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 by an Indian Theist* of tbe day unto whom every day with its round of rites, ordinary or occasional, nithya or naimitthika — whether new year’s day or wedding-day, birth-day or ‘ naming ’-day, love-feast day or bereavement-day, conference-day or congregation- day, working-day or holiday — is nothing if not supremely ‘ sacramental ’ as in the Saints ’ Calendar ! In the apt, expressive words, once again, of Dr- Estlin Carpenter, “ so warm and rich a sense of the Heavenly Presence with all its varieties of grace, so glowing a gratitude for the wonders of existence and all the atfections *and hopes which life inspires!” Aye, all the spontaneous outdow, all the variegated wealth, all the beauteous brightness of* human language, though in an alien tongue, remarkably laid under contribution and rendered up for responsive ‘ converse ’ with High Heaven And then, the transporting experience of oneness tcWi (rod confirming and consecrating the endearing emotion of, oneness in God ,* so that, as has been remarked, the minister is seen self-identified, not alone with the