Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-09-12
THE KINGS HIGHWAY
THE SUBJECT OF DIR. TAEMAGE,S
DISCOURSE

LONDON, Sept. IL. Another busy
week Of DIR. Talmage's preaching tour
has Just ended. After conducting serv-
ices before immense audiences at Swan
sea. Exeter and Bristol, he preached
four times in Plymouth to the largest
religious gatherings ever witnessed in
that city. Before leaving Plymouth the
mayor, at a public meeting at which
many clergymen were present, thanked
the American preacher for the great
good his sermons had produced III
awakening the community. DR.. Tai
mage 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 Mayfiower to seek
the New World.
The sermon selected for today is en-
titled, 1.-The Kings Highway" the text
chosen being Isaiah XIV, $40: "And
an highway shall be there, and way.
and it shall be called the way of holt
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 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 everlasting Joy upon their
heads; they shall obtain Joy and glad
ness, and sorrow and signing shall flee
away.
There are thousands of people here
this morning who want to find the right
road. You sometimes see q person halt
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his looks that he wishes to ask d ques-
ton 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 l take it for
granted that you have come in to ask
which one 1T 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. or pay in negotiations. On that
road. If you get through 1T at all, you
have to pay your own way, and since
this differs so much from what | have
heard in regard to'the rightwa ! be-
lieve it 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 on the piazza ! am very GER
tain that 1t is the wrong house and the
wrong way. Here is another road 1t
is very beautiful and macadamized. The
horses hoofs CHATTER and ring, and they
who ride over it spin; along the highway
until suddenly they find that the road
breaks over an .embankment, and they
try to halt, and they saw the bit in tie
mouth OF the fiery steed and cry Whoa!
whoa But it is too late, and-crash!-
they go over the embankment. We shall
turn this morning and see.if we cannot
find IL different kind of road.
THE APPIAN WAY.
You have heard of the ADpian Way.
1t WAS three hundred and fifty miles
long 1t was twenty-four feet wide, and
on either side the road wasa path for
foot passengers. 1t was made out of
rocks cut in hexagonal shape and fitted
together. " hat u road it must have
been. Made of smooth, hard II, -;
three hundred and fifty miles long. No
wonder that In DEMONSTRATION, of it the
treasures of a whole empire were ,ex-
hausted- Because of invaders and the
elements and time-ithe old ,conquerQr
who tears up a road as he goes over it
there is nothing left of that structure
excepting Il ruin. Bat i have this
morning ITO tell you,of "a road built be-
fore the Appian Way, and yet it is as
good as when rstconstructed. Millions
of souls have gone over it. MilliGns
more will Come.
The prophets and apostles. too,
Pursued this road while here below;
We thereforsswill, without ,dismay,
Still walk i1SChrist the good old way.
AN highway shall be there, and "a
way. and it shall be called the way of
holiness: the unclean shall not pass over
it: but it shall be for those the way
faring 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 re-
deemed shall walk there, and the ran
somed 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 sigh
ing shall fly 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 adrip with
the meetings. of the glaciers, and, per
haps for the first time, learn the majesty
of road built and,supported by govern
ment authority. Well my Lord the
king decided to build a highway from
earth to heaven. Is should span all the
chasms of human Indebtedness: it
sh011ld tunnel all the Mountains of