The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
DOOR OPEN FOR ALL.
There Is Not Monopoly in the
Christian Religion.
Dr. TnImage'S Timely Discourse on
Occasion of the Twentieth An
nivershry of the Dowery
Mission in New York.
copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopsch.l
Man. Nnrlr Inn


uary 10, DR.. Talmage preached to vast
audience at the New York Academy
of Music. Ministers of all denomina-
tions were present The text was,
John 1916: "Other sheep have which
are not of this fold"
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not a little property
that we can fence off and have all to
ourselves. 1t is not kings park, at
which we look through n barred gate
way. wishing that we might go in and
see the statuary and the deer and the
royal conservatory. No; it is Fa-
theirs orchard, and everywhere there
are bars that we may let down and
gates that we may swing open
In my boyhood. next TO the country
schoolhouse there was an orchard of
apples 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. Sometimes the lads of the
school in the sinfulness of a nature
inherited from our first parents, who
were ruined by the same temptation,
invaded that orchard, but they soon re-
treated, for the man came after them
at speed reckless of making his lame
ness worse and cried out: Boys, drop
those apples, or l will set the dog on
you"
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 ac-
costing outsiders. as though they had
no business there, though the Lord
wants to come and take the choicest
and the ripest fruit on the premises.
Have you an idea that because you were
baptized at eight months of age, and
because you have all your life been un'
der hallowed influences, you there
fore have a 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 we will place on either
side of you those whom you never eX-
pected would sit there, for, as Christ
said to His people long ago, so He says
to you and to me: "Other sheep have
which are not of this fold"
Mcdonald, the Scotchman, has thou.
sands OF head of sheep. Some of them
are browsing on the heather. some of
them are lying down under the trees,
some are strollng over the mountains,
some of them are in his yard. They are
scattered all around in many places.
Cameron, his neighbor, comes over and
says Il see you have 80 sheep. | have
just counted them" NO" says Nc.
Donald, 81 have a great many more
sheep than you found in this yard. Some
are here, and some are elsewhere.
have 1000 or 5000 in my focks. Other
sheep | have which are not of this
fold. So Christ says to us. Here is
n knot Of Christians and there a knot
of Christians, but they make up a small
part of the flock. Here is the Episco.
pal fold, the Methodist fold. the Luth.
eran fold. the Congregational fold the
Presbyterian fold, the Baptist and the
Pedo-Baptist fold, the only difference
between these last two being the way
In which they wash the sheep and so
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