Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-02-16
CALL TO OUTSIDERS.
SERMON BY Or. TALMAee AT TIE
NEW WORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

NEW tOrN FINDGmt VT HOotS'
Tho Dog In the Manager Spirit Sheep
That are In Strange Fosds-- People Who
Are Gospel Hardened : The Cry For
Ueip.
NEW YORK, Feb TO- Three thousand
persons were turned away from the
Academy Of Music this afternoon, hc-
ing unable 10 gain admission. A few
minutes after the doors were opened tho
auditorium and galleries were denseiy
crowded. Rev DIR. Talmaea's sermon
for the day was "a Call to Outsiders.
the text chosen being John x, iG, 9th
er sheep | have which arc not Of tkis
fold. =
There is no monopoly in religion. Tie
grace of God is not little property
that we may fenco off and have all to
ourselves It is not a kings park at
which we look through the barred gate
way, wishing that we might go III and
see the deer and the statuary and plnck
the flowers and fruits in the royal con
,servatory No 1t is the Fathers or
chard. and everywhere there are bars
that we may let down and gates that we
may swing open,
In my boyhood next to tho country
schoolhouse there was an orchard Of ap
Piles, owned by very lame man, who,
although there were apples in the place
perpetually decaying and by scores and
scores of bushels, never would allow
any of us to touch the fruit. One day,
in the sinfulness of nature inherited
from our first parents, who were ruined
by the same temptation, some OF us in
vaded that orchard, but soon retreated,
for the man came after us at speed
reckless of making his lameness worse
and cried out, Boys, drop those SIP.
pies, or I'll set the dog on you. y
Ia Strange Company.
Well, my friends, there are Christian
men who have the church under severe
guard There is fruit in this orchard for
the whole world, bnt they have g rough
and unsympathetic way of accosting
outsiders. as though they had no bust
ness here, though the Lord wants them
all to come and take the largest and
ripest fruit on the premises. Fave yon
an idea, because you were baptized
at 10 months of age, and because you
have all your life been under hallowed
Influences, that therefore you have a
right to one whole side of the Lords
table, spreading yourself out and taking
up the entire room? tell you 10. You
will have to haul in your elbows, for !
shall place Oh either side Of you these
whom you never expected would sit
there, fer as Christ said to his favored
people long ago, so he says to you
aud to me, "Other sheep | have which
are not of this fold. "
Macdonald, the Scotchman, has four
or five dozen head of sheep. Some of
them are browsing on the heather; some
of them are lying down Under the trees;
some of them are in his yard-they are
scattered around in eight or ten differ
ent places. Cameron, his neighbor,
comes over and says: Il see you have
80 sheep have just counted them.
mo, says Macdonald. Il have great
many more sheep than that Some are
here, and some are elsewhere They are
scattered all around about. | have 1000
or 5000 i'll my iocks Other sheep
have which are not in this fold.
So Christ says to us Here is a knot
of Christians, and there is knot OF
Christians. but they make up snail
part of the flock Here istho Episcopal
F. 81 InthaJ,~t frll b, 1
an fold, the Congregational fold, tue
Presbyterian fold. the Baptist and
the Pedo- Baptist fold, the only differ
ence between these last two being tho
mode Of sheep washing, and so they are
scattered all over, and we como with
our statistics aud say there are so many
thousands Of the Lord sheep. bat Christ
responds; mo, no Yen have not seen
more than one out of /, 600 of ny flock
They are scattered all over the earth
Other sheep | have which ere not Of
this fold .
Christ in my text was prophesying the
conversion of the gentiles with as mach
confidence as though they were already
converted, and he is now, in the words
of my text, prophesying the coming Of
g great multitude of outsiders that you
never supposed would come i'll, saying
TO yen aud saying to me, Other sheep
have which are not Of this fold
Stray Sheep.
In the first place, remark that the
heavenly shepherd will find many of his
sheep amcng tho noncburchgoers There
are congregations where they are all
Christians, and they seem to be com.
pletely finished, and they remind ono Of
she skeleton leaves which by chemical
preparation have had all the grecnness
and verdure taken OF them and are left
cold and white and delicate, nothing
wanting bat a glass case to put over
them The minister Of Christ has moth
ing to do with such Christians but to
come once q week and with ostrich
feather dust off the accumulation Of the
hast six days, leaving them bright ard
crystalline as before But the other
kind Of n church is an armory. with
perpetual souHd of drum and fife, gath
erlng recruits for the Lord Of Hosts We
say to every applicant: do you want
to be ON Gods sidc-tho safe side and
the happy side? If so. come i'll the ar
mory and get equipped. Here is bath
~ which to be cloansed Here are san
tials to put upon your feet. Hero is
helmet fer your brow Hero is q breast
plate for your heart, Hero is n sword
for your right arm, and yonder is the
Battlefield Quit yourselves like men. D."
There ara some here who say, Il
stopped goiHg to church 10 or 90 years
ago, p" My brother, is it not strange that
you should be the first man should
talk to today? | know all your case.
know it very we'll You have net been
accustomed to come into religious as
semblage, but have a surprising an
nouncement to make to you-you are
going to become one of the Lord's
sheep "Ah, you say, lit is impos
sible. You don't know how far am
from anything of that kind. know