The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-12

"Other sheep have 1 which are not Of this
fold"
Again / remark, the Heavenly Shepherd
is going 10 get many Of his sheep among
those who have been flung Of evil habit.
IL outrages me 10 see how soon christian
people give uD the prodigal hear chris
tian people talk as though they thought the
grace Of God were chain of forty or nifty
links, and when they had run out then
there was notding u touch the depth OF
mans iuiQuity. II a man were out hunting
for deer, and got off the track Of the deer.
be would hunt amid the bushes and the
brakes longer for the lost game than he
would look for a lost soul.
They say if a man has had the delirium
| tremeus twice he cannot be cured. Ihey
| say if woman has fallen from integrity
she cannot be redeemed. All Of which Is
an infinite Islander on the gospel Of the Son
| Of God. Men who say that know nothing
about practical religion in their own hearts.
| How many times will God take back man
who has TALENT Well, / cannot give you
the exact figures. but can tell you at what
point be certainly will take him back. Four
hundred and ninety times. Why do l say
400 times, Because the Bible says seventy
times seven. Now. figure that out, you
| who do not think man can fall four times,
eight times. ten times, twenty times,
one hundred times, four hundred times, and
| vet be saved. Four hundred and ninety
| timesl Why, there is a great multitude be-
fore the throne of God who plunged into all
the depths Of iniquity. There were no sins
they did not commit; but they we're washed
of body, and washed of mind, aud washed
/ Of soul, and they are before the throne of
God now forever happy. ! say that to en-
courage any man who feels there Is no
| chance for him.
Good Templars will not save you. although
they are a grand institution. Sons Of Tenn
| perance will not save you, although there is
no better society on earth. Signing the
temperance pledge will not save you,
| although it is grand thing to do No one
but God can save you. Do not put your
confidence ia bromide of potassium,or any
thing that the apothecary can mix. Put
your trust IN Cod After the church has
| cast you off, and the bank has cast you off,
| and social circles have cast you off, and all
| good society has cast you off, and father has
! cast you off, and mother has cast you off, at
| your first cry for help God will bend clean
down TO that ditch of your iniquity to help
| you out. Oh, what God he is Long suf-
fer.ng and gracious
There may be in this house some whose
hand trembles so with dissipation they could
hardly hold hymn book. say to such, if
they are here, "You will preach the gospel
| yet; you will yet, some of you, carry the
| molly communion through the aisles, and
cause everybody will know you are saved
and purified by the grace Of God, and
consecrated man wholly consecrated. Your
business has got TO come up, your physical
health is TO be rebuilt, your family is TO be
| restored, the church Of God on earth and in
heaven is to rejoice over your coming.
| "0ther sheep have / which are not
| OF this fold" If this is not the
| gospel, | do not know what the gospel
Is. 1t can scale any hight, it can tathom
| any depth, it can compass any intinity. |
| think one reason why there are not more
| people saved is we do not swing the door
wide enough open. Now there is only one
class of persons in this house about whom |
have any dependency, aud that is those
who have been hearing the gospel for per-
haps twenty, thirty, forty years. Their
outward life is moral, but they tell you
| frankly they do not love the Lord Jesus
| Christ, have not trusted him, have not been
| born again by the spirit of God. They are
| gospel-hardened. The gospel has no more
effect upon them than the shining of the
moon on tie city pavement. The publicans
| and the harlots go into the kingdom of
| God before they. They went through,
some Of them, the revival of 1857, when
100000 souls were brought to God. Some
| OF them went through great revivals in
| individual churches. Still unpardoned,
unblessed, unsaved They were merely
spectators. Gospel-hardened! After awhile
we will hear that they arc sick, and then
that they are dead, and then that
J they died without any hope. Gospel
hardened. But l turn away from all
such with thrill of hope to those who are
not gospel-hardened. Some of you have
not heard perhaps five sermons in five
years. This whole subject has been a
novelty to Won for some time You are not
gospel-hardened; you know you are not
| gospel-hardsned. The whole subject come
| freshly to your mind. | hear )me soul
saying: o my wasted liie o the bitter past |
o the graves have stumbled overl Whittier
| shall fiyl The future is so dark, so dark,
so very dark. God help me!
Oh, am so glad for that last utterance
| That was prayer, and as soon as you be-
| gin to pray, that turns ali heaven this way,
and God steps in, AID he beats back the
| hounds of temptation to their kennels, and
he throws all around the pursued soul the
covert Of his pardoning mercy. 1 heard
something fall. What was ito 1t was the
bars around the sheepfold, the bars of the
! fence around the sheepfold. The Heavenly
| Shepherd let them fall, and the hunted
sheep of the mountain come bounding in,
some with fleece torn of the brambles, and
others with feet lame from the dogs, but
bounding in. Thank Godl "Other sheep
have l which are not of this fold"
God forbid that any OF you should have
the lamentation of the dying nobleman who
had had every opportunity of salvation Tut
rejected all, and who wrote or dictated
these words: Before you receive this, my
final state will be -termined. | am throw
ing my last stake for eternity, and tremble
and shudder for the important ISSUE O.
my friend, with what horror do l recall the
hours Of vanity We have wasted together
but have splendid passage TO the grave.
die in state, aud languish under
a gilded canopy. l am expiring on soft
and downy pillows, and am respectfully
attended by my servants and physicians.
My dependents sigh, my sisters Weep my
father bends beneath load of years and
grief; but oh, which of these will answer
my summons at the high tribunall And
which of these will bail me from the arrest
Of DEATH While some fiattering panegyriC
is pronounced at my interment, / may be
hearing my just condemnation at q supreme
tribunal. Adieul"