The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-29
NEW PASTOR AT
 HIGHLANDS CHURCH
pr. Hendrix Breaches Initial Sermon Before Large Con-
 gregation Yesterday

Before one of the largest congregations
 which have ever assembled in the High
 lands Methodist church, Dr, W. R. Hend- rx preached his initial sermon at the
 morning service yesterday at Il o'clock.
 Dr. Hendrix made a splendid impress
 sion upon his congregation. his person. ality and his ability marking him as his sermon was able and of deep interest.
 Dr. Hendrix text was: And he sought to see Jesus, who he was" Luke xix:3. He
 said in part:
 Our text this morning is a part of
 the thrilling story of a man who went in search Of another and found himself.
 It happened on a spring day, 1880 years ago. among the blooming oleanders. along the streets of the city of Jericho. Jesus and His disciples were passing through that day, and while the multitude filled the street from mere curiosity, Zaccheus came out deeply concerned to see for himself what manner of Man the Gal lilean really was.
 'On the surface Zaccheus seems to have been a greedy, constituencies official, living to accumulate earthly treasures. But we do him and ourselves an injus- tice in this partial and unjust judgment. When he we born his righteous parents gave him the name zaccheus which sig nifes the just More than any other thlng he had been raised up to think of himself as just man. living a life which should make him worthy of the name. When he came to mandhood ho had met what every man wants who goes into this practical world to try his fortune. His moral idealism seemed to him impracticable in his social and economic relations.
 Probably with sincere regret he had reluctantly decided that his parents were
 mistaken in the name they had chosen for him, and that he was really endowed
 with the qualities of a practical and shrewd business man So he had laid aside his moral idealsm an unprofit- able asset and turned to the pursuit of wealth, keeping within the law. As a business man he had succeeded and yet he was not satisfied with business suc- cess.
 When his eyes met the eyes of Je- sus for the first time in life, he knew what he was truly fitted for Tn .nlS world. He saw for himself that as an interruptions business man he had i sadly missed his calling. So he hastened | to bring out his moral idealism as tis 1 supreme asset and begin then and there | to live the life that God had created and endowed him for.
 Self discovery like that which Zac- cheus achieved on this suspicious day, ! is the supreme need of every man in every age. Nearly, If not all of our failures, whether they be economic or
 moral failures. are wrought out by men and women who have not found them 1 selves.
 "The supreme value of the Christian
 religion to individuals and to society grows out of the power of Jesus Christ | in every age to disclose to ndivid- ual men and women their true mental
 and spiritual endowments, ena oling them to relate themselves happily a: successful to their fellow men in every relationship in life.
 No man knows himself truly till he has endeavored whole e-heartedly to see what manner of man Jesus was. Saw 1 ing self-revelation is not accomplished through selfintrospection, but comes indirectly as we gaze into the thou ghts and feelings of Jesus Christ We are lost through wrong e ti- mate of ourselves we are saved | through the revelation in Jesus Christ 1"