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Excerpt from Moral Courage: A Sermon Preached in Marquand Chapel on Sunday Morning November 5, 1893
A virtue in action always impresses us more deeply than the same virtue described eloquently or demanded in a code Of nibrals imperatively. The law of the Lord is perfect. We give instant and full assent to this truth. We admire the moral perfection. But when in the life of Jesus Christ we see perfect righteousness living and mov ing among men, Speaking their language, mingling in their society, toiling, suffering, dying, we are moved as no abstract conception of righteousness could possibly move us. The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. We catch these words as they fall from the lips of the Great Master only to feel their force and beauty. But when we read in the story Of the gospels how the Good Shepherd gave his life for the sheep, then for the first time we catch the fulness Of glorious meaning there may be in a self-sacrifice.
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