Chapter C: Greene

"Our personal interests, by the force of their importunity, exclude all larger sympathies if these are not already matured before the conflict begins. In the press of the world we lose sight of life, if the life is not within us."

Bishop WESTCOTT.

Grumblers

NOVEMBER 25

"There is a sect, unfortunately known to most in this land, under the denomination of Grumblers, whose fundamental maxim is--whatever is, is wrong. Wherever they are found, and they are found almost everywhere, they operate as a social poison; and though they contrive to embitter the enjoyments of everybody about them, they perpetually assume that themselves are the only aggrieved persons, and with such art as to be believed, till thoroughly known. They have often some excellent qualities, and the appearance of many amiable ones; but rank selfishness is their chief characteristic, accompanied by inordinate pride and vanity. They have a habit of laying the consequences of their own sins, whether of omission or of commission, upon others; and, covered with faults, they flatter themselves they 'walk blameless.' Where their selfishness, pride, or vanity are interested, they exhibit signs of boundless zeal, attention, and affection, to which those who are not aware of their motives, are the dupes; but the very moment their predominant feelings are offended, they change from April to December. They have smiles and tears at command for their holiday humour; but in 'the winter of their discontent,' there is no safety from the bitterest blasts. Their grievances are seldom real, or if real, are grossly exaggerated, and are generally attributed to themselves; for, absorbed in their own feelings, they are wonderful losers of opportunities. In conclusion, I think it would be for their advantage, as it certainly would be for that of the rest of the world, if they were made subject to some severe discipline; and I would suggest for the first, second, and third offence, bread and water and the treadmill, for one, two, and three months respectively; for the fourth offence, transportation for seven years to Boothia Felix, or some such climate; and any subsequent delinquency I would make capital, and cause the criminal to be shut up with some offender in equal degree, there to grumble each other to death."

_The Original_, THOMAS WALKER.

Cheerfulness

NOVEMBER 26

"'Tis a Dutch proverb that 'paint costs nothing,' such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer pigment. And so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains."

EMERSON.

"Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."

ADDISON.

"Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence."

BYRON.

"Fortune will call at the smiling gate."

Japanese Proverb.

Humour

NOVEMBER 27

"The sense of humour is the oil of life's engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes before a hearty laugh."

G. S. MERRIAM.

"It was a novel with a purpose, and its purpose was to show that it is only by righteousness that men and nations prevail; also that there is much that is humorous in life as well as much that is holy, and that healing virtue lies in laughter as well as in prayers and tears."

_Isabel Carnaby_, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER.

"I dare not tell you how high I rate humour, which is generally most fruitful in the highest and most solemn human spirits. Dante is full of it, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and almost all the greatest have been pregnant with this glorious power. You will find it even in the Gospel of Christ."

_Tennyson--a Memoir_, by his Son.

Humour

NOVEMBER 28

"Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober."

1 PETER i. 13.

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."

PROV. xvii. 22.

"Gravity ... I mean simply that grave and serious way of looking at life which, while it never repels the true light-heartedness of pure and trustful hearts, welcomes into a manifest sympathy the souls of men who are oppressed and burdened, anxious and full of questions which for the time at least have banished all laughter from their faces.... Gravity has a delicate power of discrimination. It attracts all that it can help, and it repels all that could harm it or be harmed by it. It admits the earnest and simple with a cordial welcome. It shuts out the impertinent and insincere inexorably.

"The gravity of which I speak is not inconsistent with the keenest perception of the ludicrous side of things. It is more than consistent with--it is even necessary to--humour. Humour involves the perception of the true proportions of life.... It has softened the bitterness of controversy a thousand times. You cannot encourage it too much. You cannot grow too familiar with the books of all ages which have in them the truest humour, for the truest humour is the bloom of the highest life. Read George Eliot and Thackeray, and, above all, Shakespeare. They will help you to keep from extravagances without fading into insipidity. They will preserve your gravity while they save you from pompous solemnity."

PHILLIPS BROOKS.

Beauties of Nature

NOVEMBER 29

"There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us."

GEORGE ELIOT.

"That man is blessed who every day is permitted to behold anything so pure and serene as the western sky at sunset, while revolutions vex the world."

THOREAU.

"So then believe that every bird that sings,
And every flower that stars the elastic sod,
And every thought the happy summer brings
To the pure spirit is a word of God."

COLERIDGE.

Sense of the Beautiful

NOVEMBER 30

"No man receives the true culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and I know of no condition in life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is cheapest and the most to hand; and it seems to me to be the most important to those conditions where coarse labour tends to give a grossness to the mind. From the diffusion of the sense of beauty in ancient Greece, and of the taste for music in modern Germany, we learn that the people at large may partake of refined gratifications which have hitherto been thought to be necessarily restricted to a few."

CHANNING.

"Music--there is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough, but music is more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do, it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how; it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed. Music has been called the speech of angels; I will go farther, and call it the speech of God Himself.

"The old Greeks, the wisest of all the heathen, made a point of teaching their children music, because, they said, it taught them not to be self-willed and fanciful, but to see the beauty of order, the usefulness of rule, the divineness of law."

_Good News of God Sermons_, CHARLES KINGSLEY.

The Gospel of Beauty

DECEMBER 1

"Beauty is far too much neglected. It never belongs to criticism; it ought by right to be always bound up with creation. What it is, is hard to define; but, whenever anything in nature or in the thoughts and doings of man awakens a noble desire of seeing more of it; kindles pure love of it; seems to open out before us an infinite of it which allures us into an endless pursuit; stimulates reverence, and makes the heart leap with joy--there is beauty, and with it always is imagination, the shaping power.

