The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-11
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON sY
REV. JOHN HOWARD MELlSH.
Theme: Jesus the Teacher.

H.. .
"He taught them as one having au.
thority and not as the scribes Mr..
Nelisb said.
There are two famous books in the
English language which deal with
men and vocations Of Influence and
leading in the life of the race
Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship"
and Emerson's "Representative
Men " In the Indictment of one great
American thinker the professions.
yocations or activities which have
counted most. bv reason Of the men
who have filled them. are the philoso.
pher. the mystic the skeptic. the
poet the man of the world and the
writer To these tasks or callings
CARLYLE adds. what he calls the dIvin.
ity. the prophct and the priest. IL Is
the omission in this list of representa-.
tive heroes which is significant: every
great calling has its representative
except teaching. The teacher is not
classeG, by those thinkers. among
poets, philosophers. warriors as
worthy OF hero worship.
II is dlmcult sometimes to distin.
guish between the teacher and the
poet or writer, for the great artist
has always taught. And yet the poet
IS primarily the artist and secondarily
the teacher; whereas the teacher uses
the beauty of form only as a means
of imparting his teaching. Bjornson,
whose death the world laments. was
I'm the words of an admirer. FIRST of
all teacher and fighter and prophet
not a shaper of beautiful forms.
To him the form was always subordi-
nate 70 the spirit, art to life" The
first concern of the teacher is truth.
and the passion of his soul is TO i'm.
part IL 10 his fellows. AS the ambas.
sador Of truth the teacher has played
a part IN history which, I believe, is
far more influential than anv Of tbe
vocatiOns in the list of CARLYLE and
Emerson. Who is the most powerful
influence in China to-day and has
been for twenty-five centuries? A
humble teacher by the name of Con-
fucius, who taught few disciples the
flve relationships of life. over the
lives OF India's millions who holds.
after countless generations, widest
sway, but Guiana Buddha, a teacher
who gathered about him a few scho-
lars and taught them the way to Mir
yara? Warriors reshape kingdoms.
but are themselves merely names to
the next generation, philosophers
reach few intellects only, poets are
hOnored, and little read. But teach
ers great teachers, have entered into
the llVes or individuals and civiliZa-
tons and endure.
In the gospels Jesus ia alvavs
called the Teacher. In the King
James version the title master is the
incorrect translation of the Creek
didaokalos (didaskalos) and the re-
vised version has rightly changed this
word to teacher. Jesus was recog-
nized in His day as a Teacher and
was so addressed by His coutemnora-
res.
Our generation Is eager 10 know
.he Jesus of history. as no century he
fore us has been. Back TO Jesus"
may be taken as the motto of the
modern historical Bible study. we
are not interested primarily in the
problems OF theology which have con-
sumed the thought of Other centrrios
We 90 not deny what the past has
thought and written about Tho nerson
o Jesus Christ, Logos. Hypostasig.
atcning sacrifice. But the Thought of
our day largely ignores II and faeIc
that the effort to define His narson-
ality has been mlsdirected About
the person of Christ we believe with
Tennyson:
Thou eaonesf human aud di,.;,
The highest hoIiest u'anbNod Tio,,.
Our Wills are ours. we know not how
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine
But what interests our generation
deeply and profoundly "a what Jasus
thought His outlook on life and So
ciety, His attitude toward the uni-
verse His method OF Meeting tba
storms and yiclseitudes of life Tis
purpose and hone for the world III.
TO use the title OF DIR NcClelIand's
book--which commend TO ali of
you az one of the most genuinely
Christian books OF the day, a sfudv
OF which will lead Won nearer to
Christ and give you a deenor .nd
more intelligent faitb in Him-tbe
Mind OF Christ" which interasts
earnest and thoughtful man onJ
women to-day.
Wherein Law the authority NJ Tasrs
as a teacher?
There are those who say that in
terest in the teaching nf Jasus do
pends upon faith IN tbe doctrina
about His person. that were II NOT For
the church's insistence on the dogma
OF His divinity the world won1d not
be concerned about His mind prt
such men overlook one tbinp-it was
the common people who heard Hin
and recognized the AUTHORITY With
He taught. What knowledge had tho
multitude of the church's doctrInos9
urag In