Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-11
IHTaE IS MORE THAN ONE FOLD
nm. rALnAcEs nroauENr
hA'' CALL TO OUTSIDERS.


- xxore turned AWAY from tno Achd-
psfsou,' uus,o this afternoon, being unable
en-! q s,,,r,sslon. A few minutes after
70 t alaa were opened the auditorium
ine u.,ls,les were lonsely crowded. Rev.
sna SE.,msges sermon for the day was
". ~ "a outsiders, +" the text chosen bo-
sahr 7 10. "Othcr sheep have which
y. ..s not Of this fold"
az Tss,, /; no monopoly in religion. The
- God Is not little property that
eiass fence of and have all to ourselves.
ets kings park, at which we look
y sh b,rrcd gateway, wishing that we
u ,.h, 40 IN and SEQ tho deer and tho
ms and pluck tho flowers and fruits
,s,ha royul conservatory No, 1t Is the
y ~ orchard, and everywhere there
- hars that we may let down and gates
Rat we may swing open.
por In tho Manager Spirit.
In my boyhood next to tho country
..toolbouso there was an orchard OF ap-
~ owned by a very lame man, who, al
,1oprb there were apples In the place per-
.a,nslly decayingRnd by scores and scores
!, snsbels. never would allow any OF us
,,uob tho fruit Ono day in the sinful.
800 n nature inherited from our first
s.-srts who were ruined by the same
i',sr,atlon. some Of US invaded that or.
.h.rd bnt soon retreated, for the man
80 after us at q speed reckless OF max
II nj, lamoness worco and cried out,
esoys drop those apples, or III SGT tho
dog on your
-.r Who have tho church under severe
.r,rd There ID fruit In this orchard for
n whole world, but they have rough
IA uusympsthetio way Of acoosting out
,ders, as though thoy had no business
. bre though the Lord wants them all to
came and take the largest and ripest fruit
an tho premises. Have you an idea,
h.s,use you were baptized at 10 months
a age and because you have all your life
hsn under hallowed Influences, that
therefore you have right to one whole
IA. Of the Lords table, spreading your.
Nh out and taking up the entire roomf l
t,ll YOU no. You will have TO haul in
ycur elbows, for shall place on either
,ds Of you those whom you never expect
ID would sit there, for, as Christ said to
bis favored people long ago so he says to
Jou and to me, "Other sheep have which
ne not Of this fold"
Macdonald, tho Sootchman, has four
o. Eve dozen head Of sheep. Some of them
~ hrowslng on the heather, some of them
40 lying down under tho trees, some OF
,.sn are in his yard. They are scattered
liound In eight or ten different places.
Cameron, his neighbor, comes over and
nyr ~ sec you have 80 sheep. / have
Inst counted them" NO." says Mao
bunsld II have great many more sheep
han that Some are hero, and some are
lnwhers. They are scattered all around
ibcut have q, 600 or 8, 600 in my focks.
0,ha shssp have which are not in this
bid"
The Text Explained.
!, 50 Christ soys TO rs Hero is a knot of
Christians. and there is a knot OF Chris.
usps but they make IN a small part of
Hs flock. Here Is the Episcopal fold, the
Nshodiss fold. the Lutheran fold, the
Courreeational fold the Presbyterian
I'D the Baptist and the Pedobaptist
It'd the only difference between these
~ two being the mode Of sheen washing,
nd 90 thew are soattered all over. and wo
sne with our stAtistios and any there
N 90 many thousands of the Lords
ANNtut Christ resuonda "No. no. You
ElTe not seen mora than one out of a
aousand OF nv fool, Thev ara sosttered
III ever thu cartb ,Otbcr shaop have
h Which arc not of this fold. ="
Christ In my text was propbesylng the
ntrersion Of the Rentilss with az much
rufdenoo as though they wero already
s.vuted. and he is now. In rho words OF
E tert pfouhesyinu Tho coming Of a
ru, multitude on outsiaers that Won
M iuu sappnsqa would come In. saving to
y" M and laying 10 me "othsr sheen / have
vh,b a, ne, ~ M .,,S - '-P -1'
m y the 6est rike. = ,o-,.rl, .b.t tba
rxsdiy Ebsuhefd y1iu ara r,snv az bia
M Esp auepa ia nonohnrcb ,osrs Thore
ny N sorsnsations where they arc nil Chris
NJ tAss and they seelu 70 be oouplstely fin
VI n't, and tAoy reInIpd one of the skole-
mhavgs which BY chemical prouaration
NM AVE had all tho areeppess and yerdurs
~ li.n % them and are lott cold and
shiis and dslioate. notb,pr wanting hut
CIV llin case to put over than The min
We Of Christ has nothing 10 do with such
hQ eih'lans bit to come once A week, and
~ WI ~trioh feather aust of tho nocnIpu-
Alton Of tho last sIx dnys Ieav,ny .hem
tight and crystslilno no h.foro Rpt tho
sAr kind Of a ehvrch Is an ar,oor, Sv,tS
Fpsiual sound Of drum and flfe. pnth.
1ias racruits for the Lord OF Hosts We
mn ~ hUsry applicant: "Do Won want to
On Gods side, the snfe aide and the
I'm -..N aldei II SO. como I'm the nrmory
- Rst equipped. Here ia a hath in which
ee'eansed. Here are sandals to nut
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