"The capacity for seeing beauty with the heart is one of the first necessities for such a life in a living world as I now urge upon you. When you see it, you always see more and more of it. And the more you see it, the more love and reverence you will feel in your heart; and the less you will care to criticise, and the more you will care to create. The world needs it now, and the glory of it, more almost than anything else, for nearly all the world has lost the power of seeing it. The monied men want it; the scientific men want it; the artists themselves have of late betrayed it; the business men want it. The middle-class and the aristocracy are almost destitute of it; the working men abide in conditions in which its outward forms are absent. To give them the power to see all that is lovely in nature, in human thought, in art, and in the noble acts of men--that is a great part of your work, and you should realise it, and shape it day by day."

_The Gospel of Joy_, STOPFORD BROOKE.

Nature

DECEMBER 2

"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal, and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself."

EMERSON.

"Nature is loved by what is best in us."

EMERSON.

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time."

Lord AVEBURY.

Nature

DECEMBER 3

"The unobtrusive influences of earth, sea, and sky do their work. They pass imperceptibly and unsought into the soul."

"... Outdoor sights
Sweep gradual gospels in."

"Bid me work, but may no tie
Keep me from the open sky" (Barnes).

_The Making of Character_, Professor MACCUNN.

"The cheerfulness of heart which springs up in us from the survey of Nature's works, is an admirable preparation for gratitude. The mind has gone a great way towards praise and thanksgiving that is filled with such a secret gladness: a grateful reflection on the Supreme Cause who produces it, sanctifies the soul, and gives it its proper value. Such an habitual disposition of mind consecrates every field and wood, turns an ordinary walk into a morning or evening sacrifice, and will improve those transient gleams of joy, which naturally brighten up and refresh the soul on such occasions, into an inviolable and perpetual state of bliss and happiness."

ADDISON.

Holidays

DECEMBER 4

"There are only two rules for a successful holiday; the first is to earn it, the second is to have just enough holiday to make the prospect of work pleasant. Periods of rest we all need, but labour and not rest is the synonym of life. From these periods of rest we should return with a new appetite for the duties of common life. If we return dissatisfied, enervated, without heart for work, we may be sure our holiday has been a failure. If we return with the feeling that it is good to plunge into the mid-stream of life again, we may know by this sign that we are morally braced and strengthened by our exodus. The wise man will never allow his holiday to be a time of mere idleness. He will turn again to the books that interest him, he will touch the fringe of some science for which his holiday gives him opportunity, or he will plunge into physical recreation, and shake off the evil humours of the body in active exercise. The failure of holidays lies very much in the fact that nothing of this sort is attempted. The holiday is simply a series of aimless days, and the natural result is _ennui_. The supreme purpose of a holiday should be to regain possession of ourselves. He who does this comes back from his holiday as from a sanctuary."

W. J. DAWSON.

Books

DECEMBER 5

"But what strange art, what magic can dispose
The troubled mind to change its native woes?
Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see
Others more wretched, more undone than we?
This, Books can do;--nor this alone, they give
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise,
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise:
Their aid they yield to all: they never shun
The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone:
Unlike the hard, the selfish and the proud,
They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd;
Nor tell to various people various things,
But show to subjects, what they show to kings."

_The Library_, CRABBE.

Books

DECEMBER 6

"Narrowness may be met by recourse to the larger life revealed in Literature. There is no stronger plea for Biography, Drama, or Romance, or for any imaginative expansion of interests, than that founded upon the need for them as counteractives of the pitiable contractedness of outlook begotten of Division of Labour."

_The Making of Character_, Professor MACCUNN.

"When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books."

JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.

Reading

DECEMBER 7

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again they will not give us strength and nourishment."

LOCKE.

"In the course of our reading we should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts in well-wrought words, which should be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shifting of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance, and sympathy."

HELPS.

The Object of Education

DECEMBER 8

"We shall be agreed, I assume, that the object of Education is to train for life, and not for a special occupation; to train the whole man for all life, for life seen and unseen, for the unseen through the seen and in the seen; to train _men_ in a word and not _craftsmen_, to train citizens for the Kingdom of God. As we believe in God and the world to come, these must be master thoughts.

"We shall be agreed further that with this object in view, education must be so ordered as to awaken, to call into play, to develop, to direct, to strengthen powers of sense and intellect and spirit, not of one but of all: to give alertness and accuracy to observation: to supply fulness and precision to language: to arouse intelligent sympathy with every form of study and occupation: to set the many parts and aspects of the world before the growing scholar in their unity: to open the eyes of the heart to the eternal of which the temporal is the transitory sign.

"We shall be agreed again that the elements of restraint alike and of personal development which enter into education will be used to harmonise the social and individual instincts, and to inspire the young, when impressions are most easy and most enduring, with the sense of fellowship and the passion for service.

"We shall be agreed once more that the noblest fruit of education is character, and not acquirements: character which makes the simplest life rich and beneficent, character which for a Christian is determined by a true vision of God, _of whom, through whom, unto whom, are all things_."

_Christian Social Union Addresses_, Bishop WESTCOTT.

The Object of Education

DECEMBER 9

"The entire object of true education is to make people not merely _do_ the right things, but enjoy the right things--not merely industrious, but to love industry--not merely learned, but to love knowledge--not merely pure, but to love purity--not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."

_The Crown of Wild Olive_, JOHN RUSKIN.

"Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning--the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.... The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.... If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow."

Lord AVEBURY.

A Happy Childhood

DECEMBER 10

"A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have it in their power to bestow; second only to implanting the habit of obedience which puts the child in training for the habit of obeying himself, later on."

_Diana Tempest_, MARY CHOLMONDELEY.

"The main duty of those who care for the young is to secure their wholesome, their entire growth; for health is just the development of the whole nature in its due sequences and proportions: first the blade--then the ear--then, and not till then, the full corn in the ear; and thus, as Dr. Temple wisely says, 'not to forget wisdom in teaching knowledge.' If the blade be forced, and usurp the capital it inherits; if it be robbed by you, its guardian, of its birthright, or squandered like a spendthrift, then there is not any ear, much less any corn; if the blade be blasted or dwarfed in our haste and greed for the full shock and its price, we spoil all three. It is not easy to keep this always before one's mind, that the young 'idea' is in a young body, and that healthy growth and harmless passing of the time are more to be cared for than what is vainly called accomplishment."

