The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-19
TALMAGES SERMON.
DELIVERED AT THE HAMPTONS
LAST SUNDAY.


The Sheep Not Outsideof the Fold--Non-
Church -Goers Those Who are Reject
Hsbits0From These the GOOD Shepherd
win Cali His sheep.
3 Specially Reported for The Sentinel.
THE HAMrToNs. August IS: The Rev.
DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage's text to- ay
was John X, 16: ''Other sheep have,
which are not of this fold"
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not little property that
we may fence off and have all to our
selves. 1t is not kings park at which
we look thr ugh IA barred gateway,
wishing that we might go in and see the
deer a.d the statuary, and pluck the
flowers and the fruits in the royal con-
servatory. No, it is the Fathers or
chard, 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 bushels, never would allow any
Of Us to touch the fruit. One da:, in the
sinfulness of a nature inherited from our
first parents, who were ruined by the
SitlHc Ieiu pIdGiOus SOME Oh us lnVdUcQ
that orchard; but soon retreated, for
the man came after US at a speed reck-
less of making his lameness worse. and
cried out: IS Boys. drop those apples. or
I'll set the dog on you'll"
There are Christian men who have the
Church under severe guard. There is
fruit in this orchard for the whole world.
but tn y have a Rough and unsympa-
thetic way of accosting outsiders, as
though they had no business here.
though the Lord wants them all to come
and AXE the largest and the ripest fruit
on the remiseS. Haveyou an lie tn
because you werr bal tiZed at thirteen
months of age, and because you have all
your life b. en- u:ider allowed influences,
that therefore you a light to one
whole sid. o. the Lords tahle, spreading
yourself out and taking up The entire
room? I tell you no. You viii have to
haul in your -GJow-. for 1 shall to day
place on either side of you those VIII m
you never exp. ctrd would sit there; for,
as Chris said to the Jews long ago, so
he says to you and to me: Otner
sheep l have, which are not of this
fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has four
or five dozen head of sheep. Some of
them are row sing on the heather,
some OF them are lying down under the
trees, Some of them are ia his yard ; ther
ferent places. Cameron, his neigllbor,
comes over and says: : 1 see you have
THIRTY sheep; I have Just coun. ed them"
g No, SAYS McDoEald, 90 l have 81 eat
many i.t re si.eep Than that. Some are
here and some are elsewhere. They are
scattered all around about. have four
or five Thousand i'll my fockS. Other
sheep l have, which are not in this
fold"
So Christ says to us Here is knot
of Chr sians a d there is knot of
Christ ans, but they make up ST. |
part of the flock. Her is the E. iscopal
fo.d, the Methodist f, ", lie Luther ran
+ Id, thu Congregational fold, the Pres
byteiian 10 q. tie Baptist d the Pc o.
Baptit fo!':-th.- OH y difference be-
tween these last two 1e z the mode of
shecp-wa .inG; and they are Scat
tered all over, and we C me 81 th our
statistics. and say there are so many
Thousand OF the Lords sheep; but Christ
L, srond : No, no you have not seen
more than one out of a thousand of
my flock, They are scattered all over
the earth, and other sheep have, which
are not of this fold"
Christ in my text was prophesying the
conversion of the Gentiles with as much
confidenc. az though they were already
converted, md He is to-day, in the
words OF my text, prophesying the COM
ing of a great multitude of outsiders
that you never supposed would come in,
saying to you and saying to me:
Other sheep I have, which are not of
this fold"
I. In the first place I remark, that the
heavenly shepher! will find many Of
his sheep au.id the non-churchgoers.
There are congregat ons where they are
all Christians, and they seem to he COM
pie: ely flushed, and they remind one OF
the skeleton leaves which by chemical
preparation. have had ali the greenness
and verdur. taken off OF them and are
left cold and white and del cate, nothing
wanting but glass case to put over
them. The minister of Christ has moth
ing to do with such Christians but to
come once a week, and with ostrich
feather dust off the accumulation OF the
last SIX days. leaving them bright and
crystalline as before. But the other
kind OF church is an armory with per-
petual sound of drum and fife, gather
ing recruits for the Lord of Host. We
say to every applicant: =. Do you want
to be on Gods side, the safe side, and
the happy side? II so, come in the
armory and get equipped. Here is
bath in which to get cleansed. Here
are sandals TO Tut upon your feet.
Here is a helmet for your brow. Here
is Il breastplate for our heart. Here Is
sword for your right arm. and yonder
S t;.v battlefield. Quit yourselves like
men,"
There are some here who say: - stop
ped going to church ten or twenty years
ago" My brother, is il not st ange that
you shou d be the first man oh uld talk
TO to-day l know all your case; I
know 1t very we'll. You have not cen
accustomed to come into religious as
sembly. but have a surpriei an
nounconient to make to you. You are
going 10 become one OF the Lords
sheep. "Oi" you say. sit is impo sible !;
you don't know how far ! am I. ON any
thing OF thai kind" / know all IA out
it. l have wande: ed up and down the
world and / understand your case.
have II still nore startling announce
ment to make in regard 10 you. You
Lor S sheep, but you will become one