d be the
presumable social effects?

Second Day: The Great Initiator of the Kingdom of God

At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from
the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea,
Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. All things have
been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son,
save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him. Come unto me,
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is
easy, and my burden is light.--Matt. 11:25-30.

This is one of the most thrilling passages in the Bible. It has always
been understood as a call to intimate religion, as the appeal of a
personal Saviour to those who are loaded with sin and weary of
worldliness. But in fact it expresses the sense of a revolutionary mission
to society.

Jesus had the consciousness of a unique relation to the Father, which made
him the mediator of a new understanding of God and of life (v. 27). This
new insight was making a new intellectual alignment, leaving the
philosophers and scholars as they were, and fertilizing the minds of
simple people (v. 25). It is an historical fact that the brilliant body of
intellectuals of the first and second centuries was blind to what proved
to be the most fruitful and influential movement of all times, and it was
left to slaves and working men to transmit it and save it from suppression
at the cost of their lives.

Then Jesus turns to the toiling and heavy laden people about him with the
offer of a new kind of leadership--none of the brutal self-assertion of the
Caesars and of all conquerors here, but a gentle and humble spirit, and an
obedience which was pleasure and brought release to the soul.

These words express his consciousness of being different, and of bearing
within him the beginnings of a new spiritual constitution of humanity.

When individuals have really come under the new law of Christ, does Jesus
make good?

Would he also make good if humanity based its collective life on the
social principles which we have studied?

If the choice is between Caesar and Christ, which shall it be?

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