Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-12
TO THE OUTSIDERS.
REV. DR.. TAlAAGES SERMON ADDRESSED TO
NON-CHURCH- -GOERS.
&c Tells The That Their Case is Not Hopeless
and That They May be Savsd-The Tabsr-
nacls Preacher Draws Some Striking Par
allels-The Sheep Out Of tie Fold.

hundred voices most tHoCIlNVi1 lNN VIZ
musical exercises. DR.. TaimageS text
was John 10: 10, "Other sheep have
which are not OF this fold
There is no monopoly in religion. Inc
grace OF God is not i nice little property
fenced of all for ourselves. IL ID not
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 a fathers
orchard, and there are bars to let down
and gates TO swing open.
In my bcyhood days, next to The
country school house where l went,
there was an apple orchard of great lux
uriance, owned by very lame man who
| did not gather the apples, aud they went
10 waste by scores of bushels. Some
times the lads Of the school, in the SIN
| fulness 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, ana not
withStanding the fact that there was
surplus. aud 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 or God.
They have rough and unSympathetic
way OF treating outsiders. III 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 bet
ter he likes il. But there are those who
stand with hard and severe nature
guarding the Church of God, ana all
the time afraid that some will get those
IappleS when they really ought not To
have them.
Have You any idea that, because you
were baptSed at eight months oil age
and because You have all your life been
surrounded by hallowed Influences, you
/ have a right to one whole side oi the
| Lords table, spreading yourself out so
nobody else can sit there? You Will
have to haul in your elbows, for there
will come 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 l which
are not Of this fold"
] " NtllOnUlU lHt ENGOAA AAAANh A"N 'a-
Scotch hills peat fock OF sheep. Nc
Donald has four or five thousand heau
OF sheep. Some are browsing IN the
heather. some are ON the hills, some are
i'm the valleys, IA few are in the yard.
One dry Cameron comes over to McDon-
aid and saws: Mcdonald, you have 80
sheep: | have been counting them.
ooh no. saws Mcdonald, Il have four
or five thousand" "Ah" says Cameron,
~you are mistaken: have just counted
them; there are 30" Why says Me
Donald, 10 you suppose that Is all the
sheen have? have sheep on the dis
tant hills and in the valleys, ranging
and roaming everywhere. Other sheep
have | which are not of this fold.
cHmsr's FOLD.
So Christ comes. Here is group oi
Christians. and there is group oil
Christians: here is Methodist ioid'
here is a Presbyterian fold, here is a
BAPTIST fold, here is Lutheran IoId,
and we make our annual statistics,
and we think we can tell you Just now
many Christians there are in the world;
how many there are in the Church, how
many Of all these denominations we
aggregate them, and we think we are
giving an intelligent and an accurate ac-
count: but Christ comes, and ne 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
loftbe earth. and on all the Islands OF
the sea. on all the continents, in all the
mountains and in all the valleys. DO
Won think that these few sheep you
have counted are all the sheep have?
There is a 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 Gentiies as confidently aS
ltbough they had already been convert
ed. He sets forth the idea that Ills
people will come from all parts ol the
earth. from all ages, from all circnm-
stances. from all conditions. "Other
sheep have | which are not oil TINS
fold" -.
I'm the first place, remark, the
Heavenly shepherd will find many oil his
sheen among those who are at present
non-church goerS. There are different
kinds of churches. Sometimes you
will find a church made up Only OF
Christians. Everything seems hnlsheu'
The church reminds yOu Of those Skele-
ton nlants from which by chemical prep
aration all the greennesS and the YER
ldure have been taken, and they are
rold. and white, and delicate, ana
heautiful. and finished. All that
lis wanted is glass case put
over them. The minister on the
sabbath has only to take an oStrlch
feather and brush off the dust that mas
accumulated In the last six days Oh ouSl-
ness. and then they are rs cold ana
beautiful and delicate aS before
Eyerything is finished: flushed ser
mons finished music. finished archltec-
turc. finished everything.
Another church is like an armory' Tue
sound Of drum and five calling moro re-
cruits To the Lords army. we say u
the applicants, "Come in ana get your
continent. Here is the bath III wnlch
Won are to be cleanSed, here IS the hei-
met Won are to put ON your heau' h'i'
are the sandals You are pun ou !'.'
feet. here is the breaStplate you are ~
put over your heart, here Is Inc S"oiG
von ARE 10 take in your right hand ana
drht his battle with. Quit yourselves
like men," ,,ho
There are those here, perhaps, whu
sav III Is now ten, fifteen years since
| was i'm the habit, the regular haolt' oi
I,bur,b-coiug. know all about youi
case am going to tell You somethlhg
,bqt will be startling at the hrSt' ana
tbot i. that YOU are going to become
the Lords sheep. "Oh, you say "tha'
i ImnoSsihle; You don't know my case
Won don't know how far am from any
thing Of that kind l know all aoou'
vour case. | have been up and down
tbe world. know why some OF you uo
not attend upon Christian services.
90 further, and make another an
,opnrement i'm regard TO you, ana tna'
Is vou are not only to become the
Lords sheep. but you are going TO oe,
come the Lords sheep this hour Uou
i going to call you graciouSly by iil'
Snirit. YOU are going TO come INTO III,
foid of Christ. This sermon shall ho'
ha so much for those who are Christ
isns | have preached to them nun
dreds and thousands OF times Inc scr.
mon that preach now is gong 10 ot
chiefly for those who consider theuA-
; selves outsiders, but who may happen
IN he in the house, and the chief en-
ploymeEt Of the Christian people mere
to-day will be 10 pray tor those who are
not accustomed to attend upon CHRIST
: ian Sanctuaries.
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