Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-16
The Sheep Now Outside Of the Fold.
Non-Church- Goers--Those Who
Are Rsiectorsof Christianity,
The Victims Of Evil lIabits-From
These the Good Shepherd wiz Call
His Wandering Sheep.

wANpERERs nRouenT noMN.

John X, 10; "Other sheep have, Whic
are not OF this fold"
There is no monopoly In religion. Tn
grace OF God is not little property tina
we may fence off and have all TO our
selves. II is not a kings park at which
we look through barred gateway, wish
Ing that we might 20 In and see the deel
and the statuary, and pluck the flowers
and the fruits in the royal conservatory
No, IL Is the Fathers orchard, and every
where 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 APP
pies, owned by very lame man, who, al
though there were apples 10 the place
perpetually decaying and by scores and
scores OF bushels, never would allow
any OF us 70 touch the fruit. One day,
in the sinfulness OF a nature inherited
from our first parents, who were ruined
by the same temptation, some OF us In
vaded that orchard; but soon retrested,
for the man came after us at q speed reck-
less OF making his lameness worse, and
cried out; "Boys, drop those apples, or
III 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 unsympathetlc way Of accostlng out
slders, as though they had no business
here, though the Lord
WANTS THEM ALL TO COME
and take the largest and the ripest fruit
on the premises. Have you an idea that
because you were baptized at thirteen
months OF age, and because you have all
llfa baau unhar m gnNr
that therefore you have right To one
whole side OF the Lords table, spreading
yourself out aud taking up the entire
room? | tell you no. You will have
to lhaul sin your elbows, for | shall
to-day place on either side OF you those
whom you never expected would sit
there's for, as Christ said TO the Jews
long ago, so he says to you aud to me
"Other sheep have, which are not Of
this fold.n
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has four or |
nye dozen head OF sheep. Some of them
are browsing on the heather, some OF |
them are lying down under the trees, |
some OF them are In his yard; they are
scattered around IN eight or ten different
places. Cameron, his neighbor, comes
over and says; al see You have thirty
sheep; have just counted them.n tsNo.n
says Mcdonald, az have great many
more sheep than that. Some are here
and some are elsewhere. They are scat
tered all around, about. have four or
live thousand in my hocks. Other sheer
| have which are not in this fold"
So Christ says TO us: Here Is a knot
OF Christians and there Is a knot Of Chris.
tians, but they make up a small part of
the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold, the
Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the
congregational fold, the Presbyterian
fold, the Baptist and the pedo- Baptist fold
the only difference between these last
two being the mode OF sheep washing;
and so they are scattered all over, ana
we come with our statlstics,and say there
are so many thousand of the Lords sheep;
out Christ responds; mo, no; you have
not seen more than one out OF a thousand
OF my mock. They are scattered all over
the earth, and 'other sheep have, which
are not OF this fold.'n
Christ In my text was prophesying the
conversion OF the Gentlles with az much
as though they were already
converted, and he Is to-day, In the words
OF my text, prophesylng the coming of
the great multitude OF outsiders that Won
never supposed would come in, saying to
you aud saying to me; "Olher sheen |
nave, which are not OF this fold.n
l. In the first place remark, that the
heavenly shepherd will lind many of his
sheep amid the non-church-goers There
are congregations where they are ALI
Christians, and they seem to be complete
~ finished, and they remind one of
the skeleton leaves which by Chemical
have had all the greenness
and vordure taken off OF them and are left
cold and white aud delicate, nothing
wanting but a glass case to put over /
them. The minister OF Christ has moth
Ing TO do with such Christians but TO
come once week, and with an ostrich ,
leather dust of the accumulation of the /
last SIX days, leaving them bright and
crystalline as before. But the other kind
d church Is an armory with perpetual {
SOUND or DRUM AND FIFE, !
gathering recruits for the Lord OF Hosts. I
we say to every applicant. "Do you |
want to be ON Gods side, the safe side /
and happy sidep II so, come In the !
lrmory aud get equipped Here is bath
n which TO get cleansed. Here are /
to put upon your feet. Here is {
helmet for your brow. Here is breast {
,late for your heart. Here is a sword for !
our right arm, and Yonder Is the battle. |
leld, Quit yourselves like men,"
There are some here who say: al I
topped going TO church ten or twenty I
ears ago" My brother, is It not strange I
hat you should be the FIRST man should Z
ak to to-dayp know all your case; h
now II very we'll You have not been &C n
iustomed TO come Into religious assem- y
'ly, but have surprising announce %
nent TO make to you. You are going 70 n
'eoome one OF the Lords sheep. TOln "
GU say, ait Is impossible; you don't o
now how far l am from anything of that u
ind" I know all about t. have wan "
cred up and down the world, and n
uderstand your case, have still n
lore startling announcement TO make I'm M
egard TO you. You are not only going n
, become one OF the Lords sheep, but a
on will become one to-day. You viii 10 pI
'om this service 10 talk with some one II
bout your soul, People of God, prayf for A,
nat man "0ther sheep ! have, which "
10 not of this fold" W
When the Atlantic went 20 pieces on a
lars Rock and the people clambered up M
the beach, why did not that heroic o
inister OF the gospel of whom Wa have | a,