The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-09
"ZACCHAEUS" THEME OF
 cEpNON BY DIR. M'NEILL

pefore a large congregation yesterday
 morning at the South Highlands Presps
 terian Church, the pastor Dr. Johi, Me-
 Neill. preached a sermon Of much III,
 terest on "Zacchaous-~ Dr. McNehl saiu
 in part .. ,.orso and an anecdote. The text is; The Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost and the story or Aac- chaeus is an anecdote to illustrate now the son of Man does his work Iac- | chaeus iS sample cases and the sack 1 is like the sample, in all fair tradlns, | isn't it's Tn the end Of the day it will be found the Jesus sought us. found us, and brought us back to God and Heaven. l Jesus sought me, when stranger | wandering from the fold of God
 ] But see how the natural is the way to the supernatural. For example. just as sure'v as Jesus enters Jericho look | ing for this sample lost sinner, he' the sinner, shall be moved, all uncon- l consciously, to put himself Tn the say
 tours way And remember, please, that 1 lost sheep, and lost coins, and lost sons | and daughters hiding themselves. and
 their shame, in great cities--these are only Illustrations
 "rhe awful fact of lostness is set
 forth by what has taken place between l God and us We have lost Him; He | has lost us But who shall seek. and l find. what God has lost? For that great work He has come Himself, in the person l of His Son He slips up along side of
 us his glory yelled in our humanity, otherwise we should be scared away, and lwhispers in our ear. as we go on our ] needless way. They are missing you up | wonder; and I was sent to find you, and
 bring you home.
 1 pr McNeill showed that although, most | ,,, fyte las c
 was only curiosity it served to take him | out of his custom house box, and the 1 lifting of taxes, and the giving of re- ceipts and all the over-assessing and extortion of his calling. and put him in | Christ's way. Thank God, said the ! speaker, that some of you are here, at- | though perhaps 1t was only curiosity II | has served to pull you off the golf course | or out of the office or out of your Sunday morning car trip, and brought you to 1 church. For as with Zacchaeus, Jesus is to pass this way
 l The 'httIeness of stature that hindered l Zacchaeus from seeing Jesus, buried in the heart of the crowd. was taken by the preacher to set forth the final and seem ingly fatal form of difficulty in seeing Jesus.
 | Tt belongs to birth. and blood, and ancestry" he said You can no more l alter it. or get away from it. than you ] can alter the cast of your features or the I gait of your body. It's characteristic ! it's you. And it keeps you from seeing l Jesus. although to see Him is life here
 and Glory hereafter Which of you bs being very anxious can add one cubit tC ! his stature? You can't do it. Is Jesus l to pass by, and poor stunted, sawed off you, and me to be left and lost Oh no 1 thank God no. Jesus enables Us to breaf our births invdious bar, and grasp tht skirts of happy chance, and breast tht blows of circumstances, and grapple witt our evil star Dr. McNeill said thu subject was too large for nasty treat
 ment and he would continue it next Sun
 day, if spared.