Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-01-23
REV. DR.. TaLMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvISE's sun
DAY SERMON
SuBJrcr, "OTrrR sHrEr l HAVE"

I0efo Is no monopoly IN TcilHlOn. 1ut
grace OF God is not a nice little property
fenced of all for ourselves 1t is not kings
park, at which we look through barred
gateway, wishing we might go in and pluck
the flowers and look at the deer and the
statuary. lt b a fathers orchard, and there
are bars to let down and gates 10 swing open |
In my boyhood days next 10 the country !
schoolhouse where I went there was an /
apple or chard 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 inherited from /
our first parents who fell through the same
temptation, would climb over the fence and
take some OF these apples and notwithstand- /
ing the fact that there was surplus, 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 you"
Now there are Christians who have severe
guard over the Church Of God. They have
rough and unsympathetic way OF treating
outsiders. 1t is great orchard into which
God would like to have all the people come
and take the richest and the ripest fruit, aud
the more they take the better He likes it.
But there are those who stand with n hard
and severe nature guarding the Church Of
God, and all the time afraid that some will
get these apples 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 surrounded by
hallowed influences, you have right To one
whole side of the Lords table, spreading
yourself out 50 nobody else can sit thereS
You will have TO haul in your elbows, for
there will comea 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"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman has on the
Scotch hills a great flock OF sheep Mcdonald
has four or five thousand head Of sheep.
Some are browsing on the heather, some are
on the hills, some are in the valleys a few
are in the yard. One day Cameron comes
over to Mcdonald and says: Mcdonald you
have thirty sheep. l have been counting
them" "Oh, mob says Mcdonald "Ihave
four or five thousand" "Ahm says Came
ron, "you are mistaken. have Just counted
them. There are thirty" why" says Nc
Donald, do you suppose that is all the sheep
have? have sheep on the distant hills and
In the valleys ranging and roaming every
where. Other sheep have l which are not of
this fold"
So Christ comes. Here is 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 we make our annual
ana we lulUk we Gun tel you JlSJ
how many Christians there are In the world,
how many there are in the church, how
many in all these denominations. We ag-
gTegate them and we think we are giving
an intelligent and an accurate account, but
Christ comes and He gays: You have not
counted them right. There are those whom
you have never seen, those OF whom you
have never heard. l have Ny children i'll oil
parts of the earth, on all the islands of the
sea- on all the continents in all the mount
aims and in all the valleys. Do you think
that these few sheep you have counted are
all the sheep have? There is a great null
titude that no man can number. Other
sheep have | which are not OF this fold"
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 cir
cumstances, from oil conditions. "Othor
sheep have | which are not of this fold"
In the first place remark the Heavenly
Shepherd will find many of His sheep among
those who are at present nchurchgoers-
There are different kinds of churches. Some
times you will find church made up only of
Christians Everything 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
beautiful and finished. All that is wanted is
glass case put over them. The minister on
the Sabbath has only TO take an ostrich
feather and brush Off the dust that has &C
cumulated in the last six days Of business
and 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
sound Of drum and fife calling more recruits
to the Lords army. We say to the appli
cants, Come in and get your equipment
Here is the bath in which you are to be
cleansed, here is the helmet you are to put or
your head here are the sandals you are *
put over 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
ait is now ten, fifteen years since was II
the habit, the regular habit, Of church going.
know all about your case. am going tt
tell you something that will be startling a
the first and that is that you are going Il
become tie Lords sheep. "Oh,r you say
that Is impossble you don't know Ill!
case; you don't know how far am from any
thing Of that kind" know all about you
case. have been up and down the world
know why some Of you do not attend upor
Christian services.
Igo further and mako another announce
ment in regard to you, and that is you ar
not only to become che Lords sheep, but yo'
are going to become the Lords sheep thi
hour. God is going to call you graciously b.
His spirit; you are going to come into thu
fold of Christ This sermon shall not be 81
much for these who are Christians. l hav
preached to them hundreds and thousands o
times. The sermon that preach now is go
ing to be chiefly for those who consider them
selves outsiders but who may happen to b.
in ha ia n
the Christian people here to-day will be- K
pray for those who are not accustomed x
attend upon Christian sanctuaries.
When the steamer Atlantic went to pieces
on Mars Rock, why did that brave minister
Of the Gospel of whom we have all read, x
out in the ifeboat? Why did he not stay
and look after the passengers that got ashore
wrapping fanncls around them and kindlin.
fires for them, and preparing them food
There was plenty OF work to DO done OF
shore for those who had already escaped
Ali that brave man knew that there were
others who would take care OF those, and 81
he said, Man the life5oat Pull! away, my
lads, pull away! Yonder is man; there i
woman freezing in the rigging. Pull
awayr' | see the oar blades bend in tn
strong pull OF the oarsmen. Then they conn
up to the wreck. The woman is frozen. Sh
drops into the wave-alasl poor woman
and washes out to sea. But then Mr.. Ancien
says: There is man yet hanging TO tn,
rigging. Pull away, my ladsl pull away =
They come up, and he says: Hold nov
there five minutes and we will save you
Steady steady! Now give me your hand
Leapl Thank God, he is saved! Thank God
he is saved"
50 there are men now in the breakers
They have made shipwreck Of life Will
we come out to save them, some are swept OF
swept off before we can reach thenl-ant
there are others still. hanging on. Stead,
there among the slippery places! Steady