Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Social Redemption chapter{Section 4II TRUE AND FALSE CULTURE "F I "HE Spirit of the Lord God is upon I me; because the Lord hath anointed JL me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." We are accustomed to associate and blend this lofty prophetic utterance with the thought of its fulfillment in the Saviour of mankind. Let us, however, consider it in the light of its original meaning and application. It refers to " the Servant of Jehovah." This term, as used in the book of Isaiah, refers to a little group in Israel, its "saving remnant." It means those men of the nation who, in the midst of all its vicissitudes, remained true to its highest mission. They were the thoughtful few of the nation who steadfastly kept their hearts and minds upon abiding truths, and who, in the midst of the shadows, kept their eyes fixed upon the guiding star of Israel's ideals. They represented the culture of Israel. In other chapters of Isaiah they are so referred to, as in the fiftieth chapter, where the Servantof Jehovah represents himself as uttering his prophetic message, "With the tongue of the learned." In its prophetic blending of the human and the divine, the Bible throughout is mediatorial in its estimate of humanity. It is ever giving to us a wonderful succession of pictures of God, of the human race, and of the great leaders of the race standing between God and mankind, revealing the Infinite to the finite, the divine to the human, and ever bringing them closer together. The philosophy of Scripture solves the question of individual and social life. It is ever showing us that the individual fulfills his personality as he gives himself to the s...