Dissect, investigate, and weigh the Master's teaching word by word, and each syllable will repay you. You shall beat them in the mortar of contemplation, with the pestle of criticism, and their perfume shall but become the more apparent. You may ring the changes upon his words, and never exhaust their music: you may consider them by day and by night, but familiarity shall not breed contempt. The words of Jesus are not so, they never lose their dew, they never become threadbare. The first time you hear them they will strike you you may hear them again and still admire their sentiment, but you shall soon weary of their repetition, and call them hackneyed and over-estimated. You shall take a needle which is highly polished, which appears to be without the slightest inequality upon its surface, and you shall put it under a microscope, and it will look like a rough bar of iron but you shall select what you will from nature, the bark or the leaf of a tree, or the wing or the foot of an insect, and you shall discover no flaw, magnify it as much as you will, and gaze upon it as long as you please. The works of man will seldom bear close inspection. We have often repeated those memorable words, and they have brought us much comfort but it is possible that we may never have looked deeply into them, so as to have seen the fulness of their meaning. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."-Matthew 11:28-30 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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