CHARITY.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

1.

ADDISON--The Guardian. No. 166. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue.

r.

ADDISON-The Guardian. No. 166.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.

8. BACON-Essay. On Goodness.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. t. BURKE Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790.

Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood,
He tried the luxury of doing good.

2. CRABBE-Tales of the Hall. Bk. III. GOLDSMITH-The Traveller. Line 22. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side. GOLDSMITH -The Deserted Village. Line 163.

2'.

Axe. Pt. 4. St. 5.

KEBLE-The Christian Year. Sunday After Ascension. St. 6.

LINCOLN - Second Inaugural Address.

O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn

When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!

That Pentecost when utterance clear

To all men shall be given,

When all can say My Brother here,
And hear My Son in heaven!

e.

LOWELL--Godminster Chimes.

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in its own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and, identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains. f. HORACE MANN--Lectures on Education. Lecture IV.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

HORACE MANN-Lectures on Education.
Lecture VI.

g.

Broad are these streams my steed obeys,
Plunges, and bears me through the tide.
Wide are these woods- I thread the maze
Of giant stems, nor ask a guide.

I hunt till day's last glimmer dies
O'er woody vale and grassy height;
And kind the voice, and glad the eyes
That welcome my return at night.

8. BRYANT The Hunter of the Prairies.

Soon as Aurora drives away the night,
And edges eastern clouds with rosy light,
The healthy huntsman, with the cheerful
horn,

Summons the dogs, and greets the dappled

morn.

t. GAY- Rural Sports. Canto II. Line 93.

Love's torments made me seek the chace;
Rifle in hand, I roam'd apace.
Down from the tree, with hollow scoff,
The raven cried: "head off! head off!"

u. HEINE Book of Songs. Youthful Sorrows. No. 8.

Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield.
POPE -Essay on Man. Ep. I. Line 9.

v.

Come, shall we go and kill us venison? As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 1.

w.

CHASTITY.

So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand hovered angels lacky here,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
MILTON-Comus. Line 453.

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'Tis Chastity,' my brother, Chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph, with arrows keen,

May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths,

Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of Chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

a. MILTON-Comus. Line 420.

As chaste as unsunn'd snow,
b. Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 5.

Chaste as the icicle,

That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple.

C. Coriolanus. Act V. Sc. 3. My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from my ancestors. d. All's Well That Ends Well. Act IV.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

k. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 4.

Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes. 1. GOLDSMITH-The Traveller. Line 185.

And so the Word had breath, and wrought
With human hands the creed of creeds
In lovliness of perfect dee.is,
More strong than all poetic thought;
Which he may read that binds the sheaf,
Or builds the house or digs the grave,
And those wild eyes that watch the waves
In roarings round the coral reef.

t. TENNYSON In Memoriam. Pt. XXXVI. His love at once, and dread instruct our thought;

As man he suffer'd and as God he taught. u. WALLER Of Divine Love. Line 41.