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THE SEEKING SAVIOR
M. MAHAN'S SUN9AT SERMON
Tba Sartor, With Toms h HU Eye*
tut Tr—bio lb HU Iblrt, Seeks tc
Save Bvory Oao ot Uo,
Vtv fou Orr.-tU ■raou ol the
Bar. Sr. J. Witter Chapman an bow
hoard aad read by mare people thaa are
Ihtaa al any A marie* a pm pit orator. Hu
srrs.“jsi^5,* &s.“S5
Ukre to read ita dieeooraa U the weakly
paper. Far thaaa admirer* lb*. Chapman
tea preeared tha following sermon, eoti
K“Tho Seeking Sarioor and a Sacking
m*.” It ie preached from tha texts.
"Zaeeteu*. make tette and eooie down”
Luke It 7a. "The Son of Man it coma to
mtk aad to met ttet wkieh was lost,”
Luka It M.
Tbaaa two text* form a part of tk* story
of the meatier of two man. each eery dif
ferent from tha otter. Tha out is Zac
etena. the publican, a rich man became he
waa tba tax gatherer and bad defrauded
tba people. The otter is tba Sou of God.
who was rich, yet for our takes became
pose. Tha one comes from the presence
of God and tba company of the angels,
tba otter dorrs from tba eyre mo re tree
and from hia doubt. *nd tba result -ot tba
Haling of tba seekieg tinner and the
seeking Sarioor waa tba eaheticn ot tha
srnaer. Thu ha* ahray* been the result.
If any oar readme this measure is not a
Christian to-day it ia limply because be
baa not sought Christ in tba rieht way.
Ye shall seek M- aad aball find Me when
you tearck far Ms with all your heart. In
Urn book at Prorarba when man seek for
God aa (bay seek for Mirer or for any hid
den trresure then Ha will be found for
than.
it wm my prm irjr gwr in ho
enter what la ea’rad a Docket mine. 1
•aw a man engaged in work there who waa
pointed not to me aa a graduate of Bar
vard Collage, vet Ira waa toiling away to
industriously that Ira did not hear my ap
proach in the mine, and when I asked him
why he was thus working he aunnly
stooped down and gathered tin a handful
af dast sad Held it ant at arm’s length «o
that the light in his miser’s hat would
strike onon it, and there T n* the glisten
ing particles of stiver. This was more eln
qamt than anything he coo'd hare said,
and the wise man stroke truly Put two
locomotives upon tbe tame track, both
going m the nice direction and at tha
same rata of speed, and if tbe tmoh ia long
enough one cannot overtake the other ex
cept in case of saddest, but it thee are on
the same track headed toward each other,
sod on* of them ia going with tha voeed of
the wind, while the other travels with the
proverbial enniV* pace, it win be Mt r
short time before they will come together.
The Son of Ms" Hm been * seeking Sn
v.‘o*~ shram, with ton m HU eyas and
sorrow in HU heart He has bepo seeking
every one of no. The verv moment we
tarn toward Him that moment He will
claim os as His own.
The division of the New Testament into
chapters ia sometimes rmban-saaing. Not
iafrcqacntly the division is in the midst ot
S story. Sometimes between an introdac
tion in the story as is the case hern. Turn
back to the dose of tba eighteenth chapter
of Luke and von read the story of Barti
mama. Mr. -Moody used to describe one
of hie friends stooping to any, “I have good
news for yon. I have teen -tbe Galilean
prophet, and I saw Him eanaa a man blind
aa yourself to see. sad Ha ia ooming this
way speedily.” W# tan only imagine bow
Barti aiseaa listened for the approach of
tbe Saviour, but Anally when He did come
Mac enough be began to about, “Jeans
Thou son of David, bars mercy upon me,”
n4 the Master gave him bra sight instant
ly. Foilswing this beslinr o/ tba blind
* usrtalu rich man in the city bearing
af tha approach of this notable character
determined to see Him, but as be passed
out of Lis office and mingles with tba
crowd He realism that tba task ia hope
«•••■ He ia a man small of stature and tba
others tower bead and abouldera above
bun. but suddenly a bright thought strike*
ham. H* will go out along the highway
and climb some elevation and then behold
nhjM He comes near. So Ira climb* tba
celebrated sycamore tree and waits for tbe
approiebing multitude. At last hla eye
HahU upon the Saviour. A strange faeein
»«•» must have held him until suddenly
•Mi standing underneath tba tree looks
up and says. “Zaecbrua, make baste aao
f°— fowa. tor today X must abide at thy
JJM, Ira mads baste and asms
omfaaaad that he waa a sinner, sad
kfMdlately tba Saviour mid. “Tbe Sou
*M»n ia <mma to aaak and to save tbai
V
■■assets o( plwnrt, bat ab.diag peeee ta
not hie. Wi are lost to heaven. It ta
not possible ta find a tart of Scripture In
which there is tba slightest indication
given, if this text be taken in Us proper
connection, which would indiasta that a
nun may er« cuter into heuvea la aay
other way than through Christ.
A mother took her little child into an
eye infirmary in the city of Chieago. When
the doctor had 'looked at the srm of tbe
chitd he gave the child hack to hie mother
and ebook his head, and in answer to her
inquire said. “The child would be atone
Mind in three months." 8b« drew her tit
tle one up against her heart and then fell
upon tbe floor v-ith n shriek. "My Cod,
ray baby Mind.” .rail this would bo an .aw
ful calamity, bat then tbe Saviour baa
said, “It ia better to be maimed and halt
and bind rather then to he lost,” and
every me ia lost without Christ; for all
itch the Sou of Man has come seeking.
n.
Zaccheue. When our Saviour stood be
ocatii the tree He looked no full in tbe
face of Zaccheue and an id. “Come down,”
and he came down from the sycamore tree
and from his curiosity, down from bis
pride and bia doubt, down to tbe feet of
Jeans, and be found salvation. The beat
thing that Zeeeheua ever did was to coma
down, and so eriO it be for every one of
you. What can I do to be saved* Soma
one is even now asking, and there is do
more important question. According td
the Scripture you can merely live because
of your good works, and while in tba on*
place it is mid. “Work out yonr own sal
ration with fear and trembling." twe
things must be remembered. First, this la
God’s message to Christians, sad second,
are can only work out what has already
been worked in.
"Working aril! 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 first of all come down it we
woold he eared. It ia only by childlike
trust in Him and absolute confidence in
His word that are pern from death to Me
With tom* there must he a coming down
from pride. We n)ust reach tbe plr
where we will not fear what the world t..
.a. young man xn • torraer congrcgat-on
promised me that ha would give up gamb
ling and accept Chriet. He assured
me that, his difficulty was bis
evil companions, sad be would oarer
be able to lire a Christian life util
be could lure them. He was afraid of
what they would say, but at last gave to*
hi* promise that he would confess Christ
the next morning- With one of his friends
whose influence over him wss always bad
be walked to bia place of business the next
morning, trying all the nay to nuke hia
con fear ion, until at last the store was
entered and the words were net spoken.
Finally- by great effort ha made his way
into toe store, called hia friend back and
said, "I have made up my mind to be a
Christian, nnd unless you will go with ms
I shall bare to part company with you."
Tears came into hia friend's eyes end be
said, “It is Um best thing you ever did; is
there any hope for me." There is no one
really north haring as your friend but
what would aay the same thing. If any
one whore eye lights upon this page should
aeeept Chri»t and confses Him the same is
a ecming down from morality, for whet tba
world calls morality does not my we are
not saved because we are good, bnt be
cause Christ is and always has been and
onr faith is in Him, and every so-called
moral man out of the church ie against the
preaching of the minister and may be a
dangerous friend for the mao who ie
weaker than himaalf, for wa arv oar broth
er's hoe par whether we will or not. With
the moot of as it is a coming down from
sin. and wa mast give that up, lor if we
regard iniquity in onr hearts God will not
bear us, neither can He save ns, bnt the
vary moment we are ready and willing to
forsake all knowa sin Ha gives us the,
strength to do it. Just as the mao witty
the withered head bad do power to stretch
forth his hand, that is in himself, but the
moment be bed the wfll to do it Chriet
gave him the power and immediately he
waa healed.
m
1M nrai n nen Jem wml to the
bom* of Zaccbaus u He entered He mid,
•Thie day ie salvation come to tbia hoese.
