Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-16

clean road. Many 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 have been speaking, then you
will stop ever and anon to wash in the
water that standS in the basin of the
eternal rock. Ay, at almost every
step of the journey you will be crying
out: "Create within me clean
hearth If you have no such as
pirations as that, it proves that
you have mistaken your way;
and if you only look up and zee the
finger-board above your head, you
may read upon it the words: 'There
is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death"
Without holiness Go man shall see the
Lord; and if you have any idea that
you can carry along your sins, your
lusts, your worldliness, and yet get TO
the end of the Christian race, you are so
awfully mistaken that, in the name of
God, this morning shall shatter the
delusion.
Still further, the road spoken of is
plain road. "The wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein"
That is, if man is three-fourths an
idiot he can find this road just az we'll
as if he we're a philosopher. The inn
beetle boy, the laughing-stock of the
street, and followed by a mob hooting
at him, has only just TO knock once at
the gate of heaven, and it swings
open; while there has been many
a man who can lecture about
pneumatics, and chemistry, and tell
the story of Faraday's theory of cleo
trical polarization, and yet has been
shut out of heaven. There has Teen
many man who stood in an observa-
tory and swept the heavens with his
telescope, and yet he has not been able
to see the Morning Star. Many a
man has been familiar with all the
higher branches 1t mathematics, and
yet could not do the simple sum, "What
shall it profit a man if be
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?" Many a man has been a fine
reader of tragedies and poems, and yet
could not ''read his title clear to man
sions in the skies" Many a man has
botanized acr,css 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.
lie who tries to get on the road to
heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. lie
who goes through philosophical discus
sicu will not get on at all. Christ
says: "Cone TO me and will take all
your sins away, and l will take all
Your troubles away" Now what is
the use of my discussing it any
more? Is not that plain? If you
wanted to go to London, and
1 pointed you out highway
thoroughly laid out, would 1 be wise in
OBTAINING you by a geological discussion
about the gravel you will pass over, or
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 hui
man 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 sim
ners." And that is you and that is
me. Any little child here can under
stand this as well as 1 can. "Unless
you become little child, you cannot
see the kingdom of God" If you are
saved, it will not be as philosopher,
it will be as 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.
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 a lion by the way, burying
his head deep between his paws, and
then when the right moment came,
under the fearful spring, the
mans life was gone, and there
was a mauled carcass by the road
side. But, says my text, "No lion
shall be there" / wish l could make
you feel, this morning, your entire
security. tell you plainly that one
minute after man has become child
of God, he is as safe as though he had
been ten thousand years in heaven.
He may slip, he may slide, he may
stumble; but he cannot be destroyed.
Kept by the power OF God, through
faith, unto complete salvation. Ever
lastingly safe.
When my last wound is healed, when
the last heart-break is ended, when the
last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped