Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-08-28
TO SEEK and TO SAVE
Sunday Discourse By DR.. Chapman the
Noted PastOr.Evangelist.
The Son Of Man, With Fears In Ills Eyes
and Sorrow in His Heart, Is Try
Ing to Save Every One OF U.s.

NEW York CITY The sermons OF the
Rev. DR.. j. Wilbur Chapman are now
heard and read by more people than are
those of any American pulpit orator Ills
stvle seems to have made a deep impress
sion on that portion of the public when
likes to read its discourse IN the weekly
paper. For these admirers DR.. chapman
has prepared the following sermon, entl'
tied "The Seeking Saviour and a Seeking
SHINE" 1t is preached from the texts;
"Zaccheus, make haste and come down,
LIKE 10. s. "rhe Son of Man is come t.,
seek and to save that which was lost,
Luke 10: 10.
These two texts form part OF the story
of the meeting of two men, each very our
ferent from the other. The one Is FAC
cheus, the publican, rich man because ne
was the tax catherer and had dcfranded
the people The other is the Son OF God.
who was rich yet for our sakes became
poor. 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 resuN
If any one reading this message is not,
Christian to-day it is simply because ne
has not sought Christ in the right way.
Ye shall seek Ne and shall find Me when
Won search for Me with all your heart. In
The book of Proverbs when men seek tor
God as they seek for silver or for any md
den treasure then He will be found tor
them.
II was my privilege once III Colorado to
enter what is called pocket minc.
saw man engaged in work there who was
pointed out to me as a graduate OF iiar'
~ II - hn iniIl
,ndustrious,v that he did not hear my APP
preach in the mine, and when | asked him
WHY he was thus working he simply
STONED down and gathered IN handful
of dust and held it out at arm length 80
that the light in his miners hat Would
strike upon it, and there ! saw the Gllsten-
ing particles Of silver. This was more e!o
ouent than anything he could have said.
and the wise man spoke truly. Put two
locomotives upon the same track, both
going in the same direction and Mt the
same rate of speed, and If the track rs long
enough one cannot oVcrtake the othcr cN-
cept in case of accident. but # they are on
the same track headed toward each other
and one of them is gong with the speed Of
the wind. while the other travels with the
provcrhial snalrs race, IT will b. hn' :
short tine before they will come together
The Son of Man has been seeking "a.
Won a'warS. with tcars in His eyes aud
sorrow in HIS heart He has been seeking
every one Of MS The very moment we
turn toward Him that moment He will
claim lis as His own,
The division of the New Testament INTO
chapters is sometimes embarrassing. Not
infrcGuenty the division Is IN the midst oi
a story. Sometimes between an ntroduc
ton 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 Bartl
maeus. M. Moody used to describe one
OF his friends stopping to say, Il have good
news for YOU. | have seen the Galiean
prophet, and ! saw Him cause a 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'a 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 as he passed
out OF his office and mngles with the
crowd he realizes that the task is hope
less. He j man small OF stature and the
Others tower head and shoulders above
him, but suddenly bright thought strikes
HIN. He will go 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. \ 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
Immediately the Saviour said, The Son
Of Man is come to seek and to save thai
which was lost"