News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-15
TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
DR.. TALMAGE breaches TO THE
"SREEP WITHOUT THE FOLD"

Congregations, but There Are Many
| Reasons why All Persons Should Be
| Christians-A Word to UnbeIievers.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 1.-THE following
powerful sermon, addressed to non
churchgoers, was delivered by DR.. Tai
mage this morning in the Academy of
Music, this city, and again in the even
ing at the New York Academy of Music,
where services are still being held I'M
| der the auspices of The Christian Her
aid. At the latter service the new
choir of two hundred voices most eff
fectively led the musical exercises.
| DR.. Talmage's text was John y, 10:
"Other sheep have which are not of
this fold"
There is no monopoly in religion.
The grace of God is not nice little
property fenced off 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. 1t 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 l went,
there was an apple orchard of great
iuxuriance, owned by 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 ap-
piles, and Notwithstanding the fact that
there was surplus, and all going to
| waste, the owner of that orchard, reck-
less of making his lameness worse,
would take after these lads and shout,
Boys. drop those apples or I'll set the
dog on you'll"
Now there are Christians who have
severe guard over the Church of God.
They have 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.
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 a right to one whole side of the
Lords table, spreading yourself out so
nobody else can sit therel You will
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 monop
oily 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 in
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. | have been
counting them" "Oh. no." says Nc
Donald II have four or five thou
sand" ''Ah" says Cameron, you
are mistaken. | have just counted
them. There are thirty" Why" says
Mcdonald, do you suppose that is all
the sheep havel have sheep on the
distant hills and in the valleys, ranging
Oh
have 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 a 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 many in all these denominations
We aggregate them, and we think we
are giving an intelligent and an ac
curate 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 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 | have2
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 though they had already been con
verted He sets forth the idea that
his people will come from all parts of
the earth, from all ages, from all
circumstances, from all conditions.
'Other 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 non-churchgoers. There are
different kinds of churches Some
times you will find a church made up
only of Christians. Everything seems
finished The church reminds you OF
ILOSt ShGlGlOu JidlLo nom Which, ny
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's
wanted is q glass case put over them.
The minister on the Sabbath has only
to take an ostrich feather and brush
off the dust that has accumulated in
the last six days of business, and then
they are as cold and beautiful and del
icate as before. Everything is finished
finished sermons, finished music, fin
ished 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 applicants "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 on your
head, here are the sandals you are to
put on your feet, here is the breast
plate 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, cit is now ten, fifteen years since
was in the habit, the regular habit, of
church going" know all about your
case. am 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, you say, ''that
is impossible; you don't know my case;
you don't know how far am from any
thino of that Kind ,, lrrn1u all q hnut