Cornelius Tyree
We all know the importance of example. The instinct of imitation is seen in the child, long before he is capable of any other instruction; and, in after life, the same propensity is discovered in the almost universal conformity of our morals and habits to those of the people around us. It is very humiliating, but we must see things as they are, and there is no disguising the fact, that the gospel has been, and is, shorn of its power, not so much by any defect in the learning and eloquence of the pulpit, as by the sad discrepancies which the world detects between the teachings of the Sabbath and our conduct during the rest of the week.