The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-14
JESUS And THE RICH MEN
HE WAS THEIR GUEST AND LAY IN
A RICH MANS TOMB.
by the Teacher of Nazareth-Dr.
TayIOr's Sermon.

tDr. w. {. Taylor, who resigned as pastor
of College-avenue Baptist Church to ac-
cept call TO Petersburg, Va, preached
before large congregation yesterday. Al
though his church requested the with
drawal of his resignation he has decided to
go to Petersburg and will close his work
I'm this city the last Sunday in September.
At his earnest request the resignation was
reluctantly accepted at the prayer meeting
last week.
He preached in the morning on Jesus,
the Amounted Preacher" He said in part:
Judged by all ordinary standards of men
no one ever offered as little promise of be-
ing the preacher that he was as this man.
He was struggled as an infant into Naz-
areth in order to escape death at the hands
of Herod. In the city of Galilee he spent
much of his life, a place so lacking In
learning and SO devoid of civic righteous
ness that guilessness itself could not see
how any good could come out of it. AS
a lad he followed the goats and other chill
dren about the streets, went on errands
for his mother, played in the shop of his
father, handled the tools and learned to use
them himself and grew up i'm such an in
significant way that many knew his face.
but knowing not his name referred to him
as the carpenters One day he laid
down the tools of the shop, went away.
leaving behind him a sort of empty void.
BY and by he came back and on the Sab
bath day went back to the synagogue and
sat down in his place and when services
began he went forward to take part in the
service, as pious Jew has q right to do
The spirit of the Lord was upon him.
The spirit of the Lord is ever the same.
The power and mission of that spirit Is ever
the same, it is unchanged.
THE spirit of the Lord is the spirit of
gladness The gospel is the glad tidings
of salvation. 1t is Gods message of glad
ness to a sorrowing world. 1t is addressed
to the poor, not that they are to be neg
lected- Jesus was not forgetful of the rich.
He was their friend, they were his friend.
he was often a guest in their homes, and
when he died it was rich men that lifted his
BODY from the cross and one of them gave
MS own tomb for a burial place for Jesus
ABOUT all the gladness that thousands of
the poor nave in this world is what comes
through the gospel. Ground in the mill of
endless toll, wearing out life and strength
In the fight for bread with only bare
there, they have little that this world Of
fers apart from the Lords spirit TO give
gladness to the poor. The man or the
woman a,r IAN, clothed with the Lords spirit to-
DAY brings gladness to the poor. He opened
their eyes to the light Of the beautiful
world and their hearts to the world of
Gods grace. He fed them when hungry
and then showed them how to receive the
bread OF eternal life. They heard him
gladly: they hung upon his gracious words,
they drew nearer and nearer to him He
filled their souls with gladness The dis
ciple is like his master He Iabors to make
glad with that gladness which is unchange-
able and eternal, because Ii Is not that
spirit OF the world, but the spirit of the
Lord; 1t Is gladness which comes into
the heart through a personal knowledge
Of the Christ, of sins forgiven. of IovsI
love TO the master of peace and joy.
SPIRIT OF DELIVERANCE
TT is spirit of deliverance To heal the
broken-hearted, 20 preach deliverance to
the captives. and recovering of sight to the
blind In other words, the mission of the
spirit Of the Lord is deliverance. The same
spirit is in the spirit-anointed man of In
dianapolis as was in the spirit anointed
man of Nazareth. 1t is the glorious mission
of the man anointed by the spirit of the Lord
To bring deliverance to the captiyes The
poor sin-imprisoned soul is not free. He
can be set free by the man anointed by the
spirit OF the Lord. The man or woman
anointed with the spirit of the Lord is the
one that comes TO preach deliverance to the
captives, to recover sight into the blind.
The spirit OF liberty. Taking the world
altogether, there is sweeter word than
liberty. Liberty is the dream of thousan ds
of the worlds oppressed. How they want
to come to our land from lands beyon.3 the
seas. Theirs is a land of Oppression. ours
is land of liberty. There their inherent
rights are taken away from them. here
they are secured and protected There they
are tools Tor monarchs and machines Tor