Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-17
REV. DR.. TALMAGB.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
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TEXT: "Other sheep / hare tohich are not
of this fold. John K, Is.

TEXT: "Other sheep Ihdue tchich are not
of this fold. John K, Is.
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace OF God is not a nice little property
fenced off all for ourselves 1t is not kings
park, at which we look through a barred
gateway, wishing we might 60 in and pluck
the flowers and look at the deer and the
statuary. 1t is fathers orchard, and there
| are bars to let down and gates to swing open,
In my boyhood d.. Us, next to the country
| schoolhouse where | went there was en-
apple orchard of great luxuriance, owned by
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, AID rotwithstand-
ing the fact that there was a surplus and
all gong TO waste, the owner OF that orchard,
reckless Of making his lamensss worse, would
| take after these lads and shout "Boys, drop
those apples or III set the dog on your
Now there are Christians who have severe
| guard over the Church Of Col. They have
rough and unsympathetic way of treating
outsiders. 1t 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
and severe nature guarding the Church of
God, and all the time afraid that some will
| get these apples when they really ought net
! TO have them.
! Have you any idea that because you were
baptized at eight months fage. and because
| you have all your life been surrounded by
haliowed influences, you have a right to oae
| whole side Of the Lords table, spreading
| yourself out so nobody else can sit there?
You will have to haul in your elbows, for
there will Gomez great multitude TO sit at
tho 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 Scotehman, has on the
Scotch hills great flock 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, a few
are in the yard One day Cameron comes
| over to Mcdonald and says: Mcdonald, you
have thirty sheep. l have been counting
them Oh, mop says Mcdonald. "Ihave
| four or five thousand" "Ahp says Came
ron, you are mistaken. | have just counted
them. There are thirty" "Why," says Nc
| Donald, do you suppose that is all the sheep
/ have? have sheep on the distant hills and
in the valleys ranging and roaming every
where. Other sheep have which are not of
! this fold"
So Christ comes. Here is a group OF
| Christians and there is a group of Chris
| tians; here is a Methodist fold here is
/ Presbyterian fold, here is a Baptist fold, here
| is Lutheran fold, AMI we make our annual
| statistics, and we think we can tell you just
! how many Christians there are in 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
/ an intelligent and an accurate account, but
Christ comes and He says: You have not
counted them right. There are those whom
you have never seen, those of whom you
6oxya nd T tn. W. t1tl 1rar. all
parts of the earth, on all the islands of the
! sea- on all the continents, in all the mount
i 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 l which are not of this fold"
C6rist in my text talks of the conversion
of the Gentiles as confidently as though they
bad already been converted. He sets forth
the idea that Ills people will come from all
parts OF the earth, from all ages, from all cir
cumstances from all conditions. "Othei
] sheep have [ which are not of this fold.'
In the first place remark the Heavenly
I Shepherd will find many of His sheep among
7 those who are at present non-churchgoers.
There are different kinds Of churches. Some
times you vii. find church made up only of
Christians. Every thing seems finished. fhe
church reminds you of those skeleton plants
| from which by chemical preparation all the
I greenness and the verGure have been taken,
and they are cold and white and delicate and
beautiful ami finished. All that is wanted is
glass case put oeer them. The minister on
the Sabbath has only to take an ostrich
feather aud brush OF the dust that has ac-
cumu'atet i'll 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
/ to the Lords army. We say to the appli-
cants, Come in and get your equipment
Here is the bath in which you are to be
cieansed. bere is the helmet you are to put on
/ your head, here are the sandals you are to
lut over your feet, here is the breastpate
( you are to put over your heart, here is the
sword you are to take in your right hand and
fight His battle VITA. Quit yourselves like
men,"
There are those here perhaps. who say,
! ut is now ten, fifteen years since was in
/ the habit, the regular habit, of church going"
! L know all about your case. l am going to
tell you something that will be startling at
the first and that is that you are going to
become tie Lords sheep. oh" you say
that is impossible; you don't know my
/ 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.
! l know why some of you do not attend upon
I Christian services
go further. and make another announce
! ment in regard to you, and that is, you are
rot only to become the Lords sheep, but you
{ are going to become the Lords sheep this
hour. Gods going to call you graciously oy
! HIS spirit; you are going to come into the
! fold of Christ. This sermon shall not be so
much for these who are Christians 1 have
! preached to them hundreds and thousands of
times. The sermon that preach now is GO
/ ing to be chiefly for those who consider them
. rolx- 49, 4. L.
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 liars Rock, why did that brave minister
! of the Gospel of whom we have all read go
out in the hfeboat? Why did he not stay
and look after the passengers that got ashore,
/ wrapping fannels around them, and kindling
/ fires for them, and preparing them foods
/ There was plenty OF work to be done on
shore for those who had already escaped.
( Ali 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 Wonder is man; there is
woman freezing in the rigging. Pull
away~ see the oar bla les bend i'll the
strong pull OF the oarsmen. Then they come
up to the wreck. The woman is frozen. She
/ drops into the wave-alasi poor woman
and washes out to sea. But then Mr. Ancient
says: There is man yet hanging to the
rigging. Pull away, my ladsl pull awayw
they come up and he says: "Hold now
there five minutes and we will save YOU,
! Steady! steady Now give me your hand.
Leap! Thank God, he is saved! Thank God,
he is saved"
- 90 there are men now in the breakers
They have made shipwreck OF life. While
we come out to save Them some are swept off
swept of before we can reach them-snd
there are Others still hanging on. Steady
there among the slippery places. Steady!
| Leap into this lifeboatl Now is your chance
for heaven This hoar some of You are GO
ing to be saved Far away from God, You
are going to be brought nigh. "Otber sheep
have which are not of this fold.n
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 bs consecrated TO
God; you are going to live life of useful-
ness, and your deathbed is going to be sur.
rounded by Christian sympathzers. and de-
vout men will carry you to your burial when
your work is done, and these words will be
chissled for your epitaph: Precious in the
sight OF the Lord is the death of His saints.n
And all that history is going to begin to-
day. "Other sheep have which are not Of
this fold"
Again l remark, the Heavenly Shepherd
is going to find many of His sheep among
those who are now rejecters of Christianity
l do not know how you ca lie to reject Chris
tianity. l do not know whether it was
through hearing Theodore Parker preach. or
/ whether it was reading Remains "I.ife of
Jesus, or whether it was through soma
skeptc IN the store or factory. Or it NAV be
probably Is the case--that you were dis
guSted with religion and disguised with