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A Child's Book of Saints, by William Canton
The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Child's Book of Saints, by William Canton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: A Child's Book of SaintsAuthor: William CantonIllustrator: T. H. RobinsonRelease Date: July 20, 2007 [EBook #22112]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ASCII*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHILD'S BOOK OF SAINTS ***Produced by Al HainesA Child's Book of SaintsbyWilliam Canton
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With illustrations byT. H. RobinsonThis is fairy gold, boy; And I will prove it so. --ShakespeareEvery man I will go with thee, be thy guide in thy most need to go by thy side.LondonPublished by J. M. Dent & Co.and in New York byE. P. Dutton & Co.First Edition, March 1906.Reprinted May 1906.EDITOR'S NOTE."A Child's Book of Saints" was first published in 1898, when Mr. Canton had already found his audience. Thebook is a near successor indeed to his "W. V.: Her Book," and to "The Invisible Playmate"; and W. V. againacts as guardian elf and guide to this new region of the child's earthly paradise. The Saints are here treatedwith a simplicity that is almost or altogether childlike, and with an unforced imagination which is only to belearnt by becoming as a child. And this is perhaps why, although comparatively a new book, it has the air of something pleasantly old, and written long ago; and thus wins its way into the children's library of oldfavourite authors.Mr. Canton's published works, up to January 1906, comprise:--"A Lost Epic, and other Poems," 1887. "TheInvisible Playmate: a Story of the Unseen," 1894, 1897. "W. V., Her Book and Various Verses," 1896. "AChild's Book of Saints," 1898, 1902. "Children's Sayings, Edited, with a Digression on the Small People,"1900. "The True Annals of Fairyland" (The Reign of King Herla), 1900, &c. "In Memory of W. V." (WinifredVida Canton), 1901. "The Comrades: Poems, Old and New," 1902. "What is the Bible Society?" 1903. "TheStory of the Bible Society," 1904. "A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society," 1904. "Little Handsand God's Book: a Sketch of the Bible Society," 1804-1904, 1905.ContentsIN THE FOREST OF STONE THE SONG OF THE MINSTER THE PILGRIM OF A NIGHT THEANCIENT GODS PURSUING THE DREAM OF THE WHITE LARK THE HERMIT OF THE PILLARKENACH'S LITTLE WOMAN GOLDEN APPLES AND ROSES RED THE SEVEN YEARS OFSEEKING THE GUARDIANS OF THE DOOR ON THE SHORES OF LONGING THE CHILDREN OFSPINALUNGA THE SIN OF THE PRINCE BISHOP THE LITTLE BEDESMAN OF CHRIST THEBURNING OF ABBOT SPIRIDION THE COUNTESS ITHA THE STORY OF THE LOST BROTHERTHE KING ORGULOUS THE JOURNEY OF RHEINFRID LIGHTING THE LAMPSList of IllustrationsWomen lived the life of prayer and praise and austerity and miracle
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"These are the fields in which the Shepherds watched"Hilary wondered and musedA gaunt, dark figure, far up in the blue Asian sky"Come not any nearer, turn thy face to the forest, and go down""I am not mad, most noble Sapricius"They won their long sea-way home"And four good Angels watch my bed, two at the foot and two the head"And again in the keen NovemberThe eight hundred horsemen turned in dismay"Surely in all the world God has no more beautiful house than this"St. Francis of AssisiItha rode away with her lordKing Orgulous
 A saint, whose very name I have forgotten, had a vision, in which he saw Satan standing before the throne of God; and, listening, he heard the evil spirit say, "Why hast Thou condemned me, who have offended Thee but once, whilst Thou savest thousands of men who have offended Thee many times?" God answered him, "Hast thou
once
asked pardon of me?" Behold the Christian mythology! It is the dramatic truth, which has its worth and effect independently of theliteral truth, and which even gains nothing by being fact. What matter whether the saint had or had not heard the sublime words which I have just quoted! The great point is to know that pardon is refused only to him whodoes not ask it.
COUNT DE MAISTRE.A Child's Book of SaintsIn the Forest of StoneLooking down the vista of trees and houses from the slope of our garden, W. V. saw the roof and spire of thechurch of the Oak-men showing well above the green huddle of the Forest."It is a pretty big church, isn't it, father?" she asked, as she pointed it out to me.It was a most picturesque old-fashioned church, though in my thoughtlessness I had mistaken it for a beechand a tall poplar growing apparently side by side; but the moment she spoke I perceived my illusion."I expect, if we were anywhere about on a Sunday morning," she surmised, with a laugh, "we should seehundreds and hundreds of Oak-girls and Oak-boys going in schools to service."
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