Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1891 — Page 7

TO NON-CHUIICHGOEKS. DR.TALMACE PREACHESTO THE ‘SHEEP WITHOUTTHE FOLD.’ All the Christians Do Not Belong to Uon- , gregatlons, but There Are Many Seasons Why All Persons Should Be Christians— A Word to Unbelievers. A powerful sermon, preached to nonchurchgoers, yvas delivered by Dr. Talmage last Sunday. Dr. Talmage’s text was John x, 16: “Other sheep 1 have which are not of this fold.” ' - There is no monopoly in religion. The grace of God is not a nice little property fenced off all for ourselves. It is not a king’s park, at which we look through a barred gateway, wishing we might go in ' and pluck the flowers and look at the deer and the statuary. It is a father's orchard, and there arc bars to let down and gates to swing open. In my boyhood days, next to the country school-house where I went, there was an apple orchard of great luxuriance, owned by a very lame man who did not gather the apples, and they went to/ waste by scores of bushels. Sometimes the lads of the school, in the sinfulness of a nature inherited from our first parents, who fell through the same temptation, would climb over the fence and take some of these apples, and notwithstanding the fact that there was a surplus, and all going to waste, the owner of that orchard, reckless of making his lameness worse, would take after these lads and shouts, “Boys, drop those apples or I’ll set the dog on you!” Naw there are Christians- who have severe guard over the Church .of God. They have a rough and unsympathetic way of treating outsiders. ' It/hui great orchard into which God would like to have all the people come and take the richest and the ripest fruit, and tin 1 more they take the better he dikes it. But they are those who stand with (V hard •1 and severe nature guarding the Church y. of God. and till the time afraid that sortie Hk will get these apples when they really ought not to have them. Ila,ve you any idea that because you were baptized at 8 months of jige. and because you’ have all voiirlife been sur- ► rounded by hallowed influences, yon have a right to one whole side of the Lord’s table, spreading yourself out so nobody else can sit there? You will have to haul in vour elbows, for there will come a great multit udc,to sit at tho table and on both sides of yon. You -are not going to have this monopoly of religion. ■•Orher'shei'p 1 have which are not jf this fold,” . -| L McDonald, the* Seo|e'htnan, has on the j '•scotch hills a great llbek of. sheep. 51cW . Doiiald has four or live thousand head of | sheep. Some are.browsing in thc heather. j -oine afc on some the .vaile'ys*. a fewiare in the yard, One day j • 'ameron comes over to AlcDoiiald ami I says: “McDonald, yon ha ye t hir.ty sheep. I 1 hayoTteen counting 1 hem." "<>lj. no!" says McDonald. "L have .four .or live thousand." "Ah!" says Catm ron, “you are mistaken, i have just collided them. '■ There are thirty." "Why." savs .McDonald, "do you siip]lcse that is all the sheep 1 have? 1 have sheep on the distant hills and in the valleys, rangingand roaming e\erywhere.. Other shiu-p have 1 which are not of this fold."' So Christ eoirjes. Here is ;1 group of Christians, and there is a group of Christians; Imre is a Methodist fold, hefo is a ' Presbyterian fold, here is a Baptist fold, 4 ; Imre is a Lutheran fold, and we make ’ our annual statistics, and we think’ we can tell you just how many Christians there are in the world, how many there are in the church, how many in till these denominations. We aggregate them, and we think we are giving an intelligent and an accurate account; but Christ .W comes and He says: "You have not counted them right. Thera tire those whom you have never seen, those of | whom you have never heard. 1 have’my children in all parts of the’earth, on all the islands of the sea,- on. all the continents, in all the/nountaips and in all the Valleys. Do you think that these few ‘ sheep you have'eoutrfed are all the sheep 1 have? There is a great multitude that I no man •■'an number. Other sheep have T whiclr ti're not of this fold.” Christ in my text talks of the conversion of the Gentiles as confidently as” though they had already been converted. | He sets forth the idea that his people wiil come from all parts" of the earth, t from all ages, from all circumstances, from all conditions. "Other sheep have 1 which are not of this fold." In the first place f remark the Heavenly Shepherd will ' find many of his sheep among those vvho are at present jion-chiir<-hgoers. There are different kindsof churches. Sometimes von will find a church made 1( p only of Christians. Everything seems finished. The church reminds you of those skeleton plants * from which by chemical preparation all the greenness ami the verdure have been taken, and they are cold and white and delicate and beautiful, and finished. All that is wanted is a glass ease put over them. The minister on the sabbath has only foft take an ostrich feather and • brush off t Le dust .t hat has aceiimulated in the last six days of business, and then they are a-cold and beautiful.