Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-09-12

/ our King, at a great expense, has bull
a road for a different purpose--that tn
banners Of heavenly dominion nigh
come down over IL and all the redeeme'
Of earth travel up over it.
FINE THoRoUoHrARE.
Being Kings highway. of course !
is well built. Bridges splendidly archie,
and buttressed have given way an,
crushed the passengers who attempte,
tc cross them. But Christ. the King
would build no such thing as that. Th'
WORK dona he mounts the chariot of hi
love. and multitudes mount with him
and he drives on and up the steep o
heaven amid the plaudits Of gazing
worldsl The work is done--well done
gloriously done--magnificentIy donel
Still further--this road spoken of is {
clean road. Many fine road has be
cone miry and foul because it has mo-
been properly cared for; but my tex
says the unclean shall not walk on thii
one. Room on either side to throw away
your sins. Indeed. If you want 10 carry
them along, you are not on the right
road. That bridge will break, those
overhanging rocks will fall, the night
will come down, leaving you at the
mercy of the mountain bandits, and al
the very next turn of the road you will
perish. But II you are really on this
clean road of which have been speak
ing, then You will stop ever and anon tc
wash in the water that stands in the
basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at al.
most every step of the journey you will
be crying out, "Create within me clean
hearth
IL you have no such aspirations as
that it proves that you have mistaken
your way, and If you will only look ur
and see the fingerboard above your head
you may read upon 1t the words. "There
is way that seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof is DEATH Without
holiness no man shall see the Lord, and
If you have any idea that You can carry
along your sins, your lusts, your world.
iiness and yet get to the end Of the
Christian race you are go awfully mis-.
taken that, in the name Of God, this
morning shatter the delusion.
Still further, the road spoken Of ID
plain road. "The wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein
that is. il a man is three-fourths an
idiot he can find this road just as well
as If he were "a philosopher. The i'm
beetle boy, the laughingstock Of the
street, and followed by a mob hooting
at him, has only just to knock once at
the gate OF heaven and it swings open,
while there has been many man who
can lecture about pneumatics and chem
istry, and tell the story of Faraday's
theory of electrical polarization, and yet
has been shut out of heaven. There has
been many man who stood In an OBJ
servatory and swept the heavens with
his telescope, and yet he has not been
able to see the Morning Star.
Many man has been familiar with
all the higher branches of mathematics
and yet could not do the simple sum,
"What shall it profit man If he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?''
Many man has been a fine reader Of
tragedies and poems and yet could not
''read his title clear to mansions in the
skies" Many man has botanized
across the continent and yet did not
know the "Rose Of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley" But if one shall come
in the right spirit, asking the way to
heaven, he will find it plain way. The
pardon il plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain.
He who tries TO get on the road to
heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on ut all. Christ says,
"Come to me, and will take all your
sins away, and will take all your
troubles away" Now, what Is the use
of my discussing it any moro3 Is not
that plain? II you wanted to so to Lon
don, and | pointed you out u highway
thoroughly laid out, would be wise in
OBTAINING You by geological discussion
about the gravel you will pass over. or
physiological discussion about the
muscles You will have to bring into play?
No. After this Bible has pointed you
tho way to heaven, is it wise for me to
detain you with any discussion about the
nature of the human will. or whether
the atonement is limited or unlimited
There is the road--go on it. 1t is n plain
way.
This is faithful saying, and worthy
Of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world TO save sinners. "
And thaG is you. and that Is me. Any
little child here can understand this as
well as can. unless you become as
a little child, you cannot SEQ the king
dom of God" II you are saved, it will
not he as u philosopher, it will DO as a
little child. "Of such Is the kingdom
of heaven Unless you get the spirit
of littlo children, you will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
THE SAFE ROAD.
Still further. this road TO heaven is a
safe road. Sometimes the traveller in
those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was lion by tho way burying his
head deep between his paws, and then
when the right moment came, under the
fearful spring, the mans life was gone
and there was mauled carcass by the
roadside. But. says my text, mo lion
shall be there" wish l could make
you foel this morning your entire Sc
curity, tell you plainly that one min
ute after a man has become a child Of
God he is as safe as though no had been
ten thousand years In heavan. He may
slip. he may slide. he may stumble, but
he cannot be destroyed. Kept by the
power OF God through faith unto COM
plete salvation. Everlastingly safe.
The severest trial to which you can
subject Christian man is 10 kill him,