Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-01-29
10 YOU~ATTEND CHURCH ?
~ NOT, DIR. TALMAGE breaches
THIS SERMON FOR YOU.
Why Some People Reject Christian.
ity.- -Gospel-Hardened Sinners the
Most Difficult to Convert.-The
Heavenly Shepherd and lis Sheep

Most DihCult to COnvert.-The
Heavenly Shepherd and II is Sheep
BROOKLYN, n. Y, jan 1.-THE follow
ing powerful sermon to non-church goers
was delivered by DR.. Talmage this morning
in the Academy of Music in this city. and
again in the evening in the New York
Academy OF Music. At the latter service
tho new choir of two hundred voices most
effectively led the musical exercises. DIR.
Talrage's text was John 10, l6: Other
sheep have which are not of this fold''
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace OF God Is not nice little property
fenced OFT all for ourselves. 1t is not "a
kings park, at which we look through Il
barred gateway, wishing we might 90 in
and pluck the flowers and look at the deer
and the statury. 1t is fathers orchard.
and there are bars to let down. and gates
to swing open.
IN my boyhood days, next to the country
school-house where | went, there was an
apple orchard of great luxurance, owned
oya 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 snfulness of Il nature inhcr-
.lcu iIVm out uiSU lluEtIlS NEO ltIl through
the same temptation, would climb over the
fence and take some of these apples, and
notwithstanding the fact that there was Il
surplus, and all going to waste the owner
oi that orchard, reckless of making his
lameness worse, would take after these
lads and shout, ''Boys, drop those apples
or I'll set the dog on you.' Now there
are Christians who keep severe guard over
the Church of God. They have Il rough
and unsympathetic way of treating outsid
"rS 1t is u 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 a hard
ald 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
We're baptized at eight months of age, and
because you have all your life been sur
rounded by hallowed influences. you have Il
RICH. TO one whole side of the Lords table.
spreading yourself out so nobody else can
sit thereY You will have to haul in your
elbows, for there will come great multi
trde tofsit at the table. and on both sides
Of you. You are not going to have this
UittItpoHy vi lCliEiOu olItI Succp W
| which are not of this fold.'
Christ, i'll my text. talks Of the CONVEX
sion Of tho Gcntiles as confidently as
though they had already been converted.
de sets forth the idea that his people W i'll
come from all parts of the earth, from all
ages, from all circumstances. from all con-
ditions. 'Other sheep have l which are
not Of This fold.'
In the first place, I remark, the
Heavenly Shepherd will find many of his
sheep among those who are at present
aon-church- gocrs. There arc different
kinds of churches. Sometimes you will
tind church made up only Of Christians.
Everything seems finished. The church
REFUNDS you Of those skeleton plants from
which, by chemical preparation. all the
erecnnoss and tho yerdurc have been
taken, and they are cold. and white, and
delicate and beautiful, and finished. All
that Is wanted is u glass case put over
them. Tho minister on the Sabbath has
only TO take an ostrich feather and brush
off the dust that has accumulated in the
last six days of business, and then they
are as,eold and beautiful and delicate as
before Everything is finished; finished
sermons, finished music finished archi
tcttupe, finished everything.
There ore those here, perhaps, who say,
at is now ten, fifteen years since was il
the habit, the regular habit, of church
going" know all about your case. an
going 70 tell you something that will bt
startling at the first, and that is. that yo,
are going to become the Lords sheep.
oh" you say, 'that is impossible; 70,
don't know my case; you don't know how
far am from anything of that kind"
know all about your case. l have been VI
and down the world. l know why some
of YOU do not attend upon Christian ser
vices
70 further, and make another
announcement in regard to you, and tina
Is, YOU are not only to become the Lord.
~,heep, but you are going to become tn
Lords sheep this hour. God Is going Il
call You graciously by his Spirit; you ar
going to come into the fold of Christ. Thi
sermon shall not be so much for those WIN
are Christians. have preached to then
hundreds and thousands of times. TIL
sermon that preach now is going to b
chiefly for those who consider themselve
outsiders, but who may happen to be in tn
house, and the chief employment Of tn
Christian people here today will be to pra
for those who are not accustomed to atten,
upon Christian sanctuaries.
You are now this hour in the tide O
Christian influences. You are going to
swept in; your voice is going to be hear
in prayer; you are going to be consecrate
to God; you are going to live life Of use
iuluess, and your death-bed IL going to b
surrounded by Christian sympathizers; an
devout men will carry you to your buris
when your work is done, and these word
will be chiselled for your epitaph: ''Pre
cious in the sight of the Lord Is tho dealt
Of his sainta" And all that history is goin
TO begin today. "Other sheep have whic
ere not Of this fold"
Again remark, the Heavenly Shepher
is going to find many Of his sheep anon
those who are now reiecters Of Christianity
do not know how you came to rejee
Christianity do not know whether
was through hearing Theodore Parke
preach, or whether it was reading Renar
Life Of Jesus. or whether it was throug
some sceptic in the store or factory. U
1t may be-probably is the case-that 70
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