Matthew 11:30

For my yoke is easy.

The yoke that sin imposes is heavy, and bearing it brings no rest. So too the yoke of false or corrupted religion is burdensome; but Christ's yoke is easy. It is not hard to bear it because it is borne in love. His burden, even if it be the cross, is light, because he helps us to bear it.

PRACTICAL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Faithful preaching makes those who reject the message still more guilty.

Those who have the Bible, Sunday-schools, churches, and yet neglect duty, will have. fearful account.

Our privileges are not less than those of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum. If we do not repent it will be more tolerable for those of Sodom in the day of judgment than for us.

There is. future Judgment,. judgment beyond the grave. Men will be judged according to their opportunities and punished according to their degree of guilt.

One must "be converted and become as. little child" in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. It is childlike spirits which are open to spiritual light and truth.

Christ invites us to come. Men can either accept or reject the invitation. All who accept it will hear Christ say again, in the judgment, "Come, ye blessed of my Father." All who reject it will be rejected of Christ in that day.

Christ's yoke is easy because we love him.. little girl ironing clothes was asked by. visitor if it was not hard to do such work. "Ah," said she, "it is not hard to do something for my mother."

POINTS FOR TEACHERS.

1. Note the opportunities that the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum had enjoyed; Christ's presence, his example, his teaching, his miracles. 2. Note the difference in the opportunities of Tyre, Sidon and Sodom; no gospel, few opportunities. 3. Observe the judgment pronounced upon the Galilean cities, and the ground of that judgment. 4. Point out the proofs here that the wicked inhabitants of Sodom were not annihilated; that there is. future judgment, that men will be judged and punished according to opportunity, that the fate of cities and nations depends on their moral condition. 5. Show how the Lord's "woe" upon these three cities has been fulfilled; that their sin was the rejection of Christ, that some present in the class may be guilty of the same sin. 6. Show that the proud, the great, the puffed up, the worldly wise are blind to the revelation of divine truth, and why? Why, too, it is revealed unto babes. 7. Bring out the full meaning of the Gracious Invitation. We do not have to beg to come; nor is he indifferent; he invites. 8. Note who invites. It is the Lord, the Divine One. It is the weary and the heavy laden who are invited. 9. Note that they are invited to come to him, and told how to come; by taking his yoke, and by learning of him. 10. Observe the promise; REST, rest to the soul.