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DR. CHAPMAN’S. SERMON A,SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR.SVANGELIST. Subject: The Seeking Savlnnr nnit s Seek ing Sinner—The San of M.n.WIth Teen in Bin Km and Sorrow In Hie Heart, le Trying to Sere lirerr One of U». , Nkv Yobk City—The sermons of the Rev. Dr. .T. Wilbur Chapman are now heard and read by more people than nre those ot any American pulpit orator. Hia style seem* to hrve made a deep impres sion on that portion of the public which like* to read it* discourse in the weekly paper. For these admirers Dr. Chapman bar prepared the following sermon. enti tled “The Seeking Saviour and a Seeking Sinne*." It is preached from the texts. ,, 7.nnrtYlone mol-n tisatfl mil MmA fiflWTl ** Zaccheus. make haate and come down, Luke 19: fi. "The Son of Man it come to seek and to aave that which was loit,” Luke 19: 10. These two texts form a part of the atory of the meeting of two men. each very dif ferent from the other. The one is Zac- eheus. the publican, a rich man beeauae he was the tax gatherer and had defrauded the people. The other ia the Son of Qod. who was rich, yet for our Bakes became poor. The one comes from the presence nf God and the company of the angels, the other down from the sycamore tree and from hia doubt, and the reault of the meeting of the aeeking sinner and , the seeking Saviour was the salvation of the sinner. This hss always been the result. If any one reading this message is not a Christian to-dgvy it is simply because he Has not aouglltjChrist in the right way. Ye shall Peek Me and shell find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. In the book of Proverbs when men seek for God as they seek for silver or for any hid den treasure then He will he found for them. It was my privilege once in Colorado to enter what is called a pocket mine. 1 saw a man engaged in work there who was pointed out to me as a graduate of Har vard College, vet he was toiling away so industriously thst he did not hear mv ap proach in the mine, and when I asked him why he was thus working he simniy stooped down nnd gathered up a handful nf dust and held it out at arm’s length «n that the light in his miner’s hst would strike npon it. and there T saw the glisten ing particles of silver. This was more elo quent than anything he could have said, and the wise man snoke truly. Put two locomotives upon the same track, both going in the same direction and nt the same rate of speed, and if the track is long enough one cannot overtake the other ex cept in case of accident, hut if they are on the same track headed toward each other, and one of them is going with the speed of the wind, while the other travels with the proverbial mail’s nace. it will he but n short time before they will come together. The -Son of Man has been a seeking Sa viour alwavs. with tears in His eyes and sorrow in His heart. He has been seeking every one of ns. The very moment we turn toward Him that moment He will claim us as His own. The division of the Hew Testament into chapters is sometimes embarrassing. Hot infrequently the division is in the midst, ot a story. Sometimes between an introduc tion in the story as is the case here. Turn hack to the alose of the eighteenth chapter of Luke end vpu read the story of Earti- maeus. Mr. Moody used to describe one of his friends stonpmg to say, "T hare rood news for you. I hswe seen the Galilean prophet, and I saw Him cause a man blind as yourself to see. and He is coming this woy speedily.” We can only imagine how Bartimneus listened for the approach of the Saviour, but finally when He did come near enough he began to shout, "Jesus Thou son of David, have mercy upon me,” and the Master gave him his sight instant ly. Following this healing of the blind man a certain rich man in the city hearing of the approach of this notable character determined to see Him, hut as he passed out of his office and mingles with the crowd he realises that the task is hope less. He is a man small of stature and the others tower head and shoulders nbnvc him, but suddenly a bright thought strikes TT- k.:n ' ...i iL. l;_i him. He Ivill go out along the highwav and climb some elevation and then behold Him as He comes near. So he climbs the celebrated sycamore tree and waits for the apnroiciiing multitude. At last his eve lights upon the Saviour. A strange fascin ation must have held him until suddenly Jesus standing underneath the tree looks up and says. "Zaccheus, make haste ana come down, for to-day I must abide at thy house," and he made haste and came down, confessed that he was a (inner, nnd immediately tha Saviour said, "The Son of Man is eojne to seek and to save that which was lost.” L He is the Son of Man. Whatever other interpretation may be given to this ex pression in Scripture this at least is true, He is presented to us in such a wajf that no one need shrink back from Him. I can well understand how men could be afraid of God. He holds the winds in His fists, and in the hollow of His hand the seas wash to and fro. but we need not be