Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-01-26

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Years ago | visited New England
factory village. | went up to the door
Of factory, and | saw Oh the outside
TIE words, mo admlttance" OF course
Invent In and coming to the second
door l saw the words, mo admit
tance." Getting clear on into ihe fac
tory, | saw they were making pins.
useful pins. and nothing but pins. So
Think there is sometimes an exclusive
ness among some Of tie churches The
outside world comes up and looks at
the door and there Is something which
/ seems to say, "No admittahce," and the
world comes up to the pew door and
sees written over it, mo admittance,"
and looks at the pulpit and there is
something there which seems to say
mo admittance," while we stand in.
side of the same churches hammering
out our little nicetles of religious be.
nff, making pins. Oh, for deeper ap
probation of the sentiment of my text.
"Other sheep have which are not Of
this fold"
| have to remark that the heavenly
Shepherd will find many sheep amid
the nonchurchgoers. There are con.
gregations where they are all Chris.
tians, and they seem to be completely
finished and they remind one Of the
skeleton leaves which by chemical
preparation have had all the grcenness
and verdure taken off them and are
left cold and white and delicate, moth
ing wanting but a glass case to put
over them. The minister Of Christ has
aothing 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 9th
er kind Of church Is an armory. with
perpetual sound Of drum and fife, gath
ering recruits for the Lord of Hosts
and saying to every applicant: "Do you
want to be on Gods side the safe side
and the happy side? If so, come in the
armory and get equipped. Here is
bath in which to be cleansed. Here are
sandals to put on your feet Here Is a
helmet for your brow. Here is breast.
plate for your heart Here is a sword |
for your right arm. and yonder is the
battlefield. Quit yourselves like men,"
Succor the Sinner.
When the steamer Atlantic struck
Mars rock and the people clambered
up on the beach, why did not Mr.. An
Gent that heroic minister Of the gOs-
pei of whom we have all read, sit down
and take care of those men on the
beach, wrapping them in aannels, kin
ding fire for them and 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 Launch the lifeboat." Now l
see the oar blades bend under the
strong pull, but before they reach the
wreck q woman was frozen and dead.
She was washed off, poor thing. But"
le says, "there is a man to save" And
be cries OUT give minutes longer, and
! VIE save yeu Ste9dy, steadyl Give
me your hand. Leap into the lifeboat.
Thank God he is saved!' So there are
those who are safe on the shore Of
Gods mercy. They are as safe as
though they had been 1000 years in
heaven, kept by the power Of God
through faith unto salvation" But
there are some who are freezing in the
rigging of sin and surrounded by tenn
pest. Pull away, my ladsl Let US
reach them. Alas, one Is washed off
and gone. There Is one more to be
saved. Let us push out there for that
one. Clutch the rope. o dying man.
Clutch it as with death grip. Steady,
now, on the slippery placesl Steady
They are saved, saved, just as |
thought, for Christ has declared that
there are some still in the breakers
who shall come ashore. "Other sheep !
have which are not Of this fold"
Christ says that ministers of the gos-
pei are to be fishers for men. Now,
when | go fishing | do not want to
fish in anybody else's pond. l>do not
want to go along Hohokus creek.
where there are half n dozen men
fishing. and drop my line just about
where they drop their lines. The lines
would get tangled. | should like to get
In a Newfoundland fishing smack and
push out to sea 80 miles beyond the
breakers. | do not think the church
Of God gains a great deal when you
take sheep from one fold and put them
in another fold, and yet you and have
sometimes seen pastors fishing in other
peoples ponds. They throw a line
into one pond and they jerk out a
they throw a line into an.
other pond and they jerk out a Pres
byterian, or there is a religious row in
some neighbOring church, and whole
school of fish swims off from that
pond, and we take them all in with
one sweep Of the net What is gain
ed? Absolutely nothing for the cause
that you want to bring
back-the lost sheep on the mountains
And they are coming now You are
this hour in the tide Of Christian in S
1uences. Your voice will yet be heard 1
In public prayer. You will die in
peace, your bed surrounded by Chris
tian sympathies. and you will be car S
ried out by devout men to the burial q
and over your grave will be chiseled |
the words, "Precious in the sight Of c
the Lord Is the death Of his saints" S
and on resurrection day you will get '
up with the dear children you have d
already buried and with your Chris 4
ian parents who have already won S
he palm. And all that grand and q
glorious history begins today. "Other I
sheep | have which are not of this S
old" a
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