Dr. JOHN BROWN.

Moral Education

December 11

"Remember that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a _self-governing_ being, not to produce a being to be _governed by others_. Were your children fated to pass their lives as slaves, you could not too much accustom them to slavery during their childhood; but as they are by-and-by to be free men, with no one to control their daily conduct, you cannot too much accustom them to self-control while they are still under your eye. This is it which makes the system of discipline by natural consequences so especially appropriate to the social state which we in England have now reached. In feudal times, when one of the chief evils the citizen had to fear was the anger of his superiors, it was well that during childhood parental vengeance should be a chief means of government. But now that the citizen has little to fear from any one--now that the good or evil which he experiences is mainly that which in the order of things results from his own conduct, he should from his first years begin to learn, experimentally, the good or evil consequences which naturally follow this or that conduct. Aim, therefore, to diminish the parental government, as fast as you can substitute for it in your child's mind that self-government arising from a foresight of results....

"All transitions are dangerous; and the most dangerous is the transition from the restraint of the family circle to the non-restraint of the world. Hence the importance of pursuing the policy we advocate, which, by cultivating a boy's faculty of self-restraint, by continually increasing the degree in which he is left to his self-restraint, and by so bringing him, step by step, to a state of unaided self-restraint, obliterates the ordinary sudden and hazardous change from externally-governed youth to internally-governed maturity. Let the history of your domestic rule typify, in little, the history of our political rule. At the outset, autocratic control, where control is really needful; by-and-by an incipient constitutionalism, in which the liberty of the subject gains some express recognition; successive extensions of this liberty of the subject, gradually ending in parental abdication."

_Education_, HERBERT SPENCER.

Moral Education

DECEMBER 12

"Self-government with tenderness,--here you have the condition of all authority over children. The child must discover in us no passion, no weakness of which he can make use; he must feel himself powerless to deceive or to trouble us; then he will recognise in us his natural superiors, and he will attach a special value to our kindness, because he will respect it. The child who can rouse in us anger, or impatience, or excitement, feels himself stronger than we, and a child only respects strength. The mother should consider herself as her child's sun, a changeless and ever radiant world, whither the small restless creature, quick at tears and laughter, light, fickle, passionate, full of storms, may come for fresh stores of light, warmth and electricity, of calm and of courage. The mother represents goodness, providence, law; that is to say, the divinity under that form of it which is accessible to childhood. If she is herself passionate, she will inculcate on her child a capricious and despotic God, or even several discordant gods. The religion of a child depends on what its mother and its father are, and not on what they say. The inner and unconscious ideal which guides their life is precisely what touches the child; their words, their remonstrances, their punishments, their bursts of feeling, even, are for him merely thunder and comedy; what they worship--this it is which his instinct divines and reflects.

"The child sees what we are, behind what we wish to be. Hence his reputation as a physiognomist. He extends his power as far as he can with each of us; he is the most subtle of diplomatists. Unconsciously he passes under the influence of each person about him, and reflects it while transforming it after his own nature. He is a magnifying mirror. This is why the first principle of education is: train yourself; and the first rule to follow if you wish to possess yourself of a child's will is: master your own."

_Amiel's Journal._

Moral Education

DECEMBER 13

"All wise teachers, I believe, recognise now that the best way of dealing with naughty children is to absorb their whole attention with some _interest_, which will not only leave no energy to spare for naughtiness, but will of itself tend to organise their minds, to subordinate mental elements to a _purpose_, and so to develop character."

_The Standard of Life_, Mrs. BERNARD BOSANQUET.

"Discipline, like the bridle in the hand of a good rider, should exercise its influence without appearing to do so, should be ever active, both as a support and as a restraint, yet seem to lie easily in hand. It must be always ready to check or to pull up, as occasion may require; and only when the horse is a runaway, should the action of the curb be perceptible."

_Guesses at Truth_, edited by Archdeacon HARE.

"If 'Pas trop gouverner' is the best rule in politics, it is equally true of discipline."

_Children's Rights_, KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.

Punishment

DECEMBER 14

"Punishments, then, must in the first place be proportionate to the offence, lest, by an undiscriminating severity or an undiscriminating leniency, distinctions of moral desert be blurred or effaced.

"_Secondly_, they must be analogous to the offence. The greedy must be starved, the insolent humbled, the idle compelled to work. Otherwise the imposition will not effectually go home to the offender.

"_Thirdly_, punishments ought to be exemplary. Since they needs must come, it is not enough that they should simply open the eyes of the culprit, by giving him his deserts. They must be utilised as object-lessons for the behoof of that large class, the culprits in potentiality.

"_Fourthly_, they ought to be economical. 'It is good that they should suffer,' we sometimes say; and so it is, so long as suffering, in itself always an evil, do not exceed the quantum that is lamentably needful, needful, that is, to vindicate authority, to stigmatise the offence, and to impress the offender.

"_Fifthly_, punishments ought to be reformatory. Not only must they never, by vindictiveness in him who gives, and degradation in him who receives, impair the instincts and resolves for a better life; they must be devised in the belief, or at least in the hope, that these instincts and resolves exist, though they may be inhibited by the evil proclivities which punishment is meant to crush. The killing of what is bad must always look to the liberation of what is good.

"_Finally_, punishments ought to insist upon, and to define indemnity, so that the wrong-doer, in things small or great, may be forced to repair, so far as this is possible, the irreparable mischief which offence implies."

_The Making of Character_, Professor MACCUNN.

Rebuking

DECEMBER 15

"The gentleness of our Lord in rebuking, has an effect which gentleness often has, it awakens compunctions in those to whom it is shown. A child, who by severity is set on its defence or drawn into falsehood, is often melted into full confession by being loved and trusted more than it deserves."

_Pastor Pastorum_, HENRY LATHAM.

"Our Lord's reply is again gentle; to be hard on a fault that was confessed would have dried up that confidence which flowed so freely."

