The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-22
"a CALI TO OUTSIDERS.
ltsv DR.. Talmage Disc curses on
8 the Grace of God.
&hs Religion of Jesus Ia Not n Monopoly
3% or Hemmed In by Walls and Fences
1t Is Broad AS the
Earth We Live Upon.

The following discourse by Rev. T
Dewitt Talmage was delivered in the
Academy of music, New York city, or
the subject: "A Call to Outsiders" be-
ing based on the text:
Other sheep have which are not OF thi,
fold.-John X, IS.
There is no monopoly in religion
The grace of God is not little prop
serty that we may fence off and have
AL to ourselves. 1t is not kings
park at which we look through a
barred gateway, wishing that we
might go in and see the deer and the
sstatuary, and pluck the flowers and
fruits in the royal conservatory. No,
ut is the fathers orchard. and every
where there are bars that we may let
down and gates that we may swing
open. In my boyhood, next to the
country school house, there was an
orchard of apples, owned by very
lame man, who, although there were
apples in the place perpetually de-
caying by scores and scores of bush
els, never would allow any of us to
touch the fruit. One day, in the sim
fulness of nature inherited from our
first parents, who were ruined by the
same temptation, some of us invaded
that orchard; for the man came after
us at a speed reckless of making his
lameness worse, and cried out: Boys,
drop those apples, or I'll set the dog
on you!"
Well, my friends, there are Chris
tian men who have the church under
severe guard. There is fruit in this
orchard for the whole world; but they
have rough and unsympathetic way
of accosting 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 prem
ises. Have you an idea that because
you were baptized at thirteen 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, spread
ing yourself out and taking up the en-
tire room? | 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 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
neither, some of them are lying down
under the trees, some of them are in
his yard; they are scattered around in
eight or ten different places Cameron,
his neighbor, comes over and says: II
see you have thirty sheep; have just
them" NO" says MacDon-
aid, Il have a great many more sheep
than that. Some are here, and some
ire elsewhere. They are scattered all
around about. l have four thousand
Dr. five thousand in my focks. Other
sheep I have, which are not in this
odd"
So Christ says to.us. Here is knot of
Christians and there is knot of Chris
ians, but they make up small part
# the flock. Here is the Episcopal
old, the Methodist fold, the Lutheran
old, the Congregational fold, the
oresby terian fold, the Baptist and the
'edo-Baptist fold, the only difference
'etween them being the mode of sheep
and so they are scattered all
'ver; and we come with our statistics,
md say there are so MANY thou
ands of the Lords sheep; but
,hrist responds: mo, no; you have
lot seen more than one out of a thou
and of our flock. They are scattered
III over the earth. Other sheep have
which are not of this fold" Christ, in {
ny text. was prophesying the CONVEX
ion of the Gentiles with as much I
onfidence as though they were al
eady converted, and he is now, in
he words of my text, prophesying the q
oming of great multitude of outsid-
rs that you never supposed would 1
ONE in, saying to you and saying to (
he: "Other sheep [ have which are
OF of this fold" In the first place, l I
emark, that the heavenly Shepherd 7
I'LL find many of his sheep among the
There are congrega- I
ions where they are all Christians, and
hey seem to be completely finished, G
nd they remind one of the skeleton
,aves. which, by chemical prepare l
on, have had all the greenness and S
endure taken off them, and are left /
Did, and white, and delicate, nothing t
'anting but a glass case to put over c
hem. The minister of Christ has l
othing to do with such Chris q
ans but to come once week, 1
nd with ostrich feather dust off the I
of the last six days, leay- S
* them bright and crystalline as be- J
pre-. But the other kind of a church
an armory, with perpetual sound of I