The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-01-22
OTHER SHEEP | HAVE.
GODS FLOCK is NOT ALL. WITHIN
THE CHURCH'S FOLD.

Unbelievers Should Become Believers -
All May Yet 30 Saved.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 1.-THE following
powerful sermon, addressed to nom
church-goers, was delivered by DIR. Tai
mage this morning III the Academy Of
Music, this city, and again in the even
ing at the New Y ork Academy of Music.
DR.. Talmage's text was John X, 10:
''Other sheep have which arc not OF
this told.'
There is no monopoly in rcl gion.
The grace of God is not n nice little pro-.
rerty fenced of all for ourselves. 1t is
not a kings park, at which we look
through barred gateway. wishing we
might 60 IN and pluck the flowers and
look at the deer and the statuary. 1t is
a fathers orchard, and there arc bars to
let down and gates to swing open.
Have you any idea that because you
were baptized at eight months OF age,
and because you have all your life been
surrounded by hali0wcd Influences, you
have q right to one whole side of the
Lords table, spreading yourself out SO
nobody else can sit there: You will
have 10 haul in your elbows, for there
will come a great multitude to sit at the
table and on both sides Of you. You
arc not going TO have this monopoly Of
religion. "Othcr sheep have | which
are not OF This fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has on tho
Scotch hills a great flock of sheep. Nc
Donald has four or five thousand head
of sheep. Some arc browsing in the
heather, some arc on the hills, some arc
i'll tho valleys, a few arc in the yard.
One day Cameron comes over to Nc
Donald and says: : "Mc Donald, you
have thirty sheep. have been count
Ing them" ooh, no" says Mcdonald.
VI have inur OF five thousand.' "Ah!n
says Cameron, "you arc mistaken. |
have Just counted them. There are
thirty" "Why," says Mcdonald, "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 group Of Chris
tlans; here is Methodist io.d, here is n
Presbyterian fold, here Is Baptist fold,
here is Il Lutheran fold, and 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 III the church, how many in all these
denominations. We aggregate them,
and we think we are giving an intelligent
and an accurate account; but Christ
comes and he says: "You have not
counted them tight. There are those
whom you have never "ccn, those of
whom you have never heard. | have
fhlI,1rnn i,, oil ,>rt l,o ,,.tL
all the islands Of the sea. on all the con-
tinents, in all the mountains and in all
Naieys. DO you think that these few
sheep you have counted arc all the sheep
have? There is great multitude that
no man can number. Other sheep have
L which arc not of this fold"
CHRIST III my text talks of the c0nvcr-
sion Of the Gcntiles IA confidently as
though they had already been converted.
lie sets forth the idea that his people
will come from all parts of the earth,
from all ages, from all circumstances,
from all conditions. "Othcr sheep have
l which arc not of this fold"
In the first place | remark the IIca-
vcnly Shepherd will find many Of his
sheep among those who are at present
non-churchgocrs. There are different
Kinds OF churches. Sometimes you will
IND church made up only Of Christi
ans. Everything seems finished. The
church reminds you Of those skeleton
plants from which 10y chemical prepara-
uon all the Crcenness and the vcrdurc
nave been taken, and they are cold and
whltc and delicate and beautiful and lin
lshcd. All that is wanted is glass
case put over them. The minister on
the Sabbath has only to take an ostrich
leather and brush OFF the dust that has
accumulated Ill tho last six days OF busi-
ness, and then they are rs cold and
beautiful and delicate as before. Every
thlns Is lmlshcd--iinishCd sermons, fin
lshed music, finished architecture. fin
ishcd everything.
Another church is like an armory. the
sound OF drum and fife calling more re-
crults 10 the Lords army. We say to
the applicants. ''C0mc in and get your
equipment. Here is the bath in which
EOu are to be clcanscd, here is the he'll
met you are to put on your head, here
are the sandals you arc to put on your
1eet, here is the brcastplatc you are to
put over your heart, here is the sword
You are TO take in your right hand and
light his battle with. Quit yourselves
like men,"
There arc those here, perhaps, who
say, 1T 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 first, and
that is that you are going to become the
LORDS sheep. "Oh," you say. "that
is impossible; you don't know my case;
you don't hnOW how for am from onv
thing OF that kind" l know all about
your case. have been up and down
the world | know why some of you do
1'Sot attend upon Christian services.
- L 90 further, and make another an
nouncement in regard to you, and that
is, you are not only to become the
Lords sheep, but you arc gong 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 30 much for those who arc Christians,
1 have preached TO them hundreds and