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


Contains FI0cks o. All Deno1,ina-
tions-Churches Should Be In SYM
: patty With the Outside World.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-On the occa-
sion OF the twentieth anniversary Of
the BOWory mission, Jan. Is. DR.. Tai
mage preached to a vast audience at
the New York Academy Of Music. Min
listers of all denominations were pres
ent. The text was, John Y, 16, "Other
sheep 1 have which are not of this
fold
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not a little property
that we may fence off and have all to
ourselves. It is not kings park, at
which we look through Il barred gate
way, wishing that we might go in and
see the statuary and the deer and the
royal conservatory. No; it is 4 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
schoolsOuse there was an orchard OF
apples owned by a very lame man who,
although there were apples in the place
perpetually decayiHg and by scores
and scores of bushels, never would al
low an OF is to touch the fruit. Some
times the lads of the school, in the
SinfuI-ess OF 4 nature inherited from
our fist parents, who were ruined by
the same temptation. invaded that Or
chard. lat they soon retreated, for the
man came after them at d speed reck-
less Of making his lameness worse and
=
I will set the dog on you
Well. my friends. there are Christian
men who have the church under Sc
we're guard. There is fruit in this or
chard for the whole world, but they
have a rough and unsympathetic way
of accosting outsiders, as though they
had no business there, though the Lord
wants all to come and take the chOic-
est and the ripeSt fruit on the prem
iseS. Have you an idea that because
you were baptized at months Of age
and because you have all your life been
under hallOwed influences you there
fore have 4 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-
said to his people long ago, so he says
to you and to me, "Other sheep l have
which are not of this fold"
{ Christ's Sheepfo1d.
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 strolling 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 SO sheep. l have
Just counted them" NO says Nc
Donald Il have a great many more
sheep than you found in this yard.
Some are here, and some are else
where. | 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. and
there Il knot of Christians, but they
make up a small part of the flock.
Here is the Episcopal fold. the Metho-
dist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Con-
gregational 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 they are scattered all I
over. And we come with our statistics
and say there are so many thousand of I
the Lords sheep, but Christ responds: !
'tNO, 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 thorough /
ly enters into the spirit Of the text /
than does the BOwery mission. whose /
twentieth anniversary we today cele- /
brate. During the past year 5000 /
souls have been saved through its in /
and during its exist
ence it has put its temporal and spir-
itual beneGictiOn upon hundreds Of |
thousands 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 stu !
pendous work, and to all of its patrons /
Christ is saying: Il was hungry, and /
We fed me; naked, and We clothed me; |
sick and in prison, and We visited me. |
Inasmuch as We did it unto me, one |
of the least of these, We did it to me-
Welcome the Sinner.
We need. as churches. to go into !
sympathy with the great outside world
and let them know that none are so |
broken hearted or hard beset that they
will not be welcomed No" says |
some fastidious Christian, 81 do not |
like to be crowded in church. Do not
put any one in my pew" My brother,
what will you do in heaven, when Il
Irrnaf multitude thnt no rnnr con Num-