say that the sight of his guest looking out through the glass sides would not be forgotten. You have reached your place, and you desire to make a good impression; but you are in such haste that you leap down from your cart, or gharry. Well, if a lady should do this in China or India, she might just as well in America if she desired to make a good impression upon a new friend, approach this friend's house skipping, or on the run; or a gentleman might just as appropriately vault a fence to get over into the yard, instead of entering by the gate where he was going to make a call.—H. P. Beach, "Student Volunteer Movement," 1906.
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Calmness—See Confidence.
CALMNESS IN A CRISIS
Speaking of that "anxious moment" in the decisive battle of Königgrätz before the arrival of the Crown Prince in the rear of the Austrians, Bismarck, according to Mr. Schurz's autobiography in McClure's Magazine, related the following incident showing von Moltke's coolness:
It was an anxious moment, a moment on
the decision of which the fate of the empire
depended. Squadrons of cavalry, all mixt
up, hussars, dragoons, uhlans, were streaming
by the spot where the King, Moltke, and
myself stood, and altho we had calculated
that the Crown Prince might long have appeared
behind the Austrian rear, no sign of
the Crown Prince! Things began to look
ominous. I confess I felt not a little nervous.
I looked at Moltke, who sat quietly on his
horse and did not seem to be disturbed by
what was going on around us. I thought I
would test whether he was really as calm as
he appeared. I rode up to him and asked
him whether I might offer him a cigar, since
I noticed he was not smoking. He replied
that he would be glad if I had one to spare.
I presented to him my open case in which
there were only two cigars, one a very good
Havana, and the other of rather poor quality.
Moltke looked at them and even handled
them with great attention, in order to ascertain
their relative value, and then with slow
deliberation chose the Havana. "Very good,"
he said composedly. This assured me very
much. I thought, if Moltke can bestow so
much time and attention upon the choice
between two cigars, things can not be very
bad.
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Calmness of Pupils—See Discipline Among Children.
CALVARY, ANTICIPATING
Overbeck, the celebrated German painter,
in one of his immortal canvases, represents
the child Jesus at play in Joseph's workshop.
He is fashioning sticks and blocks
into the shape of a cross, as if anticipating
and rehearsing in his tender years the
tragedy of Calvary. Child as he is, even in
his play the serious work of his life looms
up before Him.
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Canadian Resources—See Money Power in Canada.
Candles, Illustrations from—See Illustrations
from Candles.
CANT
A professor, addressing an academic audience,
warned his hearers against cant. At
the close, questions were invited and one of
the students asked the professor, "What is
cant?" "There is a kind of religion," was
the reply, "which is natural to an old woman,
and there is another which is natural
to a young man; but if the young man professes
to have the religion of the old woman,
that is cant."
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CAPACITY
You do not preach to the acorn that it is
its duty to become a large tree; you do not
preach to the art-pupil that it is his duty to
become a Holbein. You plant your acorn in
favorable soil, where it can have light and
air, and be sheltered from the wind, you remove
the superfluous branches, you train the
strength into the leading shoots. The acorn
will then become as fine a tree as it has vital
force to become. The difference between
men and other things is only in the largeness
and variety of man's capacities.—James
Anthony Froude.
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CAPACITY LIMITING SUPPLY
You can limit the working of almighty
power, and can determine the rate at which
it shall work on you. God fills the water-pots
to the brim, but not beyond the brim;
and if, like the woman in the Old Testament
story, we stop bringing vessels, the oil will
stop flowing. It is an awful thing to think
that we have the power, as it were, to turn
a stopcock, and so increase or diminish, or
cut off altogether, the supply of God's mercy
and Christ's healing and cleansing love in
our hearts. You will get as much of God