-, and delicate as b-fore. Every thing is finisued — finished sermons, finished music, finished sirehiteciure. finished everything. , There arc those here, perhaps, who ’ 'ay. "It is now ten. fifteen years siu-e 1 was in Hie habit, the regular habit .of church going." I know all about your < ase. c lam going to tell you something that will be startling at the first, and that is that you are going to become the Lord's slmep. “Oh.” yo i say. "that, is impossible: yon don't.know my (hiso; you don't know how far 1 am from anything of that kind." 1 know all about your j-ase. I have been up and down the world. I know why some of yoii do not attend upon Christian services. 1 go further, and make another announcement in regard to you. and that .is. you are notoi|ly to become the Lord's sheep, but you are going to, become the Lord's sheep this hour. God is going to call you graciously by his spirit: you are r going to come into the fold of Christ. This sermon sliall not be so much for those vv i u > are Christians. I have preached to them hundreds and thousands of times. The sermon that I preach now is going to or chiefly for those who consider themselves outsiders, but who may happen to be in this house, and the chief employment of tlic'Christian peqple hero to-day will be to praV for those who art* notae ustomed to attend upon Christian sanctuaries. When the stea’mer Atlantic went to pieces on Mars Rock why did that brave minister,of the Gospel, of whom we hUve all read, go out in the lifeboat? Why did lie not stay and look after the passengers that got ashore, wrapping flannels around them, ami kindling liri* for b them, and preparing them.food. There was plenty of work to be done on shore for those who had already escaped. Ah! that brave man knew that there were others w ho would take care of those; and so he said: “Man the lifeboat! Pull away, my lads, puli away! Yonder is a man; there is a woman freezing in the rigging. Pull away! - ’ I ,see the oar bladei bend in the strong pull of the oarsmen. Then they come up to the wreck. The woman is frozen. Mhedrops r' ■ into the wave—alas! poor woman—and washes out to sea. But then Mr. Ancient savs; “There is a man yet hanging to the rigging. Pull away, my lads! pull away!” They come dp. and he says: “Hold now there five minutes and we

will save you. Steady! steady! Now give me your hand. Leap! Thank God, he is saved! Thank God, he is saved!” , So there are men now in the breakers. They have made a shipwreck of life. While we come out to save them, some, are swept off—swept off before we can reach them —and there are others still hanging on. Steady there among the slippery places! Steady! Leap into this lifeboat! Now is your chance for heaven! This hour some of tou are going to be saved. Far away from God, you are going to be brought nigh. "Other slu&'p have I which are not of this fold.” Christ says that ministers of the gospel are to be fishers for men. Now, when I go fishing I do not want to fish ill anybody else’s pond. Ido not want to go along Hohokus Creek, where there are ten or fifteen men fishing, and drop my line just about where they are dropping their lines. I should like to get in a Newfoundland fishing smack and push out to sea fifty miles beyond the breakers. Ido not think the Church of God gains a ?reat deal when you take sheep from onefold and put them in another fold. It is the4,ost sheep on the mountains you want to bring back—the lost sheep on the mountains. And they are coining to-day. f You are now this ’hour in tire tide of Christian influences. You are going to be swept in; your voice is going to be heard in prayer; you are going to be consecrated to God; you are going to live a life of usefulness, and your death-bed is going to be surrounded by Christian sympathizers, and devout men will carry you to your burial when your work is done, and these words will be chiseled for your epitaph: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” And all that history is going to begin today. “Other sheep have I which are not of this fold.” Again I remark, the Heavenly Shepherd is going to find many of his sheep among those who are now rejecters of Christianity. Ido not know how you came to reject Christianity. I do not know whether it was through hearing Theodore Parker preach, or whether it was reading Renan’s “Life of Jesus.” or whether it was through some skeptic in the store or factory. Or it may be—probably is the ease—that you were disgusted with religion and disgusted with Christianity because some man who professed to be a Christian defrauded you, and 1-e being a member of the church, and yon taking liiirT as a representative? of the Christian religion. you said. "Well, if t hat’s religion. I don't want any of it.” I do not know how you cafhe to reject Christianity, but you frankly tell me you do reject it: von do not think the Bible is ihe word of God. although there are many things.in it you admiTo: you do not think that Christ was a divine being, although you think he was a- very good ma'ii. You say. “If the Bilge be true - the most of the Bible be true ; —I nevertheh-s- think the earliest part of the Bible is afi allegory.”’ And there are . fifty things that I believe yon do not believe. Xe\ert hielcss they tell me in regard io'.oii that you arc an ai'commodating, you lire an obliging person. If I should come to you and ask of you. a favor you wouhl'gra lit it if it’ were possible. It would be a joy for you to grant me a favor. It' any of your friends came to you ami wanted an accommodation, and you could accommodate them, how glad you would be! Now 1 am going to ask of yoipa favor. I want you to oblige me. Theaceommodal ion Will cost, you nothing, and you 1 will give me great happiness. Os course you will not deny me. 1 want you as an experiment to, try the Christian religion. If it does not stand the test, discard it; if it does, receive it. If yon were very sick, and you had been given' up of the doctors, and I came to you, and 1 took a bottle of medicine from my poekt't and said, “Here is medicine I am sure will help you; it has cured fifty people,” you would say, “Oh, I haven't any confidence 1 in if,; they tell me all these medicines will fail me,” “Well,” I say. ‘Avill you not. as a matter of accommodation to myself, just try it?’’ "Well," you.say, “1 have no objection to trying it: if it will be any satisfaction to you I will try it.’’ You take it. Now you are sick in disquietude, sick in sin. You are not happy. You laugh sometimes when you am miserable. There conies surges of unhappiness over your soul that almost swamp you. You are unhappy, struck through with unrest. Now, will you not try this solace, this febrifuge, this Tajiodym'. this Gospel medicine? "Oh." von say. "I haven't ainy faith in it.” As a matter of accommodation, let mu introduce you to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Great Physician. "Why,” you say. "I haven't any faithJn Him.” Well, now. will you not just ’ let Him .Y'Otfie and try His power on your soul? Just le.t me introduce Him to you. I do not ask you to take my word for it. I do not ask you to take the advice of elergymeti. Perhaps the clergymen may be prejudiced: jierhaps we may be speaking professionally: perhaps we may give you wrong advice: perhaps we are morbid on that subject; so I do not stsk you to take the advice of clergymen. I ask yon to take the advice of very respectable laymen, such as William Shakspeare, the dramatist: as William Wilberforce, the statesman: as Isaac Newton, the astronomer: as Robert Boyle, the philosopher: as Locke, the metaphyscian: as Morse, the electrician. These men never preached—they never pretended to preach- -but they come out, ami -putting down, one his telescope, and anotlier the electrician's wire, and another the parliamentary scroll — they come out. and they commend Christ as a comfort to all the people, a Christ that the world needs. Now Ido not ask you to take of clergymen. Take the advice of these laymen. It does not make any difference to me at this juncture what you have said against the Bible; it <loes not make any difference to meat this juncture how you may have caricatured religion. Take the advice of men who are prominent in secular affairs, as these men whom I have mentioned and others who immediately occur to your mind. You see Ido not scoff at skep-« tieism. 1 never scoffed at skepticism. I have been a natural skeptic. I do not know what the first word was that I uttered after entering tlje world, but I think it must have been “why?” I There were when I doubted the i existence of God. when I doubted the divinity of Christ, when I doubted the immortality of the soul, when I doubted my own existence, when I doubted everything. I have been through the whole curriculum of doubt, and you can tell me not hing new about it. I have com*' out from a great Sahara desert into the calm. warm, sunshiny land of the gospel. I know about, the other land. I have been there. You can tell me nothing new about it. And I know all about the other condition of which you do not know anything—the peace, the comfort, the joy. the triumph of trusting in God ami in Jesus Christ whom ho has sent. So I am not scoffing in regard to it. There-are some things I believe that you do no. not, but there are some things that I believe and you do believe. You believe in love —a father’s love, a mother’s love, a wife's love, a child’s love. Now let me tell you God loves you more than allot them together, and you must come in, you will come in. Christ looks in all tenderness, with the infinite tenderness of the gospel, into your soul, and he says, “This is your time for heaven,” and then he waves his hand to the people of God, and he says, “Other sheep have I which »re not of this fold.”

