...appeared to hear these sounds issuing audibly from the lifeless lips of the figure — "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." She obeyed the call thus echoed from the bottom of her heart; she prostrated herself before the cross....

...to hear these sounds issuing audibly from the lifeless lips of the figure — - "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." She obeyed the call thus echoed from the bottom of her heart; she prostrated herself before the cross....

...cold and dark, and I groping my way in darkness. I wish I could do as the Lord says. Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest. Oh, for that rest." Here, at fourteen, is star dust for all the planetary movements of later years:...

...nostalgically about his desire for "some definite universal heart of whom the declaration 'Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest,' were true" (124). In this sense, as Roger Asselineau has argued, Dreiser should be seen not just as...

...than a myth or a fancy. He is more of God than all others; and when he says to me, "Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavyladen and I will give you rest," it means life to me; and when I go on the wings of prayer, I fly back with a blessing. I wish there...

...makes the qualification for approach to Him not human possession but human need, "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest"! The wedding-bells of Ruth at Bethlehem were the same bells which sounded at the marriage-supper of...

...least a kindly word; some definite universal heart of whom the declaration were true 'Come unto Me all ye that are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest.' " A countless "cloud of witnesses" could have assured the Theodore Dreisers of this world that the...