In one sense, and that the highest sense of all, Christ is Himself the only bearer of our burdens, or of the burdens of our brethren. He is the only bearer of the burden of our sins. He took that burden upon Him at his Incarnation; He bore it, and so bore it through a life of perfect obedience to the will of his heavenly Father, that He for ever bore it away when He finished his sacrifice of expiation and propitiation on the Cross. The bearing of this burden none other shared with Him, and, it is evident, none other could share; for even He, mighty as He was, sustained in his human nature by a divine personality, seemed in the garden of Gethsemane to stagger for an instant under that tremendous burden. He trod the winepress alone, and of the 'people there was none with Him.'

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