The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-07

Charles Dickens Religion the Religion OF
Wide Humanity.

Charles Dickens heH2tOn tne ttelSiOu Oi
Wide Humanity.
Dickens preached-not in church nor
from pulpit, but gospel which the peo-
pie understood-the gospel of kindness,
sympathy-in a word, humanity. His
creed may be found in the following beau
tiful extracts on the subject of death:
"Even when golded hair lay in halo
on a pillow, round the worn face of lit
tie boy, he said with radiant smile :'Dear
papa and mamma. / am very sorry TO
leave you both and to leave my pretty lit
tie sister, but | am called, and | must GO
Thus the rustling of an angels wings got
blended with the other echoes and had in
them the breath Of Heaven."-I Tale Of
Two Cities, book ?, chap. IL.
"There is no time there, and no trouble
there. The spare hand does not tremblei
nothing worse than a sweet, bright con
stancy is in her face. She goes next be
fore him-is gone."-[ Ibid, book 3,chapI5,
"The dying boy made answer, Il shall
soon be there He spoke Of beautiful
gardens stretched out before him, and
we're filled with figures of men, and chill.
dren, all with light upon their faces; then
whispered that it was Eden, and so died" ."
-LNicholas Nicklcby, chap. IS. "
ats turned very dark, sir. Is there
any light a-coming? The cart is shaken
all to pieces, and the rugged road is very
near its end Pm a gropin'-a gropin' let
me catch hold of your hand. Hallowed
be thy name"
dead my lords and gentlemen. Dead
men and women, born with Heavenly
compassion in your hearts. And, dying
thus around us, every day"-l Bleak
House, chap. AZ
ale slowly laid his face down upon her
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
O..
"If this is sleep, sit by me while !
sleep. Turn me to you, for your tace Is
going far off, and want it to be near
And she died like child that had gone
to Sleep David Copperfeld, chap 9
"Time and the world were slipping from
beneath him. He's going out with the
tide X And it being low
water he went out with the tide, y Ibid
chap. 30.
"'Don't cryl Is my chair therei In
its old placer 4 4 That face, SC
full of pity and grief, that would appeal
to me, that solemn hand, upraiscd towards
Heaven! 1t is over."-I Ibid, chap. 53,
"One new mound was there, which hat
not been there last night Time, burrow
ing like a mole under the ground, hac
marked his track by throwing up another
heap of carth."-lMartia Chuzzlewitt
chap 70. -.
"ohe was dead. No sleep so beautiful
and calm, so free from trace OF pain, 81
| fair TO look upon. She seemed crcatur'
for the breath of life, not one who hat
lived and suffered death She was pas
all help or need Of it, We will not wax
her. = TOld Curiosity Shop, chap. II.
"The hand soon stopped in the midst O
them; the light that had always been fee
bic and dim behind the weak transparcn
cy, went OUT Hard Times, chap. 9.
"For moment the closed eyelids trcm
bled, and the faintcst shadow of smil
WIS SGCl. llllS 1llilSllS w tlIh' OILS -
spar within her arms, the mother drittc
out upon the dark and unknown sea tina
rolls round all the world. " Dombey an
Son, vol. chap.
"Its very near the sea; | hear th
waves! The light about the head is shil,
ing on me as goN The old, old fashior
that came in with our first garments, an
will last unchanged until our race has ru
its course, and the wide armament
rolled up like a scroll. Oh! thank Go
for that older fashion yet, of immortality
} And look upon us, angels of young chi
; dren, when the swift river bears us to tn
ocean, Ibid, chapL7.
ain this round world Of many circle
within circles, do we make weary joul
nev from the high grade TO the low to fin
at last that they lie close together, thu
the two extremes touch, and that our louI
ney's end is but one starting place
, - Ibid, chap,34,
: "A cricket sings upon the hearth
broken, chlds toy lies upon the groun'
and nothing else remains. p Cricket o
the hearth, chaps.
81 am going to Heaven! The sunset
very near. and the child who went
Heaven rose into the golden air and val
ished'-l The Chid'S Story.