EXAMPLE.
If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet: ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.—John, xiii. 14, 15.
Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.—I. Timothy, iv. 12.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.—James, v. 10.
Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.—Jude, i. 7.
Taught this by his example, whom I now
Acknowledge my Redeemer, ever blest!
Milton.
Since great examples justify command,
Let glorious acts more glorious acts inspire,
And catch from breast to breast the noble fire.
Pope, from Homer.
His faults, that in a private station sits,
Do mainly harm him only that commits:
Those placed on high a bright example owe,—
Much to themselves, more to the crowd below.
A paltry watch, in private pocket borne,
Misleads but him alone by whom ’tis worn:
But the town-clock that domes or towers display,
By going wrong, leads half the world astray.
C. C. Colton.
Ye who look for great examples
O’er the wide historic page:—
Teachers, who with good ensamples
Would the thoughts of youth engage!
To the sacred record turning,
There behold the perfect man!
There the light, for ever burning;
Match its lustre, if you can!
Imitate the Great Example,
Humbly as a Christian should,
Ever like that bright ensample,
Speaking well and doing good.
Egone.