"OTHER SHEEP I HAVE.” A SERMON PREACHED IN THE SHEPARD MEMORIAL CHURCH, BY ALEXANDER MCKENZIE. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: 1882. 22 Sefit. 1793 A.P. Pabedy With the tricere regard of A SERMON PREACHED IN THE SHEPARD MEMORIAL CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 15, 1882. BY ALEXANDER MCKENZIE. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: 1882. SERMON. TEXT: "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."— ST. JOHN 10; 16. This was the broad, far-reaching view of the Christ of God. He had gathered a few men about him; he had made the land to feel the blessing of his presence in comfort, in healing, and in life. There were men seeing who had been blind; there were men running who had been lame; there were men living who had been dead, until he found them and saved them. But he was not content that his life should be bounded within these narrow limits. As he was passing out of the world, already by anticipation entering the glory, his eyes wandered out over the earth. He saw others as needy as these; he saw others as dear as these, whom he could reach and whom he could bless. The land of Palestine, where our Lord's earthly life up to this time had been spent, in size and in shape is like our state of Vermont; and Vermont is not the whole country, still less the whole world. He could not be content that this little state should be blessed while all the rest of the land and the world was living in the same necessity, needing the same Savior. We find to the end, as Christ's life passes on from this point--for now it is drawing towards its consummation—this same reaching out of his thoughts to those who are beyond. Thus, when he prayed with his disciples the night before his crucifixion, the same night in which he was betrayed, opening his heart before the Father, he was not content that he had blessed eleven men who were with him in that hour and whom he carried in his petition to the Father; but, reaching beyond the walls of that chamber and past the walls of Jerusalem, he cried, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." Then again, when his resurrection was accomplished, and he met his disciples in the mountain in Galilee, |