Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-08
TELLS OF CHRIST
AS MANS TEACHER
DR.. BURDETTE TALKS TO THE
PEDAG0GUES
Says Jesus Preached for a Little
While and Then Passed the
Rest of His Life in
Teaching

Rev. Robert ]. Burdette preached to
the teachers at Temple Baptist church
yesterday on 1.-The Divine Diploma
taking for his text John 3:1-"R Rabbi,
we know that thou art Teacher come
from God"
This was the title men gave to Jesus
Christ. In the four gospels, wherever
you find the title Master in the old
King James version, you will ind in
the marginal reading, if not in the body
| of ~the American revision, the better
and the correct word teacher
The young ruler knelt at his feet
crying, Teacher, what good thing shall
1 do that 1 may inherit eternal life?
Teacher, cried the enthusiastic dis
ciple, L will follow thee whithcrsoever
thou goest.' The Pharisees sent their
disciples to him saying, Teacher, we
know that thou art true
Christ says to his disciples after he
had knelt and washed their feet, 'Ye
call me teacher, and Lord; and ye say
well; for so l am 1t was the dear,
common. familiar title by which men
called him. He began his public min
istry by an act of obedience and conse-
Grafton. He went down into the crystal
grave of baptism, buried for one solemn
moment to all the old life of home and
occupation; of earthly kinships; of hu
man plans and purposes. Then, rising
to the new life, girded by the will of
his Father, for just a little while he
preached, thrilling the souls of men
with the call to repentance, and then
for the rest of his life on earth he
entered upon his blessed ministry of
teaching.
with splendid terseness and vigor
all this is summarized in score of
in the first chapter of
Marks gC-pel-'In those days Jesus
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and
was baptized of John in the Jordan.
And straightway the spirit driveth |
him forth into the wilderness. And he |
was in the wilderness forty days, |
tempted of satan. Now after John was
delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee |
preaching the gospel of God, and say
ing, The time is fulfilled and the king
dom of God is at hand; repent we and |
believe in the gospel And the.r go into |
and straiGl.tway on the |
Sabbath day he entered into the syna- |
gogue and taught And they were
astonished at his teaching, for he
taught them as one thai had authority, |
and not as the scribes.
Teaching Wearisome Work
"Wearisome work teaching. A steady |
drain on the vitality; strain on the |
nerves; a draft on the intellectual |
powers; a tax on the physical strength; |
exacting toll that fatigues mind and |
body alike, so that the sweet sleep that |
olesses the night of the laboring man is
)ften denied the school teacher who
works with body and brain and soul
'or the wages of street sweeper.
'Wearisome because often the same
hing must be taught the same pupil
1ver and over and over, with the IA
iguing drudgery of reiteration. Nearly
900 years ago a teacher named Isaiah,
,ut of his own disappointments that
lever discouraged him, and his weari-
less that never made him faint, cried:
Whom shall he teach knowledge,
md whom shall he make to understand
he message? For precept must be up
N precept; precept upon precept; line
lpon line; line upon line; here a little
md there little
''The soul of every teacher responds
o the irksome tagging of the prophets
ines, whether you teach in the sweet,
ruSting atmosphere of a kindergarten
IS one who teaches in garden of bios
oms and butterflies, or in the great
lass rooms of the university, or the
stations oe the public
chools, or the respectable Jail rooms
f the average district schools, or the
cumming CONFUSION or Gunday school
DOM, the overstrained task-work of
night school Where teachers and pu-
ills alike spur the exhausted faculties
S man drives a tired horse-all
eachers know the weariness that goes
and in hand with the uivine joy of
eaching.
I'm all the world of toilers no one
1ore dearly earns, no one more sorely
eeds the Sabbath peace that gives the .
ilken rest that soothes our cares and
trengthens us to noble deeds.'"