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An angel's joy to see each wanderer Returning to that Father's House, whose gates

He deemed were closed on him. To him the sight

Of wood and sky and mountain minister'd Pure and perpetual gladness. Yet, through all

Her voices manifold, he only heard
The voice of God: on all her fair domain,
In radiant signature and imaginary,
He saw the golden letters of His Name-
The Name of Love. The common earth
to him

Was holy ground, once trodden by the feet
Of One who stooped in human flesh to die,
A Man, for man's redemption. In his song
Glowed inspiration as of altar-fire;
His foot had stood on Sacred Olivet,
And on his low-bent head the cleansing
dews

Of Jordan had been sprinkled. Nature's

voice

CRAFT.

To him was not all gladness; he had been Within the shrine. His ear had caught

the sound

Of that mysterious sympathy which breathes
Out of Creation's heart to mortal woe,
The undertone in that undying wail
Wherewith the human generations mourn
Beneath the weight of evil. He had heard
The deepest notes which from the seven-
fold pipe

Of Pan came to the spiritual ear;
The creature groaning, travailing in pain,
As subject unto change until the day
Of its redemption from the curse of sin.
J. D. BURNS.

COWSLIPS.-An Address to

Bowing adorers of the gale,
Ye cowslips delicately pale,

Upraise your loaded stems:
Unfold your cups of splendour, speak!
Who deck'd you with that ruddy streak,
And gilt your golden gems?

Ye lovely flowers of lowly birth,
Embroiderers of the carpet earth,

That stud the velvet sod;
Open to Spring's refreshing air,
In sweetest smiling bloom declare

Your Maker and your God.-CLARE.
COXCOMB.-The Affectation of a

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the affectation of a fine gentleman. — DR. JOHNSON.

COXCOMB.-Belief Respecting a

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. - LA BRUYÈRE.

CRADLE.-A Mother by a

A babe is a mother's anchor. She cannot swing far from her moorings. And yet a true mother never lives so little in the present as when by the side of the cradle. Her thoughts follow the imagined future of her child. That babe is the boldest of pilots, and guides her fearless thoughts down through scenes of coming years. The old ark never made such voyage as the cradle daily makes!-H. W. BEECHER.

CRADLES.-Men and Things and their

Great ideas, great men, and great events, cannot be measured by the magnitude of their cradles.-GUIZOT.

CRAFT.-A Lawful

There is a lawful craft of coining our money over again, and adding the image and superscription of God to that which is Cæsar's. It is said of the philosopher's

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The boundless extent of creation is so large that it can look at a world, or a galaxy of worlds, in the same way as we compare a flower or insect with the world around us.-KANT.

CREATION-Musical.

All creation is musical, from the harmonious motions of particles of matter up to those of vast assemblages of worlds or nebulæ. This magnificent and, to us, boundless universe, exhibiting concord in all its parts and precision in every movement-must be, of necessity, regulated by one Master-mind, the Infinite and Eternal. -FLAMANK.

CREATION.-The Order of

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Firstly the existence of matter, "without form, and void; " secondly—the light, the glorious symbol of Deity; thirdly-the grass, the herb, and the tree, each after his kind;" fourthly-"every living thing that moveth ;" and, lastly-man, - the noblest of all creatures. Light was necessarily the second act of creation; for without it the plant could not exist. The plant was necessarily the third act; for without it the animal would die. The animal was necessarily the fourth act; for it was indispensable to man. And mandoubly endowed man-was necessarily the last and crowning act; for he, of all created things, was chiefly designed to show forth the glory of God. Hence he was fashioned in the divine image, after the divine likeness.-DR. DAVIES.

CREATION.-The Perpetual Work of
My heart is awed within me, when I think
Of the great miracle that still goes on
In silence round me-the perpetual work
Of Thy creation, finished, yet renewed
For ever.-BRYANT.

CREATION-of the Worlds.

Confusion heard His voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till, at His second bidding, darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung:

Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements-earth, flood, air, fire;

And this ethereal quintessence of heaven Flew upward, spirited with various forms That rolled orbicular, and turned to stars Numberless, as thou see'st, and how they

move :

Each had his place appointed, each his

course;

The rest in circuit walk this universe.

MILTON.