afraid of the Son of Man. Homer tells us that when Hector was parting from his wife with all hia armor on he walked by boi> side through the streets of the city until he reached the gates. Following them came the nurse with the soldier’s little child in her arms, and as he turned to leave them putting out his arms, having kissed his wife he would take bis little child to hia heart and say good-bye. The little fellow looked just an instant then burst into tears, threw hia arms about bis nurse’s neck and refused to be comforted. Hector had a ‘father’s instinct. Lifting bis hand he removed the helmet from which the plume was flying, and when the child could see the face of his father he smiled through his tears, sprang into his arms, nnd Hector kissed him and was S ue. So Jesus comes not simply as the n of God, but as the Son of Man, or, as it were, with the helmet and the plume laid aside. He was the Babe of Bethle hem, the man of Haxareth, the carpenter laboring at the bench. He was temptco in all points like as we are that no ono might shrink back from Him. Then let it not be forgotten that He came to seek. It would be a great thing that He simply came from the lost to seek them, but thai is'not Scriptural, and it would be good news if we could say that He game simplv to look for the lost, but that is not accord ing to the word of God. He is the seeking Saviour by day and by night. With tears in His eyes and blood upou His brow He seeks the lost, and as they make their way finally out toward Bethany where He is to ascend from them all He tells them that they must begin their message of the risen Christ and His forgiveness at Jerusalem. This must have been startling news -to His disciples, for His enemies lived at Jerusa lem. hnt the message of the Saviour waa that forgiveness should be proclaimed to them first. This fas* always been His R irit. Then He came to save the lost. icre is something about that word that touches every one. A lost woman, a lost mac, a lost child. There i« no heart: so hard ae not to he stirred under aftch cir cumstances. If we could but.understand what the word means there would not be a dry eye to be found among all my read er*. Il one could say it aa God felt it they would be obliged to speak the words with sobs. Without Christ we are lost. With out holiness, by this I mean the old Saxon word wholeness, that man is not complete whatever may be his natural qualifications until Christ is his. We are lost to happi ness. There is no such thing as real en joyment for the man who has pushed Christ out of bis life. There are passing moments of pleasure, but abidiug pesee ia not his. We are lost to heaven. It ia not possible to find a text of Scripture in which there is the slightest indication giveu, if this text be taken in it* proper connection, which would indicate that a man mav ever enter into heaven in any other way than through Christ. A mother took her little child into an eye infirmary in the city of Chicago. When tfw doetor had looked at the eyes of the child he gave the child hack to his mother and shook his head, and in answer to her inquiry said. "The child would bo stone blind in three months.” She drew her lit tle one up against her heart and then fell upon the floor with a shriek. “My God, my baby blind.” and this would be an aw ful calamity, but then the Saviour has said, "It'is better to be maimed and halt •mid b'md rather than to he .lost,” and every me ia lost without Christ; for all such, the Son of Man has come seeking. II. Zaccheus. When our Saviour stood be neath the tree He looked un full in the face of Zaccheus snd said. “Come down, and he came down from the sycamore tree and from his curiosity, down from Ins nride and his doubt, down to the feet of .Tesus, and he found salvation. The best thing that Zaccheus ever did was to come down, nnd so will it lie for everv one of you. 1 What can I do to he saved? Rome one is even now asking, and there is no more important question. According to the Scripture you can merely live because of your good works, and while in the one place it is said. "Work out your own sal- ration with fear and trembling, two things must be remembered. First, this is God’s message to Christians, nnd second, we can only work out what has already been worked in. “Working will not save me, Purest deeds that I can do, Honest thoughts and feelings, too, Cannot form my soul anew, Working will not save me." We must fast of all come down if we would be saved. It is only by childlike trust in Him and absolute confidence in His word that we pass from death to life. With some there must.be a coming down from pride. We roust reach the place where we will not fear what the world will A young man in a former congregation promised me that he would give up gamb ling and accept Christ. Ho assured me that his difficulty was his evil companions, and he would never he able to live a Christian life until he could leave them. He was afraid of what they would say, but at last gave me his promise that he would confess Christ the next morning. With one of his friends