The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-26

Come and rest" You know as yor
hear his voice that you are not mere
cogs in this or that machine, but bro
theirs of Jesus the strong Son of God
Come unto me all We that are heavy
laden says he. How well he knows
US. He knows that it is not so much
the hard work which is wearing sons
OF us out, as rather the old debt OF
mortgage. Not the crush of new en-
terprise SO much as the claims OF old
habit. Not che calls 10 new service
but rather the pressure of deadwei9Nl
burdens Which we can neither snare
nor shift. We can stand hard labor
for life, but the bondage of duty some
times seems uncomfortable. 1t holds us
down like a body Of death. Oh; if we
could but straighren ourselves UP, and
take one full, free breath. Come unto
me-" says Jesus, I'll rest you And
as We talk, with him he cuts off part
of our burden; he takes part <f II upon
himself, and the rest of it he adjusts
so tenderly that we go away singing
This burden is light. HIS yoke is easy.
His burden is light"
Ali sorts of labor and burden bear
ing, all sorts OF struggles and stress,
all manner of WEAKNESS, anxiety and
care are sure of Christ's interest. One
labors until the body is faint; another
until his brain feels like lump Of
lead; another until his heart is sick.
One searches for work until there is
no more heart in him; another searches
for answers to hard questions until the
light within him seems going out in
darkness; still another struggles with
something of the masters agony TO
win or hold the love of his own. Here
one is weary with we'll doing, tired as
Jesus was when he went to sleep in
the face of the coming storm; there one
is bowed down with sorrow, and the
burden is so sore we are afraid to
touch it; and away yonder on the edge
of the crowd is man or woman
fairly staggering under the load of
sin. So l see Jesus looking into the
eyes of everyone of you-no matter
what your burden, What your struggles,
what your WEAKNESS may bel see Je-
sus looking into your very heart and
hear him saying: Come unto me and
rest"
Come, says the master. You must
do the coming. that is all. He will give
you rest. But you must come your
self, else how can he give you rest?
You cannot expect to be rested by
proxy. Each soul, each life, has its
own disquietudes; each soul, each life,
must have it's own rest. And Christ
says he will give it. All you have got
TO be is restless; all you have got to
do is come.
How shall you come? Push your
way through your mob of cares: break
away. if needs be, from the caresses
and pleasures of sin; thrust aside dis
trust, shamefacedness and fear, and
get as close as you can TO the mind
and heart of Jesus. 1t will rest you.
Do not take my word for it, but try it.
Come and do not stand on the order of
your coming. Come any way, only
come.
Come unto me, says Jesus. The des-
tination is everything, the road you
take to reach it is nothing. You must
get to Christ Are the creeds too much
for you? Go around the creeds, but
get to Christ. Are the churches too
cold or too corrupt for you? Never
mind the churches, get to Christ. When
you read the Scriptures are You
troubled by things hard to understand?
So was Peter. Do not puzzle over the
pages; turn them down.
Think of the life of Jesus. Get to
Christ Are your ideas of God vague?
Your ideas of duty with distinctness
and vigor? Your belief in the reality
of divine inspiration shadowy? You
have only the more reason for getting
to Christ. One of the divinest leaders
of our generation once said: ''All there
is of God to me is bound up in that
name-all that is tangible, restful. ac-
that / know is of him and
in him." AS Jesus himself has said:
mo man cometh unto the father but
by me. ! am the way, the truth and
the life. Come unto me and rest