The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-12
HIGHWAY OF THE KING.
TALMAGB POINTS OUT THE ROAD
TO SALVATION.


The Appian Way OF Rome.
LONDON, Sept. 1L-Another busy week
OF DR.. Talmage's preaching tour has Just
ended. After conducting services before
imDsuse audiences at Swansea, Exeter and
Bristol, he preached four times In Ply
mouth 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. DIR. Talmage,
on the day OF his departure, was driven 10
the wharf aud aIightsd as the top of the
flight OF stone steps down which the Pill
grim fathers went when they embarked
ON the MAyhower to seek the
new world. The sermon selected
for to-day Is entitled ''The Kings High
way" the text chosen being Isaiah xxxv.,
S-1o: "And an highway shall be there. and
a way, and it shall be called the way Of no.
liness; the unclean shall not pass over 1t,
but It shall be for those; the wayfariug
men, thongh fools, shall not err therein,
No lion shall be there nor any ravenous
beast shall go up therein, 10 shall noe be
found there: but the redeemed shall walk
there; and the ransomed OF the Lord shall
return, and come 10 Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall
obtain Joy aud gladness, and sorrow and
signing shall fee away"
There are thousands OF people here this
morning who want to find the righs road.
You sometimes see q person hating at
cross roads, and you can tell by bis locke
that he wishes to ask q question as 30 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 it
for granted that you have come TO ask
which one 10 is. Here is one road that
opens widely. but have not much faith ia
10. There are q great many expensive toll
gates scattered all along that way. Indeed
At every rod you must pay Ia tears, or pay
IN fagellations. On that road, IL you get
through IL 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, delieve 10 10 the wrong way.
Here 10 another road On either side of
II are houses OF sinfnl entertainment, and
invitations 10 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
Ia another road. IL 10 very beautiful and
mAcadAmized. The herses' hoofs olntter
aud ring, and they who ride over it spin
along the highway, until suddenly they
find the road breaks over an embankment.
and they try 60 halt, and d they saw the Bit
In the mouth Of the fiery steed, and cry
''Hol HoW But 10 is too late. and-crashi
they 20 over che embankment. We shall
turn, this morning, and SEQ IL we cannot
find different kind of road.
You have heard Of the Appian way. IL
was three hundred and fifty miles long. IL
was twenty -four feet wide, and on either
side the road was path for foot passengers.
10 was made out Of rocks cut in hexagonaI
shape and fitted together. What road 10
must have beenl Made OF smooth, hard
rock, three hundred and fifty miles long.
No wonder that in the construction of il the
treasures Of q 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 Ia nothing left OF
that structure except ruin. But have
this morning to tell you Of q road built be-
fore the Appian way, and yet 1t is as good
as when first constructed. Millions of souls
have gone over ir. Millions more will come.
The prophets and apostles too.
Pursued this road while here below;
We therefore will. without dlsmay,
"An highway shall be there, and a way.
and It shall be called the way of holiness
the uncloen shall not pass over. IL; but ID
shall be for those; the wayfarinR men.
though fools. shall not err therein. No lion
shall be there. nor any ravenous beast shall
go up thereon, IL shall not be found there;
but the redeemed shall walk there; and the
ransomed OF the Lord shall return, and
come 20 Zion with songs and everlasting
JOY upon their heads; they shall obtain joy
and Riadness, and sorrow and signing shall
fee awayp
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, there is not 80 much as pebble to jar
the wheels. You go over bridges which
cross chasms that make you hold your
breath; under projecting rock; along by
dangerous preoipices; through tunnels
adrip with the MEETINGS of the glaciers; and
perhaps for the first time, learn the majesty
OF road built and supported by govern
menv authority. Well. my Lord the King
decided TO build a highway from earth TO
human wretchedness; 10 should tunnel ell
the mountains OF earthly difficulty; it
should be wide enough and strong enough
TO bold fifty thousand millions of the human
race. IL so many OF them should ever be
born. It should be blasted out of the "Rock
OF Ages" ana 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 10 1t, and.
after the road was completed, waved his
bitstered hand over the way, crying, "It is
finishedP Napoleon paid fifteen million
francs for the building OF the Slmplcn road
that his cannon might GO over for the de-
vastation Of Italy; but our King, at a
greater expense, has built a road for g diff
ferent purpose, that the banners of heavenly
might come down over IL and ali
the redeemed Of earth travel up over it.
Being a Kings highway, OF course It is
we'll built Bridges splendidly arched and
buttressed have given way aud crushed the
who attempted 10 cross them.
But Christ, the King, would build
no such thing as that. The work
done, he mounts the chariot Of his
love, and multitudss mount with him, and
he drives on and up the steep of heaven
amid the plaudits of gazing worlds The
work is done-well done gloriously done
donel
still further: This rood spoken Of is a
clean road. Many a fine road has become
miry and foul because IL 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. In
deed, II you want TO carry them along you
are not ON the right road. That bridge viii
break, those overhanging rocks will fall,