CREATURES.-Dependence amongst all

Such is the dependence amongst all the orders of creatures ;-the inanimate, the sensitive, the rational, the natural, the artificial;-that the apprehension of one of them is a good step towards the understanding of the rest. And this is the highest pitch of human reason-to follow all the links of this chain till all their secrets are open to our minds, and their works advanced or imitated by our hands. This is truly to command the world; to rank all the varieties and degrees of things so orderly, one upon another, that standing on the top of them we may perfectly behold all that are below, and make them all serviceable to man's life. And to this happiness there can be nothing else added, but that we make a second advantage of this rising ground, thereby to look the nearer into heaven, an ambition which, though it was punished in the old world by a universal confusion, when it was managed with impiety and insolence, yet, when it is carried on by that humility and innocence which can never be separated from true knowledge, when it is designed not to brave the Creator of all things, but to admire Him the more, must needs be the utmost perfection of human nature. — SPRAT.

CREATURES.-Instruction from the

To man the voice of Nature spake"Go, from the creatures thy instructions take:

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;

Learn from the beast the physic of the field:

Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to

weave;

CREATURES.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail,

Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind:

Here subterranean works and cities see; There towns aërial on the waving tree; Learn each small people's genius, policies, The ants' republic, and the realm of bees; How those in common all their wealth bestow,

And anarchy without confusion know; And these for ever, though a monarch reign,

Their separate cells and properties maintain."-POPE.

CREATURES.-The Lord of the

God made man the lord of His creatures, not the tyrant.-BP. HALL.

CREDENTIAL.-The Best

Reason our best credential doth appear. BUCKINGHAM.

CREDIBLE. -Things Made

Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer, or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves.-HOOKER.

CREDITOR.-The Privilege of a

A creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor, may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.LAVATER.

CREDULOUS.-The Condition of the

The credulous have, by the long indulgence of their credulity, enfeebled their understandings, and have become actually incapable of perceiving the force of argument at the same time, the fruitless effort which they may make in a single instance to do so, chills and confounds the mind, and dispels those lively feelings of confidence with which they are wont to entertain other convictions. They can believe only by impulse, not by reason.-I. TAYLOR.

CREDULITY-the Error of Weak Minds.

Credulity is the error of sanguine, imaginative, and weak minds, which, in their eagerness to receive and hold whatever dazzles the fancy, or moves the sensibilities, or awakens pleasing emotions of wonder and admiration, believe whatever of this sort may be presented to them, without inquiring upon what evidence it rests, or perhaps rejecting contrary testimony.-I. TAYLOR.

CRITIC.

CREED.-A Poor Selfish

Surely it is a poor creed that will only allow us to trust in God for ourselves-a very selfish creed. I should say that the man who can only trust God for himself is not half a Christian. Either he is so selfish that that satisfies him, or he has such a poor notion of God that he cannot trust Him with what most concerns him.-DR. MACDONALD.

CRICKET.-The

Little inmate, full of mirth,
Chirping on my kitchen hearth,
Whereso'er be thine abode,
Always harbinger of good :
Pay me for thy warm retreat
With a song more soft and sweet,
In return thou shalt receive
Such a strain as I can give.
Neither night nor dawn of day
Puts a period to thy play:
Sing then-and extend thy span
Far beyond the date of man :
Wretched man, whose years are spent
In repining discontent,

Lives not, aged though he be,
Half a span, compared with thee.

CRIME-Avenged.

COWPER.

Crime has often been clad in royal purple, and has often trampled on innocence with impunity; but the purple has mouldered away, the crime remained a crime, and from the blood of persecuted innocence has arisen a triumphant avenger. In vain vice sharpened its murderous axe, and doomed virtue to die in the flames; though trembling cowards burnt incense before the ruthless tyrant, the sinner's pride was soon laid low, and the funeral pile of slandered innocence was changed into a throne of glory!-ZSCHOkke. CRIME has its Degrees.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees; and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.--RACINE. CRIMES.-The Evil Consequences of

The evil consequences of our crimes, long survive their commission, and like the ghosts of the murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactor.-SIR W. SCOTT. CRIMES.-The Parents of

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want sense is the father of them.-LA BRUYERE.

of

CRITIC.-A Definition of the

He is a discoverer and collector of writers' faults. -DEAN SWIFT.

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