Milford chronicle., 1895-02-15
MORE THAN ONE FOLD
REV. DR.. TALMAeE's ELOQUENT CALL
TO OUTSIDERS.


TO OUTSIDERS.
Three Thousand Persons Turned Ava
From the Academy Of Music In New Yorl
"Other Sheep Have which Are Not {
This Fold"
NEW YORK, Feb 1O.-Three thousan
persons were turned away from the Acad
emy of Music this afternoon, being unabl
to gain admission. A few minutes afte
the doors were opened the auditorium
and galleries were densely crowded. Rev
DR.. Talmage's sermon for the day wa
"A Cali to Outsiders p" the text chosen be
ing John K, 49, "Other sheep I have whicl
are not Of this fold. -
There is no monopoly In religion. Th,
grace Of God is not a little property tha
we may fence off and have all to ourselves
It Is not kings park, at which we lool
through barred gateway, wishing that vi
might go in and see the deer and the
statuary and pluck the flowers and fruit
in the royal conservatory No, it Is tn,
Fathers orchard, and everywhere ther,
are bars that we may let down and gate
that we may swing open.
In my boyhood, next to the country
schoolhouse, there was an orchard Of ap.
/ pies owned by very lame man, who, al
though there were apples in the place per
petually decaying and by scores and scores
Of bushels, never would allow any Of US
to touch the fruit. One day in the sinful
ness Of a nature inherited from our first
parents, who were ruined by the same
IL
ohard, but soon retreated, for the man
came after us at a speed reckless Of max
/ ing his lameness worse and cried out,
Boys drop those apples. or I'll set the
dog on you'll
Well my friends, there are Christian
men who have tie church under severe
guard There is fruit in this orchard for
the whole world, but they have a rough
and unsympathetic way Of accosting out
siders, 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 were baptized at 13 months
of age and because you have all your life
been under hallowed influences, that
therefore you have right to one whole
side Of the Lords table, spreading your
self out and taking up the entire roOmf I
tell you no. You will have to haul in
your elbows, for 1 shall place on either
side Of you those whom you never expect
ed would sit there, for, as Christ said to
his favored people long ago, so he says to
you and to me, "Other sheep 1 have which
are not Of this fold"
Macdonald, the Sootchman, 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 different places.
Cameron, his neighbor, comes over and
says Il see you have 80 sheep. 1 have
just counted them" mo, says Mac
Donald, II have great many more sheep
than that Some are here, and some are
elsewhere. They are scattered all around
about. have 4, 600 or 5, 900 in my flocks.
Other sheep have which are not in this
fold"
The Text Explained.
So Christ says to us. Here is knot Of
Christians, and there is knot Of Chris
tians, but they 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 PedObaptist
fold, the only difference between these
last two being the mode Of sheep washing
and so they are scattered all over, and we
come with our statistics and say there
are so many thousands of the Lords
sheep, but Christ responds: NO no. You
have not seen more than one out of a
thousand of my flock. They are scattered
all over the earth. Other sheep have
which are not of this fold {"
Christ in my text was propbesying the
Of the gentiles with as much
confidence as though they were already
and he Is now in the words Of
my text, prophesying the coming of a
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 I
shepherd will find many Of his .
sheep among the nonohurohgOers. There 7
are congregations where they are all Chris
5ians, and they seem to be completely fin
shed, and they remind one of the skele-
on leaves which by chemical preparation
have had all the greenness and Verdure
aiken of them and are left GOLD and
white and delicate, nothing wanting but
! glass case to put over them. The min
ster Of Christ has nothing to do with such
Christians but to come once a week, and
With ostrich feather dust of the aocumu-
alton Of the last six days, leaving them
bright and crystalline as before. But the
,ther kind Of a church is an armory, with
sound of drum and fife, gath
ring recruits for the Lord of Hosts. We
ay TO every applicant; do you want to
70 on Gods side, the safe side and the
lappy slider II so, come in the armory
md get equipped. Here is bath in which
o be cleansed. Here are sandals to put
lpon your feet Here is a hemlet for your
ROW. Here is a breast plate for your
leart. Here is a sword for your right
rm, and yonder is the battlefield. Quit
ourselves like men,.
There are some here who say, II stop
ed going to church 10 or 90 years ago"
dy brother, is it not strange that you
hould be the first man l should talk to
odayf know all your case. know it
cry we'll. You have not been aooustom-
d to come into religious assemblage, but
have a surprising announcement to
make to you-you are going to become
ne Of the Lords sheep. "Ah, " you say,
it is impossiblel You don't know how
ar i am from anything Of that kind" /
now all about 1t. 1 have wandered up
nd down the world, and / understand
our case. have still more startling
to make in regard to you
you are not only going to become one Of
be Lords sheep, but you will become one
Oday. You will stay after this service
D be talked with about your soul. Peo-
10 Of God, pray for that man. That Is ! !
be only use for you here. shall not
reak OF so much as a crumb for you,
christians, in this sermon, for am 60
lg to give it all to the outsiders. "Other
heep have which are not Of this fold. !"
Seeking the Lost.
When the Atlantic went to pieces on
lars rock and the people olambered upon J
be beach, why did not that heroic minis
n Of the gospel of whom we have all I
cad, sit down and take care Of those men Il
D the beach, wrapping them in fiannels, 1
indling fire for them, seeing that they '
OF plenty Of foodi All, he knew that {
here were others who would do that. He {