Connecticut western news., 1892-09-15
THE KING'S HIGHWAY
THE SUBJECT OF OR. TAlMAGE'S
 DISCOURSE.

ing tho Pathway to Salvation-Dr.
 1almage Visits the Spot Where the
 Pflgrims Embarked for the New World.
 LONDON, Sept. II. = Another busy week of Dr Talmage's preaching tour has just ended. After conducting serv- ices before immense audiences at Swan sea, Exeter and Bristol, he preached four times in Plymouth to the largest religious gatherings ever witnessed in that city. Before leaving Plymouth the mayor, at a public meeting at which many clergymen were present, thanked the American preacher for the great good his sermons had produced in awakening the community. Dr. Tal- mage on the day of his departure was driven to the wharf and alighted at the top of the flight of stone steps down which the pilgrim fathers went when they embarked on the Mayfiower to seek the Now World.
 The sermon selected for today is en- titled, ''The Kings Highway" the text chosen being Isaiah xxxv, S-10: And an highway shall re there, and way, and it shall be called the way of holi- ness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and glad ness, and sorrow and signing shall flee away"
 There are thousands of people here this morning who want to find the right road. You sometimes see person halt ing at crossroads, and you can tell by his looks that he wishes to ask ques- tion as to what direction he had better take. And stand in your presence this morning conscious of the fact that there are many of you here who realize that there are thousand wrong roads, but only one right one, and I take it for granted that you have come in to ask which one it is. Here is one road that opens widely, but I have not much faith in it. There are great many expensive tollgates scattered all along that way. Indeed at every rod you must pay in tears, or pay in flagellations. On that road, if you get through it at all, you have to pay your own way, and since this differs so much from what I have heard in regard to the right way, be- heve it is the wrong way.
 Here is another road. On either side Tit are houses of sinful entertainment, and invitations to come in and dine and rest, but from the looks of the people who stand on the piazza l am very cer- tain that it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road. It Is very beautiful and macadamized. The horses hoofs chatter and ring, and they who ride over it spin along the highway until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and they try to halt, and they saw the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry ''Whoal whoa" But it is too late, and-crashl- : they go over the embankment. We shall turn this morning and see if we cannot ind 8 different kind of road
 THE APPIAN WAY.
 You have heard of the Appian Way. It was three hundred and fifty miles long It was twenty-four feet wide, and on either side the road was path for foot passengers. It was made out of rocks cut in hexagonal shape and fitted together. What 8 road it must have beeni Made of smooth, hard rock. three hundred and fifty miles long, No treasures of a whole empire were ex- hausted. Because of invaders, and the clements, and time-the old conqueror who tears up road as he goes over it. there Is nothing left of that structure excepting ruin. But I have this morning to tell you of road built be- fore the Appian Way, and yet it is as good as when first constructed. Millions of souls have gone over it. Millions more will come.
 Tho prophets and apostles, too,
 Pursued this road while here below;
 We therefore will, without dismay,
 Still walk in Christ the good old way.
 'An highway shall be there, and way, and 1t shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over 1t; but it shall be for those; the way faring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not be found there, but the re- deemed shall walk there, and the ran Domed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they, shall obtain Joy and gladness, and sorrow and sigh Ing shall fly awayl''
 First, this road of the text is the hng's highway. In the diligence you dash over the Bernard pass of the Alps, milo af CT mile, and there is not So much as . pebble to jar the wheels. You go ever bridges which cross chasms thst mak you hold your breath; under pro1e suns rock; along by dangerous prec1 1ices; through tunnels adrip with the meltings of the glaciers, and, per haps for the first time, learn the majesty If . road built and supported by govern mont authority. We'll, my Lord the hing decided to build highway from earth to heaven. It should span all the ohasms~ of human wretchedness; it should tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty; it should be wide enough and strong enough to hold fifty thousand millions of the human race, if 70 many of them should ever be born. It should be blasted out of the "Rock of Ages," and cemented with the blood of the Cross, and be lifted amid the shout ing of angels and the execration of dew Ills.
 The King sent his Son to build that road. He put head and hand and heart to 1t, and after the road was completed, waved his blistered hand over the way crying, ''It is fnishedi" Napoleon paid fifteen million francs for the building of tle Simplon road, that his cannon might go over for the devastation of Italy, but our King, at great expense, has built a road for different purpose-that the