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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 432, 15 February 1909, Page 4

: : Canon : GJazebroqk delivered'' the fourth Warburton.-Lecture in Lincoln's Inn"Chapel ■?n,_S»nday,..December 6. .He discussed■ the idea • of.: sacrifice,'." a commoiij phrase that ;migbt; be applied, to* overyVeligious-action.". The: impulse-to "sacrifice;was one of those touches of Nature'which made the whole world akin, s,"Allusion was made to the Greek sacrifices in the "Iliad and Odyssey " I anu -the libations poured on the victim as' offerings to'.the 'gods; and to Totemisin, in .which•; the sacred ;animal •■ of 'the tribe was' sacrificed as offering, aftefwards the-victims : being- taken T .from, domestic ' animals. As luxury', advanced -'and Animal food became more;, general 'sacrifice' was often an excuse for the feast. Tho similarity:was pointed. out Detween.■•'. the Homeric sacrifices' and those moritioried in times of, Samuel. In. tho Prophets wo mot with degradation of sacrifice, as in.lsaiah. The sixth century B.C. witnessed: a great, revival of sacrifice for communion.' : Plato's "Republic" on public religion was. alluded to and his criticism of the Orph 10 rites. • Demosthenes and , Euripides, "critic of Greek, orthodoxy," were alsoment'ioned undor this head. The Greeks felt the need for, this "communion-with tho Divine which is one-of the deepest and best of the longings of,tho human.breast." ■■ . .'■-.. Wooda' Grbat Peppsrnilnt Cute for Couilv »ai.Colds never fails, Iβ, 6i aad 2a. fid.,. CS'