The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-16


your feet, here is the breast-plate you
are to put over your heart, here Is the
sword you are to take IN your right
hand and fight His battle with Quit
yourselves like men"
go further and make another an
nouncement in regard to you, and that
Is, you are not only to become the
Lords sheep but you are going TO be-
come the Lords sheep this hour. God
Is going to call you graciOusly by His
spirit; you are going to come into the
fold of Christ This sermon shall not
be so much for those who are Christians.
have preached to them hundreds and
thousands of times. The sermon that
preach now is going to be chiefly for
those who consider themselves out
siders, and who may happen to be IN
the house, and the chief employment of
the Christian people here to-day will be
to pray for those who are not &C
customed to attend upon Christian sane
tuaries-
Christ says that ministers of the gos-
pei are to be fishers for men Now
when 1 go fishing do not want to fish
in anybody else's pond. l do not want
to go along HOhOl1us creek, where there
are ten or fifteen men fishing, and drop
my line just about where they are drop
ping their lines. I should like to get
| into Newfoundland fishing smack and
push out to sea fifty miles beyond the
breakers. do not think the church of
God gains a great deal when you take
sheep from one fold end put them in
another fold. 1t is the lost sheep on
the mountains you want to bring back
the lost sheep on the mountains And
they are coming to-day.
You are now this hour in the tide of
Christian influences. You are going to
| be swept in; your voice is going to be
heard in prayer; yOu are going to be
cOnsecrated to GOD; you are going to
live life of usefulness, and your death
bed is going to be surrounded by Chris
| tian sympathizers; and devOut men will
carry you to your burial when your
work is done, and these words will be
chiseled for your epitaph: Precious in
| the sight of the Lord is the death of his
saints And all that history is going
to begin to-day. ''Other sheep have I
which are not of this fold
| Again I remark, the Heavenly Shep-
herd is going to fnd many of his sheep
| among those who are now rejecters of
| Christianity. I do not know whether it
was through hearing Theodore Parker
preach, or whether it was reading Re
mans Life of Jesus or whether it was
through some skeptic in the store or
factory. Or it may be-prObably is the
! case-that you were Disguised with re
| igion and Disguised with Christianity
! because some man who prOfessed to be
| a Christian defrauded you, and he being
a member of the church, and you talk
| ing him as a representative of the Chris
| tan religion, you said: ''We1, if that's
| religion, don't want any of it
do not know how you came TO reject
Christianity, but you frankly tell me
| YOU do reject it. You do not think the
| Bible is the word of God, although
there are many things in it you admire;
you do not think that Christ was a
divine being, although you think he
was very good man.
Nevertheless they tell me in regard
| to you that you are an accommodating,
you are an Obliging person. If should
come to you and ask of you a favor you
would grant it if it were possible. It
would be a Joy for you to grant me
favor. If any of your friends came to
! you and wanted an accommodation and
you could accommodate them how glad
you would be! Now 1 am going to ask
of you favor. 1 want you to Oblige
me. The accommodation will cost you
nothing and will give me great happi-
ness OF course you will not deny me.
I want you as an experiment to try the
Christian religion. If it does not stand
the test, discard it; if it does, receive it.
If you We're very sick, and you had
| been given up by the doctors, and 1
came to You and I took a bottle of
medicine from my pocket and said:
Here is medicine I am sure will help
you; it has cured fifty people you
| would say: 20, 1 haven't any confidence
| in it; they tell me all these medicines
will fail me- ''Well, " I say, will you
not, as a matter of accommodation to
myself. just try it?' ''Te1l,' you say,
II have no objection to trying it; if it
will be any satisfaction to you I viii
try it, You take it Now you are sick
in disquietude, sick in sin. You are not
happy. You laugh sometimes when
you are mise rable. There come surges
of unhappineSs over your soul that
almost swamp you You are unhappy,
struck through with unrest. Now viii
you not try this solsce, this febrifuge,
this anOdyne, this gospel medicine?
''O.'' you say, II haven't any faith in
it, As matter OF accommodation, let
me introduce you to the Lord
Jesus Christ, the great physician.
Why you say, Il haven't any faith in
Him. Well, now, viii you not just let