_Pastor Pastorum_, HENRY LATHAM.

"Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity."

S. FRANCIS DE SALES.

Example

DECEMBER 16

"Children have more need of models than of critics."

JOUBERT.

"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives."

BURKE.

"Meanwhile there is much that we can do. It need not be said that home is the most effective school of character. On the duties of home I cannot dwell now. But there is a more general influence of common tone and habits of which serious account ought to be taken. We are at all times unconsciously educating others by our own example. Our standard of duty in the discharge of business and in the use of leisure necessarily influences the desires and the actions of those who look to us for guidance. The young are quick-eyed critics, and the sight of quiet devotion to work, of pleasure sought in common things--and all truly precious things are common--will enforce surely and silently some great lessons of school. We do not, as far as I can judge, rate highly enough our responsibility for the customary practices of society. Not infrequently we neutralise our teaching through want of imagination by failing to follow out the consequences of some traditional custom. We seem to be inconsiderate when we are only ignorant."

Bishop WESTCOTT.

Wealth

DECEMBER 17

"Christ did not denounce wealth any more than He denounced pauperism. He did not abhor money; He used it. He did not abhor the company of rich men; He sought it. He did not invariably scorn or even resent a certain profuseness of expenditure. With a fine discrimination, He, while habitually discouraging it, yet recognised that, here and there, there was place for it. What he denounced was the _love_ of, the _lust_ of riches; the vulgar snobbishness that chose exclusively the fellowship or the ways of rich men; the habit of extravagance; in one word, greed and luxury and self-indulgence. He taught men, first of all and last of all, that they were stewards, that in the final analysis of men and things neither they nor theirs were their own.

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We must not only affirm the brotherhood of man: we must live it. For then the State, and in the State, the home, the Church, and the individual shall become the incarnation of a regenerated humanity, and earth, this earth, our earth, here and to-day, the vestibule of heaven!"

_The Citizen in Relation to the Industrial Situation_,
Bishop POTTER.

The Limit of Luxury

DECEMBER 18

"The expenditure of money is no easy matter. It is wrong to let the poor want. It is wrong to starve the nature which asks for other things than food. There is only one principle of guidance. Whatever is done must be done in thought for others, and not in thought for ourselves. Money on luxuries which end in ourselves is wrongly spent; money spent on luxuries--on scents, sounds and sights--which directly or indirectly pass on to others is rightly spent. The limit of luxury is the power of sharing."

_The Service of God_, Canon BARNETT.

"All that depends on individual choice--our recreations, our expenditure--can be brought to one test, which we are generally able to apply: Does this or that help me to do my work more effectively? To us most literally, even if the confession overwhelms us with shame, whatsoever is not of faith is sin."

Bishop WESTCOTT.

"Imitate a little child.... While you gather and use this world's goods with one hand, always let your other be fast in your Heavenly Father's hand, and look round from time to time, and make sure that He is satisfied."

S. FRANCIS DE SALES.

Expenditure

DECEMBER 19

"I will take heart to lay down what I hold to be a fundamental rule, that, while we endeavour to gain the largest and keenest power of appreciating all that is noblest in nature and art and literature, we must seek to live on as little as will support the full vigour of our life and work. The standard cannot be fixed. It will necessarily vary, within certain limits, according to the nature and office of each man. But generally we shall strive diligently to suppress all wants which do not tend through their satisfaction to create a nobler type of manhood, and individually we shall recognise no wants which do not express what is required for the due cultivation of our own powers and the fulfilment of that which we owe to others. We shall guard ourselves against the temptations of artificial wants which the ingenuity of producers offers in seductive forms. We shall refuse to admit that the caprice of fashion represents any valuable element in our constitution, or calls into play any faculties which would otherwise be unused, or encourages industry. On the contrary, we shall see in the dignity and changelessness of Eastern dress a typical condemnation of our restless inconstancy. We shall perceive, and act as perceiving, that the passion for novelty is morally and materially wasteful: that it distracts and confuses our power of appreciating true beauty: that it tends to the constant displacement of labour: that it produces instability both in the manufacture and in the sale of goods to the detriment of economy. We shall, to sum up all in one master-principle, estimate value and costs in terms of life, as Mr. Ruskin has taught us; and, accepting this principle, we shall seek nothing of which the cost to the producer so measured exceeds the gain to ourselves."

_Christian Social Union Addresses_, Bishop WESTCOTT.

Money

DECEMBER 20

"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that wealth may be said to possess him."

BACON.

"The covetous man is like the camel, with a great haunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in."

ADAMS.

"Who shuts his hand hath lost his gold,
Who opens it hath it twice told."

GEORGE HERBERT.

"Wealth in every form, material, intellectual, moral, has to be administered for the common good. God only can say of any possession 'My own.'"

Bishop WESTCOTT.

Courage to be Poor

DECEMBER 21

"How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort, and not for the comfort of one's neighbours."

DINAH MARIA MULOCH.

"I wish that more of us had the courage to be poor; that the world had not gone mad after fashion and display; but so it is, and the blessings we might have are lost in the effort to get those which lie outside the possible."

ALICE CAREY.

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."

GEORGE MACDONALD.

Hospitality

DECEMBER 22

"The truest hospitality is shown not in the effort to entertain, but in the depth of welcome. What a guest loves to come for, and come again, is not the meal, but those who sit at the meal. If we remembered this, more homes would be habitually thrown open to win the benedictions upon hospitality. It is our ceremony, not our poverty, it is self-consciousness oftener than inability to be agreeable that makes us willing to live cloistered. Seldom is it that pleasantest homes to visit are the richest. The real compliment is _not_ to apologise for the simple fare. That means trust, and trust is better than fried oysters."

W. C. GANNETT.

"Hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host."

EMERSON.

Hospitality

DECEMBER 23

"I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bedchamber made ready at too great a cost. These things, if they are curious in, they can get for a dollar at any village. But let this stranger, if he will, in your looks, in your accent and behaviour, read in your heart and earnestness, your thought and will, which he cannot buy at any price in any village or city, and which he may well travel fifty miles and dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold. Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things. Honour to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads the laws of the universe."

