71. Q. How is the more than human character of Jesus further displayed in his thus identifying himself with the poor? A. In the fact that he was yet able to do it without eliciting any feeling of partisanship in them.
72. Q. What is noticed first of all in the teaching of Christ? A. The perfect originality and independence of his teaching.
73. Q. What is not to be detected by any sign in his teaching? A. That the human sphere in which he moved imparted anything to him.
74. Q. By what methods does he not teach? A. He does not teach by the human methods.
75. Q. In what particular does he never reveal the infirmity so commonly shown by human teachers? A. He never veers a little from the point, or turns his doctrine off by shades of variation to catch the assent of multitudes.
76. Q. What is one remarkable fact that distinguishes Christ from any other known teacher of the world? A. Words could never turn him to a one-sided view of anything.
77. Q. What was the relation of Christ to the superstitions of his times? A. He was perfectly clear of all the current superstitions.
78. Q. Of what did Christ never take the ground or boast the distinction? A. Of a liberal among his countrymen.
79. Q. What is a remarkable and even superhuman distinction of Jesus in regard to the simplicity of his teachings? A. While he is advancing doctrines so far transcending all deductions of philosophy, and opening mysteries that defy all human powers of explication, he is yet able to set his teachings in a form of simplicity that accommodates all classes of minds.
80. Q. What form for truth was Jesus first able to find? A. A form for truth adequate to all the world’s uses.