The Old Testament is often spoken of by thoughtless people as a yoke of bondage. But if the Old Testament be a yoke of bondage, the New must be also. Its requirements are at least as difficult.
Christ did not introduce a lower standard of conduct in His Sermon on the Mount. The one who takes the New Testament as his standard has got as hard a master as the Jew who found a yoke of bondage in the Old Testament.
The man who accepts them both and lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, instead of trying to live up to some of them, finds in both Old and New Testament the power of God unto salvation.--Present Truth, November 22, 1900.
E.J. Waggoner