Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-02-11
CALL I'D OUTSIDERS.
SERMON BY DR.. TALMAGE AT TIE
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.


New YORK, Feb I0.-Three thousal
persons were turned away from &
Academy of Music this afternoon, b
ing unable to gain admission. A re
minutes after the doors were opened ii
auditorium and galleries were densel
crowded. Rev. DIR. Talmage's sermo
for the day was "a Call to Outsiders,
the text chosen being John X, Is, ''Otl
er sheep / have which are not of thi
fold. p"
There is no monopoly in religion. Th
grace of God is not a little propert
that we may fence off and have all t
ourselves It is not a kings park a
which we look through the barred gate
way, wishing that we might go in anC
see the deer and the statuary and plucl
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 the country
schoolhouss there was an orchard of APP
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 a 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 a speed
reckless of making his lameness worse
and cried out, Boys, drop those ap-
Piles, or I'll set the dog on you
In 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, but they have a 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
r1pest fruit on the premises Have you
an idea, because you were baptized
at IL months of age, and because you
have all your life been under halIowed |
influences, that therefore you have a |
right to one whole side of the Lords |
table, spreading yourself out and taking
up the entire room? I tell you no. You
will have to haul in your elbows for
shall place on either side of you those
whom you never expected would sit
there, for, as Christ said to his favored
people long ago, SO he says to you
and to me, ''Other sheep l have which
are not of this fold. y
Macdonald, the Scotchman, has four
or five dozen head of sheep. Some of
them are browsing on the heather; some
Oh them are lying down under the trees:
some of them are in his yard-they are
around in eight or ten differ
ent places Cameron, his neighbor.
comes over and says: 81 see you have
5O sheep. l have just counted them. :"
NO, says Macdonald, 81 have a great
many more sheep than that. Some are
lere, and some are elsewhere. They are
CATERED all around about. I have 4, 600 |
o'OO0 III my f1ocks. Other sheep l l
ave which are not in this fold y !
30 Christ says to US Here is q knot |
I christians, and there is a knot of I
but they make up a small &
art OF the flock. Here is the EpiscopaI 7
old, the Methodist fold, the Luther i
Iold, the Congregational fold, the s
resbyterlan fold, the Baptist and t
1e Pedo- Baptist fold, the only differ. n
ace between these last two being tho T
ooe Oh sheep washing, and so they are b
aGtered all over, and we come with if
Il STATISTICS and say there are so many is
of the Lord S sheep, but Christ Il
spends: No. no. You have not scan n
orc than one out of ], 900 of nv flock nj
hey are scattered all over the earth SC
I
is fold - u -
christ IN my text was prophesving the th
aversion OF the gentiIes with as much Ii,
as though they were already in
Inverted, and he is now, in the words 81
my text, prophesying the coming of do
great multitude of outsiders that Won sb
yer supposed would come in. saving dr
you and saying to me, s'Other sheen w
ave winch are not Of this fold - co
Stray Sheep. do
III the flrst place, | remark that the fry
'Venly shepherd will find MANY of bie sb,
ep among the nOnchurchgoers Tbe,a sio
congregations where thew are all sal
rls0ans, and they seem to he com sbI
Fely finished, and they remind ono Of ic
skeleton leaves which by chemical ON,
law ACu all the uOr
Verdure taken off them and are loft in
ana white and delicate. nothing If I
lting out a glass case to mt over saw
%. Ihe minister of Christ has moth. Til
20 do with such Christians bnt 70 ins
bo, 49, "GoA ana With ostrich ligi
her DUST off the accumulation of tbo foe,
SIX days, leaving them bright and Won
,talline as before. But the Other folC
OF church is an armorv wifi was
'e'ual sound of drum and fife gath foT,,
= recruits for the Lord of Hosts We me
TO every applicant: do Won want ron,
ON Gods side-the safe side and Df :
happy side? If SO, come in the o..
ana get equipped Here is a hath \
'nich to be cleansed. Here are san oia,,
70 put upon your feet Here is a bnn
leC Tor your brow Here is a breast s SOL
Tor your heart. Here is a sword NJ :
your right arm. and yonder is tbe no+