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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt:... YEAR. THE INVITATION. The figure is taken from oxen, who submissively i yield to the yoke of their master. It is allied also to 'our word subjugation, which comes etymologically from two Latin words, sub and jugum, and signifies going under the yoke. It refers to a war custom among the ancients of putting two spears together with the points touching in the air, the staves spread beneath, and then forcing a conquered army, disarmed, to pass in a file under it; thus they were subjugated' "--C. S. Robinson. Henceforth they belong to the new kingdom, and submit to its laws and requirements, The contrast was almost inconceivable between the yoke of the Roman government and that of Christ's kingdom. Christ's Yoke And The Yoke Of Sin.--No one can escape from bearing a yoke of some kind. The yoke men had been bearing was chiefly the yoke of Satan. They were serving with him and for him. And his yoke is always galling. The yoke of pride, ambition, selfishness, of fashion, of worldliness, of sin and remorse, of selfindulgence, of sensuality, of covetousness, is always a heavy, bitter, galling yoke, an Egyptian bondage. It is a yoke with Satan, a going in his company, and receiving his reward. It costs something to be a Christian; it costs much more to be a sinner. Some complained of the missionaries in Harpoot, because they required each convert, on joining the church, to promise to give away one-tenth of his income; but they replied that this was but a small part of what their heathenism used to cost them. Even in Massachusetts five times as much money is spent for strong drink as for schools or churches. It may cost something to go to church. What worldly pleasure or haunt of sin serves its votaries so cheaply? And Ye Shall Find Rest.--There are two kinds of...