The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-05-10
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Charles Dickens Religion the Ken
gIOm OF wide Humanity

CHARLES Dickens Religion the keiA-
gIOm OF wide Humanity
Dickens preached-not in a church nor
from pulpit, but gospel which the peo-
ME understood-th gospel of kindness
svmnatbv-in a word, humanity His
cyead NAV be found in the following beau
f,I oxtracts on the subject of death:
s.Eyen when golden hair lay in a halo on
. allow round the worn face of little
how he said with radiant smile: Dear
papa and mamma, am very sorry to leave
yon both, and my pretty sister, but am
called, and must 60 Thus the rustllnR
of an angels wings got blended with the
other echoes and had in them the breath
of Heaven. Tale of Two Cities, book =,
chap. 81. .,,.
there. The spare hand does not tremble;
nothing worse than sweet bright constan-
CIV is in her face. She goes next before
hints gone. Ibid, book B, chap. 10. =,
'sThe dying boy made answer, I shall
soon be there He spoke of beautiful gar
dons stretched out before him, and were
filled with figures of men, and many chill
dren, all with light upon their faces; then
whispered that 1T was Eden and SO died.
Nicholas Nickelby, chap. 5S.
cots turned very dark sir Is there
any light acoming? The cart is shaken
all to pieces, and the rugged road is very
near its end. I'm a gropin'-a gropin =
let me catch hold of your hand. Hallowed
be Thy name dead! my lords and gen
tlemen. Dead men and women, born with
heavenly compassion in your hearts. And,
dying thus around us, every day!'-Bleak
House chap. AZ.
"He slowly laid his face down upon hel
bosom, drew his arm closer round her neck,
and with one parting sob began the world.
Not this world. Oh, not this! The world
that sets this right. Ibid, chap. IS.
''If this is sleep. sit by me while sleep
Turn me to you, for your face is going of,
and want it to be near And she died
like child that had gone to sleep.-David
Copperfeld, chap. .,
"irime, and the world were slipping from
beneath him. He's going out with the tide.
y And it being low water he
went out with the tide. Ibid, chap. 80.
"'Don't cry! Is my chair there2 In its
old place?' That face,
so full of pity and of grief, that would APP
peal to me, that solemn hand, appraised to-
wards Heaven !! 1t is over. Ibid chap. 80.
zone new mound was there, which had
not been there last night. Time, burrow-
ing like mole in the ground, had marked
his track by throwing up another heap OF
earth. Martin Chuzzlewitt, chap. 10.
''She was dead. No sleep so beautiful
and calm, SO free from trace of pain, SC
fair to look upon. She seemed creature
fresh from the hand of God and waiting
for the breath of life, not one who had
lived and suffered death. She was past all
help or need of it. We will not wake her.
Old Curiosity Shop, chap.71.
1.-THE hand soon stopped in the midst of
them; the light that had always been feeble
and dim behind the weak transparency,
went out. Hard Times, chap. 8.
''For moment the closed eyelids trem-
bled, and the faintest shadow of smile
was seen. Thus, clinging to that slight
spar within her arms, the mother drifted
ont upon the dark and unknown sea that
rolls round all the world. '-Dombey and
Son, vol. l, chap. l.
.. It's very near the sea- hear the waves!
The light about the head is shining on mo
as go The old, old fashion, that came
in with our first garments, and will last I'M
changed until our race has run its course,
and the wide armament is rolled up like a
scroll. Oh! thank God for that older fash
ion yet, of Immortality! And look upon
us angels of young children, when the
swift river bears US to the ocean. Ibid,
chap II,
In this round world of many circles
within circles, do we make a weary journey
from the high grade to the low to find at
last that they lie close together, that the two
extremes touch, and that our journeys end
is but our starting placer" chap. "a.
"a cricket sings upon the hearth; bro
ken child's toy lies upon the ground, and
nothing else remains, "-Cricket on the
Hearth, chap. 3.
II am going to Heaven The sunset is
very near! and the child who went to Heav-
en- rose into the golden air and vanished. u
The Child's Story.