They say If a man has had the delirium tremens twice he cannot be cured. They say if a woman has fallen from integrity she cannot be redeemed. All of which is an infinite slander'on the Gospel of the Son of God. Men who say that know nothing about practical religion in their own hearts. How many times will God take back a man who has fallen? Well, I cannot give you the exact figures, but I can tell you at what point he certainly will take him back. Four hundred and ninety times. Why do I say four hundred and ninety times? Because the Bibm says seventy times seven. • Now figure that out, you who do not think a man can fall four times, eight times, ten times, twenty times, one hundred times, four hundred times, and yet be saved. Four hundred and ninety times! Why, there is a great multitude before the throne of God who plunged iuto all the depths of iniquity. There were no sins they did not commit; but they were washed of body and washed of mind and washed of sonl, and they are before the throne of God now forever happy. I say that to encourage.any man who feels there is no chance for him. Now there is only one class of persons in this house about whom I have any despondency, and that is those who have been hearing the gospel for perhaps twenty, thirty, forty years. Their outward life is moral, but they tell you frankly they do not love the Lord Jesus Christ, have not trusted Him, have not been born again by the spirit of God. They are gospel-hardened. The gospel has no more effect upon them than the shining of the moon on the city pavement. The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before they. They went through, some of them, the revival of 1857, when 500,000 souls were brought to God. Some of them went through great revivals in , individual churches. Still unpardoned, unblessed, unsaved. They were merely spectators. Gospel-hardened! After awhile- we will hear that they are sick, and . that they are dead, and then that they died without any hope. Gospel-hardened! But I turn away from all such with a thrill of hope to those who are not gospel hardened. Some of you have not heard, perhaps, five sermons in This whole subject has been a novelty to you for some time. You are not Gospel hardened; you know you are not Gospel hardened. The whole subject comes freshly to your mind. I hear some £oul saying: “Oh, my wasted life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh, the graves 1 stumbled over! Whither shall I fly? The future is so dark, so dark, so very dark! God help me!” OI), I am so glad for that last utterance! That was a prayer, and as soon as you begin to pray that turns heaven, this way, and God steps in. and He beats back tire hounds of temptation to their kennels, and.He throws all around the pursued soul the eovi'rt of His pardoning mercy. I heat’d something fall. What was it? It was the bans around the sheepfold, the bars of the fence around the sheepfold. The Heavenly Shepherd let them fall, and the hunted sheep of the mountain come bounding in. somo with fleece torn of .the brambles, and others with feet lame from the dogs, but bounding in. Thank God! “Other sheep have 1 which are not of this fold.” God forbid that any of you should have the lamentation of the dying nobleman who had had every opportunity of salvation, but rejected all. and who wrote or dictated these words: "Before you receive this my final state will be determined. lam throwing my last stake for eternity, and tremble and shudder for the important issue. Oh. my friend, with what horror do 1 recall the hours of vanity we hjtve wasted together; but I have a splendid passage to the grave. I die in state, and languish under a gilded canopy. I ajnexpiring on soft and downy pillows, ahdawi respectfully attended by my servantsand physicians. My dependants sigh. my sisters' weep, my father bends beneath a load of years and grief. But oh! which of these will answer my summons at the high tribunal? And which of these will bail me from the arrest of death? While some flattering panegyric is pronuneed at my interment, I may be hearing mv just condemnation at a supreme tribunal. Adieu!”