The Penn's Grove record., 1901-01-25
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
svNoAY'sbIscou BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.


flOcks o All denominations.
Copyright 1901
NEW YORK CITY.-On the occasion O
the twentieth anniversary of the Bower,
mission, DIR. Talmage preached tn \ vas,
audience at the New York Academy nj
Music. Ministers of all denomination
were present. The text was, John \. Ia
Other sheep ! have which are not of thi,
fold"
There is no monopoly in religion. Tb,
grace of God is not a little property tbai
we may fence off and have all TO orr
selves. 1t is not a kings park. at which
we look through a barred gateway. wish,
ing that we might go in and see the stain.
airy and the deer and the royal conterya,
tory. No; it is a Fathers orchard. and
everywhere there are bars that we NAV
let down and gates that we may swing
open.
In my boyhood next to the country
schoolhouse there was an orchard of ap.
Piles owned by a very lame man who, al.
though there were apples in the plnce per.
p~etually 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 4 nature in.
herited from our first parents, wfo were
ruined by the same temptation, invaded
that orchard, but they soon reiterated, fo.
the man came after them at \ speed reck.
less of making his lameness 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 accosting out.
siders, as though they had no business
there, though the Lord wants all 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 nave all
your life been under hallowed influences
you therefore have a right to one whole
side of the Lords table, spreading your.
self 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 en-
pected would sit there; for, as Christ said
to His people long ago, SO He says to you
and to me, "Other sheep l 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, som are
strolling over the mountains, some OF
them are in his yard. They are scattered
all around in many places, Cameron, his
neighbo-, comes over and says: II see you
have thirty-six sheep. | have lust counted
them" mo" says Mcdonald, Il 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 l have which are not
of this fold" So Christ says to us, Here
is a knot of Christians, but they make up
a small part of the flock. Here is the Epis-
copal fold, the Methodist fold. the Luth-
eran fold. the Congregational fold. the
Presbyterian fold, the Baptist and the
do-Baptist fold, the only difference be-
tween these last two being the way in
which they wash the sheep, and SO they
are scattered all over. And we come with
our statistics and say there are so many
thousand of the Lords sheep, but Christ
responds; mo, no; you have not seen
more than one out of a thousand of My
flock. They are scattered all over the
earth. Other sheep l have which are not
of this fold"
OF all the merciful institutions which
bless this city not one more thoroughly
enters into the spirit of the text than does
the Bowery mission, whose twentieth ami
versary we to-day celebrate. During the
past year 5000 souls have been saved
through its instrumentality, and during its
existence it has put its temporal and spir-
itual benediction upon hundreds of thou
sands of the poor and suffering and lost.
With the bread of this life in one hand
and the bread OF eternal life in the other,
it is doing a stupendous work, and to all
its patrons Christ is saying: Il was hum
CRY, and We fed Me; naked, and We clothed
Me; sick and in prison, and We visited Me.
1nasmuch as We did it unto Ne, one of the
least OF these, yer9id it to Me"
We need, as churches, to go into sym
pathy with the great outside world and let
them know that none are so broken heart
ed or hard beset that they will not be wei
coined. NO" says some fastidIous Chris
tian, IL do not like to be crowded in
church. Do not put any one in my pew"
Ny brother, what will you do IN heaven,
when a great multitude that no man can
number assemblies? They will put fifty in
your pew. What are the people assembled
in Christian churches compared with the
mightier millions outside? Som churches
are like a hospital, that should advertise
that its patients must have nothing worse
than toothache or r~unrounds, but no bro
ken heads, no crushed ankles or fractured
limbs. Bring there for treatment moder-
ate sinners, velvet coated sinners and sin
ners with a gloss on.
1t was as though at a great battle there
were left 10000 wounded and dying on the
field, and three surgeons gave all their
time to a half dozen patients in a barn hos
pital. The Major General comes in and
says to the doctors: Come out here and
look at the 10000 dying for lack of surgical
attendance" mo-" say the three doctors
standing there tanning their patients, I'VE
have a half dozen important cases here
and we are attending to them, and when
we are not positively busy with their
wounds it takes all our time to keep the
flies off"
In this awful battle of sin and sorrow,
where millions have fallen on millions, do
not let us spend all our time in taking care
of a few people, and when the command
comes, GO into the world" say praetl-
cally, "No, / cannot go; | have a few
choice cases., and l am busy keeping OH the
flies"
We need. as churches, to stop lombard
ing the old iron-clad sinners that have
been proof against thirty years of Chris
tian assault and take aim in other direc-
tons.
Years ago I visited a New England fac
tory village. | went up to the door OF a
factory, and / saw on the outside the
words, mo admittance."' OF course !
went in, and coming to the second door ]
saw the words, mo admittance." Getting
clear on into the factory | saw they were
making pins, useful pins, and nothing but
pins. So | think there is sometimes an
exclusiveness among some of the churches.
The outside world comes up. and looks
at the door and there is something which
seems to say, mo admittance," and the
world comes up to the pew door and sees
written over it, "No ad~mittance," and
looks at the pulpit and there is something
there which seems to say No admit
lance" while we stand inside of the same
churches hammering out our little nlcetie'
of religious belief, making pins.
Oh, for deeper appreciation OF the senti
ment of my text. "0ther sheep l have
which are not of this fold"
/ have to remark that the heayenl,
Shepherd will find many sheep amid th'
non-churchgoers. There are congregation
where there are all Christians, and they seen
TO be completely finished, and they remins
one of the skeleton leaves which by chem
zeal preparation have had all the green
ness and verdure taken off them and arr
left cold and white and delicate, NOTHING
wanting but a glass case to put over them
The minister of Christ has nothing to az
with such Christians but to come once
week and with ostrich feather dust on tn
accumulation of the last six days, leayl'i
them bright and crystalline as before. Bu
the other kind of church is an armory
with perpetual sound of drum and hfe