old labors was upheld by the sustaining
power of His presence. “I can do all things,” he said, “through Christ
which strengtheneth me.” “Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded,
that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor
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any other created thing (Rotherham’s translation), shall be able to
[70] separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Philippians 4:13; Romans 8:35-39.
Yet there is a future joy to which Paul looked forward as the
recompense of his labors—the same joy for the sake of which Christ
endured the cross and despised the shame—the joy of seeing the
fruition of his work. “What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?”
he wrote to the Thessalonian converts. “Are not even ye in
the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? For ye are our
glory and joy.” 1 Thessalonians 2:19, 20.
Who can measure the results to the world of Paul’s lifework? Of
all those beneficent influences that alleviate suffering, that comfort
sorrow, that restrain evil, that uplift life from the selfish and the
sensual, and glorify it with the hope of immortality, how much is
due to the labors of Paul and his fellow workers, as with the gospel
of the Son of God they made their unnoticed journey from Asia to
the shores of Europe?
What is it worth to any life to have been God’s instrument in
setting in motion such influences of blessing? What will it be worth
[71] in eternity to witness the results of such a lifework?
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The Master Teacher
“Never man spake like this Man.”
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.
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
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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.
[74] To reveal this ideal as the only true standard for attainment; to
show 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 o
