Nobody speaks so sternly against sin as Jesus and those who believe His gospel; but yet it forever stands true, “This man receiveth sinners.” There is a passage in the Psalms which makes the Lord do for us what one would have thought we could have done for ourselves—“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.” Surely, if a sheep can do nothing else it can lie down. Yet, to lie down is the very hardest thing for God’s sheep to do. It is here that the full power of the rest-giving Christ has to come