The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-03
The HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS:
DIR. TALMAGE's TIMELY AND APP
PROPRIATE SERMON.

Hundreds and Thousands Who Want
10 Find the Right ROad-Siight
Faith in the ThOrOughfare That
Opens 80 widely and InvitinEiy.
Great Highways of HistOry-The
Appian Way and NapOIeOn's sim
pIon Road-ROad 10 Heaven Blast
ed out Of the Rock OF Ages" and
Cemented With the Blood of the
Cross.
Washington. Feb. 2-Rev. Dr. Tai
IMAGES sermon for to-day was a picture
Of the road that many have Travelled and
others are trying TO get on and Is no more
appropriate for the capital Of the nation
than for all places. The text chosen was
Isaiah 35.S. 9 10. And an highway shall
be there. and a way, and il shall be
called. the way of holiness the uuclean
shall not pass over it, but il 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. it shall not be found there;
but the redeemed shall walk there; and
the ransomed OF the Lord shah return
and come TO Zion with songs and ever
lasting joy upon their heads; they shall
obtain Joy and gladness and sorrow and
signing shall fee away"
There are hundreds Of people in this
house who want to find the right road.
You sometimes see a person hating at
cross roads, and you can tell by his looks
that he wishes to ask a question as to
what direction he had better take. And l
stand in your presence 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 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 il. There are a great many ex-
pensive toll-gates scattered all along that
way. Indeed at every rod you must pay
in tears, or pay in genuhexions, 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 1 have heard in regard to the
right way. believe it is the wrong way.
Here is another road. on either
side of 1t are houses Of sinful en-
tertainment, and invitations to come in
and dine and rest; but from the looks of
certain II is the wrong house and the
wrong way. Here is another road. 1t is
/
horses hoOfs Clatter and ring, and they
who ride over IL spin along. the high
way, until suddenly they fnd that the
road breaks over an embankment, and
jn the mouth Of the fiery steed, and cry
"Ho! ho!' But II is too late, and-crashl
they go over the embankment. We shall
turn and see If we cannot find differ
ent kind of road You have heard Of the
Appian Way. 1t was $50 miles long. 1t
was twenty-four feet wide, and on either
nf "a 4 g.
sengers 1t was made out of rocks cut
in heXagonal shape and fitted together,
What a road it must have been! Made
OF smooth, hard rock, $50 miles long. No
wonder that in the construction of 1t the
treasures OF a whole empire were eX-
hausted. Because of invaders, and the ell
ements, and Time-the old conqueror who
tears up a road as he goes over it-there
is nothing left of that structure but
ruin. But 1 have to tell you of "A road
built before the Appian Way, and yet II
is as good as when first constructed. Mill
ions of souls have gone over II. 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.
First, this road of the text is the kings
highway In the diligence you dash on
over the Bernard pass of the Alps, mile
after mile. and there is not so much as 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 preciDice;
through tunnels adriD with the MEETINGS
OF the glaciers, and, prehapS for the first
time, learn the majesty of a road built
and supported by governmental author
ity. Well. my Lord the King decided TO
build high way from earth to heaven.
1t should span all the chasms of human
wretehedness; it should tunnel all the
mountains of earthly difficulty; it should
be wide enough and strong enough to
hold hfty thousand millions of the hui
man race, If so many of them should ever
De porn. II 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 1t, and after the road was com
pleted waved his blstered hand over the
way, crying: 1T is finishedp| NAPOLEON
paid fifteen million francs for the build-
ing of the Simplon road that his cannon
might go over for the devastation of Italy;
put our hlng, at a great expense, has
built a road for different purpose, that
the banners of heavenly dominion might
come down over it, Being a kings high
way, Of course, it is well built. Bridges
splendidly arched and buttressed have
given way and crushed the passengers
VINO attempted to cross them. But Christ
the Aing would build no such thing as
mat. The work DONE he mounts the char
1ot or his love, and mu1titudes mount with
MIN, and he drives on and up the steep of
neaVen amid the plaudits of gazing worlds
done-magnificently DONE
Still further: This road spoken of is a
clean road. Many fine road has become
mlry and foul because it has not been
properly cared for; but my text saws the
unclean shall not walk on this one. Room
on either side TO throw away your sins
Indeed, If you want to carry them along.
you are not on the right road That
bridge will break. those overhanging rocks
VIII fall, the night will come down, leav-
ing you at the mercy of the mountain
pandlts, and at the very next turn of the
road you will perish. But if you are really
on this clean road of which | have been
speaking, then you will stop ever and anon
to wash in the water that stands in the
basin of the eternal rock.
Aye, at almost every step of the Jour-
ney you will be crying out: Create
within me a clean heart" If YOU have no
such aspirations as that, it proves that
you have mistaken 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 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
lpsts, your Worldliness, and vet get at
the end of the Christian race, you are so
awfully mistaken, that, in the name of
God, / shatter the delusion.
Still further: The road spoken of is A
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