The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-18
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ried it so that it was quite poor in week.
There are lots of sheep that are
scared. That wears all the
wealth of their soul, John x, v. 2s-"And
/ give unto them eternal life, and they
shall never perish, neither shall any one
pluck them out of my hand" Never.
Twenty-eight times in this chapter He
uses the pronoun to tell what He will do
for His sheep. Some old divine has said
that all Of Gods sheep have three marks.
You know In California and some
of those places where they have
great many sheep they have their
mark and register them, just as
some business men register their trade
mark. First, they hear, second, they
know his voice, and third, they follow.
That is the way you can tell a true sheep.
They know Gods voice and they don't
try to follow, but they do follow. You
can tell sheep from q goat in that way.
Tenth chapter of John, third verse. Now,
il you want life to your soul just listen to
TIE word OF God, let the word of God
sink down into your soul. "Verily,
verify, 1 say unto you -" put
your name in there "He that
heareth my word and believe the
on him that sent me hath everlasting
life ahd shall not come into condemnation
but has passed from death unto life."
You can come into the open fold through
that door this very hour II you will.
There is not on unsaved one here who
may not enter the fold of God now il he
will.
They know His voice. great many
people cannot tell the voice of
God from the voice of false
shepherd. There was friend
of mine at Mt. Vernon some time ago, and
two shepherds came down to the water,
aud he said he thought there were fully
10000 sheep. These shepherds were talk
ing, and he wondered how they were going
to get their sheep separated. One shep-
herd got up and put on his turban, and
then he spoke to the sheep and they knew
his voice. All his sheep followed
him. He didn't drive them. The
other one called his sheep and they fol-
lowed him. This friend OF mine said to
the shepherd, "Do all these sheep know
you? Does every one Of your sheep know
your "Why, yes." "Can't you deceive
them?" And the old shepherd laughed
at the idea; he thought it was too absurd
for anything. And my friend said, "Now,
just let me try 1t. Let me have your
frock and turban and you go behind
a tree" He called out just as the shepherd
had told him, "Mena, Mena." The sheep
scattered in all directions. They knew it
was strange voice. Then he said to the
shepherd, "Won't they follow a stran-
CERT" "Well," he said, GA sick sheep will
follow stranger, but not healthy one."
(Why, you see the point, don't your
Have you any unhealthy sheep around
here? tell you the true sheep know true
shepherd. i got up I'm Scotland once and
quoted passage OF scripture q little diff
ferent from what IL was in the Bible, and
an old woman crept up and said, "Mr.
Moody, you said -" / might make
forty misquotations here in Providence
and no one would tell me about them.
Like two lawyers, one said in court that
the other didn't know the Lords PRAYER.
The other said he did. "Now I lay me
down to sleep" "well," he said, al give
IL up. You do know it," Didn't either
one OF them know Il, you see.
Now, they do follow. Mark We. They
don't try TO follow, wish we could abol-
ish that word "try." I really believe I
have had more than rs people in Provi-
dence tell me they were "going TO try real
hard to be Chistians." My friends, that
does not amount 10 anything. That is a
very slippery rock to get on. try,
try. have heard persons say, "You know
the Bible says try, try, try again" They
thought that was In the Bible. You cannot
find place in the Bible where you are
told TO try. just follow Him. Let that
word "try" be bsnished, and put In the