Chalippe, Father Candide, on miracles of saints, 224. 
Channey, Maurice, on fall of the Charterhouse, 302. 
Channing, William E., on various manifestations of the ascetic
     spirit, 385;
  on exaggerations of monasticism, 415. 
Chapter, The,
  defined, 144;
  of Mats, 228. 
Chapuys, despatches of, to Charles V., 297. 
Charity, of monks, 348, 410;
  true and false, 348, 412;
  Bernard, Jacob of Vitry and Lecky on abuses of, 411;
  as a passport to Heaven, 411. 
Charlemagne, 118. 
Charles V., Emperor, Pole writes to, 296;
  Chapuy’s despatches to, 297. 
Charterhouse, of London, 191;
  execution of monks of, 301, 334;
  and the progress of England, 343.
  See Carthusians. 
Chartreuse, Grand, monastery, 189. 
Chastity, vow of, in Pachomian rule, 61.
  See Celibacy. 
China, asceticism in, 20. 
Chinese monks, Father Bury on, 20. 
Christ, see Jesus Christ. 
Christian clergy, character of, in the fourth century, 77. 
Christian ideal, tending toward fanaticism, 129. 
Christian discipleship, nature of true, 390. 
Christianity, asceticism and apostolic, 27, 28, 31;
  conquers Roman empire, 71, 76;
  endangered by success, 77;
  in Rome in the fourth century, 79;
  Lord on same, 80;
  is opposed to fanaticism, 94;
  in ancient Britain, 123, 161, 162;
  Clarke on, 171;
  Mozoomdar on essential principle of, 359;
  requires some sort of self-denial, 390, 418, 419;
  monasticism and, compared, 420;
  monasticism furnishes example of, 422.
  See Britain and Church. 
Chrysostom, becomes an ascetic, 84;
  brief account of life of, 116;
  monastic cause furthered by, 117. 
Church, Christian, the triumphant, compared with church in age of
     persecution, 109;
  ideal of, furthers monasticism, 129;
  and the barbarians, 149;
  of the thirteenth century, 206;
  its life-ideal, 369;
  its union with paganism, 370.
  See Anglo-Saxon Church, Britain, and England, Church of. 
Cistercian Order, the monks and rule of, 192;
  decline of, 193. 
Citeaux, Monastery at, 192. 
Civic duties and monasticism, 399.
  See Monasticism. 
Clairvaux, Bernard of, see Bernard;
  Monastery of, 193. 
Clara, St., Nuns of, founded, 228. 
Clarke, William Newton, on Christianity of first and second
     centuries, 171. 
Clarke, James Freeman, on Brahmin ascetics, 20. 
Classics, Jerome’s fondness for the, 95;
  the monks and the, 405. 
Clement XIV., Pope, dissolves the Society of Jesus, 279. 
Clergy of the Christian Church, 77. 
Clinton, Lord, on the work of suppression, 311. 
Cloister, 426.
  See Monastery. 
Cluny, Monastery at, 177;
  the congregation of, 178. 
Coke, Sir Edward, quoted, 329. 
Columba, St., his church relations, 162. 
Commissioners, The Royal, appointed to visit monasteries