The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-12
WORDS TO OUTSIDERS.
DIR. TALMAGE breaches TO NOM
CHURCH-GOERS..

It-Some Brethren in the Church
Who Scare OF the Wanderers
Christ the Shepherd.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 1.-THE following DOW
full sermon to non-church>goers was deliv-
cred by DR.. Talmage this morning in the
Academy of Music this city, and again In
the evening at The ChriStida Herald SER
vice in the New York Academy of Music.
At the latter service the new choir of 900
voices most effectively led the musical ex-
cises. DIR. Talmage's text was John K,
xvi; "0ther sheep have which are not Of
this fold"
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace OF God is not nice little property
fenced Off 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. II is fathers orchard,
and there are bars to let down aud gates 30
swing open.
In my boyhood days, next to the country
school house where / went, there was an
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
temptation, would climb over the fence and
take somo Of these apples, and notwith-
standing the fact that there was a surplus
and ali going to waste, the owner of that
orchard, reckless of making his lame
ness worse, would take after these lads,
and shout, "Boys, drop those apples. or mi
sat the dog on your Now there are christ
ians who have severe guard over the church
OF God. They have a rough and unsym-
pathetic way Of treating outsiders. Ii 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 8 hard and severe
nature guarding the church of God, and all
the time afraid that some will get these ap-
pies 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 all your life been sur
rounded by hallowed influences, you have
right to one whole side Of the Lords table,
spreading yourself out 80 that nobody elss
can sit theref You viii 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 are not going TO have
this monopoly of religion. "Other sheep
have which are not OF this fold.n
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has on the
Scotch hills great flock of sheep. McDon-
aid has four or Ave thousand head of sheep.
Some are browsing in the heather, some are
on the hills, some are In the valleys, few
are In the yard. One day Cameron comes
over to Mcdonald and says: mcdonald,
you have thirty sheep; have been count-
ing them" "Oh. no." says Mcdonald, II
have four or five thousand" "Ahr' says
Cameron, ''you ars mistaken: | have just
counted them; there are thirty "Why,s
aQ v Ia do Ahaf 10 all
the sheep havel / have sheep on the
distant hills and ia the valleys, ranging and
roaming everywhere. Other sheep have /
which are not of this fold"
So Christ comes Here is a group of
christians, and there Is group of christians;
here is Methodist fold, here is Presby-
terian 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 In the world,
how many there are IN the church, how
many of all these denominations. We
aggregate them, and we think we are Civ
ing 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
have never heard. have my children In all
parts OF the earth, on all the Islands OF the
sea, on all the continents, In all the noun
tains and in all the valleys. Do you think
that these few sheep you have counted arc
all tho sheep I haves There is a greau
multitude that no man can number. Other
sheep have which are not In this fold.n
Christ, In my next text, talks of the con-
version of the Gentiles as confidently az
though they had already been converted.
He sets forth the idea that his people will
como from all parts of the earth, from all
ages, from all circumstances, from all con-
ditioDs ''Other sheep have which are NOT
of this fold.n
In the first place, remark, the Heavenly
Shepherd will find many of his sheep among
those who are at present non-church goers.
There are different kinds of churches
Sometimes you will find church made up
Of only christians. Everything seems fin
ished The church reminds you of those
skeleton plants from which by chemical
preparation all the greeness and the verdi
ure. 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 Sab
bath has only to take an ostrich feather
and brush of the dust that has accumu-
lated in the last six days of business, aud
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
SQUAD of drum and fife calling more re-
cruits to the Lords army. We say to the
applicants, "Come In and get your equip
ment. 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 on your feet; here is the breast
plate you are to put over your heart; hero
Is the sword you are TO take in your right
hand and fight his battle with Quit your
selves 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 first. and that is that you
are going to become the Lords Sheep
"O,n ycu say, that is impossible;
you don't know my case; you don't know
how far am from anything Of that kind"
I know all about your case. have been up
and down the world. | know why some OF
you do not attend upon christian services.
/ 90 further, and make another announce
ment in regard to you, and that is, you are
not only TO become the Lords sheep. but
you are going to become the Lords sheep
this hour. God is going TO call you gra-
ciously by his Spirit; you are going to
come into the fold OF Christ. This sermon
shall not be so much for those who are
christians. I have preached to them hun-
dreds and thousands of times. Ths sermon
that preach now is going TO be chiefly for
those who consider themselves outsiders,