The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-26
THE MESSIAH.

ridian-street NJ f. Church.
Rev. DIR. Bayliss, Of Cincinnati, editor Of the
Western Christian Advocate, preached yester-
day morning at Meridian-s street NJ E. Church to
q large audience, the sermon being in the inter
est OF foreign missionaries, and was followed by
recollection, the proceeds to- go for the further
Ance of missionary work The Doctors text
was specially applicable to the object, being the
Isaiah:
Behold my servant whom uphold; mine elect in
whom my soul deiighteth; have put my spirit upon
kim he shall brig forth judgment to the gentiles.
He shall not cry, lift up cause his voice to
be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break and the smoking
lax shall he not quench; he shall bring forth judgment
unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set
Judgment in the EARTH and the isles shall wait for his
law.
This is the utterance of an inspired prophet
concerning the Messiah and the establishment
Of the Messiah's kingdom ia this world-a sub
ject of such magnitude that it is impossible for
human beings with limited knowledge and ap-
-prehension to comprehend it fully. There are
three distinct and important facts here concern
Ing this Messiah. the first TWO bearing upon the
third. The first fact is that this Messiah s the
favorite of God-"my servant and mine elect
and Immediately there follows the expression
Sin whom my soul deighteth."
II have put my spirit upon Him'-we see that
this Messiah in going forth on His great mission
does not go at his own charges, He is not kind
of orphan taking up painful and lonely task,
but Ia accredited by the Almighty God, and the
elect one in whom He delights. You see in the
text that this Messiah is gentle and tender
hearted. He is NOT an inspirer of mobs, He
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but goes quietly on in his great work
efrevolution. He is so loving and tender that
He will not break even reed that is bruised
fax that is on fire and easy put out he will not
quench
In this you see how he differs from the his
e0ric conqleror. Here is a man who proposes to
subdue this whole world to himself, and in order
to do it will employ only gentleness and love.
sand He shall not fail nor be discouraged till He
have set Judgment in the earth; and the isles
shall wait for his law This world, SO full of
righteousness its dark places full of cruelty it's
high places SO full of pride, its insolence of pow
all this, and to make the nations righteous.
What undertaking to make righteous
one city; and here is one who proposes to
establish righteousness everywhere. There Is
the assurance of God that His purpose will be
Rceomplished-"H shall not fail This prog
ress is slow. Will not this gentle spirit get dis
couragedl VIII He not sit down in despairl No.
'He shall not fail, nor be discouraged" On and
on is He marching. This Messiah of God shall
have cheerful heart and hopeful spirit. The
islands are separated from the mainland. They
shall wait and wait for His law, and His law
shall come Our Lord does not get discouraged,
but we dove who have lived long enough to see
some revolutions that we did not think would be
accomplished. There was slavery. We knelt
before God and asked him to take that curse
away and we lived and waited in a kind Of dull
despair The system of slavery had taken such
hold upon this Nation that we thought it
eould hardly be put away Many OF
as lived through the great war. and what dark
days were those and there were times when we
thought this fair Republic would be torn and
rent How slow today goes this temperance re-
formi We go on and build orphan asylums, in
ebriate asylums, jails and penitentiaries, and
intemperance fills them all. Still we don't
touch the curse, but go on building for its &C
commodation. Sometimes We grow discouraged
Rbont It.
But nothing is settled in this world until it is
settled right, and as long as there is upright
sousness among men, there will be want of
peace Why is this labor question stirring this
Nation, and Europe as well as Ainericag 1t Is
the old conflict between the strong and the
weak, between labor and capital. 1t has been
son1ing on great while The under man never
made as much of an effort TO stand on his feet as
now. And now, as he appears as if he was going
TO get up, he does not know how to act, and
seems to be growing criminal.
like every now and then to read such pas
sage as this from the book of God. and then ask
myself how He is getting on with this great IN
dertaking. What are the signs of His progress2
is this world any better than it used to beg
Eighteen hundred years have gone by since the
Messiah was on earth. Are there any t.aces of
redemption anywhere in this worlda Easter
morning is the time to raise this question.
What mean these flowers about this atari
What kind of an institution is Easter Sundays
Go up and down in the earth-throEgh Europe,
Asia Africa, America, the Sandwich Islands,
Australia, and the lands Of the southern cross
travel all round this earth and you will find
things of this kind The time has come when the
human race looks with brighter smile on Easter
morning Historically. it means that the Lord
rose this day from the dead. That he was cru
cited and buried, and this earth sailed once
around the sun carrying the King of Glory in IT'S
bosom. How the powers of darkness must have
Feioced Around tho sun the world sailed the
ether sea carrying thu body of the dead Messiah,
but when the third morning dawned tile faithful
women found the grave opened and the Master
was gone He was risen. Jesus not dead any
longer. bnt risen, and these Easter flowers point
TO the triumph that ought to fll us with joy and
hope. You disconsolate people who think His
progress is slow look upon these Esster flowers
and be happy for a moment, for Christ IS risen.
These the offerings OF the church, laid at the
teet Of conqueror. II is no small matter that
The world is largely adorned this morning with
these symbols of inspiration and hope. re-
loiced this morning when ] heard the music,
There is a tone OF victory in 1t.
While the world has not yet accepted the spir-
itueligtic, the civilized world has accepted the
moral standard of the gospel. Whether aware
OF IL or not the appeal of civilization is to the
gospel standard. Ingersoll himself would not
think to go back to the standard of Seneca. The
ethics Of the gospel are in the air. You cannot
Bet away from them. Revolutions in government
50 by the gospel standard. The old theory was
eenlfaiization-the ruler everything, the subject
nothing. Haman asked an edict to destroy the
Jews and il was granted. That was government
ef she old type. Herod heard price was born