The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-08
THE KINGS
DR.. Talmage Points Out the Only
Road to Eternal Life.
A Highway That Is Called the Way OF
HoIiuess-The joys That Await Those
Who Walk Notwithstanding to
Make Them Afraid.

Il. DE WITT IalInaSe Ut washington
wildly pictured the road that many
have travelled and many are trying to
get on. The text was from Isaiah
3O:6:1O: And a highway shall be there,
and a way, and it shall be called, The
Way of Holiness; the uncleln shal not
pass over it; but it shall be for those:
the w~ayfaring men. though fools, shall
not err therein. No lion shall be there,
nor any beast shll go up
thereon, it shall not be found there;
but the redeemed shall walk there;
and the ransomed of the Lord shall re-
turn. and come to ZIon with songs and
everlasting joy and gladness, and sor-
row and signing shall flee away" DIR.
Talmage said:
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 o can tell by his
looks that he wishes to ask a question
as to what direction he had better
take. And 1 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 rights 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 l have not much
faith in It. There are a great many
expensive toll-gates scattered all along
that way. Indeed, at every rod you
must pay in tears, or pay in geSuhex-
ions, or pay in iageliations. On that
road, if you get through it at all, you
have to pay your own way; and since
this differs so much from what have
heard in regard to the right way, / be-
lieve it Is the wrong way. Here is anoth-
err road. On either side of it are houses
ofsinful entertainme emit, and invitations
to come in and dine and rest; but
from the looks of the people who stand
on the piazza, l am certain 1t is the
wrong house and the wrong way.
Here is another road. 1t is very beauti-
full and macadamized. The horses
hoofs clatter and ring, and they who
ride over 1t 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 the
mouth of the fiery steed, and cry "hol
hol" But it is too late, and-crash!-
they go over the embankment We
shall turn and see If we cannot find a
different kind of a road. You have
heard of the Appian way. 1t was $50
miles long. It was "a feet wide, and
on either side of the road was a path
for foot passengers. 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
of a whole empire were exhausted.
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and time-the old ~conqueror who tears
up a road as he goes over it--there is
nothing left of that structure but a
ruin. But / have to tell you of a o
built before the Appian way. and yet
it is as good as when first constructed.
Millions of souls have gone over 1t.
Millions more will come.
The prophets and apostles. too.
Pursued this road while here below;
We therefore viii. 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 ~projectidg rock: along
by dangerous p~recipices; through tun.
nels adrip with the MEETINGS OF the
glaciers, and, perhaps for the first
time, learn the majesty OF a road built
and supported by governmental au-
thority. Well, my Lord the King de-
cided to build q highway from earth to
Heaven. 1t should span all the chasms
of human wretchedness; it should tun-
mel all the mountains of earthly diff
Guilty; it should be wide enough and
strong enough to hold 5O.0 900, 900, 900
of the human race, IL so many of them
sS,ouid ever be born. 1t should be blast
ed out of the Rock of Ages and
cemented with the blood of the cross,
az d be lifted amid the shouting of
angels and the e~xecration 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 blistered hand
over the way, crying: at is finishedP'
Napoleon paid Is. OOo. 900 francs for the
building of the Simplon road, hat his
cannon might GO over for the devasta-
ton oil Italy; but our King, at a
greater expense. has built a road for a
different that the banners of
heavenly uDullulOu Lhikbb GOhAO oO"A
over it. Being n kings highway, of
course it is well built. Bridges splen.
didly arched and buttressed have given
away and crushed the passengers who
ATTEMPTED to cross them. But Christ,
the King, would build no such thing
as that The work done, he mounts
the chariot of love. and multitudes
mount with Him, and He drives on and
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of gazing worldsl The work Is done
well done-gloriously done-magnif-
Gently done.
Still further: This road spoken of Is
a clean road. Many a fine road has
become miry and foul eeanse - has
not been prQpeelr cared for; bpt mE
text says the nneiean shall not walk
throwsaway yoi1sEsink Indeed, III ybl
want TO carry them along You are no
on the right road. That bridge will
break. those overhauging rocks will
fall, the night will come down, leaving
you at the mercy of the mountain
bandits, and at the very turn of tn
road you will perish. But If you ar
really on this clean Dad of which
have been speaking, then you vii
stop ever and anon to wash In tn
water that stands in the basin of tn
eternal rock.
Aye, at almost every step of tn
journey you will be crying out: "Cre
ate within me q clean heart" If yo
will have no such aspirations as that, !
proves that you have mistaken you
way; and If you will only look up an
see h finger-board above your head
you may read upon it the words
There is a way that seemetb RICH
unto a man, but the end thereof /
death" Without holiness no mar shall
see the Lord; and il you have any ide,
hat you can carry along You sins
your lusts, your worldliness, and We
get at the enc of the Christian race
you are sc awfully mistaken that, il
the name of God, / shatter the delu
sion.
Still further: The road spok en- of is
plain road THE wayfaring men
though fools, shall not err therein.
That is, If a man is three-fourths al
idiot, he can find this road just as vel
as If he were a philosopher. The i'm