SERMON ILLUSTRATION (BY SPURGEON)
You can use this illustration in your preaching to describe moralism's fruitlessness.
Mere moralists very often forget the heart and deal exclusively with the lesser powers. Some of them say, “If a man’s life be wrong it is better to alter the principles upon which his conduct is modeled: we had better adopt another scheme of living; society must be remodeled, so that man may have an opportunity for the display of virtues, and less temptation to indulge in vice.”
It is as if, when the reservoir was filled with poisonous or polluted fluid, some sage counselor should propose that all the piping had better be taken up, and new pipes laid down so that the water might run through new channels; but who does not perceive that it would be all in vain if the fountain-head were polluted, however good the channels.
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