Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-12

ross hehpehWhru IN the Path OF Reoti-
tude.
] LONDON, Sept, ll.-Another busy week
OF DR.. Talmage's preaching tour has lust
ended, After conducting services before
immense audiences atSwansea. Exeter and
Bristol, be preached four times in Plym-
oath 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. DIR. 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 Dill
grim fathers went when they embarked
on the Mayflower 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 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 II 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 Joy
and gladness, and sorrow and signing shall
Zee away"
There are thousands of people here this
morning who want to find the right road.
You sometimes see person hating at
crossroads, and you can tell by his looks
that he wishes to ask o 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 a thousand
wrong roads, but only one right one, and
take 1t for granted that you have come IA
TO ask which one it is Here is one road
that opens widely but I have not much
faith In 1t. There are great many ex-
pensive tollgates scattered all along that
way. Indeed at every rod You must pay
in tears or pay in Negotiations On that
road, II 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
II 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
1t 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 tie mouth of the fiery steed
and cry, "Whoal whoaP' But it is too late,
and-crashl-they 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. 1t
was three hundred and fifty miles long. 1t
was twenty-four feet wide, and on either
side the road was u path for foot passen-
gers. TWAS made out of rocks cut in hex
agonal shape and fitted together. What a
road ii must have beenl Made of smooth,
hard rock, three hundred and fifty miles
long. No wonder that in the construction
of 1t 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 a
ruin. But have this morning to tell you
Of road built before the Appian Way,
and yet it is as good as when first con
structed. Millions of souls have gone over
IL. Millions more will come.
The prophets and apostles, too,
! Pursued this road while here below;
1 We therefore will, without dismay,
] Still walk in Christ, the good old way.
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and 1t 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 awayW
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 go 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 n road built and supported by
government authority. Well, my Lord
the King decided to build highway from
earth to heaven. 1t should span all the
chasms of human wretchedness; it should
tunnel all the mountains of earthly diff
Guilty, IL 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 Crock 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
10 it, and after the road was completed
waved his blistered hand over the way,
crying 1T is finishedp Napoleon paid
fifteen million francs for the building of
the Slmplon road, that his cannon might
go over for the devastation of Italy; but
our King, at greater expense, has built
ABROAD for different purpose that the
banners of heavenly dominion might come
down over II, and all the redeemed of earth
travel up over it.
Being u 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-magnificently
LANA