The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-08-28
TO SEEK and TO SAVE
Sunday Discourse By DR.. Chapman, the
Noted Pastor.EvangeIist.
The Son OF Man, With Tears In His Eyes
and Sorrow In His Heart, Is Try
ing to Save Every One Of Us.

Rev DR.. y. Wilbur Chapman are now
heard and read by more people than are
those of any American pulpit orator. HIS
style seems to have made n deep impress
sion on that portion OF the public whiclh
lilfos 10 read its discourse in the weekly
naper For these admirers DIR. Chapman
has prepared the following sermon. enti-
tied "The Seeking Saviour and a Seeking
Sinne~." 1t is preached from the texts.
"Zaccheus make haste and come down.
Tfte 10: ; "rhe Son of Man is come to
seek and TO save that which was lost"
Luke 10: TO-
These two texts form part of the story
of the meeting of two men. each very diff
ferent from the other. The one is Zac-
cheus. the publican. a rich man because he
was the tax qatherer aud had defrauded
the paople The other is the Son of God,
who was rich yet for our sakes became
moor The one comes from the presence
OF God and the company of the angels,
the other down from the sycamore tree
and from his doubt and the result of the
meeting of the seeking sinner and the
seeking Saviour was the salvation OF the
sinner. This has always been the result
IF auv one reading this message is not
Christian to-day it is simply because he
has not sought Christ in the right way
Ye shall seek Me and shall 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 be found for
them.
II was my privilege once in Colorado TO
enter what is called pocket mine.
saw man engaged in work there who was
pointed out to me as graduate of Har.
ward Collece vet he was toihng away so
lndustrious'y that he did not hear my APP
preach in the mine. and when ! asked him
why he was thus working he smnly
al l... f,,1
Of dust and held it out at arms length so
that the light in his miners hat would
strike upon it, and there | saw the glisteu
ing particles of silver. This was more elo
quent than anything he could have said
and the wise man smoke truly Put two
locomotives upon the same track both
going IN the same direction and at the
same rate of speed. and if the track is long
enough one cannot overtake the other eX-
cept in case of accident. but 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 snaiPs mace. 1t will be but
short time before they will come together.
The Son OF Man has been a seeking Sa-
viou~ ALWAYS. with tears in His eyes and
sorrow in His heart He has been seeking,
every one Of us. The very moment we
turn toward Him that moment He will
claim us as His own
The division Of the New Testament INTO
chapters is sometimes embarrassing. Not
infreguently the division is in the midst OF
a story. Sometimes between an introduc-
tion in the story as is the case here. Turn
back to the close of the eighteenth chapter
OF Luke and YOU read the story of Bart-
maeus. Mr.. Moody used to describe one
o. his friends stopping to say, Il have good
news for you. | have seen the Galiean
prophet, and | saw Him cause man blind
as yourself to see. and He is coming this
way speedily" We can only imagine how
Bartimaeus 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 t c Master gave him his sight instant
ly. Following this healing of the blind
man certain rich man in the city hearing
OF the approach of this notable character
determined to see Him. but us he passed
out OF his Office and mingles with the
crowd he realizes that the task is hope
less. He is a man small of stature and the
others tower head and shoulders above
him, but suddenly n bright thought strikes
HIN. He will so out along the highway
and climb some elevation and then behold
Him as He comes near. So he climbs the
celebrated sycamore tree and waits for the
approaching multitude. AT last his eve
lights upon the Saviour. A strange fascin-
alton must have held him until suddenly
Jesus standing underneath the tree looks
up and says. "Zacchcus, make haste ana
come down, for to-day must abide at thy
house." and he made haste and came
down., confessed that he was a sinner, and
immediately the Saviour said, "The Son
of Man is come to seek and to save that
which was lost"
He is the Son of Man Whatever other
Interpretation may be given to this ex-
preston in Scripture this at least is true.
lie Is presented to us in such a way that
no one need shrink back from Him. / car
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 his armor on he walked by her
side through the streets of the city until
ne reached the gates. Following them
came the nurse with the soldiers little
ehild IN her arms, and as he turned to
ieave them putting out his arms, having
Kissed his wife he would take his little
enlld to his heart and say goodby The
,ittle fellow looked Just an instant then
Durst INTO tears, threw his arms about his
nurses neck and refused to be comforted.
meteor had fathers instinct Lifting
MS hand he removed the helmet from
MIneh the plume was flying, and when the
cnlaa could see the face of his father he
suniied through his tears, sprang into his
arms and Hector kissed him and was
gone 80 Jesus comes not simply as the
non oil sod, but as the Son of Man or. az
IL We're, with the-fhelmet and the plume
iald aside. He was the Babe of Bethle
mem, the man OF Nazareth, the carpenter
iaporihg at the bench. He was tempted
IN a. points like as we are that no ona
mlgnt shrink back from Him. Then let ii
not pe forgotten that He came to seek Ic
would be great thing that He simply
came from the lost to seek them but thai
Is not eerlptulal, and it would be good
news II we could say that He came simply
70 look Tor the lost, but that is not accord.
slg 70 tne word OF God. He is the seeking
saviour by day and by night. With tear1
IN HIS eyes and blood upon His brow He
seeks the lost, and az they make their way
nnaliy out toward Bethany where He is
70 ascend from them all He tells them that
ttney must begin their message of the risen
TThrlst and His forgiveness at Jerusalem
5his must have been startling news TO His
ulselples, TOR HIS enemies lived at Jerusa
ZEN, put the message Of the Saviour was
tnat forgiveness should be proclaimed to
them hrst This has always been His
spirit Then He came to save the lost
mere Is something about that word that
eouches every one. A lost woman, a lost
hlan' lost child. There is no heart so
naru as not to be stirred under such cir.
% %vLlnstanees. II we could but understand
VIA tne word means there would not be
uy eye TO be found among all my read
wand i one could say it as God felt il they