Matthew 9:16

New cloth; or, as the margin, raw or unwrought cloth, not yet dressed or fulled, and liable to shrink upon being wet.

Taketh from the garment; namely, when by shrinking it tears itself from it. Very much of a person's usefulness depends upon the correctness of his judgment as to the time and manner of doing things, and upon his doing things which are not only right in themselves, but adapted to the circumstances in which he is placed, and to the character and condition of those whom he labors to benefit.