Article June 10, 1944 Issue

Jesus as a Teacher

GLADYS P. DOMERATZKY

When we are asked to teach in a Christian Science Sunday School might we not do well to consider not only what Jesus taught, but those qualities which Jesus exemplified in his role of Teacher?

One of the outstanding characteristics of Jesus as Teacher was the authority with which he spoke. On page 26 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death." This authority astonished those who heard him when he taught on the Mount of Olives, for there was nothing equivocal in his statements. They were not empty words, such as the people were used to hearing from the scribes.

And why could Jesus teach with authority? Those who speak with authority on any subject speak convincingly because they know their subject; they know from experience something about the law, or laws, governing the phenomena of which they speak. Jesus' subject was always man in relation to God, in relation to his fellow man—man, the image, the idea, of God. He was always definitely aware of his own relation to God. He knew himself to be the Son of God, always at one with infinite Life, Spirit; he knew that each individual man, in his real status, is likewise always at one with the divine Mind and in harmonious relationship with his fellow man, because subject to God's law of absolute good.

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