Chapter 8—The Teacher Sent From God
“Consider Him.”
“His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6
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In the Teacher sent from God, heaven gave to men its best and
greatest. He who had stood in the councils of the Most High, who had
dwelt in the innermost sanctuary of the Eternal, was the One chosen
to reveal in person to humanity the knowledge of God.
Through Christ had been communicated every ray of divine light
that had ever reached our fallen world. It was He who had spoken
through everyone that throughout the ages had declared God’s word to
man. Of Him all the excellences manifest in the earth’s greatest and
noblest souls were reflections. The purity and beneficence of Joseph,
the faith and meekness and long-suffering of Moses, the steadfastness
of Elisha, the noble integrity and firmness of Daniel, the ardor and
self-sacrifice of Paul, the mental and spiritual power manifest in all
these men, and in all others who had ever dwelt on the earth, were but
gleams from the shining of His glory. In Him was found the perfect
ideal.
To reveal this ideal as the only true standard for attainment; to show
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what every human being might become; what, through the indwelling
of humanity by divinity, all who received Him would become—for
this, Christ came to the world. He came to show how men are to be
trained as befits the sons of God; how on earth they are to practice the
principles and to live the life of heaven.
God’s greatest gift was bestowed to meet man’s greatest need. The
Light appeared when the world’s darkness was deepest. Through false
teaching the minds of men had long been turned away from God. In
the prevailing systems of education, human philosophy had taken the
place of divine revelation. Instead of the heaven-given standard of
truth, men had accepted a standard of their own devising. From the
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