,

And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
682

In his duty prompt at every call,

Goldsmith: Des. Village. Line 137

Goldsmith: Des. Village. Line 165

He watch'd, and wept, and felt, and pray'd for all.

683

At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorn'd the venerable place;
Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
684

Goldsmith: Des. Village Line 177

Your Lordship and your Grace, what school can teach
A rhetoric equal to those parts of speech?
What need of Homer's verse, or Tully's prose,
Sweet interjections! if he learn but those?
Let rev'rend churls his ignorance rebuke,
Who starve upon a dog's ear'd Pentateuch,
The Parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
685

Cowper: Tirocinium. Line 397

He that negotiates between God and man,
As God's ambassador, the grand concerns
Of judgment and of mercy, should beware
Of lightness in his speech.

686

Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 463.

I venerate the man, whose heart is warm,

Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life
Coincident, exhibit lucid proof

That he is honest in the sacred cause.

687

Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 372.

In man or woman, but far most in man,
And most of all in man that ministers,
And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
Object of my implacable disgust.

688

Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 414.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. 689

Cowper: On Some Names of Little Note.

Whate'er

I may have been, or am, doth rest between

Heaven and myself. I shall not choose a mortal
To be my mediator.

690

Byron: Manfred. Act ili. Sc. 1.

Byron: Corsair. Canto 11. St. 3.

Around his form his loose long robe was thrown,
And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.

691

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.

And that which was prov'd true before,

692

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i Line 1277

Prove false again? Two hundred more.