whose influence over him was always bad he walked to his place of business the next morning, trying all the way to make his confession, until at last the store was entered and the word* were not spoken. Finally by great effort he made his way into the store, called bis friend back and said. "I have made up my mind to be a Christian, and unless you will go with me I shall have to part company with you." Tears came into his friend’s eyes and he said, “It is the best thing you ever did; is there any hope for me." There is no one reslly worth having as your friend but what would any the same thing. If any one whose eye lights upon this page should accept Christ and confess Him the same is a coming down from morality, for what the world call* morality doea not say we are not saved because we are good, but be cause Christ is nnd always has been nnd our faith is in Him, snd every so-called moral man out of the church ia against the preaching of the minister and may be a dangerous friend for the man* who is weaker than himself, for we are our broth er’s keeper whether we will or not. With the moat of us it is a coming down from sin. and we must give that up, for if we regard iniquity in our hearts God will not hear us, neither can He save us, but the very moment we ere ready and willing to forsake all known sin He gives us the strength to do it. Just as too man with the withered hand had no power to stretch forth his hand, thst is in himself, but the moment he had the will to do it Christ gave him the power and immediately be was healed. / III. The result. When -Tesus went to the home of Zaccheus as He entered He said. “This day it salvation come to this house.” The greatest heritage a Christian child ever had left to him is a Christian home. There must have been a great change in Zaccheus before he met the Saviour. I doubt not he was selfish. I know he was sinful. After his meeting with Christ his whole family came to know God. There could bo no better position for any father to take than that taken by Zaccheus. "I will wait until my boys grow up,” said a gentleman to me recently, "and then we will all become Christians together.” I told h'm what doubtless he already knew that Noah took his hoys into the ark by going in first himself. The saddest thing in the world is to see a family divided, and divided by the most sacred things in the world. In George MacDonald’s great book on Robert Faulkcner there is a story aaid to be founded upon fact of the father of Robert Fauikener, whose life was irrelig ious. His wife had done everything she could to lead him to the knowledge of the Saviour. Finally just before she died she had a dream. Bhe left the dream for her husband, which resulted in his conversion. She said. "I dreamed that I bad died and entered into the other world, and I searched everywhere for you, Andrew, but I could not find you. At last I came to an abyss that was, oh. so very deep, but not so very “wide, mad it was tinted with blue like the blue of the sky, when suddenly on the other side I saw yon. I gave a cry that all the universe must have heard, when suddenly taming abont I saw one coming toward me. He bad a wonderful face. He had on a garment which came down to His feet, snd as He cams nearer I saw in Hia hands and feet the print of the nails. Then I knew who He was. and I fell at His feet and cried out, 'Ob. Lord, my husband, my husband!’ and He took me by the hand and led me out over the abyss and put our bands together, and then He led us back again and wa were to gether." In the atory which she left for her husband she cautioned him to meet her, and to give her no such disappoint ment, and It is slid that he came, but if we are not united in this world we shall not be in the next. Between the saved and the lost there is a great gulf fixed, and no man can pasa over it. To-day, however, is the day of salvation, and we may know Christ if we will. •• Papa, Why Don't ’Oo Prayt" There is a beautiful little incident re lated concerning the conversion of General Clinton B. Fisk of bleated memory The night on which the little incident oc curred the General and his wife, as was their custom, prepared their little son and daughter for going to bed, and at the little girl knelt down to say her usual evening prayer at the General’s knee, she asked God to bless her' papa and mamma and brother, and then looking^ up sweetly in her papa’s face she aaid: “Papa, why don't 'oo pray?” These words spoken by his little dtugh- Itself, ter, who to him was dearer than life itseL. so affected the General ai to change the whole course of his remaining life, and thus ha was led to the Saviour. Prayer tbe Christian’s Breath. Having a steadfast purpose to win the prize of the high calling, much may be at tained. Pure air ia a first essential to growth. Without bfeath there can be no fife. Prayer ia the Christian's breath. Without prayer it is impossible to live spiritually, much leas grow. Prayer, then, is a first means of growth that the Father has given us. NEWSY GLEANINGS. 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