EMERSON.

"I should count myself fortunate if my home were remembered for some inspiring quality of faith, charity and aspiring intelligence."

HAMILTON W. MABIE.

Christmas Eve

DECEMBER 24

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

"It chanced upon the merry, merry Christmas Eve,
I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary--
'Oh! never sin and want and woe this earth will leave,
And the bells but mock the wailing rounds, they sing so cheery.
How long, O Lord! how long before Thou come again!
Still in cellar, and in garret, and on moorland dreary
The orphans moan, and widows weep, and poor men toil in vain,
Till earth is sick of hope deferred, though Christmas bells be cheery.'

"Then arose a joyous clamour from the wild-fowl on the mere,
Beneath the stars, across the snow, like clear bells ringing,
And a voice within cried,--'Listen! Christmas carols even here!
Tho' thou be dumb, yet o'er their work the stars and snows are singing.
Blind! I live, I love, I reign; and all the nations through,
With the thunder of my judgments even now are ringing;
Do thou fulfil thy work but as yon wild-fowl do,
Thou wilt heed no less the wailing, yet hear through it angels singing.'"

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Christmas Day

DECEMBER 25

"And now once more comes Christmas Day. Once more, borne abroad on the words of simple-minded shepherds, runs the story. God and man have met, in visible, actual union, in a life which is both human and divine.... Lift up yourselves to the great meaning of the Day, and dare to think of your Humanity as something so sublimely precious that it is worthy of being made an offering to God. Count it a privilege to make that offering as complete as possible, keeping nothing back, and then go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having been truly born anew into His Divinity, as He was born into our Humanity, on Christmas Day."

PHILLIPS BROOKS.

"Let not the hearts, whose sorrow cannot call
This Christmas merry, slight the festival;
Let us be merry that may merry be,
But let us not forget that many mourn;
The smiling Baby came to give us glee,
But for the weepers was the Saviour born."

COLERIDGE.

Mile-marks

DECEMBER 26

"But Christmas is not only the mile-mark of another year, moving us to thoughts of self-examination: it is a season, from all its associations, whether domestic or religious, suggesting thoughts of joy. A man dissatisfied with his endeavours is a man tempted to sadness. And in the midst of the winter, when his life runs lowest and he is reminded of the empty chairs of his beloved, it is well he should be condemned to this fashion of the smiling face. Noble disappointment, noble self-denial, are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maimed; another to maim yourself and stay without. And the kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure."

_Across the Plains_, R. L. STEVENSON.

Growing Old

DECEMBER 27

"To grow old is more difficult than to die, because to renounce a good once and for all, costs less than to renew the sacrifice day by day and in detail. To bear with one's own decay, to accept one's own lessening capacity, is a harder and rarer virtue than to face death. There is a halo round tragic and premature death; there is but a long sadness in declining strength. But look closer: so studied, a resigned and religious old age will often move us more than the heroic ardour of young years. The maturity of the soul is worth more than the first brilliance of its faculties, or the plenitude of its strength, and the eternal in us can but profit from all the ravages made by time. There is comfort in this thought."

_Amiel's Journal._

"To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

_Amiel's Journal._

Old Age

DECEMBER 28

"We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own faults."

GOETHE.

"It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness."

MATHILDE BLIND.

"The most beautiful existence, it seems to me, would be that of a river which should get through all its rapids and waterfalls not far from its rising, and should then in its widening course form a succession of rich valleys, and in each of them a lake equally but diversely beautiful, to end, after the plains of age were past, in the ocean where all that is weary and heavy-laden comes to seek for rest."

_Amiel's Journal._

The Love and Grace and Tenderness of Life

DECEMBER 29

"Neither toil, nor the end of toil in oneself or in the world, is all vanity, in spite of the preacher; but there is enough vanity in both to make one sit loose to them. What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge--grand as knowledge is--but just the laughter of little children and the friendship of friends, the cosy talk by the fireside, the sight of flowers and the sound of music."

J. R. GREEN.

"Life is sweet, brother.... There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise the wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"

BORROW.

A Prayer

DECEMBER 30

"Be patient still; suffer us yet a while longer; with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavours against evil, suffer us a while longer to endure, and (if it may be) help us to do better. Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these must be taken, brace us to play the man under affliction. Be with our friends; be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest; if any dream, be their dreams quiet; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns, return to us our sun and comforter, and call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts--eager to labour--eager to be happy, if happiness shall be our portion--and if the day be marked for sorrow, strong to endure it."

_Vailima Prayers_, R. L. STEVENSON.

New Year's Eve

DECEMBER 31

"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

"Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

"Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

"Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

"Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

"Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

"Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be."

TENNYSON.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Accidie, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100

Accuracy, 185

Age, 361, 362

Appetite for Condolence, The, 310

Argument, 195, 196, 197

Art of Being Quiet, The, 30, 31

As Light enters Darkness departs, 297

Aspiration, 306

Back-biting, 190

Balance, 170, 171

Bearing Criticism, 155

Bearing Sorrow, 256, 257, 258, 259

Bearing Trouble, 322

Beauties of Nature, 333

Beautiful, Sense of, 334

Beauty, The Gospel of, 335

Being and Doing, 24, 25

Bereavement, 246, 247

Blessed are the Happiness-makers, 134

Books, 339, 340

Business-like Habits, 36

By their Works, 272

Calamity, Sharp Ferule of, 311

Calumny, 158, 159

Causes of Thankfulness, 324, 325

Celestial Surgeon, The, 18

Character, 138

Character--
Childlike-ness, 136
Negative Virtues, 137
Our Echoes roll from Soul to Soul, 139
The Right Atmosphere, 135

