The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, And atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save. p. COWPER-The Progress of Error. L. 613. Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear! 9. SAM'L DANIEL-Musophilus. St. 47.

I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy, I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.

r. EMERSON-Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The Preacher. P. 215. Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.