Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-17
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A POWERFUL APPEAL TO NOM
y CHURCH-GOERS.
'gIgion Il Free TO All ManIsind.-Not AL
ne Christians In ono DenOminatiionai
F0ld.--No Limit to Christ's
Mercy, But the Non-Be-
lever Il Unsaved.

BROOKLYN, N. ", Jan. 1.-THE fol-
lowing powerful sermon to non-churcn-
roers was delivered by DR.. Talmage this
morning at the Acadamy Of Music, this
CITY, and again this evening at the
Christian Herald service In the New
York Acadamy Of Music. At the latter
services the new choir Of 200 voices
most effectively led the musical eXer-
oises. DIR. Talmage's text was John X,
is, 'Other sheep have which are not
Ia the fold"
3 There Is no monopoly in religion.
The grace Of God Is not nice nttle pro
perty fenced of all for ourselves. IL Is
not q kings park, at which we look
through barred gateway, wishing we
might go in and pluck the flowers and
look at the deer and the statuary. 1t Is
4 fathers orchard, and there are bars
70 be let down, and gates to swing open.
In my boyhood days, next to the coun-
trV school house where l went, there
was an apple orchard Of great luxuriance
owhed by o very lame man who did not
sr1her the apples, and they went 10
Ite bv SCORES and bushels. Some
es the lads of the school in the sim
cas- of nature inherited from our
PARENTS who fell through the same
1ation, would climb over the fence
take some Of these apples, and not
49,. landing the fact that there was
snrplus, and all going to weste, the
! owner Of that orchard, reckless OF max
,, ing his lameness worse, would take after
? these lads and shout, 'sBoys, drop those
apples, or I'll set the dogs on YOU"
Now there are Christians who have Sc
we're guard over the church OF God.
They have q rough and unsystematic
way Of treating outsiders, 1t is q great
orchard into which God would like to
have ali the people come and take the
richest and the ripest fruit, and the
more they take the better he likes 1t.
But there are those who stand with
rRll6rd and severe nature guarding the
church, of Cod, and all the time afraid
that some one will get these apples when
they really ought not to have them.
THE SHEEP IN MANY FOLDS.
Have YOU any idea that, because you
were babtized eight months ago, and be-
cause you have all your life surrounded
by followed influences, you have right
TO one whole side of the Lords table,
spreading yourself out so no one else can
sit there? You will have to haul In
your elbows, for there will come agreat
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 in the fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has on the
great Scotch hills great flock OF sheep.
Some are browsing in the heather, some
\ in TIE valleys, and q few are In the
One day Cameron comes over to
Aonald and says, Mcdonald, you
ave thirty sheep; have been counting
them.n 90, mop says Mcdonald, II
have 10000 or 5000" "Ah!' says Cam
,eron, 'tyou are mistaken; I have Just
counted them; there are thirty" ''Why,
says Mod Donald, ''do you suppose that Is
all the sheep / have? have sheep on
the distant hills and ip the valleys,
ranging and roaming everywhere.
Other sheep have which are not OF this
fold.r
So Christ comes. Here is group OF
Christians, and there is group Of
Christians; here is o Methodist fold,
here is Presbyterian fold, here Is
Baptist fold, here is Lutheran fold,
and we make our annual statistic, 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 of all these denominations. We
aggregate them, and we think we are
giving an intelligent and accurate &C
count, but Christ comes and He says:
''You have not counted right. There
are those whom you have never seem
those Of whom you have never heard.
I have NY children in all parts OF the
esrth, on all islands of the sea, on all
the continents, in all the mountains and
In all the valleys. Do you think that
these few sheep you have counted are
all the sheep have? There is great
multitude that no man can number.
Other sheep have 1 which are not OF
this fold"
~ DIFFERENT KINDS OF CHURCHES.
Christ, In my text, talks Of the con-
version Of the Gentiles as confidently as
though they had already been convert
ed. he sets forth the idea that His
p6opIe WIN come from all parts of the
earth, from all ages, from all circum-
stances, 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 pres
emit non church goers. There are diff
ierent kinds of churches. Sometimes
you will find church made up only OF
christians. Everything seems finished.
The church reminds you q those skele-
ton plants from which by chemical pre-
paration all the greenness and verdure
have been taken, and they are cold, and
white, and delicate, and beautiful, and
finished. All that Is wanted Is Chs
case put over them. The minister ON
the Sabbath has only to take an ostrich
feather and brush OF the dust that has
accumulated In the last six days OF