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
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.' _Matthew_ xi. 28--30.

The words of the Lord in the former two of these paragraphs, are
represented, both by Matthew and by Luke, as spoken after the
denunciation of the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum; only
in Luke's narrative, the return of the seventy is mentioned between; and
there the rejoicing of the Lord over the Father's revelation of himself
to babes, appears to have reference to the seventy. The fact that the
return of the seventy is not mentioned elsewhere, leaves us free to
suppose that the words were indeed spoken on that occasion. The
circumstances, however, as circumstances, are to us of little
importance, not being necessary to the understanding of the words.

The Lord makes no complaint against the wise and prudent; he but
recognizes that they are not those to whom his father reveals his best
things; for which fact and the reasons of it, he thanks, or praises his
father. 'I bless thy will: I see that thou art right: I am of one mind
with thee:' something of each of these phases of meaning seems to belong
to the Greek word.

'But why not reveal true things first to the wise? Are they not the
fittest to receive them?' Yes, if these things and their wisdom lie in
the same region--not otherwise. No amount of knowledge or skill in
physical science, will make a man the fitter to argue a metaphysical
question; and the wisdom of this world, meaning by the term, the
phi