Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-09-22
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
he DiscoURsEs REGARDING THE
GREAT KINGS HIGHWAY.


OF DR.. Talnage's preaching tour has Just
ended. After conducting services before
immense audiences at Swansea. Exeter and
Bristol, be preached four times in Plym-
outh to the largest religious gatherings
ever witnessed in that city. Before leaving
| Plymouth the mayor, at 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.. Talmage
on the day Of his departure was driven to
the wharf and alighted at the top of the
fight Of stone steps down which the pill
| grim fathers went when they embarked
on the Mayfiower to seek the New World.
The sermon selected for today is entitled
"The Kings Highway" the text chosen
being Isaiah xxxv, $40: "And an highway
shall be there, and a way, and 1t shall be
called the way Of holiness; the unclean
shall not pass over it; but 1t shall be for
those; the wayfaring men, though fools,
shall not err therein. No lion shall be
there, nor any ravenous beast shall 90 up
thereon. 1t 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 ioy
| and gladness, and sorrow and signing shall
| fee away"
There are thousands of people here this
| morning who want to find the right road.
You sometimes see a person halting at
crossroads, and you can tell by his looks
that he wishes to ask question 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 q thousand
wrong roads, but only one right one, and
take 1t for granted that you have come in
to ask which one it is. Here is one road
that opens widely, but l have not much
faith in it. There are a great many ex-
pensive tollgates scattered all along that
way. Indeed at every rod you must pay
in tears or pay in fagellations. 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 have heard in regard
to the right way believe it is the wrong
way.
THE WRONG ROAD.
| Here Is another road. On either side of
1t 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 am very certain that
it is the wrong house and the wrong way.
Here is another road 1t is very beautiful
| and macadamized. The horses hoofs clat-
ter and ring, and they who ride over it
| spin along the highway until suddenly
they find that the road breaks over an en-
bankment, and they try to halt, and they
see the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed
and cry, whoa! whoaw But it is too late,
and-crashi-theyg go over the embank-
ment. We shall turn this morning and see
| If we cannot find different kind of road.
You have heard of the Appian Way. It
was three hundred and fifty miles long. 1t
was twenty-four feet wide, and on either
side the road was path for foot passen-
gers. TWAS made out of rocks cut in hex
| agonal shape and fitted together What
road it must have been! Made of smooth,
hard rock, three hundred and fifty miles
| long. No wonder that in the construction
Of it the treasures of whole empire were
| exhausted. Because of invaders, and the
elements and time-the old conqueror who
| tears up road as he goes over it-there is
| nothing left of that structure except q
ruin. But have this morning to tell YOU
of road built before the Appian Way,
| and yet 1t is as good as when first con-
structed. Millions of souls have gone 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.
can highway shall be there, and 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. 1t 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 everlast-
ing joy upon their heads; they shall obtain
joy and gladness, and sorrow and signing
shall flee away!'
HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN.
First, this road of the text is the kings
highway. In the diligence you dash over
the Bernard pass of the Alps, mile after
mile, and there is not so much as pebble
to jar the wheels. You 90 over bridges
which cross chasms that make you hold
your breath, under projecting rock, along
by dangerous precipices, through tunnels
adrip with the MEETINGS of the glaciers,
and perhaps for the first time learn the
majesty of road built and supported by
government authority. Well, my Lord
the King decided to build a highway from
earth to heaven. It should span all the
chasms of human wretchedness; it should
tunnel all the mountains of earthly diff
Guilty; it should be wide enough and strong
enough to hold fifty thousand millions Of
the human race, If so many Of them should
ever be born. 1t should be blasted out of
the "Rock of Ages" and cemented with
the blood of the Cross and be lifted amid
the shouting of angels and the execration
of devils.
The King sent his Son to build that
road. He put head and hand and heart
to it, and after the road was completed
waved his blistered hand over the way
crying ut Is finished" Napoleon paid
fifteen million francs for the building Of
the Simplon road, that his cannon might
go over for the devastation of Italy; but
our King, at greater expense, has built
road for different purpose, that the
banners of heavenly dominion might come
down over 1t, and all the redeemed of earth
travel up over it.
Being kings highway, of course it is
well built. Bridges splendidly arched and
buttressed have given way and crushed
the passengers who attempted to cross
them. But Christ the King would build
no such thing as that. The work done, he
mounts the chariot Of his love, and multi
tudes mount with him, and he drives on
and up the steep Of heaven amid the plau-
dts Of gazing worldsl The work is done
well done-gloriously done-magnifcently
donel
Still further, this road spoken of is a
clean road. Many fine road has become
miry and foul because it has not been prop
erly cared for, but my text says the un-
clean shall not walk on this one. Room
on either side to throw away your sins.