The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-24
M'NEILL STRESSES
NEED Of CHRIST'S
HELP IN RELIGION
Another Large Congregation
Hears Famous SCOtCh-PreS-
byterian Minister at Court
Avenue Church.

AGAIN thrilling a capacity congrega-
lon n Court Avenue church, DR.. John
MeNeill, internationally famous Scotch
presbyterian evangelist, delivered the
third of his series of sermons at the
MONDAY prayer meeting Wednesday,
pointing out the necessity of having
Jesus Christ in religion. He forcefully
S.,rte9 'hat the church or the in
dividUal was powerless to save with
cut the ana of the Savior and took for
MS example the qIieting Of the stormy
waters BY the Lord, when His disciples
We're despairing Of saving their ship.
Inc tervor OF the preacher again won
MN instant hearing from the congre-
cation that, as on former occasions
tilled to capacity the Court Avenue
church, His rich Scottish brogue was
once more in evidence TO charm his
hearers, and at the conclusion vof his
services, many persons pressed for
ward to meet the noted divine person
Speaking from the text: And they
reared exceedingly, and said one to an
other What manner of man is this,
mat even the wind and the sea obey
part:
Our subject is Christ sitting the
tempest, And the one lesson that is
writ large over the face of this story
Is that it Is Christs presence that is
our salvation Blow high, blow low;
come rain or shine in this world or in
the next. Christs presence Is our sal
walton.
HE is with us and we, by the be
ginning at least OF that faith In Heaven
that Is Indispensable, with Him,-tha is
salvation for the individual and for the
whole ships company-the church.
Christ Alone
1T wasn't the boat that saved them
Another account says she was begin
ming to sink. Neither did their own
efforts and skill save them, although
they were experts at handing a fish
Ing boat on dirty night No, tell the
story anyway you like, it was Christ's
presence with them that was their sal
yation.
The church as an institution on
earth saves nobody. / believe utterly
In tlle church., but the church herself
needs to be saved
There We're other little boats says
the narrative, out that night They
shared the storm and the danger. hui
they shared the calm and the deliver
ance, for "a Mark significantly says
thess were with Him, Again | repeat
ttls Christ iA4 the central figure d
this story Of salvation,
Some people say, No bishop, ne
GIluFcH, put say, with all respect te
bishops--no Christ, no bishop, nc
church, no salyation--no nothing. And
will my Episcopalian friends please re-
memberl that according to their owr
church historians, their Episcopal bish-
op and our Presbyterian elder not onls
walked under the same umbrella, but
under the same hat. They were the
same individually
Following upon his line of thought
DR.. Mcneil showed that 1t was the
Godhead the deity Of Jesus, thai
blazed toe near for the comfort of the
flesh and caused the alarm of the dis
ciples when the storm was over and
the sea was like glass.
They feared exceedingly. and ex-
claimed, What manner of man is this
that even the wind and the sea obey
him? Every man of them felt that
there was more than mortal there, ant
of course every man of them was right
Jesus Christ Is more than mortal
More than human. He Is God, sailing
the seas with us to bring us to the
other side.
"Unitarianism will never explain
Jesus Christ" DR., Mcneil asserted
From the beginning, long before .tht
full doctrine of his person could b.
formulated, men felt this is no mere
man, this is Emmanuel. God with US,