Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
SUNDAYS SERMON IN THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Subject: "a Call to Outsiders" "

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! may fence OFF and nave all to ourselves. 1t
! is not kings park at which may look
| through the barred gateway. wishing that
! we might go in and see the deer and the
| statuary and plEIclI the flowers and fruits in
! the royal conservatory. No. 1t is the
! Fathers orchard, and everywhere there are
| bars that we may let down and gates that we
| may ewing open.
In IA hoyhOOd next to the country school
| house there was an orchard of apples. owned
! by very lame man. who, although there
| We're 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 siufulness of q nature inher-
| tied from our first parents. who were ruined
! by the same temptation. some of Us invaded
| that orchard, bat soon retreat@d. for the man
| came after Us at a speed reckless of making
| his lameness worse and cried out, Boys
| drop those apples Or II set the dog on you.
Well my friends. there are Christian men
| VINO have the churcn under severe guard.
| There is fruit in this orchard for the whole
! world, but they have a rough and un-
| sympathetic way of GccOSting outsiders, as
! though they had no business here, though
| the Lord wants them all to come and take
! the largest and ripeSt fruit on the premises.
| Have you an idea, because you We're baptized
| at thirteen months OF age, and because yOu
| have all your life been under hall0wed III
| Huen"eS, that therefore you have q right to
! one whole side OF the Lords table spreading
| yourself out and taking up the entire room?
| tell you no. You will have to haul in your
| elbows, for l shall place on either side of you
| those whom you never expected would sit
! there. for, as Christ said to His favored peo-
| pie long ago, so He says to you and to
! me, Other sheep have which are not of
! this fold
Macdonald, the Scotchman, has four or I've
! 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
| orten different places. Cameron, his neighbor,
! comes over and says: II see you have thirty
sheep. l have just counted them" No"
| says Macdonald, Il have great many more
! sheep than that. Some are here and some
are elsewhere. They are scattered all around
| about. 1 have 1000 or 5000 in my focks.
| Other sheep have which are not in this
| fold"
SO Christ says to US. Here is knot of
! Christians, and there is a knot Of Christians,
| butthey make up a small part of the flock.
Here is the Episcopal fold, the Methodist
! fold, the Lutheran fold. the Congregational
| fold, the Presbyterian fold, the Baptist and
! the Pedo-Baptist fold, the only difference be-
tween these last two being the mode of fsheep
washing, and so they are scattered all over,
! and we come with statistics and saythere
! are so many thousands of the Lords sheep,
| but Christ responds: mo, no. You have
| not seen more than one out of 1000 of My
| flock. They are scattered all over the earth
! Other sheep l have which are not of this
! fold"
| Christ in my text was prophesying the con-
| version Of the gentilcS with as much conf
| dence AS though they were already converted,
| and He is now, in the words of my text,
| prOphesying the coming of great multitude
! OF outsiders that you never supposed would
come in, saying to you and saying to me,
| "Other sheep have which are not of this
! fold"
In the first place, I remark that the
! Heavenly Shepherd will find many of His
| sheen a II rcb q
| congregations where they are all Christians,
| and they seem to be completely finished and
| they remind one Of the skeleton leaves which
| by chemical preparation have had all the
| greenness and verdure taken off them and
| are left cold and white and delicate, nothing
wanting but a glass case to put over
| them. The minister of Christ has moth
| ing to do with such Christians but to
come once a week and with ostrich
! feather dust off the accumulation of the
! last six days, leaving them bright and
! crystalline as before. But the other kind of
, church is an armory, with perpetual sound
| of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the
| Lord of Hosts. We say to every applicant:
'Do you want to be on Gods side-the safe
! side and the happy side? II So, come in the
armOry and get equipped. Here is bath in
| which to be cleansed. Here are sandals to
| put upon your feet. Here is helmet for
| your brow Here is a breastplate for your
heart. Here is a sword for your right arm,
and yOnder is the battlefield. Quit your
, selves like men,"
There are some here who say, 81 stopped
| going to church ten or twenty years ago"
| My brother, is it not strange that YOU should
! be the first man should talk to to-day? I
| know all your case. I know it very well. You
| have not been accustomed to come into reig-
| ious assemblage. but have surprising an
nouncement to make to yoq-you are going
to become one Of the Lords sheep. "Ah,"
you say, sit is impossible. You don't know
how far I am from anything of that kind" I
| know all about it. have wandered up and
down the world. and l understand your case.
[ have a still more startling announcement
| to make in regard to yOu-yOu are not only
going to become one Of the Lords sheep, but
! you will become one to-day. You will stay
after this service to be talked with about your
soul. People of God, pray for that man.
| That is the only use for you here. l shall not
break off SO much as crumb for you, Chris
! tians, in this sermon, for am going to give
it all to the outsiders. ''Other sheep 1 have
which are not of this fold"
| When the Atlantic went to pieces on Mars
rock, and the people clambercd upon the
| beach, why did not that heroic minister of
| the gospel Of whom we have all read sit down
and take care of those men on the beach,
| wrapping them in fannelS, kindling fire for
| them, seeing that they got plenty of food?
All, he knew that there were others who
| would do that. He says: "Yonder are men
and women freezing in the rigging of that
wreck. Boys, launch the boat" And now
!
! pull, but before they reached the rigging a
woman was frozen and dead. She was
washed off, poor thing. But he says, "There
| is man to save" and he cries out: ''Hold
on five minutes longer, and [ will save you.
| Steady; steady. Give me you hand. Leap
! into the lifeboat. Thank God, ne is saved.''
So there are those here to-day who are
| safe on the shore of Gods mercy. l will not
! spend any time with them at all, bat l see
| there are some who are freezing in the rig
| vino ~ ciT, nd InI hJy Ions
storms. Pull away. my lads! Let us reach
| them. Alas, one is washed off and gone.
| There is one more to be saved. Let us push
| out for that one. Clutch the rope. Oh.
| dying man, clutch it as with a death grip.
| Steady, now, on the slippery places. Steady.
| There-saved, saved! Just as l thought.
| For Christ has declared that there are some
| still in the breakers who shall come ashore.
''Other sheep 1 have which are not OF this
fold"
Christ commands his ministers to be fish
| ermen, and when go fishing I do not want
| to go among other churches, but into the
wide world, not sitting along Hohokus
creek where eight or ten other persons are
sitting with hook and line, but, like the fish
| ermen of Newfoundland, sailing off and
| dropping net away outside forty or fifty
| miles from shore Yes, there are nonchurch-
| goers here who will come in. Next Sabbath
| they will be here again or in some better
| church. They are this moment being swept
| into Christian associations. Their voice will
| be heard in public prayer. They will die IN
| peace, their bed surrounded by Christian
| sympathies and to be carried out by devout
men 10 be buried, and on their graves be
| chisled the words Precious in the sight Of
| the Lord is the death of His saints. And on
| resurrection day you will get up with the
dear children you have already buried and
with your Christian parents who have already
won the palm. And all the grand and glor-
| ious history begins this hour. "Otner sheep
| / have which are not of this fold.
| o men, skeptical and struck through with
| unrestf would You not like to have some Of
| the peace which broods over our souls today:
| / know all about YOUR doubts. l have been