Character and Service, 11

Character of Henry Drummond, 22
---- R. L. Stevenson, 23

Cheerfulness, 330

Childhood, A Happy, 344

Christian Law, The, 262, 263

Christianity, Programme of, 275

Christmas Day, 359

Christmas Eve, 358

Circumstances, 12, 13

Code of Society, The, 165

Comfort's Art, 92

Commune with your own Heart and be Still, 33

Conceit, 162

Concentration, 38, 39

Condolence, Appetite for, 310

Confession of Sin, 288

Conscience, 150

Contemptuousness, 181

Contentment, 318, 319

Conversation, 193, 194

Courage, 58

Courage to be Poor, 355

Courtesy, 203, 204, 205

Creed, A New, 274

Creeds, 267

Criticism, 155

Crossing the Bar, 254

Culture, 202

Day by Day, 301, 302

Dead, The, 249, 250, 251, 252

Death, 253

Death of Young Children, 248

Discontent, 316, 320

Dissension, 242

Doing more than Feeling, 62

Doing our Best, 64

Duty, 46, 47, 48

Duty of Giving Happiness, 132, 133

Duty of Happiness, The, 315

Duty of Physical Health, The, 84, 85

Duty to my Neighbour, 131

Education, The Object of, 342, 343
---- Moral, 345, 346, 347

Egotism, 164, 192

Endurance, 43

Essentials of Happiness, The, 312

Evil is Wrought by Want of Thought, 69

Evil of Brooding, The, 305

Example, 350

Expenditure, 353

Faith, 273

False Impressions, 182

Falterers, 57

Family Life, 128

Fasting, 268, 269

Faults, 156

Fear of Failure, 55, 56

Flattery, 160

Foot-path to Peace, The, 8

Forgiveness, 115

Friendship, 216-235

Gaining or Losing Ground, 303

God, Manifestations of, 278, 279, 280

God's Children, 77

Gossip, 189, 191

Growing Old, 361

Grumblers, 329

Grumbling, 326, 327, 328

Habit, 140, 141

Habit of Admiration, The, 21

Hallowing of Work, The, 70

Happiness, 132, 133, 134, 312, 315

Happiness Makers, 134

Harmony, 15, 16

Health, Duty of, 84, 85

Heart, Commune with, 33

Heredity, 152, 153, 154

Holidays, 338

Holiness, 4

Holy Spirit, 5

Hospitality, 356, 357

Humility, 163

Humour, 331, 332

Hypochondriacs, 90, 91

Ideal Guest-chamber, An, 75

Ideal Level, An, 50

Ideals, 17

Idleness, 53, 54

Ifs of Life, The, 14

Ill-nature, 118

Indifference, Sin of, 60

Influence, 210, 211, 214, 215

Influence of Great Men, 19, 20

Interruptions, 73

Introspection, 290

Introspectiveness, 289

Invalids, 87, 88

Inward Stillness, 32

Iron Chains of Duty, The, 48

Irritability, 93, 94

Jealousy, 236, 237, 238

Judging, 176, 178, 180

Judgment, Biassed, 177

Judgment, Harsh, 175

Judgment, Sound, 172, 173, 174

Justice and Mercy, 179

Law of Love, The Great, 270

Lessons of Suffering, 89

Life, Ifs of, 14

Life a School, 10

Life after Death, 255

Life-giver, not Deed-doer, 26

Limit of Luxury, The, 352

Living in the Present, 300

Lord's Supper, The, 276

Love, 126, 130, 243

Love, Grace, and Tenderness of Life, The, 363

Love and Remorse, 239, 240, 241

Love Unrequited, 244, 245

Love, Law of, 270

Luxury, 352

Magnifying Troubles, 321

Manifestation of God, 278, 279, 280

Manners, 206, 207, 208, 209

Mechanical Work, 74

Memory, 110, 111

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, 83

Mental Hygiene, 296

Mercy, 179

Method, 37

Mile-marks, 360

Money, 354

Morality, Physical, 86

Morbid Introspectiveness, 289

My Duty to my Neighbour, 131

Nature, 333, 336, 337

Never Lose a Battle, 299

New Year's Day, 1

New Year's Eve, 365

Noble Life, A, 3

Nominal Christians, 277

"Not to Destroy, but to Fulfil," 265

Obstinacy, 157

Oil and Wine, 127

Old Age, 362

One by One, 71, 72

Open Mind, An, 198

Order, 41

Our true Selves and our traditional Selves, 291

Patience, 124, 309

Patience with Ourselves, 7

Peace, 8

Perseverance, 44

Pessimism, 79

Physical Morality, 86

Pleasure in Work, 45

Poverty, 355

Power, 49

Power of the Holy Spirit, The, 5

Prayer, 281-286

Prayer, A, 364

Present Circumstances, 12

Pressing Forward, 304

Pride, 161

Programme of Christianity, The, 275

Public Opinion, 166, 167

Punishment, 348

Purpose, 2, 9

Quarrels, 106, 107

"Quench not the Smoking Flax," 212, 213

Quiet, 30, 31

Raw Material, 78

Readiness, 40

Reading, 341

Rebuking, 349

Receptive Side of Life, The, 34

Reconciliation, 113, 114

Regulation of Time, 35

Religion--
The Meaning of, 260
Pure, 261
In Daily Life, 266
Reparation, 116

Repentance, 151

Resolves, 287

Responsibility, 59

Rest, 314

