GATES WIDE OPEN. Dr. Talmage Says No Man Is Barred From Receiving God's Grace. no. natioas--There is No Monopoly ia Religion. {Copyrieht 1901.) Yorx City On the oceasion of anniversary of tne mission, Dr. Talmage preached to a vast andience at the New York Academy of Music. Alinisters of all were present. ‘The text was, John x, 16, “Other sheep 1 have which are not of this fold.” There is no monopoly in religion. grace of God is not « little property we may fence off and have all to selves we look through a barred gateway, wish ing that we might go in and see the statu- ary and the deer and the rovul conserva- tory. No; it is a Fa evervwhere there are let down and open In my bovho re to schoolhones t} nles owned by a verv | though there wer ] petually decaving of hashels. neve: ton h the schoo! in herited New the twentieih The our- wr's orchard, that we nay may swing bors gates that we the ywehard of anp- countre ere was an tm rung t that orchard, } the Man came there, come on hough at a batt 10.000 wounded and dying on the three surgeons gave all time to a half duzen patients in a barn hos pital. The Major General says to the doctors loak at the 10.900 dying for lack of surg attendance.” “No,” say the three doctors standing there fanning their patients, have a half dozen important cases and we are attending we are not positively busy with wounds it takes all our time to keep the flies 1} In thie awful battle of sin and sorrow, where pullions 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 cto the world,” say practi eally, “No 1 rannot go; | have a few ekice eases, and 1 am busy keeping off the flies.” We: nced. as churches, to stop bombard. ing the old iron-clad sinners that have great le there ang and romes in eH tian assault and take aim in other direc tions, Years ago I visited a New Eugland fac. tory village. 1 went up to the door of a factcry, and I saw on the outside the words, “No admittance.” Of course 1 went in, and coming to the second door | saw the words, “No admittance.” making pins, useful pine, and nothing but pins. So I think there is sometimes an exclusiveness among some of the churches The outside world comes up and Jooks et the door and there is something which seems to say, “No admittance,” and the world comes up to the pew door and sees writien over if, "No admittance,” and looks at the pulpit and there is something there which scems to say “No admit- tance.” while v2 stand inside of the sama churches hammering out our little nicetiew of religious belief, making pins. k, for deeper appreciation of the senti- men: of my text, “Other sheep | have which are not of thin fold.” have to remark that the heavenly Bhepherd will find many sheep amid the non-churehgoers. ‘Licre ave congregations where thereare nil Christians, and they seem to be completely finished, aud they remind one of the sk leton leaves which oy chem: | prepara ~° have had ali the green. flan and verdure taken off them and are cos and winte and delicate, nothing Te hut a glass ence to put over them, The minister of Christ has nothing te do with such Christians but to come once a week and with ostrich feather dust off the weeumulation of the last six days, leaving them bright and ervstalline as before. But | the other kind of church is an armory, with perpetual sound of drum and fife, gathering reeruits for the Lord of Hosts plicant: “Do you de, the safe side { 80. come in the Here is a bath Here are sandals wanting { and BRAVING ID every a want to be and the happy armory and gel equipne ! in which to be ¢'eansed | to put on your feet vour brow. Here is a breastplate for your heart Here is a sword for vour right | arm, and vonder ix the battlefield. Quit yourselves like men.” I remark again the heavenly Rhepherd ig going to find a great many of His sheep those who are now rejecters of | Chrictianity. Nome of the mightiest advo- eater of the gospel were once skeptics. y» i 8 on (3 side? rmMiONE Hall a skeptic. Christmas Evans a skeptie, Charles G. Finney a skeptic, I aul, | apostle ounce a skentie. But when {| with strong hand thev laid hold { gospel chariot momentum! 1 do know came to reject Christianity it been throurh the infidel talk of some i factory not how vou young man in the store or shop Of It may have professed heen through the tric gome Chrictinn man, ted vou with religic V VEAre Ro 3 nened edd never preached, or pretended to vet, putting down one hig teless pe the. his parlimentarian’s scroll and another his electrician’s wire, came forth {| and commended the rcligion of Christ as the best thing for the cure of the world's woes. If you will not take the recoramen- dation of ministers of the gospel, take the recommendation of highly respectable lay- men (iy preach, and an men. skeptical and struck through t with unrest, 1 beg von to come off that creat Nahara desert of doubt into the bright and luxuriant land of gospel hope and peace. Yo: do not want your chiidren { to come up in that skepticism. If vou do | not believe in anything else, you believe in { love—a father's love, a mother's love, a wife's love, a child's love Then let me tell you that God loves you more than all these together. The great heart of Christ aches to have you come in, and He looks into your eyes thie moment, saying, “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.” Again, 1 remark that the heavenly Rhep- berd is going to find a great many of the sheep among those who have been full of evil habit. They were all cheated into sin. ‘The spider does not say to the fiy, “Come into the web where I Lill insects.” Oh. no. | The spider says, “Dearest fly, come and take a morning walk with me on this sus nension bridge of gossamer, glittering with diamonds of dew.” Do not be hard on { those gone astray. It makes me sad to see Christian people give up a prodigal as last. People tell us that if & man has Jeli rinm tremens twice ne cannot be ro. cigimed; that if a woman has sacrificed her integrity she cannot be restored. The hible has distinetly intimated that the Lord Almighty is ready to pardon 400 times. Why do I say 400 times? Because the Bible says “Seventy times seven.” Now figure that out. You do not think a man enn fall four times, eight times. ten Limes, twenty times, 100 times, 400 times and vet he saved. Four hundred and nine ty times! There are men before the throne of sin, but, saved by the grace of Christ and washed in His blood. they stand there radiant now. There are those who plunged into the very lowest depths of the slums and who have for hundreds of times been lifted up, and finaly. by the grace of God they stand in heaven, gloriously By the grace promised to the chief of si 8 News Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sources. BLINDED WHILE MILKING A COW, The Animal Kicked a Lantern lato a Powder Keg and was Killed by an Explosion Which Blew Mrs. Hoskey Through a Bara--Father Warned by Kidnappers--The Burglars Wore Outwitted--Other Live News. Mrs. Mary Hoskey, living on the James Walker farm, while milking her cow, was blown through the gide of the barn by the explosion of six kegs of biasting powder which were in the place. The barn and COW wore blowa to pieces, but Mrs. Hoskey will probably survive her terrible injuries. She will remain blind. Before daylight Mrs. Hoskey slarted to milk her cow. She bad a coal miner's lamp and put it on a 2b-pound keg of powder, six of which were standing In a ow. T ae cow kicked oace, the light tipped over and the first keg exploded Mrs. He key was blown through the barn and to this she owes her Belo ghe struck the ground outside tae maining five kegs let go. An oll der rick near