Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-09-12


a road for different purpose-that the
banners of heavenly dominion might
come down over it and all the redeemed
of earth travel up over it.
A FINE THoRoUGHFAEE.
Being Kings highway. of course it
is we'll built. Bridges splendidly arciled
and buttressed have given way AID
crushed the passengers who attempted
tc cross them. But Christ, the I-il.1s.
would build no such thing as that. Tie
work done, he mounts the chariot of his
love, and multitudes 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-magnifcently done!
Still further-this road spoken of is
clean road. Many a fine road has be-
come miry and foul because it has not
been properly cared for; but my text
says the unclean shall not walk on this
one. Room on either side to throw away
your sins. Indeed, if you want to carry
them along, you are not on the right
road That bridge will break, those
overhanging rocks will fall, the night
will come down, leaving you at the
mercy of the mountain bandits, and at
the very next turn of the road you will
perish But if you are really on this
clean road Of which 1 have been speak
ing, then you will stop ever and anon tc
wash in the water that stands in the
basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at al
most every step of the journey you will
be crying out. Create within me clean
heart!''
If you have no such aspirations as
that it proves that you have mistaken
your way, and if you will only look up
and see the fngerboard above your head
you may read upon it the words, ''There
is way that seemeth right unto man,
but the end thereof is death" Without
holiness no man shall see the Lord, and
if you have any idea that you can carry
along your sins, your lusts, your world
illness and yet get to the end of the
Christian race you are so awfully mis-
taken that, in the name Of God this
morning shatter the delusion.
Still further. the road spoken of is
a plain road THE wayfaring men,
though fools. shall not err therein
that is, if Il man is three-fourths an
idiot he can find this road just as we'll
DIS if he were q philosopher. The i'm
beetle boy, the laughingstock of the
street, and followed by mob hooting
at him, has only just to knock once at
the gate of heaven and it swings open,
while there has been many man who
can lecture about pneumatics and chem
istry and tell the story of Faradays
theory of electrical polarization, and yet
has been shut out of heaven. There has
been many q man who stood IN an OBJ
servatory and swept the heavens with
his telescope, and yet he has not been
able to see the Morning Star.
Many man has been familiar with
all the higher branches of mathematics
and yet could not do the simple sum,
What shall it profit man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul:''
Many Il man has been fine reader of
tragedies aud poems and yet could not
read his title clear to mansions in the
skies Many a man has botanized
across the continent and yet did not
know the Rose of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley" But if one shall come
in the right spirit, asking the way to
heaven. he will find it a plain way. The
pardon is plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain.
He who tries to get on the road to
heaven through the New Testament
teaching Will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion viii not set on at all. Christ says,
Come to Inc. and will take al your
sins AWAY. and will take all your
troubles away" Now, what is the use
of my discussing it any more? Is not
that plain: If you wanted togo to Lon
don, and | pointed you out a highway
thoroughly laid out, would be wise i'll
det;.ining you by geological discussion
about the gravel you will pass over. OF
a physiological discussion about the
muscles you will have to bring into play?
No. After this Bible has pointed you
the way to heaven, is it wise for me to
detain you with any discussion about the
nature of the human will, or whether
the atonement is limited or unlimited:
There is the road-go on it. 1t is plain
way.
This is faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners
And that is you, and that is me. Any
little child here can understand this as
we'll as can. UNLESS you become as
little child, you cannot see the king
dom of God" Ii you are saved, it will
not he as philosopher, it will be as a
little child ''Of such is the kingdom
of heaven" Unless you get the spirit
of little children, you Will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
THE SAFE ROAD.
Still further, this road to heaven is a
safe road. Sometimes the traveller in
those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was lion by the way buaying his
head deep between his paws, and then
when the right moment came, under the
fearful spring. Che mans life was gone
and there was mauled carcass by the