The Globe-republican., 1892-09-30
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
HE DISCOURSES REGARDING
KINGS HIGHWAY.

Tho inference Between the Right and
the Wrong Road-The Christians Prog
ress Heavenward in the Path OF Recti-
tude.
Another busy week of DR.. Talmage's
preaching tour has just ended. After
concluding services before immense
audiences at Swansea. Exeter and Bris-
tol, he preached four times Sin Plymouth
to the largest religious gatherings ever
witnessed in the city. Before leaving
Plymouth the Mayor, at a public meet
ing at which many clergymen were
present thanked the American preacher
for the great good his sermons had pro-
duced in awakening the community. DR..
Talmage 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 vent when
they embarked on tho Mayf1ower to seek
the New World.
The sermon selected for last Sab
bath was entitled THE Kings High
way" the text chosen being Isaiah xxxv,
$40: ''And an highway shall be there,
and a way, and it shall be called the way
of holiness; 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 re-
deemed shall walk there. and the ran
sOmed 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 signing
shall flee away"
There are thousands of people here
this morning who want to find the right
road. You sometimes see q person halt
ing at crossroads. and can tell by his
looks that he wishes to ask question as
to what direction he had better take.
And l stand in your presence this morn
ing conscious of the fact that there are
many of you here who realize that there
are a thousand wrong roads, but only one
right one, and 1 take it for granted that
you have come in to ask which one 1t Is.
Here is one road that opens widely, but
have not much faith in It, There are
= great many expensive tollgates scat.
tered all along that way. Indeed at
every rod you must pay in tears or pay
in fiagellations. On that road, II you
get through it at all. you have to pay
Sour own way, and since this differs SC
much from what have heard in regard
TO the right way believe it is the wrong
way.
Here is another road. On either side
Of it 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 Ger
tain that it is the wrong house and the
wrong way. Here is another road. II
is very beautiful and macadamized. The
horses hoofs clAtter 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 see the bit in the
mouth of the fiery steed and cry, whoa
whoay' But it is too late. and-crash!-
they 60 over the embankment we
shall turn this morning and see II we
cannot find different kind of q road.
You have heard of the Appian Way.
1t was $50 miles long. 1t was twenty
four feet wide, and on either side Lht
road was path for foot passengers. L
was made out of rocks cut in heXagona
shape and fitted together. What roat
il must have been. Made of smooth
hard rock, $50 miles long. No wOnde
that in the construction of it the treas
ures of a whole empire were exhausted
Because of invaders, and the element
and time the old cOnqueror who tear
up q road as he goes over 1t-there
nothing left Of that structure except
ruin. But l have this morning to tel
YOU of q road built before the Appia
Way, and vet it is as good as when firs
constructed. Millions of souls hav
zone over it. Millions more will come
The prophets and apostles too,
Pursued this road while here below;
We therefore will, without dismay,
Still walk in Christ, the good old way.
IAN highway shall be there. and
way. and it shall be called the way G
holiness, the unclean shall not pass owe
it: bat it shall be for those; the way
faring men, though fools. shall not er
therein. No lion shall be there, nor an
rayenous beast shall 60 up thereon.
shall not be found there. but the n
deemed shall walk there, and the raj
somed of the Lord shall return and com
to Zion with songs and everlasting j0
upon their heads; they shall obtain 70
and gladness, and sorrow and slghln
shall fee away" .
First. this road Of the text Is th
Kings highway. In the diligence yo
dash over the Bernard pass OF the Alp
mile after mile, and there Is not so muc
40 a pebble to jar the wheels. You
over bridges which cross chasms thu
make you hold your breath, under pr'
fectiAg rock, along by dangerous pr
tipices, through tunnels adrip with tt
MEETINGS ef the glaciers. and perhaps Il
the first time learn the majesty OF rOa
built and supported by government .
shortly. Well. my Lord the King d
cded to build highway from earth
Heaven. 1t should span all the chasn
Of human wretchedness; It should tunn
all the mountains Of earthly difficulty;
should be wide enough and strong enoua
to bold fifty thousand millions OF Il
human race, if so many OF them shou
ever be born. 1t should be blasted o.
Of the Rock Of Ages" and cement<
with the blood of the Cross and be lffta
amid the shouting of angels and the ex
Grafton of devils.
The King sent his Son to build tn