Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27
OUR SUNDAY SERMON.
Or. TaImage's Familiar Talk.
He Discourses of Those Who are Not Ia the
Fold-Prodigals Should Not be
Given Up.
HOPE AND MERCY FOR ALL SINNERS.

HOPE AND MERCY FOR ALL SINNERS.
Special to the Sunday Register.
NEW YORK, August 26.-Following is DR..
Talmage's sermon:
SubIect-ssOutsiders.
Text-John K. Is: "0ther sheep have 1
which are not ofthis fold"
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not little property that
we may fence off and have ali to ourselves.
1t is not kings park at which we look
through barred gateway wishing that We
might 60 in and see the deer, the statuary,
and pluck the flowers and fruits in the
royal conservatory. No, it is the Fathers
orchard, and everywhere there are bars
that we may let down and gates that we
may swing open. In my boyhood, next to
the country school house there was an Or
chard OF apples, owned by very lame
man, who, though there were apples on the
place perpetually decaying by scores and
scores of bushels, never would allow any OF
us to touch the fruit. One day in the sim
fulness of a nature inherited from our first
parents. who were ruined by the same
temptation, some of us invaded that or
chard, but soon retreated, for the man
came after US at q speed reckless OF making
bis lameness worse, and cried out: boys,
drop those apples, or I'll
Set the Dog on You"
Well, my friends, there are Christian men
who have the church under severe guard.
There is fruit in this orchard for the
whole world; but they have a rough and
unsympathetic way of accosting outsiders,
"a though they had no business here,
though the Lord wants them all to come
and take the largest and ripest fruit on the
premises. Have you an idea that because
you were baptized at thirteen months OF
age, and because you have all your life
been under hallowed influence that
therefore you have a right to OF whole
side of the Lords table, sprca ling yourself
out and taking up the whole room? tell
YOU no! You will have to haul in your
elbows, for shall place on either side of
YOU those whom you never expected to sit
there: for, as Christ said to the Jews long
ago, so He says to you and to me-
..Othcr Sheep Have I Which are Not Of
This Fold"
In the first place, remark that the
Heavenly Shepherd will find many of his
sheep amid the non.church-goers. There
are CONGREGATIONS where they are all Chris
tians, and they seem TO be completely fin
ished, and they remind one OF the skeleton
leaves, which by chemical preparation,
have had all the greenness and verdure
taken off of them. The minister OF Christ
has
Nothing 10 do With Such Christians
but 10 come once week and with ostrich
feather dust off the accumulation of the
last six days, leaving them bright and crys-
talline a. before. But the other kind Of
q church is an armory with perpetual sound
of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the
Lord of hosts We say to every applicant:
DO YOU want to be on Gods side, the safe
side, the happy side? Ii so, come in the
| armory and get equipped. Here is bath
in which to be cleansed, Here are ldals
| TO put upon your feet. Here is helmet
for your brow. Here is breast pl tie for
vour heart Here is sword for you right
arm, and yonder is the battle field. ACquit
yourselves like men" There are some who
say, Il stopped going TO church ten or
twenty wears ago" My brother, is it not
strange that YOU should be the first man
should talk to? / know all your case.
know it very well. You have not been ac-
customed to come into the house of God.
But have a surprising announcement to
make TO yon: You are going to become
one of the Lords sheep. oh" you say,
1T is impossible You don't know how
far am from anything of that kind" l
know all about it, l have wandered up
and down the world and understand your
case. | have still more startling an
nouncement to make To you: You are not
only going to become one OF the Lords
sheep hut you will
BECOME One linn ediateIy.
People of God, pray for that man! l
shall not break OIL so much as q crumb for
you Christians in this sermon, for | am
going TO give it all to the outsiders. "Other
sheep have which are not of this fold"
Many years ago when the Atlantic went
to pieces on Mars rock and the people
Clambered up on the beach, there was a
heroic minister of the gospel who aided in
saving the wrecked. He did not sit down
and take care of the men on the beach,
wrapping them i'll tiaRnels and kindling
fire for them and seeing that they got
plenty of food. lie knew that there were
others who would do that. He said;
Wonder are men and women freezing in
the rigging of that wreck. Boys, launch
the boat" And now l see the ore-bladej
bend under the strong pull; but before they
reached the rigging woman was frozen and
dead. She was washed of, poor thing! But
he said: There is man TO save" and he
cried out: Hold on five minutes longer
and will save you. Steady steady! Give
me your hand. Leap into the life.boat.
Thank God He Is Savedr'
So there are those who are safe on the
shore OF Gods mercy. i will not spend
any time with them at all; but see there
are some who are freezing in the rigging OF
sin and surrounded by perilous storms.
Pull away, my lads! Let us reach them!
Alas, one is washed off and gone! There is
one more TO be saved Let us push out for
that one Clutch the rope Oh, dying man,
Glitch it as with death grip. Steady, now,
on the slippery places. Steady! There!
Saved. Saved Just as | thought. For
Christ has declared that there are some
still in the breakers who shall come ashore.
Other sheep have which are not OF this
fold" Christ commands his ministers to
be fishermen and when go fishing do
not want TO go among other churches, but
into the wide world; not sitting along
Hoboken creek where eight or ten other
persons are sitting with hook and line, but
like the fishermen of Newfoundland, sail
ing off and dropping nets away outside,
forty or fifty miles from shore. Yes, there
are nOn-church.gOers who will come in.
They are at this moment being swept into
Christian associations. Their voice will be
heard in ublic prayer.
They Will Die In Peace.
Their bed surrounded by Christian sym
pathies. to be carried out by devout men
to be buried, and on their grave will be
chiselled the words: Precious in the
sight of the Lord is the death of his saints"
and on Resurrection Day you will get up
with the dear children you have already
buried, and with your Christian parents,
who have already won the palm, and all
that grand and glorious history begins now.
"Other sheep have which are not OF this
fold"
Iremark again, the Great Shepherd is go
ing to find great many of his sheep ameng
those who are positive rejectors of Chris
tianity. do not know how you came to
reject Christianity. 1t may have been
through reading Remains Life OF Jesus"
or through the intidel talk Of some young
man in your store. 1t may have been
through the trickery of some protested
Christian man who disguised you with re-
ligion. do not ask you how you became.
so. but Won frankly tell me that you do