Is it not an arbitrary distinction of theologians, that which makes two rites to be sacraments and others not?
But if the distinction is to be made at all, I should apply the solemn word to the solemnest rite and the holiest ordinance of God's, even if I left out the sacred washing in the name of the Trinity and the broken emblematic bread and the wine.

These are sacramental in their solemn symbolism, that in the solemnest symbolism and the holiest reality.
August's whole attention was now turned toward the coming judgment; and as he stood thinking of the awfulness of this critical moment, the exercises of the Adventists grated on the deep peacefulness of his spirit, for from singing their more beautiful hymns, they had passed to an excited shouting of the old camp-meeting ditty whose refrain is: "I hope to shout glory when this world's all on fire! Hallelujah!" He and Julia hung back a moment, but Mrs.Abigail, who had recovered from her tenth trance, and had been for some time engaged in an active search for Julia, now pounced upon her, and bore her off, before she had time to think, to the place of the hottest excitement..