It is also true, and I cannot help assenting to it, that it is a very easy form of virtue.

It is a more difficult form of virtue, quietly and unostentatiously to obey what we believe to be God's will in our own lives.

It is not very easy to do it; and it makes much less noise in the world.

It is very easy to turn upon somebody else who differs from us, and in the guise of zeal of God's honour to attack somebody of a difference of opinion, whose life may be more pleasing to God and more conducive to His honour than our own.

And when it is done by persons whose own lives are not free from reproach and who take that particular form of zeal for God which consists in putting the criminal law in force against others, that, no doubt, does more to create a sympathy with the defendant than with the prosecutor.