heart with a sense of unfitness, with the fear, perhaps conviction that
the promise was not for him; as if some one might say, 'Alas, I am
proud, and neither poor in spirit nor meek; I am at times not at all
hungry after righteousness; I am not half merciful, and am very ready to
feel hurt and indignant: I am shut out from every blessing!' the Lord,
knowing the multitudes that can urge nothing in their own favour, and
sorely feel they are not blessed, looks abroad over the wide world of
his brothers and sisters, and calls aloud, including in the boundless
invitation every living soul with but the one qualification of unrest or
discomfort, 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest.'




_THE YOKE OF JESUS._

At that time Jesus answered and said,--according to Luke, In that hour
Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said,--'I thank thee, O Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and
prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it
seemed good in thy sight.

'All things are delivered unto me of my father; and no man knoweth the
son,'--according to Luke, 'who the son is,'--'but the father; neither
knoweth any man the father,'--according to Luke, 'who the father
is,'--'save the son, and he to whomsoever the son will reveal
him.'--_Matthew_ xi. 25--27; _Luke_ x. 21, 22.

'Come unto me, all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give