. On a Runaway Car. An iron manufacturer of Pittsburg had experience on the Pennsylvania railroad recently which so far has not .found its way into print. He had engaged ten sections in a sleeper for himself and family, but by some mistake the first section of the train to which the party belonged pulled out of the Philadelphia depot before the family arrived. There was a hustling for a few minutes and another sleeper was found and put into the second section, and, as there was no time for a second make-up, the sleeper was placed next the tender of the locomotive. All went well enough until the train had comfe some distance down the western slope of the mountain, when the manufacturer noticed that the car was running at a terrific rate of speed. Turning to look for the locomotive he was horrified to see it Scudding away like the wind, trying to keep out of thp_way of the train, the engineer making'frantic motions for something to be done. The passenger seized the brake wheel, and was further horrified to find the chain broken. By this time the engineer, seeing that the passeager had sense enough left to act, slowed the locomotive until the flying train came within ear-shot, when he caAed to the iron-maker to run to the lavatory ; and turn the valve on the airbrake. He obeyed, but found the door locked and some one inside who refused to open it. There was no time for explanation, so he kicked the door- in and caught the valve just as the irate passenger was getting in good, fighting trim. The latter* then comprehended the situation and gave over his belligerent demonstrations. The speed of the train was slackened sufficiently to allow jt to connect with the locomotive, and repairs were made. The trouble was that the coupling had pulled out of the sleeper. This is the explanation of why a fast train on the Pennsylvania railxcad was four hours late recently. An Unhappy Illustration. ‘ The girl of to-day sometimes possesses a fund of practical commonsense which stands her in good stead. Augustus was deeply in love with Augusta, but she, while she liked him, did not like him quite so much as to run a risk of starvation to oblige him. She was quite practical enough to identify at a glance on which side her bread was buttered, and rather than look for plain dry bread in preference it was more in her line to keep her weather eye peeled on the jam dish. His arguments were much more passionate than forcible, while her replies were evidently the dictates of cool and deliberate judgment. “But look here ” he remonstrated, eagerly, “there can be nd really good reason why you should not marry a fellow who has a good salary, just because has no capital. If you go far enough back you’ll find that Eve married a gardener without a halfpenny in his pocket.” “What’s the idea of your bringing that forward as an illustration? Do you not remember that the next thing he did was to lose his situation?”

! How They Keep Warm in Montreal. In Montreal one may buy clothing not to be had in the United States; woolens thick as boards, hosiery that wards off the cold as armor resists missiles, gloves as heavy as shoes, yet soft as kid, fur caps and coats at prices and in a variety that interest poor and rich alike, blanket suits that are< more picturesque than any other masculine garment worn north of the city of Mexico, tuques, and moccasins, and, indeed, so many sorts of clothing we Yankees know very little of (though many of us need them) that at a glance we say the Montrealers are foreigners. Montreal is the gayest city on this continent, anti I have often thought that the clothing there is largely responsible for that condition. A New Yorker disembarking in Montreal in midwinter finds the place inhospitably cold, and wonders how, as well as why, any one lives there. I well remember standing years ago beside a toboggan slide, with my teeth chattering and my very marrow slowly concealing, when my attention was called to the fact that a dozen ruddycheeked, bright-eyed, laughing girls were grouped in snow that reached their knees. I asked a Canadian lady how that could be possible,and she answered with a list of the principal garments those girls were wearing. They had two pairs of stockings under their shoes, and a pair of stockings over their shoes, with moccasins over them. They had so many woolen skirts that an American girl would not believe me if I gave the number. They wore heavy dresses and buckskin jackets and blanket suits over all this. They had mittens over their gloves, and fur caps over their knitted hoods. It no longer seemed wonderful that they should not cold; indeed it occurred to me that their bravery amid the terrors of tobogganing was no bravery at all, since a girl buried deep in the heart of such a mass of woolens could scarcely expert Ramage if she fell from a-steeple. When next I appeared out-of-doors I too was swathed in flannel, like a jewel in a box of plush, and from that time out Montreal;seemed, what it really is, the merriest of American capitals.— Julian Ralph, in'Harper’s Magazine. The Oldest Game of Ball. Court tennis is the oldest game of ball that we have —that is to say, it goes back farther in its present form than any other. Games of ball of some kind go back so far that there is no trace of their beginning. In their simplest form the ball was thrown from.one man to another. 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