Victims Led to the Slaughter

"The heathen were wont to hang garlands around the necks of the beasts which were about to be slain at the alter, and to crown them with roses as they led them to sacrifice." -Thomas Manton. Many are thus decked with the ornaments of wealth and mirth on the way to the slaughter. Ungodly man may be garlanded with social distinctions, scientific attainments, and courtly honors, and yet be no better than bullocks devoted to the axe, at the altar of the god of the world. How little availed the...