This will explain the reason why, when "THE WORD was made flesh and dwelt among us," He so frequently delivered precepts,--yea, preached whole Sermons,--on what would now-a-days be called mere "Morality." He was _republishing the Moral Law_. He was graving afresh those letters which had been wellnigh worn out through tract of Time, and the wear and tear of Man's ungoverned lusts.--Hence, to this hour, when question is raised of Right and Wrong,--the appeal is made, by the common consent of Christian men, _not_ to the inner consciousness of the creature, but to the Creator's external Revelation of His mind and will. Let abler men explain to us what we mean when we talk about Immutable Morality. I am by no means sure that I understand myself. Sure only am I that it will carry us a very little way. Aristotle would never have made the average moral sense of mankind his standard, had _he_ known of a λόγος θεόπνευστος. The principles of Morality do indeed seem to be fixed and eternal;--ἀεί ποτε ζῇ ταῦτα:--but it is no longer true, οὐδεὶς οἶδεν ἐξ ὅτου 'φάνη. Ever since the Gospel came into the world, _general opinion_ has ceased to be the standard of Truth: for the Bible has simply superseded it; and put forth a standard to which "general opinion" itself must bow. "_I_ am the Way, _the Truth_, and the Life." So spake the Eternal SON while yet on Earth. And He foresaw that there would come a day when the world would still ask, with Pilate, "What is Truth?" Accordingly, we heard his solemn reply in this Morning's Second Lesson--"THY WORD,"--"THY WORD is Truth." ... "GOD made two great lights," I grant you: but what I maintain is, that He made "_the greater Light_ to rule _the Day_."