Many
references to the word "yoke" occur in the Old Testament; and in nearly every instance the thought it carries is of something grievous and burdensome.
A young
boy, who had attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a Christian Science church for the first time, commented to a friend, "Wasn't it strange that every one who spoke kept saying, 'I'm so grateful'?
In
the light of Christian Science, the Bible ceases to be a mere record of historical events, a collection of mysterious, perplexing, and contradictory statements, or a succession of wise counsels, good enough maybe but perhaps felt to be limited in scope, and sometimes deemed applicable only to a bygone race in a bygone age.
S. Britton R. Foster, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,
It can unquestionably be assumed that one reason for the prominence given to a news item in your issue of recent date relative to a woman who had died without medical attendance, was the fact that in the same issue so many people were recorded as having done the same thing with medical attendance.