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Show The Rest Men Seek By WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D not only speeded it up in purpose, i but we have all the instruments and environment to make that speeding-up process terrific. The last thing that we think of is rest: nevertheless. It is the deep- The promise of rest that Jesus made to the heavy laden is unique in the annals of what has been offered to humanity by lie pro- j fessed leaders and masters. Monarchs and military leaders have offered men glory, and they have found the response of mil- j lions who would suffer and die for an intrepid and attractive j leader. j Masters and demagogues of finance fi-nance have offered the allure-menta allure-menta of wealth: and they, too, have found a response from the . masses who too trustfully have yielded themselves to be shorn of what they had. Others have offered ease and pleasure, or have dangled allurements allure-ments of adventure before humanity. hu-manity. Hut hera la Jesus who stands before the world and says. "Come unto me, all" ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" How unique He is. and how accurately ac-curately He discerns the deepest need in human life! For man cannot can-not go on. without rest It is the one thing that all men need whether they aeek it or not and that they find ultimately in the grava if they do not find it as a heritage of life. The conditions of the world, no less than thia elemental need, emphasise em-phasise what Jesus has to offer. We live in an age of unrest. Our modern life, particularly, is jumpy and bard-driven. We have est need. We cannot do without with-out it. Jesus is equally unique in the sort of rest that He offers. It is not the rest of mere ease, or of apathy, or of irresponsibility. It is the rest that comes through responsibility, and through learning, learn-ing, through discipline, through the meekness of heart that removes re-moves man from the areas of greed and violence and ambition. It is the rest that comes through bearing the yoke. The late Sylvester Horns preached a great but simple sermon ser-mon from this text in London many years ago. He drew an illustration from our Civil war, citing the type of man who was irritable and uneasy in his personal per-sonal and business relationships, whose temper made him a problem prob-lem to his family and his friends. He pictured this man voluntarily accepting the responsibility of a great cause, accepting hardship and danger without complaint finding rest and satisfaction through bearing the yoke. That truth may be found in wide ranges of life that are not associated asso-ciated with .battlefields. Paul gave a great commentary upon these words of Jesus when he said to the early Christians. "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill ful-fill the law of Christ." Can there be any 4-ral rest for those who do not know. what it j means to bear a burden Copyright 1937, for the Telegram j |