The greatest heritage a Chrletian child
ever bad left to him ia a Christian home.
There muat hare been a great change in
Zecchcas before be met the Saviour. I
doubt not ha waa selfish. I know ha waa
sinful. After kis meeting with Christ hia
whole family came to know God. There
could bn no bettor position for any father
to taka than that taken by Zeccbeus. "I
will wait until my boys grow op,** mid a
gentleman to me recently, "and then we
will all become Christiana together." 1
told h'm what donbtloaa be already kaew
that Noah took bia boya into tha ark by
going in first himself. The mddast thing
in tha world ia te see a family divided, nnd
dividwdbytbo most aaered thing* in the
world. In (targe MacDonald's great book
on Robert Fanfltener there ia a ttory said
to bo founded upon tact of the father of
Robert Faulkeoer, whose Ufe wee irrelig
Hie wife had done everything aba
could to lead him te the knowledge of the
Seviosr. Finally just before the died ilg
had a dream. She left the dream for be*
husband which resulted in bis conversion.
Sbs a»id. "I dreamed that I had died and
entered into the other world, and I
aaarehed everywhere for you, Andrew, but
I could uot find yon. At lest I came to an
abyss that was, oh, so very deep, but not
to very wide, and It arm tinted with blue
like the blue of the aky, whan suddenly
an the other side 1 eaw you. 1 gave a cry
that aD the nniverae must bare h.ird,
when sudden.y tenting about I saw one
coming toward me. He bad a wonderful
fate. He had an a garment which came
»« Hia feat, and ae Ha same eetrer
» «w j* Hi* bands and feet the print of
I knew who He waa. tod
I fall at Hia (eat and cried out. Oh. Lord,
my husband, mr haaband!' and He took
am by the hand and led me out over the
fbr«a »»d put our hands toother, and
tben Ha l*d ua buck agate asd we were
r*hy. In tha itory which she left
bar haaband she cautloeed him to m
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
Cared by Pe-ru-na of Systematic Catarrh.
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An Interesting Letter From
■re. M. K. Bouech, ol
Richmond, end Her Little
Daughter. Pearl
' baby I contraetad catarrh, and wa> doc
-ored by Mvrro) good physician*, but non*
lid me any good. My mother sat taking
I’crun* at the time and gave some ol it
to me, and I soon began to improve, and
am now w*U and (at a* a little pig. I am
twehra rear* old. The doctors told mother
I had the consumption, but it was oaty ca
tarrh."—Mis* Pearl Bousrh.
It it no longer a question aa to whether
reruns can be relied on to cure all such
vwaes. Daring the many year* in which
;Perun* has been pat to last in all form*
•and stage* of acute and chronic catarrh
no one year haa pat this remedy to greater
teat than the past year.
l'enina is the acknowledged catarrh rem
edy ol the age. Dr. Hartman, the com
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the phase* of catarrh peculiar to women,
entitled. "Health and Beauty." It will he
seat free to any address by The Wruna
Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
If yon do not derive prompt and satis
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wnte at once to Dr. Hartman, givtru a
full statement of your case and be will be
pleased to give you hie valuable advice
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of lb*
Hartman baiutarium, Columbus, Ob.o.
vxt&y
Mr*- M. K. Boaach, Richmond, V* ,
"I had catarrh oil thranyh ay aya
Un far twta yaara and mil yet mo
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"nc mil and better non than I haaa
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body ta taka Parana. My little girt,
«aha <a aiavaa yaara old, had catarrh,
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tha Mata, bnl hota ! am entire.y
cm rad and alt nralne lidiuFtrt
no. ’>—Mrs. M. 1. Iimac*.
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