The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-09-22
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
HE DISCOURSES REGARDING THE
GREAT KINGS HIGHWAY.


The Difference between the Right and
the Wrong Road-Tho Christians Prog
ross Heavenward In the Path OF Kecti-
tude.
LONDON, Sept. 11.-Another busy
week OF DIR. Talmage's preaching tour
has just ended. After conducting SER
Vices before immense audiences at
Swansea, Exeter and Bristol, he
preached four times in Plymouth to the
largest religious gatherings ever wit
messed in that city. Before leaving
Plymouth the mayor, at public meet
Ing at which many clergymen were
present, thanked the American preacher
Tor the great good his sermons had pro-
duced in awakening the community.
DR.. 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 pilgrim fathers went when
they embarked on the MaYfower to seek
the New World.
The sermon selected for to-day is en-
titled "The Kings Highway" the text
chosen being Isaiah XXxv, $40: And
an highway shall be there, and a way,
and 1t shall be called the way OF h0li.
ness; 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 60 up thereon. 1t shall not
be found there, but the redeemed shall
walk there, and the ransomcd 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 slghlng shall
flee away"
There are thousands Of people here
this morning who Want to finG the right
road. You sometimes see person
halting at the crossroads, and you can
tell by his looks that he wishes TO ask
question as TO what direction he had
better take. And stand in your pres
ence this morning conscious OF the fact
that there are many Of you here who
realize that there arc q thousand wrong
roads, but only one right one, and l
take it for granted that you have come
in to ask which one it is. Hero is one
road that opens widely, but l have not
much faith in it. There arc a great
many expensive tollgatcs scattered all
along that way. Indeed at every rod
you must pay in tears Or pay in flagclla-
tions. On that road, if YOU get through
1t at oil, you have to pay your own way,
and since this differs so much from what
have heard IN regard to the right way
believe 1t is the wrong way.
Here is another road. On either side
OF it are houses of sinful entertainment
and invitations TO come in and dine and
rest, but from the looks of the people
who stand Oh the piazza / am very Ger
tain that it is the wrong house and the
wrong way. Here Is another road. 1t
i very beautiful and macadamized. The
horses' hoofs clatter and ring, and they
who ride over II spin along the highway
until suddenly they find chat the road
breaks over an embankment, and they
try to halt, and they see the bit In the
mouth of the fiery stecd and cry, "Whoa!
w.. But 1t Is too late, and-crash!-
they go over the cmbankmcnt. We
Shall turn this morning and see if we
cannot find different kind of a road.
You have heard OF the Appian WAY.
1t was three hundred and fifty miles
long. 1t was twenty-tour feet wide,
and OH either side the road was path
for foot passengers. 1t was made out
of rocks cut in heXagonal shape and
fitted together. What a road it must
have boen? Made of smooth, hard rock.
three hundred and fifty miles long. No
wonder that in the constru ction of it the
treasures Of q whole empire were ex.
hausted. Because OF invaders, and the
elements and tlmc-the old conuucrer
who tears up road as he goes over it
of Of hot
except ruin. But l have this morn,
ing to tell you of road built before, 'l,6Mc
Appian Way, and yet it is Rfs good as
when first constructed. Millions of
souls have gone over it. Millions more
will cOme.--
Tne prophets and apostles, too,
Pursued this road while here below;
We therefore will, without dismay,
Still walk in Christ, the good old way.
can highway shall be there, and a
way, and it shall be called the way of
holiness, the unclean shall not pass over
1t; but it shall he for those; the way
taring men, though fools, shall not err
therein. No lion shall be there, nor
any ravenous beast shall 90 up thereon.
1t shall not be found there, but the re-
deemed shall walk there, and the ram
somed ofthe Lord shall return and come
. TO Zion with songs and everlasting Joy
upon their heads; they shall obtain Joy
an9 gladness, and sorrow and signing
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 go over bridges which cross chasms
that make you hold your breath, under
projecting rock, along by dangerous
precipices, through tunnels adr;p with
the MEETINGS of the glaciers, aud perhaps
tor the first time learn The majesty of
road built and supported by government
authority. Well, my Lord The King
decided to build highway from earth
TO heaven. 1t shoul span all the
chasms OF human wretchedness; 1t
should tunnel all the mountains of earth
ly difficulty; it should be wide enough
md strong enough to hold fifty thousand
millions of the human race, if so MANY
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