Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-21

/ lively 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 TAX
ing care of Il few people, and when
I the command comes, go into the
world" say practically, mo, I can
not go; l have here q few choice cases,
and I am busy keeping off the flies
We need, as churches, to stop lombard
ing the old ironclad sinners that
have been proof against so years of
Christian assault and take aim in other
directions.
The Happy side.
Years ago I visited a New England
! factory village. I went up to the door
Of factory, and I saw on the outside
the words, mo admittance." Of course
1 went in and coming to the second
door [ saw the words, ''No admit
lance" Getting clear on into the fac
tory, [ saw they were making pins,
useful pins, and nothing but pins. So
[ think there is sometimes an exclusive
ness 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, mo admittance,"
and looks at the pulpit and there is
something there which seems to say
No admittance,' while we stand in
side of the same churches hammering
out our little niceties of religious be-
lief, making pins. Oh, for deeper ap-
probation OF the sentiment of my text
Other sheep 1 have which are not of
this fold"
l 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 greenness
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
nothing to do with such Christians but !
to come once q 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 J
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 I
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
cient, that heroic minister Of the Cos
pei of whom we have all read, sit down
and take care of those men on the
beach, wrapping them in f1annels, 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 a woman was frozen and dead.
She was washed off, poor thing. But"
he says, there is man to save" And
he cries out: Give minutes longer, and
I will save you. Steady, steady! 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 lads! 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 a death grip. Steady,
now, on the slippery places! Steadyi |
They are saved, saved, just as l
thought. for Christ has declared that
there are some still in the breakers
who shall come ashore. "Other sheep l
have which are not of this fold.'
Christ says that ministers of the Cos
pei are to be fishers for men. Now,
when l go fishing I do not want to
fish in anybody else's pond. 1 do not
want to go along HohOkus creek,
where there are half a dozen men
fishing, and drop my line just about
where they drop their lines. The lines
would get tangled. I should like to get
in a Newfoundland fishing smack and
push out to sea so miles beyond the
breakers. I 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
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