Channing, William Ellery
William Ellery (1780-1842), an American clergyman. He was a native of Newport, Rhode Island , and a graduate of Harvard College. He studied medicine, taught in Virginia, took up theology, and entered upon his first charge at Medford, Massachusetts. He preached his first sermon from the text, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee." In 1803 he had a call to Boston. In 1819 he preached a famous sermon in which he announced two articles of belief. He declared the Bible to be "a book written for men, in the language of men, and its meaning to be sought in the same manner as that of other books." He also declared his belief that Christ was a great moral teacher; no more, no less. This made him the recognized leader of the Unitarian movement in New England , a position which he held until his death. He was also an earnest advocate of the abolition of slavery, supporting the views of Garrison. He was a man of wide reading and a fine writer. His life was simple and fearless. He was a man of unaffected piety. He was respected thoroughly, even by those who could not accept his views. Coleridge said of Channing, "He has the love of wisdom, and the wisdom of love." A bronze statue of Channing stands in the public garden in Boston, opposite the church of which he was long a pastor. See Unitarians
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Channing, William Henry
William Henry (1810-1884), an American clergyman. He was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard in 1829, entered the Unitarian ministry, preaching with much success in several American cities. He was a fine extemporaneous speaker. Later he settled in England as pastor of Hope Street Chapel in Liverpool. He was for two years chaplain of the Senate at Washington, but after the Civil War resided continuously in England. He published Memoirs of Dr. William Ellery Channing, Life and Writings of James H. Perkins, and, in connection with Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Freeman Clarke, Memoirs of Madame Ossoli. To live content with small means--to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion--to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich--to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly--to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart--to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.--William Henry Channing.
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Chanson de Roland
shon-son' de rolon', a French epic poem of medieval times. This poem seems, like other folk-epics, to be a collection or composite of popular songs. The Chanson de Gest (shon-son' de zhest), literally song of heroic deeds, was a special form of narrative poem popular in France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, corresponding to the ballads of old England. These songs were sung or recited by trouveres or minstrels. The Chanson de Roland is a cycle of these songs celebrating the heroic exploits of Charlemagne, and giving especially the story of Roland's death at Roncesvalles in 778, and the revenge taken by Charlemagne upon the Saracens. The French poem contains over 4,000 lines. This song of Roland, as the epic is commonly called, was the most popular heroic song of the Middle Ages . When on his way to conquer England William the Conqueror had parts of it sung at the head of his troops for the inspiration of his soldiers. The gathering together of this cycle of songs is accredited to Turoldus, a Norman trouvere of the eleventh century. Many of the songs date probably from a time little later than the event of Roland's death. See Roland ; Epic ; Trouvere; Ballad
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Chantibun
or CHANTABON, an important ant commercial port of Siam, near the mouth of the Chantibun river, in the Gulf of Siam. Pop. about 30,000.
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Chantilly
(shän-te-ye'), a town of France in the department of the Oise, 25 miles N. N. E. of Paris, celebrated for a variety of lace made here and in the neighborhood; for the splendid château, u, built by the great Condé, but leveled by the mob at the revolution; and also for another palace built by the Duc d'Aumale after the estate came into his possession in 1850, which, along with the fine domain, was presented by the duke to the French Institute in 1887. It is a horse-racing center . Pop. about 7,500.
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Chantrey
SIR FRANCIS, an English sculptor, born near Sheffield, April 7, 1781; was the son of a well-to-do carpenter. Even in boyhood his chief amusement was in drawing and modeling figures, and he was apprenticed in 1797 to a carver and gilder. In 1802 he commenced work for himself at Sheffield by taking portraits After studying at the Royal its in crayons. London he eventually settled in the Royal Academy in metropolis, where he presented numerous busts at the exhibitions of the Royal as the first monumental sculptor of his time. In 1816 he was chosen an associate and in 1818 a member of the Royal Academy. He was knighted in 1835. "Sleeping Children," in Litchfield Cathe- His most celebrated works dral; the statue of Lady Louisa Russell, are the in Woburn Abbey; the bronze statue of William Pitt, in Hanover Square, London; a statue of Washington, in the Sta Horner, Canning, Sir J. Malcolm, etc., in State House, Boston; and statues of Westminster Abbey. His best works are his busts, but his fulllength figures beanatomy, and several of his equestrian tray an insufficient acquaintance with statues are still more defective. He died Nov. 25, 1842.
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Chanute
Neosh peka and Santa Fe, and the Missouri, Neosho co. It is on the Atchison, To- Kansas and Texas railroads. It has several industries of importance , including glass works, brick and cement plants, It is the center of an extensive oil and tool works, flour mills, oil refineries, etc. 10,286. gas district. Pop. (1910) 9,272; (1920) a city of Kansas, in Han-Kiang, in the province of Kwang-
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