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Chapter 8—The Teacher Sent From God
“His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6
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In the Teacher sent from God, heaven gave to the human race
its best and greatest. He who had stood in the councils of the Most
High, who had shared in the innermost sanctuary of the Eternal,
was the One chosen to reveal in person 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 who throughout the ages had declared God’s word
to mortals. Of Him all the excellencies revealed in the earth’s greatest
and most noble souls were reflections. In Him was found the perfect
ideal.
To reveal this ideal as the only true standard for attainment;
to show what every human being may become; what, through the
indwelling of humanity by divinity, all who receive Him may be-
come—for this, Christ came to the world. He came to show how
the children of God are to be trained, how they are to practice the
principles and live the life of heaven.
God’s greatest gift was bestowed to meet humanity’s greatest
need. The Light appeared when the world’s darkness was deepest.
Through false teaching the minds of men and women had long been
turned away from God. In the prevailing systems of education,
human philosophy had taken the place of divine revelation. Instead
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of the heaven-given standard of truth, people had accepted a standard
of their own devising. From the Light of life they had turned aside
to walk in the sparks of the fire that they had kindled.
Having separated from God, their only dependence being the
power of humanity, their strength was but weakness. They were
incapable of reaching even the standard set up by themselves. The
want of true excellence was supplied by appearance and profession.
From time to time teachers arose who pointed minds to the
Source of truth. Right principles were enunciated, and human lives
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