Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-12
OTHER SHEEP | HAVE.
GODS FLOCK IS NOT ALL WITHIN
THE cHURcH'S FOLD.


BROOKLYN, Jan. 1.-THE following pow
erful Sermon addressed to non-church-
goers was delivered by DIR, Talmage this
morning in the Academy of Music, this
city. and again in the evening at the New
York Academy of Music, where services
are still being held under the auspices Of
The Christian Herald. At the latter serv-
fee the new choir of two hundred voices
most effectively led the musical exercises.
DR.. Talmage's text was John X, 10: "Other
sheep l have which are not Of this fold"
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not a nice little property
fenced off all for ourselves. It is not a
kings park, at which we look through a
barred gateway, wishing We might go in
and pluck the flowers and look at the deer
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
by a 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 a nature in
herited from our first parents, who fell
through the same temptation, would climb
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 rough and unsympathetc 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 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, you have
right to one whole side of the Lords ia
BILE, spreading yourself out so nobody else
can sit there? You will have to haul in
your elbows, for there VIII 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. "Other sheep
have | which are not of this fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has on the
Scotch hills great flock of sheep Nc
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, few are in the yard. One day Cam
eron comes over to Mcdonald and says:
Mcdonald, You have thirty sheep. have
been counting them" ooh, mop says Nc
Donald. 81 have four or five thousand"
"Ah" says Cameron, you are mistaken
| have iMt counted them. There are
thirty" why" says Mcdonald, "do you
suppose chat is all the sheep l have? !
have sheep on the distant hills and in 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 n group of Chris
tians; here is a Methodist fold, here is a
Presbyterian fold, hero is d Baptist fold,
here is a Lutheran fold and we make our
annual statistics, and we think we can tell
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
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
1,n aoVtb oil hn ir1n dc, ,c
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 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-
tons, "Other sheep have | which are not
of this fold"
In the first place l remark the Heavenly
Shepherd will find many of his sheep
among those who are at present non
churchgOers. There are different kinds
of churches. Sometimes you will find
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
and the verdure have been taken, and they
are cold and white and delicate and beau
tiful 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 us cold and beautiful
and delicate as before. Everything is fin |
ished-inished sermons, finished music,
finished architecture, finished everything.
Another church IS like an armory, the |
sound of drum and fife calling more re-
cruits to the Lords army We say to the !
applicants, Come in and get your equip !
mcnt 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 |
breastplate you are to put over your heart, |
here is the sword You are to take in your |
right hand and fight his battle with. Quit |
yourselves like men"
There are those here, perhaps, who say, |
at is now ten, fifteen years since l was IN /
the habit, the regaiai habit, of church |
going" know all about your case. lam
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,n you say, that is impossible you
don't know my case; you don't know how
far am from anything Of that kind" l
know all about Your case. have been up
and down the world. know why some
Of you do not attend upon Christian serv-
ices.
GOD is CALLING YOU
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