Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-12
THE KINGS HIGHWAY.
DR.. Talmage Describes the Route
From This World to the Next.
FIRST OF ALL, 1T is WELL BUILT.
Clean, Plain, Safe, Pleasant and Strong
Against Every Assault.
CHRIST ALL THE HEAVEN HE GRAVES

LONDON, sept 1l--Ine following is Dr.
TalmaCe's sermon selected for publication
this week. 1t is from the text, Isaiah 81;
$40: "And an highway shall be there, and
wav, and it shall be called the way of
holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it,
but it shall be for those; the vayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein. No
lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast
shall go up thereon, it shall not be found
there: but the redeemed shall walk there;
and the rausomed of the Lord shall return,
and come to Zion with songs and everlast-
ing oy upon their heads; they shall obtain
joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing
shall fee away"
There are thousands of people here this
morning who want to find the right road
You sometimes see person haltng at cross
roads and you can tell by his looks that he
wishes to ask question as to what direc-
tion he hsd better take. And l stand in
your presence this morning conscious of the
fact that there 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 in to ask
which one it is.
Here is one road that opens widely, but /
have not much faith in it. There are great
many expensive tollgates scattered all
along that way. Indeed at every rod you
must pay in tears pay in fagellations.
On that road, if you get through it at all,
you have to pay your own way; and since
this diffSNvs so much from what have heard
in regard - the right way, believe it is the
wrong way.
Two C>sher Wrong Roads.
Here is another Sead. On either side Of it
are houses of sinfuS entertainment, and in
vttatious to come in And dine and rest: but,
from the looks of theN people who stand on
the piazza 1 am very Sertain that it is the
wrong house and the wrSong way.
Here is another road. Ibis very beautiful
and macadamized. The horses hoofs clatter
and ring, and they who rice over it spin
along the highway, until suddenly they find
that the road breaks over an emb&n kment,
and they try to halt, and they saw the hit in
the mouth of the fiery steed, and cry "htoi
ho!" But it is too late, and-crashi-they 1
90 over the embankment. We shall turn. |
this morning, and see If we cannot find a diff |
ferent kind OF a road
have this morning to tell you of road |
built before the Appian 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,
We therefore will without dsmay
Still walk in Christ, the good old way.
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 a 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 road built and supported by Govern
ment authority.
Highway From Earth to Heaven.
Well, my Lord, the King decided to build
Ia
span all the cnasms of human wretchedness;
1t should tunnel all the mountains of earth
ly difficulty; it should be wide enough and
strong enough to hold Sc, 900 600 600 OF the hu-
man race, if so many of them should ever
be born. 1t should be blasted out of the |
Rock 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 to it, and, |
after the road was completed waved his blis- |
tered hand over the way, crying, ''1t is fin
ished?' Napoleon paid Is 600 COO francs for |
the building of the Simplon road, that his |
cannon might go over for the devastation of |
Italy; but our King, at greaterexpense has
punt road Tor clfferent purpose, that the
banners of heavenly dominion might come
down over it, and all the redeemed of earth
travel up over it.
Being Kings highway, of course it is well
built. Bridges splendidly arched and but
tresSes have given way and crushed the
passengers VINO 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 multitudes mount (
with Him, and He drives on and up the | g
steep OF heaven amid the plaudits of ga zing
worlds! The work is done-well done
-gloriously ydone-magnificently done! r
still further, this road spoken of is a clean q
road. Many fine road has become miry n
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
sins
YOU want TO carry them along, you are not Il
on the right road.
Proofs of Being on the Right Route.
That bridge will break those overhanging .
rocks will fall, the night will come down, :
leaving you at the mercy of the mountain
bandits ana 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 4
speaking, then you will stop ever and anon II
to wash in the water that stands in the | III
basin of the eternal rock
Ayr at almost every step of the Journey
you will be crying out: 'Create within mea ,
clean hearth If you have no such aspira-
tions as that, 1t proves that you have mis-
taken your way; and if you will only look
up and see the finger board above your
head you may read upon it the words:
There is a way that seemeUh right unto a
q man, but the end thereof is DEATH" With
out holiness 40 man shall see the Lord: and
Il you have any idea that you can carry
along your sins, your lusts, your worldIi-
ness, and yet get to the end of the Christian
race, you are awfully mistaken that, in
he name Of God, this morning shatter the
ieluSion.
Still further, the road spoken of is plain
-oad THE wayfaring men, though fools,
,hall not err therein" That is, if a man is
hree-fourthS an idiot he can find this road
ust as well as if he were a philosophers The
mbecile boy, the laughing stock of the
treet and followed by a mob hooting at
lin, has only just to knock once at the gate
II heaven and it swings open, while there
las oeen many man who can lecture about
Oheumatlcs and chemistry and tell the
tory ol Faraday's theory of electrical polar
Zatlon and yet has been shut out of heaven |
mere mas been many man who stood in
ID observatory and swept the heavens with
lla Telescope and yet he has not been able to hr
lee the Morning Star. =
Earthly Learning Not Heavenly Wisdom.
Many man has been familiar with all the
igher branches of mathematics and vet
ould not do the simple sum, hat shall it
'ront man II he gain the whole world ana
ose his own soul?" Many a man has been a
me reader OF tragedies and poems and vet
oulu not read his title clear to mansions
4 the Skies" Many a man has potanized
cross the continent and vet did not know
be Rose of Sharon and the Lilv of the VAL
sE But II one shall come in the right
plrlt, asking the way to heaven, he will find |
"a plain way. The pardon is plain THE
eace is plain. Everything is plain.
lie who tries to get on the road to heaven
lrough the New Testament teaching will
ct on beautifully. He who goes throngh
hlosophfcal discussion will not get ON at
T. Christ says: Come to Me, and 1 will e
IKE all your sins away, and l will take ali
our trou bles away" Now what is tho NC
my discussing it any more? Is not that