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...merely by his own independent will, but by various influences of which it is only partially conscious; and these influences are summed up in a battle cry, a flag, a party name, a sign, which often has more meaning than many words. The sacramental principle, the representation of inward emotion by outward signs, runs through the world and is a necessity of human life; much more is it a necessity when we are trying to represent heavenly things. The Christian Sacraments are federal or social arts, not arts of worship. The word itself implies the oath which binds the soldier...
Meanwhile Thoas becomes suspicious at the delay and demands that the sacrifice proceed. Iphigenie, finding procrastination no longer possible, reveals to the king the identity of herself and her brother and beseeches him for mercy. After an inward struggle, the king relents, pardons the brother and sister, and permits them to return to their native land...
...expresses a purpose which no other individual can express. When a lover loves, he has but one object of his affections; yet in praising this object, he describes a type. Does he love a class of women or a single woman? If another had the same face, voice and inward sentiment as the one "perfect Woman," would he love both? If he did, he would have neither true love nor true loyalty, which, if he possessed, would hold him faithful to his one ideal. We may hold an idea in common with another being and we are linked to that...
...sufficient answer for the college man of the past. For the present, until some great crisis like the Civil War arises, there can be no decisive answer to the charges against our practical loyalty. But outward enthusiastic demonstration must be taken as the partial expression at least of an inward feeling; and there has been no lack of outward expression of interest in politics this fall...
Salvation is thought by some to be an escape from hell, and by others to be a state of pleasurable emotion; but its real significance is in changing the permanent element in a man, which we call character. Thus salvation is a transfer from the world of inward confusion to the world of peace and serenity. It is wrought by human decision and by grace through faith...