Everything was being taught by the servants, nothing by the Master.

When I want to know your wishes, deacon, about any matter in which we are mutually interested, I do not go to your back door and inquire of your servants: I go to you, direct.

But when people--you among the number--have talked to me about religion, they've always talked Peter and Paul and James and John,--never Jesus." "The Apostle Paul--" began the deacon, but the lawyer snatched the words from his lips, and continued: "The Apostle Paul was the ablest lawyer that ever lived.

I've studied him a good deal, in past days, for style." "Awful!" groaned the deacon.
"Not in the least," said the lawyer, with fine earnestness.

"He was just the man for his place and his time; 'twas his business to explain the new order of things to the hard-headed Jews, of whom he had been so notable a representative, that to convert him it was necessary that he should be knocked senseless and remain so for the space of three days: you remember the circumstance?
He was just the man, too, to explain the new religion to the heathens and pagans of his day, for those Greeks and Romans were a brainy lot of people.