Word: altare
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...which is not attended with risk. We close our eyes to all danger to limb and life when questions of business are concerned. If the world can afford to sacrifice the lives of men for commercial gain, it can much more easily afford to make similar sacrifice upon the altar of vigorous and unsullied manhood. The question of a life, or of a score of lives is nothing compared with that of moral purity, human self-restraint, in the interests of which, among college men, outdoor athletic sports contribute more than all other agencies combined. As a matter of fact...
...eliminate the doctrine of atonement from the text we see that its real meaning is that Christ by laying down his life became the redeemer of the world in several different relations. First, Jesus by the shedding of his blood cleansed the divine altar contaminated by the sins of men, thus providing an open path by which man can approach the throne. Secondly, the shed blood of Jesus cleanses the man himself making him pure and clean and invigorating him with the energy of a new life. In this verse, however, the author is thinking of the shedding...
...roar of the sea, the growl of thunder and the flaring of lightning,- all are manifestations of God's presence. In early times my forefathers had no cathedral but the earth, no ceiling but the sky above their heads, no floor but the ground beneath their feet, no altar lights but the moon and stars; yet then was religion most real and most accessible to them...
Sacrifice originated in the idea that the dead needed ministry and care, and the necessary things were brought and laid on the graves, the first altars. Then it was thought that by bringing their gifts to the altar, they entered into close relations with their God and formed ties of loyalty to him. The next step made it a necessity that the gifts to the god should be of the finest and these the people willingly gave. And we tonight to come close to God, must give to him the finest and dearest that we have...
...senior of today may differ from the man of the world of next fall intellectually and morally but the principles of each are the same. The principles of the true university life go hand in hand with those of the true social life. The socalled new life, like the altar, is but the old structure rebuilt but a structure showing the touches of a hand of skill and experience...