Milford chronicle., 1891-01-16
OTHER SHEEP | HAVE.
GODS FLOCK IS NOT ALL WITHIN
THE -cHURcH's FOLD.

riE SnDhCn'o FOLD.
Or. Talmage breaches a Powerful Ser
mon to the NOn-churehgoers-Reason
why Unbelievers should Become BE
Iievers-An May Yet Be Saved.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 1.-THE following pow
erful sermon. addressed to non-church
goers, was delivered by DR.. Talmage thi
morning in the Academy Of Music, thi
city, and again in the evening at the Nev
York Academy of Music, where service
are still being held under the auspices o
The Christian Herald. At the latter serv
ice the new choir Of two hundred voice
most effectively led the musical exercises
DR.. Talmage's text was John X, 16: "Othe
sheep have which are not of this fold. )"
There is no monopoly in religion. Th'
grace Of God is not a nice little property
fenced off all for ourselves. It is not {
kings park, at which we look through
barred gateway, wishing we might go il
and pluck the flowers and look at the deel
and the statuary It is a fathers orchard
and there are bars to let down and gates
to swing open.
In my boyhOod days, next TO the country
schOolhouse where / went, there was an
apple orchard of great luxuriance, owned
1 by a very lame man who did not gather
I the apples. and they went to waste by
scores Of bushels. Sometimes the lads OF
/ the school, in the sinfulness of nature in
/ herited from our first parents, who fell
/ through the same temptation, would climb
4 over the fence and take some Of these
/ apples, and notwithstanding the fact that
there was a surplus, and all going to waste,
the owner of that orchard, reckless of max
ing 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 have Sc
we're guard over the Church of God. They
have a rough and unsympathetic way Of
treating outsiders. 1t is a 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 and severe nature guard
ing the Church of God, and all the time
afraid that some will getthese apples when
they really ought not to have them.
YOU ARE NOT GODS ONLY CHARGE.
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, yod have
a right to one whole side of the Lords ia
BILE, spreading yourself out so nobody else
can sit there? You viii have to 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 l which are not of this fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has on the
Scotch hills a great flock OF sheep. Me
Donald has four or five thousand head Of
sheep. Some are browsing in the heather,
some are on the hills, some are in the val
leys, a few are in the yard. One day Cam
eron comes over to Mcdonald and says:
"McDonald, you have thirty sheep. have
been counting them. "Oh, nor' says Nc
Donald. Il have four or five thousand"
"Ahp' says Cameron, you are mistaken.
/ have just counted them. There are
thirty" why" says Mcdonald, ''do you
suppose that is all the sheep l have2 l
have sheep on the distant hills and in the
valleys, ranging and roaming everywhere.
Other sheep have l 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 a
Presbyterian fold, here is a Baptist fold,
here is a Lutheran fold, and VIC 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 denom-
nations. We aggregate them, and we
think we are giving an intelligent and an
accurate account; but Christ comes and
l,a ok fan 1
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 mountains
and in all the valleys. Do you think that
these few sheep you have counted are ali
the sheep have? There is a great multi
tude that no man can number. Other
sheep have | which are not of this fold.
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE EARTH.
Christ in my text talks of the conversion |
of the Gentiles as confidently as though |
they had already been converted. He sets |
forth the idea that his people will come |
from all parts of the earth, from all ages, |
from all circumstances, from all condi- |
tions. "Other sheep have which are not |
of this fold"
In the first place 1 remark the Heavenly |
will find many of his sheep
among those who are at present non |
There are different kinds /
Of churches. Sometimes you will find a |
church made up only of Christians. Every |
thing seems finished. The church reminds /
you of those skeleton plants from which |
by chemical preparation all the greenness
aud the verdure have been taken, and they |
are cold and white and delicate and beau
5iful and finished All that is wanted is a
glass case put over them. The minister
on the Sabbath has only to take an ostrich
feather and brush off the dust that has ac-
cumulated in the last six days of business,
and then they are as cold and beautiful
and delicate as before. Everything is fin
shed-fnished sermons, finished music,
finished architecture finished everything
Another church is like an armory, the
sound of drum and fife calling more re-
fruits to the Lords army. We say to the
applicants, "Come in and get your equip
nent. Here is the bath in which you are
20 be cleansed, here is the helmet you are
70 put on your head, here are the sandals
you are to put on your feet, here IS the
you are to put over your heart,
lere is the sword you are to take IN your
light hand and fight his battle with. Quit
yourselves like men,"
There are those here, perhaps, who say,
1t is now ten, fifteen years since l was in
he habit, the regular habit, Of church
going." know all about your case. lam
yoing to tell you something that will be
tartling at the first, and that is that you
ire going to become the Lords sheep.
oh" you say, shat is impossible; you
lon't know my case; you don't know how
ar am from anything Of that kind. ."
Snow all about your case. I have been up
md down the world. / know why some
# you do not attend upon Christian serv-
ces.
GOD Is CALLING YOU.
I 20 further, and make another announce
nent in regard to you. and that is, you are