Revenge, 108

Right Use of Speech, 200

Sacredness of Work, The, 63

Satan's Opportunities, 68

Science of Social Life, The, 119, 120, 121, 122

Secret of the Joy of Living, The, 323

Secret of Thrift, The, 42

Seeing one's Life in Perspective, 27

Self-centred People, 317

Self-examination, 287

Selfishness, 125

Sense of the Beautiful, 334

Sermon on the Mount, 274

Service, 80, 81, 82

Sharp Ferule of Calamity, The, 311

Silence a great Peacemaker, 112

Sin, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 288

Sin has its Pedigree, 142

Sin of Idleness, The, 53

Sin of Indifference, The, 60

Sins of the Spirit, 147

Sociability, 122

Society, 165

Soldiers of the Same Army, 271

Sorrow, 256, 257, 258, 259

Spectrum of Love, The, 130

Spiritual Balance and Proportion, 168

Stepping-Stones, 298

Struggling, 308

Sympathy, 123

Symphony, A, 6

Temper, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105

Temperance, 169

Temptation, 143

Thankfulness, 324, 325

There shall never be one lost Good, 307

Thoughts, 201

Thrift, 42

Time, 35

Time and Method, 37

To be Trusted is to be Saved, 76

Tolerance, 199

Touchiness, 109

Triviality, 28, 29

Trouble, 321, 322

True Patience, 309

Trustees, 264

Truth, 183

Truthfulness, 184, 186, 187, 188

Unamiable, The, 117

Unbalanced Memory, 110, 111

Unfelt Creeds, 267

Ungraciousness, 129

Unrest, 313

Un-self-consciousness, 292, 293

Wasted Emotions, 61

Wealth, 351

Where Love is, God is, 126

Work, 45, 51

Work--
Effective Reforms, 65, 66
Special, For each, 52
To Cure is the Voice of the Past, 67
Sacredness of, 63

Works, 272

INDEX OF AUTHORS

A. H., 193

Abbott, Lyman, 10

Acton, 317

Adams, 354

Addison, 229, 330, 337

Allen, James Lane, 58, 114, 116, 152, 284

_Amiel's Journal_ (translated by Mrs. Humphry Ward), 2, 19, 31, 34,
40, 41, 46, 47, 55, 58, 118, 127, 140, 157, 161, 163, 167, 168,
172, 204, 212, 223, 227, 229, 236, 241, 256, 278, 313, 316, 320,
346, 361, 362

Ammian, 188

Arnold, Dr., 69

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 15, 16, 54, 60, 72, 75, 92, 139, 320

Arnold, Matthew, 121

Augustine, Saint, 290

Avebury, Lord, 3, 14, 36, 65, 85, 86, 89, 107, 170, 195, 311, 315,
336, 343

Bacon, 108, 354

Baillie, Joanna, 58

Balfour, Graham, 23

Barbauld, Mrs. A. L., 255

Barbour, R. W., 149

Barnes, 337

Barnett, Canon, 28, 29, 78, 80, 161, 352

Beecher, Henry Ward, 134, 139, 182, 280

Bentham, Jeremy, 140

Black, Hugh, 154, 219, 221

Blair, 216

Blind, Mathilde, 249, 362

Body, Canon, 34, 82, 151, 268

Book of Common Prayer, 85

Borrow, G., 363

Bosanquet, Mrs. Bernard, 67, 72, 213, 347

Bovee, 201

Bronte, Charlotte, 219

Brooke, Stopford, 11, 50, 53, 60, 61, 77, 79, 121, 131, 163, 266,
309, 312, 314, 321, 335

Brooks, Bishop Phillips, 5, 26, 42, 45, 49, 51, 66, 74, 84, 87, 88,
89, 137, 141, 150, 152, 168, 184, 211, 212, 217, 247, 265, 267,
274, 276, 281, 290, 297, 324, 332, 359

Brown, Dr. John, 344

Browning, E. B., 243

Browning, Robert, 45, 245, 307

Bruyere, La, 116

Bulwer-Lytton, 11, 17

Burke, 350

Burnett, Mrs. Hodgson, 178

Burns, 148

Burton, 316

Buxton, Charles, 64

Byron, 330

Caillard, E. M., 33

Caird, Principal, 179

Carey, Alice, 355

Carlyle, Thomas, 20, 45, 54, 63, 80, 97, 125, 156, 271, 298, 302

Cato, 106

Chalmers, 312

Channing, W. E., 6, 211, 325, 334

Chesterfield, Lord, 206, 208

Childs, Lydia M., 97

Cholmondeley, Mary, 74, 75, 138, 245, 344

Cicero, 221, 223, 228, 234

Clarke, J. Freeman, 340

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 15

Coleridge, 333, 359

Collier, Jeremy, 163

Colton, 35

Cowper, 159

Crabbe, 339

Crawford, F. Marion, 161

Cross, J. W., 133

Cyrus, 222

Dante, 301

Dawson, Rev. W. J., 338

De Stael, Madame, 312

Descartes, 106

Deschamps, 235

Dickens, Charles, 80, 315

Diggle, Archdeacon, 73, 268

Drummond, Professor Henry, 4, 19, 27, 76, 83, 102, 109, 126, 130, 132,
134, 142, 143, 144, 153, 204, 261, 265, 270, 275, 277, 288, 294,
313, 315

Dryden, 238

Eliot, George, 13, 16, 57, 87, 92, 101, 103, 110, 111, 112, 135, 150,
159, 180, 189, 240, 256, 291, 320, 333

Emerson, R. W., 10, 14, 39, 47, 58, 63, 64, 111, 116, 131, 143, 159,
165, 171, 187, 190, 192, 202, 204, 206, 207, 208, 215, 220, 223,
226, 280, 300, 301, 319, 320, 328, 330, 336, 356, 357

