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Henry Drummond, early New Thought leader, teacher, writer

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Henry Drummond's

Pax Vobiscum

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Pax Vobiscum - Effects Require Causes - What Yokes Are For - How Fruits Grow - The True Vine Contents


and sorrowful enough without being fettered with yet another yoke?

     It is astounding how so glaring a misunderstanding of this plain sentence should ever have passed into currency. Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for? Is it to be a burden to the animal which wears it? It is just the opposite. It is to make its burden light. Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plough would be intolerable. Worked by means of a yoke, it is light. A yoke is not an instrument of torture; it is an instrument of mercy. It is not a malicious contrivance for making work hard; it is a gentle device to make hard labour light. It is not meant to give pain, but to save pain. And yet men speak of the yoke of Christ as if it were a slavery, and look upon those who wear it as objects of compassion? For generations

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