Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-01-31

The Brooklyn Divine s
Sunday Sermon.

OF THIS fold. John 4. II.
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace Of God is not a nice little prop@rts
! fenced IF AL for ourselves. 1t Is no. a Eli.
park. At which we look through Il barre
gateway. wishing we might go IN and pl ick
the flower and look at the deer and tn
atatuary. It Is 4 father orchard. and Their,
are bars to let down and gates u suin-opeu.
In my boyhoot d -. next t. the country
schnolh0use where vent. there wa an
spp.c or saard of great luxuFianee, owaei bv
n very lame man who OH not gather tn
apples: ana they went u waste by score. o.
bushels Sometimes the lads of the school,
in the slnfu!ne>s Of a nature inherited from
our first parents. Whkfali through the same
temptation, would clifab over the fence and
take some ~ these apples, ahi notwIttseand-
ing the fact that there was a SlTpin-. and
AL going to:waste, the owner otthaI orchard,
reckless Of making MS iamenees worse. j" iii
take afterthese iad3 and shout, Boy. drop
those apples or III set the dog on you
Now there ara Christians "ho have se*err
guard o.er the Church Of Col. They have.
Ii rough and tinrynlpathetic way Of treat IL
outsider. It i 4 great orchard into which
God would llk" to have all the peop.e come
and take the richest and the rip--s f4att and
the more they take the better He ll.-3 il.
But there are those who stand wItii a hard
aud severe nature guarding the tLurci OF
God, and all the time afraid that sonne viii
get these aprle@ when they really ought not
To have them
Have y0l any idea that because you w-re
baptized at eight months Of age. and because
you have ali your life been surrounded by
hallowed Influences, you have u right II "a"
whole side IL the Lords table, spreading
yourself out 80 nobody else can sit fheI.
Ynu vail have to haul III your elbows. for
there will comea great multitude to sit ~
the table and on both sides Of You. You are
not gong 10 have this monopoly If religion
"Otiief sheep have | which are not of this
fold
Mcdonald, the Scotchnlan. has on tn
Scotch hills Il great flock of sheep Mcdonald
has four OF five thousand head II sheep.
Some are browsing ON the heather, sorne are
on the hills, some are IN the valleys, ii fr~
are IN the yard One day Camelon cone
over t. Mcdonald and says Mcdonald, you
have thirty sheep | have been counting
them oh, no" SAYS Mcdonald. .1ha,e
four or five Thousand All" says Canle-
ron, You, are mistaken. Uhave just counted
them. There are thirty Why, Z says NJ.
Donald, do you suppose that Is all the sheep
! have have sheep on the distant hills aud
III the valley, ranging and roaming every
where. Other sheep have | which are not of
this fold.
50 Christ comes. Here Is u group Of
Christians, ana there IS Il group of Chris
tinns, here IS q Methodist fold, here IS a
Presbyterian fold. here is Is Baptist fold, here
isa Lutheran fold, and we make our annual
statistics, and we think we can tell you Just
how MANY Christians there are in tue world,
how many there are In the church. how
many IN all these denominations We az
grecate them, and we think we arc giving
an intelligent and an accurate account, but
Christ comes and He sa VS.: 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 tire
sea, on all the continents, in all the mount
=. - - n IL A. a sIr
that these few sheep you have counted are
ali the sheep ! havey 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 0ptiles 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 al cli-
cumstances,1 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 aaions
those who are At present non-churcnSaers.
There arr different kinds OF churches. ON
times You will tind a church made up only OF
Christians. Everything seems finished. The
church reminds YOU Of those skeleton plants
from which 10y chemical preparation al TIL"
greenness and the yerdure have been taken,
and they are cold and white and delicate and
beautiful and finished. All that is wanted is
n glass ease put over them. The minister on
the Sabbath has only to take an ostrich
feather aud brush of the dust that has az
cumulated III the last SIX days OF business
and then they are as cold and beautiful ana
delicate rs before. Everything is finished
finished sermons, finished Music, 1inisacc
architecture, finished everything.
Another church Is like an armory. tbs
sound Of drum and fife calling more recruit:
to the Lords army. We say to the uppli
cants, Come in and get your equipment
tHarn 10 tho fath IN which yDl ara - IN
cleansed, here is the helmet you are to put OF
your head, here are the sandals you are t
put over your feet, here Is the breastplat'
you are 10 pat over your heart, hereIS III
sword Won are To- takein Your right hand IN,
fight HIS battle with. Quit yourselves Tx,
men,
There are those here. perhaps, VINO say
1T is no" ten. fifteen years SINGS Was j
the habit. the regular habit, OF church going
| know all about Your CASE. aui gntno I
tell YOU something that viii BE- startling q
the first, and thht j. tHat you are goiaE I
become tie Lords sheep. oh you say
''thnt is I'M posSlhle, you don't know III,
case, you don't know how far ain from any
thing ~ that kind" rrknow all about YOU
case. ] have been w and down the world
know why some If YOU 10 not attend upon
Christian services.
tEo further. and MAKE another anntunc
ment IN regard to YOU, and that i, you ar
not oify 10 become the Lords sheep. but 10
are gong Ia become the Lords sheen Iii
hour God 5 going u call YOU graciously l.
His spirit. YOU are gong To come INTO tn
fold Of Christ. This sermon shall NOT be- :
much for these VINO are Christians. | hay
preached 10 them hundreds and thousands
times The sermon that ! preach now i, gt
inS l. lie cAletiy for those who consider then
selves outsiders. but who raav happen TO /
III the house, ana the chief employment
the Christian people here today VIII be
pray Ter those who are not accustomed I
attend upon Christian >anctuaries.
When tie steamer Atlantic went 10 piece
on Mars R0Ck, WHY did that brave ministe
III tae Gospel, O. wlon we have ali read, {
out IN The hie5oatt Why did he NOT sta
and look after the passengers that got ashor,
wrapping tiaunels around them. AMI kindlin
fires FOR them. and preparing them foe,
There Was plenty OF work 10 be done G
shore for those who had already es,.aoet
An! that brave man knew that ther. WEI
Others VIII would take care OF those. and
he s2id, Man tue ltehoat Pail away, m
lads, pull away Sunder Is a man, there
u woman freezing III the IIggirc. rl
away l SEE the oar biaieS bend IN Il
strong pull ot The oarsmen. )rhen they CON
up 10 the wreck. The woman i frozen. 81