Empson, 104

Epictetus, 102, 158

Euripides, 228

Ewing, Mrs., 7, 125, 308, 326

Faber, F. W., 134

Fairless, Michael, 78

Farrar, Dean, 59, 88, 151, 190, 270

Feltham, 227

Fenelon, 7, 286

Fletcher, Horace, 68

Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft, 112, 331

Fox, George, 29, 278

Froude, J. A., 184

Gannett, W. C., 356

Garfield, 56

Gaskell, Mrs., 57

Gladstone, W. E., 37

Goethe, 1, 39, 193, 199, 205, 362

Gore, Bishop, 165

Green, T. H., 273

Green, J. R., 363

Greene, C., 328

Grou, 293

Hacket, 310

Hare, 139, 310

Hare, Archdeacon, 163, 347

Harpe, La, 185

Harris, Rendel, 231, 284

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 211

Helps, Sir Arthur, 122, 158, 341

Herbert, George, 195, 196, 324, 354

Herder, 231

Herodotus, 56

Hillel, Rabbi, 225

Hobbes, John Oliver, 176

Holland, Canon Scott, 257, 258, 259

Holmes, O. W., 14, 137, 204, 253

Hood, Thomas, 69

How, Bishop Walsham, 151, 289

Hughes, T., 219

Iddesleigh, Lord, 183

_Idler, The_, 234

Ingram, Bishop Winnington, 147, 279

James, Professor William, 141

Japanese Proverb, 330

Johnson, Dr., 55, 183

Jonson, Ben, 159

Joubert, 350

Keble, 312

Kemble, Fanny, 9

Kempis, Thomas a, 298

Kendall, May, 218, 237, 244, 278

Kingsley, Charles, 42, 46, 165, 166, 191, 214, 233, 283, 285, 300,
318, 334, 358

Lacordaire, 195

Latham, The Rev. Henry, 24, 35, 41, 62, 72, 80, 143, 177, 181, 191,
199, 269, 292, 305, 349

Leighton, Archbishop, 156

Liddon, Canon, 143

Little, Canon Knox, 289

Locke, 341

Long, George, 3

Longfellow, H. W., 32, 112, 275

Louis XIV., 35

Lowell, James Russell, 46, 51, 62, 77, 149, 164, 235, 250, 257, 306, 322

Lyall, Edna, 301

Lytton, 11, 17

Mabie, Hamilton W., 95, 202, 357

Macaulay, 172

MacColl, Canon, 2, 31, 64, 76, 113, 114, 127, 142, 210

MacCunn, Professor John, 17, 42, 62, 104, 169, 172, 230, 295, 296,
299, 337, 340, 348

MacDonald, George, 115, 178, 275, 355

Mann, Horace, 35

Marcus Aurelius, 4, 12, 44, 104, 156, 157, 167, 300, 302, 316, 318,
327

Martineau, 12

Martineau, H., 55, 117

Martineau, J., 53, 81

Mason, 235

Massillon, 236

McKinley, 141

McLean, Rev. J. K., 318

Meredith, George, 189

Merriam, G. S., 331

Miller, The Rev. J. R., 224, 232, 239, 240

Milnes, R. M., 308

Montaigne, 187

Montresor, F. F., 317

Moore, T., 242

More, Hannah, 325

Morris, Sir Lewis, 183

Mozley, J. B., 280

Mulford, Prentice, 201

Muloch, Dinah M., 355

Neander, 274

Newbolt, Canon, 82

Newcomb, C. B., 39, 201, 305

Nicoll, W. Robertson, 22

Paget, Bishop, 1, 63, 70, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 120, 123, 124, 171,
174, 200, 203, 229, 310

Pascal, 146, 155, 177

Patmore, Coventry, 206, 241

Peabody, Ephraim, 1

Penn, William, 196, 246

Philpotts, Bishop, 43

Plumptre, 272

Plutarch, 162

Pope, 155

Potter, Bishop, 123, 351

Pulsford, John, 32

Rice, Alice Hegan, 322

Richter, 96, 173

Robertson, The Rev. F. W., 25, 39, 119, 126, 285, 304

_Robertson, Life of the Rev. F. W._, 287

Rochefoucauld, La, 29, 106, 116, 160, 189, 192, 193, 197, 198, 233, 322

Rogers, H., 36

Rossetti, Christina, 175, 178, 252

Ruskin, John, 67, 69, 288, 343

Sales, S. Francis de, 195, 349, 352

Seneca, 287, 319

Shakespeare, 8, 56, 108, 189, 220, 309

Shorthouse, John, 123

Sidney, Philip, 227

Smiles, Samuel, 184, 208, 209

Smith, George Adam, 222

Smith, H. W., 27

Socrates, 20, 216

Soulsby, Lucy, 95, 168, 327

South, Bishop, 84

Southey, 321

Spanish Proverb, 233

Spencer, Herbert, 20, 86, 185, 197, 345

Spenser, 206, 231

Stael, Madame de, 312

Stevenson, R. L., 7, 18, 48, 108, 109, 131, 137, 186, 188, 260,
311, 360, 364

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 90, 91, 93, 94, 128

Sweet, Ada C., 192

Talbot, Bishop, 215

Taylor, Bayard, 59

Taylor, Bishop, 273

Taylor, Jeremy, 170, 220, 324

Temple, Archbishop, 105, 129, 145, 146, 165, 213, 288

Tennyson, Lord, 44, 47, 57, 115, 122, 139, 182, 224, 254, 290, 298,
308, 365

_Tennyson--A Memoir_, by his Son, 10, 181, 247, 256, 271, 273, 282, 331

Thackeray, Miss, 325

Thackeray, W. M., 13, 21, 111, 216, 246, 247

Thomas, Dr. H. W., 261

Thoreau, 28, 114, 157, 186, 202, 222, 225, 306, 333

Thorold, Bishop, 267, 277

Toynbee, Arnold, 319

Trench, Archbishop, 3, 17, 248, 286, 323

Turgenev, Ivan, 48, 148

Van Dyke, 8, 61

Vaughan, Henry, 302

Vauvenargues, 56, 157, 185, 212

Virgil, 49

Voltaire, 13, 54

Walker, Thomas, 329

Watson, Dr. John, 4, 24, 44, 52, 71, 78, 81, 120, 136, 144, 150, 154,
166, 176, 203, 205, 243, 248, 261, 274, 295, 296, 297, 299

Westcott, Bishop, 9, 65, 66, 129, 138, 166, 169, 177, 214, 232, 249,
262, 263, 264, 283, 328, 342, 350, 352, 353, 354

Whichcote, 198

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 6, 46, 179, 251, 272

Wickstead, Philip H., 160

Wiggin, Kate D., 67, 68, 347

Wilberforce, Bishop, 293

Wilson, 88

Wisdom, Book of, 190

Wordsworth, 303

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Variations in spelling have been preserved except in obvious cases of typographical error and inconsistency. These have been corrected without comment.