Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-16
WANDERERS HOME.
DR.. TALNAGE CONTINUES HIS RURAL SER
MONS AT THE HAMPT0NS.
The Sheep Now Outside Of the FOld-NOn-Church
GOers-ThOss Who Are ResctorS Of Christianity
The Victims of Evil Habits-Fum These
the Good Shepherd VIII Call His Sheep.
SDecinI Tele1rdRl % Hle ReqiSler.

John x, 16: 'Other sheep l have, which
are not of this fold"
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not little property that
we nav fence off and have all to ourselves.
1t is not kings park at which we look
through barred gateway, wishing that we
might 90 in and see the deer and the
statuary, and pluck the flowers and the
fruits in the royal conservatory. No, 1t 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 orchard Of apples,
owned by very lame man, who, although
there were apples in the place perpetually
decaying and by scores and scores of bush
els, never would allow any Of us to touch
the fruit. One day, in the sinfulness OF
nature inherited from our first parents,
who were ruined by the same temptation,
some Ofus
INVADED THAT ORCHARD;
but soon retreated, for the man came after
us at a speed reckless of making his lame
ness 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 rough
and unsympathetic way of accoStlng out
siders, rs though they had no business
here, though the Lord wants them all to
come and take the largest and the rlpcSt
fruit on the premises. Have you an idea
! that because YOU were baptized ut thirteen
months Of age, and because you have all
your life been under hallOwed influences,
| that therefore you have right to one
whole side of the Lords table, spreading
yourself out and taking up the entire
room? | tell you no. You will have to
| haul in your elbows, for | shall to-day
place on either side Of you those whOmyOu
never expected would sit there; for, aS
Christ said to the Jews long ago, 50 he
saws to YOU and to me: Other sheep l
have, which are not of this fold.
MACDONALD, THE SCOTCHMAN,
Has four or five dozen sheep. Some OF
them are browsing on the heather, some Of
them are lying down under the trees, some
them are in his yard; they are scattered
around in eight or ten different places.
| Cameron, his ncighbOr, comes over and
says: Il see you have thirty sheep; |
| have Just counted them. - NO, says
Macdonald, II have great many more
sheep than that. Some are here and some
are elsewhere. They are scattered all
around about. have four or five thouS-
and i'm nv nockS. Other sheep | have,
which are not in this fold.
So Christ says to us: Here is knot OF
| Christians and there is a knot OF Chris
| tians, but they make up a small part ol
the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold, the
| Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the
Congregational fold, the Presbyterian fold,
the Baptist and PedO-BaptiSt told-thc
only difference between these last
two being the mode of sheep-waShlng; and
so they are scattered all over, and we come
with our statistics, and say there are 50
many thousand OF the Lords sheep, hut
| Christ responds: NO, no; you have not
seen more than one out of thousand ol
NV flock. They are scattered all over the
earth and other sheep | have, which are
not of the fold.
Christ in my text was propheSying the
conversion of the GentilcS with as much
confidence rs though they were already
converted, and he is to-day, in the words
of nv text. propheSying the coming OF Il
treat multitude of outsiders that you never
supposed would come in, saying to me:
Other sheep have, which are not OF TINS
fold"
|. In the first place remark, that the
heavenly shepherd will find many OF his
SHEEP AMID THE ENON-CHURCH-GoERS.
| There are congregations where they are all
! Christians. and they seem to he completely
finished. and they remind one of the Skele-
| ton leaves which by chemical preparation,
have had all the greenneSS and verdure
taken off of them and are left cold and
white and delicate, nothing wanting but
glaSs case to put over them. The minister
| of Christ has nothing to do with Such
| Christians but to come once week, anu
with ostrich feather dust off the accumula-
| tion of the last six days, leaving them
bright and crystalline rs before. But the
other kind of Il church is an armory with
nerpetual sound of drum and fife, gather
| mo recruits for the Lord of Hosts. Wesay
to every applicant: do you want to be
ON Gods side, the safe side and the happy
| side? If so; come in the armOry and get
eouipped. Here is bath in which to get
cleansed. Here are sandals to put upon
YOUR feet. Here is a helmet for your
brow. Here is breaStplate for your
heart. Here is q sword for your right arm,
and wonder is the battlefield. Quit your
selves like men,"
| There are some here who say: Il stopped
going to church ten OF twenty years ago.
| NV brother is it not strange that you
| should be the first man | should talk 10 to-
| dav? know all your case; know 1t very
well. You have not been accustomed to
come into religious assembly, but have
surprising announcement TO make to YOU.
| YOu are going to become one of the Lord 5
sheep. OH yOu say, lit is impossible;
you don't know bow far am from any
| thing of that kind" | know all about IT.
| | have wandered up aud down the world,
and understand your case. have still
more startling announcement to make IN
regard to you. You are not only going to
become one of the Lords sheep, but You
will become one to-day. You will 50
from this service to talk with some one
about your soul. People Of God, pray for
that man. ''Other sheep i have which are
not of this fold"
WHEN THE ATLANTIC WENT TO PIECES
on Mars Rock. and the people clambered
upon the beach, why did not that heroic
minister of the Gospel of whom We have
all read sit down and take care of those
men on the beach. wrapping them IN tian-
nels. kindling fires for them, seeing that
they got plenty Of food? All, he knew
that there were Others who would do that.
He SAYS: ''YOnder are men and women
freezing in the rigging of that wreck.
Bows, launch the boat" And now l see
the oar-blades bend under the strong pull,
but before they reached the rigging a wo-
man was frozen and dead. She was
washed of, poor thing. But he says:
There is q man to save y and he cried out:
Hold on five minutes longer and l will