Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-10
NO. 266.
Mistellaneous.
CHARLES Dickens CREED.
HIS RELIGION PuE REiIGIoN OF BROAD
HUMANITY.

Dickens preached-ijot in a church nor
from 4 pulpit, bat gcspel which the peo-
pie understood--the gospel Of kindliness.
sympathv,-in A word. humanity. His
creed may be found in The following beau
tiful extracts on the subject of death
Even when golden hair lay in halo
on pillow. round the worn face of .
little boy. he said with a radiant smile;
Dear papa and mama, am very sorry to
leave YOU both and tp leave my pretty
sister. but am called. and | must go
Thus the rustlng of an angels wings got
blended with the other echoes and had in
them the breath of Heaven. - Taie Of
I'Wo Cites. book ,. chap. I.
There is no time there. and no trouble
there. The spare hand does not tremble;
nothing worse than u sweet. bright con-
stancy is in hertace. She goes next before
him-is gone. Ibid, book 3, chap. 10
The dying boy made answer. i shall
soon he there He spoke of beautiful
gardens stretched out before him, and
were filled with figures of men and many
children, all with light upon their faces;
and then whispered that il was Eden
and So died. ."-NichoiaS Nickloby, chap.
IS.
Its very dark. sir. Is there any
light acomingP The cart is shaken all to
pieces, and the rugged road is very near
its end I'm gropn'--a gropin'-lct
me catch hold OF your hand. llallowed
be Thy name. Dead my lords and
gentlemen. Dead men and women,
born with heavenly compassion in Your
hearts. And dying thHs around us every
day.-Bleok House. chap. A.
'lIe 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 worlh. oh. not this the
world that sets this right " ibid, chap.
60.
'lf this is sleep. sit by me when /
sleep. Turn me to yf,u. for your face is
going far off. and ! want it to he near.
And she died like a chE hEld that had gone TO
sleep. .''-Darid CoppeFfeid. chap. ..
Time and the world were slipping
from beneath him. Hes going out with
the tide. And it being low
water he went out with the tide. Ibid,
chap. 30.
Don't cry ! Is my chair there In its
old place That face so full of
pity and grief, that vould appeal to me,
that solemn hand upraised toward heaven.
II is over. .''--itid. chap. 81
"One new modnd Was there which had
not been there last night. Time. burrow-
ing like mole below the ground, has
marked its track by I'll rowlng up another
heap OF earth - Martin ChuzzieUH,
chap. ~.
''Shc was dead n sleep so beautiful
and calm, so free from trace OF pain, so
fair to look upon. SIZE seemed a 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 iti We will not wake
her. ."-hd 'uri0sttUi Shop, chap. II.
1.-The hand soon stepped in the midst of
them; the light that had always been
feeble and dim behind the weak transpar-
ency. went out. ."-HFrd Times, chap. ..
''For moment the closed cvelids trcm-
bled. and the faintestI shadow of n smile
was seen. Thus, ciriging TO that slight
spar within her arms, the mother drifted
out upon the dark and unknown sea that
ron round All the world. ."-Dombey and
Son, rol. 1, chap. / .
Its very near the sea; | hear the
waves The light about the head il shin
ing on me as / 90, The old. old fashion
that came in with our first garments. and
will last unchanged until our race has run
its course, and the wide armament is rolled
up like a scroll. oh thank God for that
older fashion yet. o., Immortality And
look upon us, angels of young children.
when the swift rivdr bears MS 10 the
ocean. ."-ibid. choy b7.
"In this round world Of many circle.
within circles. do we make n weary iour-
ney from the high or tde to the low to find
at last that they lie clPse together. that the
Two extremes touch, and that our jour
ney $ end is but oua starting placc?"-
Ibid chnp. 81.
II am going to Hehven, The sunset il
very near and the child who went tf>
Heaven rose into the golden air and van
lshed The Chttd's Story.