Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-02-07
THE one RIGHT ROAD
REV DIP. TALMAeE POINTS IT OUT
TO LIES TRAVELLERS.

He shOws the Road Of righteousness to
BE Safe. plain, Pleasant. Broad. Smooth
and With IA Glorious Terminus at Last.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Rov DR.. Tai
IMAGES sermon for today was picture of
the road that many lInYe Travelled and 9TH
,rs are trying to get on and is no more APP
propriato for tho capital Of the nation than
for all places The text chosen was Isaiah
xxxv, s, 8, 10: "Aud an highway shall
be thcre and way, and it shall be called
the way of holiness. The unclean shall
not pass over it, but it shall be for those
tho wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err therein. No lion shall be there,
nor any ravonous beast shall go up there
on, it shall not be found there, but the re-
deemed shall walk there, and the ran
somed of tho Lord shall return and come
to Zion with songs and everlasting JOY up
on their heads. Thoy shall obtain JOY and
gladness, and sorrow and signing shall flee
away"
There arc hundreds Of people in this
house who want to find the right road.
You sometimes see "a person hnlting at
crossroads, and you can tell by his looks
that he wishes to ask question az 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 arc a thousand wrong
Tonds, but only one right one, and l take
It for granted that You have como in to
ask which one it 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 genuflaxions, or pay in fiagella-
tions. On that road, il 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, 1
believe it is the wrong way.
Hero is another road. On either sido of
it are houses of sinful entertainment and
invitations to come in ana dine and rest,
but from the looks of the people who stand
on the piazza I am certain it is the wrong
house and the wrong way. Here is an
other rOad. It is very beautiful and ma
cadamized Tho horses hoofs clatter 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 see the bit in
the mouth Of tho fiery steod and cry: tHol
Hon. But it is too late, and crash they
go over the ombankment. We shall turn
ana see il we cannot find a different kind
OF road. You have heard of the Appian
way 1t was $50 miles long. 1t was "a
feet wide, and on either side of the road
was path for foot passengers 1t was
made out of rocks cut in hcxagonal shape
and fitted together. What o road it must
ilayn beon Made OF smnoth, hard geek,
$50 miles long. No wonder that in the
of it the treasures of q whole
empire were exhausted. Because OF IN.
vaders, and the elements, and time-tho I
old eonqueror who tears up road as he 1
goes over it-there is nothing left Of that |
structure bat a ruin. But I have to tell |
you Of road built before tho Appian
way. and yet it is as good as when first /
Millions of souls have gone /
over it, Millions more will come.
The prophets and apostles too,
Pursued this road white here below
We therefore viii, without dismay,