The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-16
GATHERING LOST SHEEP.
DE-. Tarmage Appeals to Those Out
side the Fold
no Monopoly In ReiIgiOn-DiHerent Ways
Of Gathering in Those Outside the Fold
An Appeal to the skepticaI-
ChrIst's Mercy.

of this fold" He said:
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God Is not 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. 1t is
fathers orchard, and there are bars to
1et down and gates to swing open
In my bOyhoOd days, next to the
country school house where I went,
there was an apple orchard of great
Iuxuriance, 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 inherited 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 sur
plus, and all going to waste, the
owner of that orchard, reckless of
making his lameness worse, would take
after these lads and shout: Boys, drop
those apples, or I'll set the dog on your
Now there are Christians who have
severe guard over the church of God.
They have rough and unsympathetic
way of treating outsiders. It is a great
orchard into which God would like to
have all the people come and take the
more they take the better He likes it,
But there are those who stand with
hard and severe nature guarding the
church of God, and all the time afraid
that some one will get these apples
when they really ought not to have
them.
Have you any idea that, because you
wefe baptized at eight months of age,
and because you have all your life been
surrounded by hanowed influences, you
have right to one whole side of the
Lords table, spreading yourself out so
nobody else can sit there? You will
have to haul in your elbows, for there
will come a great multitude to sit at
the table, and IN both sides of you.
Yon are not going to have this monopo-
RF of religion. 'tOther sheep have I
which are not of this fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has on the
Scotch hills a great flock of sheep. Nc
Donald has 1900 or 5000 head of sheep.
Some are browsing in the heather,
some on the hills, some are in the
valleys, a few are in the yard One
day Cameron comes oyer to McDQ9ald
.and says: mcdonald, you have thirty
,sheep; 1 have been counting them
so, nor says Mcdonald, 81 have 1000
or $1,000" ''Ah!" says Cameron, you
ARE mistaken; have just counted them;
there are thirty" ''Why," says Nc
OOAe@tN., you suppose JiAtC Is I'll Tic
ssheep have? have sheep on the dis
-tant hills and in the valleys, ranging
.and roaming everywhere. Other sheep
have I which are not of this fold"
So Christ comes. Here is a group of
Christians, and there is a group of
Christians; here is a Methodist fold,
here is a Presbyterian fold, here is a
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
rnany of all these denominations We
aggregate them, and we think we are
giving an intelligent and an accurate
account, but Christ comes and He says:
lyon have not counted them right.
There are those whom you have never
seen. 1 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 all the sheep have?
There is great multitude that no man
can number. Other sheep have which
are not of this fold"
Christ, in my text, talks of the CON
version of the Gentiles as confidently as
slough they had already been convert
ed. He sets forth the idea that His peo-
pie will come from all parts of the earth,
from all circums tances, from all cOndi-
-tiOns- 'sOther sheep have which are
mot of this fold
In the first place, remark, the Heav-
emily 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 only of Chris
-Gians. Every thing seems finished The
church reminds yOu of those skeleton
plants from which by chemical prepare
ton all the greennesS and the verdure
have been taken, and they are cold, and
white, and delicate, and beautiful, 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 OF the dust that has
accumulated in the last six days of bust
ness, and then they are as cold and
beautiful and delicate as before, Every
thing is finished; finished sermons. In
-ished music, finished architecture, : n
ished every thing.