For in Rest there are always two elements--tranquility and energy;
silence and turbulence; creation and destruction; fearlessness and
fearfulness. This it was in Christ.

It is quite plain from all this that whatever else He claimed to
be or to do, He at least

Knew how to live.

All this is the perfection of living, of living in the mere sense
of passing through the world in the best way. Hence His anxiety to
communicate His idea of life to others. He came, He said, to give
men life, true life, a more abundant life than they were living; "the
life," as the fine phrase in the Revised Version has it, "that is
life indeed." This is what He Himself possessed, and it was this
which He offers to mankind. And hence His direct appeal for all
to come to Him who had not made much of life, who were weary and
heavy-laden. These He would teach His secret. They, also, should
know "the life that is life indeed."

II. What yokes are for.

There is still one doubt to clear up. After the statement, "Learn
of Me," Christ throws in the disconcerting qualification:

"TAKE MY YOKE upon you, and learn of Me."

Why, if all this be true, does He call it a YOKE? Why, while
professing to give Rest, does He with the next breath whisper
"BURDEN"? Is the Christian life, after all, what its enemies take