The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-17
Thu RIGHT ROAD.
II Is Described in Graphic Language
by Rev. DR.. Talnage.
Il 10 Plain, Pleasant and Safe Highway
and It's Terminus Is Zion-God Gives
aBond of Indemnity Against
All Evil to Every One
That TreAds 1t.

'SThe Kings Highway" was the sub
iect selected for DR.. Talmage's recent
sermon in Plymouth, England, the text
chosen being Isaiah xxxv., $40:
"And highway shall be there. and way
and 1t shall be called the way of holiness: the
rnclean shall not pass over 1t, but 1t shall De 1ol
those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err therein. No lion shall be there nor any
ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall no,
be found there; but the redeemed shall Walh
there: and the ransomed Of the Lord shall re-
turn and come to Zion with songs anu ever
lasting joy upon their heads; they shall OBTAIN
Joy 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 per
son hating at crossroads and you can
tell bv his looks that he wishes to ask
q question as to what direction he had
better take. And stand in your pres
ence this morning conscious of the fact
that there many of you here who real
lie that there are thousand wrong
roads, but only one right one; and ]
take it for granted that you have come
in to ask which one it is. Here is one
road that opens widely, but have not
much faith in it. There are a great
MANY expensive tollgates scattered all
along that way. Indeed, every rod you
must pay in tears or pay in fagella
tons 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 I have heard in regard to the
right way, I believe it is the wrong
way.
Here is another road. On the other
side of it are houses of sinful entertain
ment, and invitations to come in, anG
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 an.
other road. 1t is very beautiful ane
macadamized. The horses hoofs clat
ter and ring, and they who ride over il
spin along the highway. until sud denly
they find that the road breaks over az
embankment, and they try to halt, anG
thew saw the bit in the mo nth of the
fiery steed, and cry "Ho! HOP But it il
too late. and-crash-they go over the
embank1nent. We shall turn. this morn
ing, and see if we canno t find differ
emit kind of road.
You have heard of the Appian Way
It was three hundred and fifty miles
long. Tt was twenty-four feet wide,
and on either side the road was patti
for foot passengers. 1t was made out OF
rocks cut in hexagonal shape and fitted
together Whata road it must have BEEN
Made of smooth, hard rock, three hun
dred and fifty miles long. No wonder
that in the construction of it the treas.
ures of a whole empire were exhausted
Because of invaders, and the elements:
and time-the old conqueror who tears
up a road as he goes over lt-there Is
nothing left of that structure excepting
a ruin. But have this morning to tel,
you of road built before the Applan
Way, and yet it is as good as when first
constructed. 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
"a highway shall be there, and away.
and it shall be called the way of holi-
ness; the unclean shall not pass over
it; but it shall be for those; the way.
faring men, though fools, shall not er1
therein. No lion shall be there, nor
any ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
it shall not be found tn ere; but the re-
deemed shall walk there; and the ran
somed of the Lord hall return, and
come to Zion with song and everlasting
L - H. cJ,oI oh IN,
10y and gladness, and sorrow and sigh
ing shall flee away!'
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 60 over bridges which cross chasms
that make you hold your breath, under
projecting rock, along by dangerous
precipices, through tn nnels adrip with
the melting of glaciers, and, perhaps
for the first time, learn the majesty OF
a road built and supp orted by govern
ment 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 difficulty; it should be wide
enough and strong enough to hold fifty
thousand millions of the human race,
if SO many of them sh ould ever be born.
It 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 His head and hand and
heart to it, and, after the road was com
pleted, waves His blistered hand over
the way crying, ''It is finished!' Napo-
leon paid fifteen million francs for the
building of the Simplon road, that his
cannon might go over for the devasta-
ton of Italy; but our King, at a greater
expense, has built 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.
Being a Kings highway, of course it
is we'll built. Bridges splendidly arched
and buttressed have given way and
crushed the passengers who attempted