yourselves then, brothers and sisters; he to whom the Son will reveal
him shall know the Father; and the Son came to us that he might reveal
him. 'Eternal Brother,' we cry, 'show us the Father. Be thyself to us,
that in thee we may know him. We too are his children: let the other
children share with thee in the things of the Father.'

Having spoken to his father first, and now to his disciples, the Lord
turns to the whole world, and lets his heart overflow:--St Matthew alone
has saved for us the eternal cry:--'Come unto me all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'--'I know the Father; come
then to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden.' He does not here
call those who want to know the Father; his cry goes far beyond them; it
reaches to the ends of the earth. He calls those who are weary; those
who do not know that ignorance of the Father is the cause of all their
labour and the heaviness of their burden. 'Come unto me,' he says, 'and
I will give you rest.'

This is the Lord's own form of his gospel, more intensely personal and
direct, at the same time of yet wider inclusion, than that which, at
Nazareth, he appropriated from Isaiah; differing from it also in this,
that it is interfused with strongest persuasion to the troubled to enter
into and share his own eternal rest. I will turn his argument a little.
'I have rest because I know the Father. Be meek and lowly of heart
toward him as I am; let him lay his yoke upon you as he lays it on me. I
do his will, not my own. Take on you the yoke that I wear; be his child
like me; become a babe to whom he can reveal his wonders. Then shall you
too find rest to your souls; you shall have the same peace I have; you
will be weary and heavy laden no more. I find my yoke easy, my burden
light.'