Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-08
REST FOE THE WEARY

In the Midst of This Fierce Life strug-
gle-Extract From a Discourse Yess
terday by Rev. Mr.. Mason.
The Rev. John b. Mason took for his
text at the service yesterday from Matthew
11:xxix: 'Learn of me, for am meek and
lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto
your souls"
Here in single word, said the pastor,
We have a rule, reason and result. The
rule-Iearn of me; the reason-for I am
meek and lowly of heart; the re.ult-ye
shall find rest unto your souls. Soul rest;
1t is the universal human need. Not many,
perhaps, know exactly what they want.
But everybody in the midst of this force
life struggle must sooner or later reach
the hour in which his tossed and battered
soul cries out more than for all else for
rest. Granting, then, that the result
named here is the result for which We are
al xious, we must make our way back
over the course which is shown us a. lead
ing to the result desired,
This morning We are to think of a life,
of the ono life which overshadows all other
| life that ever ran Its course in this world
of ours This morning we are to take OF
sacred symbols, the bread and the cup;
and trust We may find in them the real
dogmatic sense, but a more real presence
even than that. To day I trust we may
find and may commune with the very
spirit of the lord Jesus Christ as we par
| take of these symbols which portray his
great sacrifice 1t ia good time to hear
| this word: Learn of me. Jesus is too
nI real a presence even in Christian lives.
1 mean by that we allow too many things
to get into our hearts and to divide our
affections. We allow too many elements
| in our thoughts which somehow make
war with and crowd cat the better
elements which ought to hold undisputed
sway there.
He came to take captive our hearts, our
thoughts, our desires, to fix a new center
for our lives, a new motive for action and
new star for our hopes. He came to
teach us how to live and to fix our sffec-
tions on things abeve-the real, the endur-
ing things.
To-day I want to bring you to the feet
of this teacher who says ''learn of me-"
because in the first place he is a teacher
who came down from heaven; othsr teach
ers within your reach are earth-born. Be-
cause in the next place he understands his
pupils SO we'll. Because in the third place he
understands human life and human needs
so we'll. Because in the fourth place he is
more anxious to teach us than We are to
learn. Because In the last place, to mics
him when we might have him Is to miss
life's richest opportunity. 1t is to make q
dark failure of the life which might SO
easily have become Respondent success.
Ny friend, am anxious this morning at
this blessed table, that We should get very
near to Christ am anxious that to-day
and tomorrow, and all our lives we may
make his presence in us felt by all who
know us. I know that happiness will
come to you and to me when we succeed
in forgetting ourselves and living to make
others happy. The life of sel6shness can
never be the meek and lowly and the rest
full life. And the human life which has
learned the lesson of the text, and which
has become all irradisted with the spirit
of Christ, is the life that Eliminates this
dark Warld