The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-28
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Othcr Sheep I Have"

| ''OCteT SHeeD NuVS UittCH uFc NOG
of this fold."-John <, IL.
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not a nice little property
fenced of oil for ourselves. 1t is not kings
park, at which we look through a barred
the flowers and look at the deer and the
statuary. It is fathers orchard, and there
are bars to let down and gates to swing open.
In my boyhood days next to the country
schoolhouse where I went there was an
apple orchard Of great luxuriance, owned by
q very lame man who did not gather the
apples, and they went to waste by scores Of
bushels. Sometimes the lads Of the school,
in the sinfulness of nature inherited from
our first parents who fell through the same
temptation, would climb over the fence and
take some of these apples, and notwithstand.
ing the fact that there was surplus, and
ali going to waste, the owner Of that orchard,
reckless Of making his lomeness worse would
take after these lads ard shout "Boys, drop
those apples or I'll set the dog on your
Now there are Christians who have severe
guard over the Church Of God. They have
rough and unsympathetic way Of treating
outsiders. It is great orchard into which
God would like to have all the people come
and take the richest and the ripest fruit, and
the more they take the better He likes it.
But there are those who stand with hard
aud severe nature guarding the Church Of
| God, and all the time afraid that some will
get these apples when they really ought not
| to have them.
Have you any idea that because you were
baptized at eight months Of age. and because
you have oil your life been surrounded by
hallowed influences, you have a right to one
yourself out so nobody else can sit there?
You will have to haul in your elbows, for
| there will comea great multitude to sit at
! the table and on both sides Of you. You are
not going to have this monopoly OF religion.
''Other sheep have which are not Of this
fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has on the
, Scotch hills great aock of sheep Mcdonald
| has four or five thousand head Of sheep.
| Some are browsing on the heather, some are
! on the hills, some are in the valleys, few
! over to Mcdonald and says: mcdonald, you
have thirty sheep. have been counting
tnem." "Oh, mop says Mcdonald. 'Ihave
four or five thousand.h "AhT says Came
ron, "you are mistaken have just counted
them There are thirty" why" says Nc
Donald, sdo you suppose that is all the sheep
IhaveP Ihave sheep on the distant bills and
, in the valleys, ranging and roaming every
where. Other sheep have which are motor
! this fold"
So Christ comes. Here is a group Of
| Christians, and there is group Of Chris
tians; here is Methodist fold, here IS
/ Presbyterian fold, here is Baptist fold, here
! Is Lutheran fold, and we make our annual
statistics, and we think we can tell you just
| how many Christians there are i'll the world,
! how many there are in the church. how
many in all these denominations. We ag-
! gregate them, and we think we are giving
, ;-k oy,a 0Np0Inf
! Christ comes and He says: "You have not
counted them right. There are those whom
you have never seen, those Of whom you
have never heard. I have My children in all
parts of the earth, on all the islands Of the
; sea. on all the continents, in all the mount
aims and in all the valleys. Do you think
that these few sheep you have counted are
all the sheep have? There is a great null
titude that no man can number: Other
sheep have which are not Of this fold"
Christ in my text talks Of the conversion
! of the Gentiles as confidently as though they
had already been converted. He sets forth
; the idea that His people will come from all
parts of the earth, from all ages, from all cir
! cumstances from all conditions "Other
sheep have which are not Of this fold"
In the first place remark the Heavenly
! Shepherd will find many Of His sheep among
those who are at present non-churchgoers.
I There are different kinds Of churches. Some.
| times you will find church made up only OF
Christians. Everything seems finished. The
church reminds you Of those skeleton plants
from which by chemical preparation all the
greenness and the yerdure have been taken,
and they are cold and white and delicate and
beautiful and finished. All that Is wanted Is
glass case put over them. The minister on
the Sabbath has only to take an ostrich
feather and brush off the dust that has &C.
cumulated In the last six days Of business
and then they are as cold and beautiful and
delicate as before. Everything is finished.
finished sermons, finished music, finished
! architecture, finished everything.
Another church Is like an armory, the
sound Of drum and fife calling more recruits
,, to the Lords army. We say to tie appli-
cants, "Come in and get your equipment.
Here Is the bath in which you are to be
cleansed, here Is the helmet you are to put on
your head, here are the sandals you are to
put over your feet, here is the breastplate
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,"
. There are those here perhaps who say,
sit Is now ten, fifteen years since was in
the habit, the regular habit, OF church going"
know all about your case. am going to
tell you something that will be startling at
the frst, and that Is that You are going to
become the Lords sheep. Oh" you say,
case; you don't know how far am from any
thing of that kind" know all about your
case. have been up and down the world
know why some Of you do not attend upon
| Christian services.
Igo further, and make another announce
ment In regard to you, and that is, you are
not only to become che Lords sheep, but you
are going to become the Lords sheep this
hour. God is going to call you graciously by
fold Of Christ. This sermon shall not be so
much for these who are Christians. have
preached to them hundreds and thousands Of
times. The sermon that preach now is 60
ing to be chiefly for those who consider them.
selves outsiders but 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 accustomed to
attend upon Christian sanctuaries.
When the steamer Atlantic went to pieces
on Mars Rock, why did that brave minister
Of the Gospel of whom we have all read, so
out, in the lifeboat9 Why did he not stay
andlook after the passengers that got ashore,
wrapping flannels around them, and kinding
fires for them, and preparing them foodS
There was plenty Of work to be done on
shore for those who had already escaped.
All! that brave man knew that there were
others who would take care Of those, and so
he said, MAN the lifeboat! Pull away, my
lads pull awayI Yonder is man; there Is
woman freezing in the rigging. Pull
| awaym see the oar blades bend in the
strong pull of the oarsmen. Then they come
up to the wreck. The woman is frozen. She
| drops into the wave-alasl poor woman
and washes out to sea. But then Mr.. Ancient
says: There is a man yet hanging to the
rigging. Pull away, my Lads! pull awayP
| They come up, and he says: "Hold now
| there five minutes and we will save you.
Steady! steady Now give me your hand. m