The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03

was therefore easy ana reStIul. Anu
how truly is this expressed, where
his consciousness is implied, in the
words, "Come unto me, all We that
labor and are heavy laden, and L will
give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me; and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. For my
yoke is easy, and my burden is light"
Not promising cessation from toll, not
giving any to believe that his rest is
state of idleness or torpor, he
teaches us that it is largely in labor;
that it is in duty, with the soul at one
with him.
2. In the next place, let us consider
that Jesus rested in change of activ-
ity. When his body was tired and
weak, his soul was fresh and strong.
When his feet were weary, his hands
were ready for Offices of help. When
his hands must await their returning
strength, or he must sit by the way
side, he could speak truths and make
them live forever in the air. When
his lips were faint unto death, and
the last words were wrung from them
in agony, his soul could trust in its
God and mount upward to him with
sublimity on which the faith of the
ages has been fixed.
Jesus rested in spirit, in the range
of a many behaved and full toned
life. When the lower notes failed or
weakened, he chose the higher which
were clear and strong. Once he
journeyed with his disciples from
Judea to Gallilee. They came unto
Jacobs we'll, near Sychar, in Samaria,
about the noon hour. His disciples
were hungry and he was exhausted
with the long journey. While they
were gone into the city to buy bread,
he sat on the we'll resting. A Samar-
itan woman came shortly from the
city to draw water. He spoke to her
and she to him, in an unusual inter-
change of words, for it was not GUS
tomary for Jew to speak to a Sa-
marian, especially man to wo-
man. He chose the occasion to dis
course to her, and one Of the most
spiritually vigorous and helpful dis
courses the Master ever uttered, he
spoke when sitting weary at the we'll.
On certain day at Capernaum,
Jesus said to his apostles, "Come ye
yourselves apart in desert place and
rest awhile" They went over the sea
and into the country beyond, but
multitudes went before them and
others came by chance journeying to
the holy city, and they were not idle
in the place. They surely did not
expect to do a great work in this
place apart. They expected change
of scene; may be, hours of quiet.
They found change of scene; and
their rest was in the change, for the
work was greater than that they had
been doing in Capernaum.
When tired in body and at rest,
Jesus was usually ready to respond
to mems calls. Asleep in the ship,
he arises and speaks the word unto
others which gives them peace, and
finds, may be, the rest he lacked in
the rest he gave. At another time he
was at Capernaum, and departed to
the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, and
entered there into house and would
have no man know it; yet he was
found and while he hesitated before
the expression of want in that distant
place and by other than an Israelite,
he answered the entreaty of faith,
and possibly hesitated to test the
genuineness of faith in other than
Israel.
The rest of the body was not hence
beset with torpidity of soul. He
lived in some part of his being in
every day and hour of his life. And
the spiritual life to which the material
was subject had the whole world, if
needful, as its field of changeful ex
ercise.
With every man change is rest.
He does not find rest in mere idleness
Doing nothing for while is the
hardest work, as paradoxically con-
fessed. Sitting in one posture for
long time tires. Doing one thing
continuously jades. One can walk
with more ease, and longer, without
exhaustion up slopes and down than
on level continuously, where only one
set of muscles is called to act, because
over the varied path many muscles
act in playful alienation.
The student should find rest in
physical exercise, and does so find it.
The mechanic should find the book
or the magazine a source of recrea-
ton, and he should not labor SO hard
with his hands, or should not neglect