Connecticut western news., 1896-02-06
THEKING'S HIGHWAY
REV. OR. TALkiAGE POINTS OUT THE
 RIGHT ROAD.

RIGHT ROAD.
 There Are Many and Devious Ways In the
 Journey Through Life. but Ono Only
 Leads to Eternal Hsppiness--A Clean
 Heart Makes Vision Clear.
 WAsHINGToN, Feb. 2.-Rev. Dr. Tal- mage's sermon for today was 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 xxxv, 8, g, 10: "And an highway shall be there, and way, and it shall be called, the way of holi- ness; the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those the wayfarin9 men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenoua beast shall go up thereon, it 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 theif heads. They shall obtain joy and glad ness and sorrow and signing shall flee away"
 There are hundreds of people in this house who want to find the right road. You sometimes see a person halting at crossroads, 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 thousand wrong roads, but only one right one, and take 1t 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 it. There are great many expensive tollgates scattered all along that way. Indeed at every rod you must pay in tears, or pay in genuf1ex- ions, or pay in fiagellations. 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 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. lam certain it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road. It is very beauti- ful and macadamized. The horses hoofs chatter and ring, and they who ride over it spin along the highway until sudden ly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and they try to halt, and they sec the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry: "Hol Hop' But it is too late, and. crash they go over the embankment. We shall turn and see if we cannot find different kind of road. You have heard of ths Appian way. It was $50 miles long It was 24 feet wide, and on either side of the road was path for foot passengers. It was made out of rocks cut in hexag- onal shape and fitted together. What a road it must have beenl Made of smooth, hard rock, $50 miles longi No wonder that in the construction of it the treasures of whole empire were exhausted. Because of invaders and the clements and time-the old conqueror who tears up road as he goes over it-- thefe is nothing left of that structure but a ruin. Bnt have to tell you of a road built before the Appian way, and yet it is as good as when first construct ed. Millions of souls have gone over it. 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.
 From Earth to Heaven.
 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 % 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 precipice, through tunnels a-drip with the meltings of the glaciers and perhaps for the first time learn the majesty of a road built and supported by govern mental authority. We'll, my Lord the King decided to build a highway from O0aSn 1o ACdNOA. Ab 6hoA3d opnh ak& phO chasms of human wretchedness; it should tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty; it should be wide enough and strong enough to hold fifty thousand millions of the human race, if so many of them should ever be born; it should be blasted out of the "rock of ages" and cemented with the blood of the cross and be lifted amid the shout ing of angels and the execration of dew ills. 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. ''It is finishedp' Napoleon paid l5,OOO, ,O0O francs for the building of the. Simplon road that his cannon might go over for the devastation of Italy, but our King at greater expense has built a road for different purpose, that the banners of heavenly dominion might come down over it. Being kings high way, of course it is we'll built Bridges splendidly arched and buttressed have given way 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 his love, and multitudes mount with him, and he drives on and up the steenof heaven amid the plaudits of gazing worlds. The work is done well done-g loriously done-magnifi- gently done.
 Still further, this road spoken of is a clean road. Many fine road has become miry and foul because it has not been properly cared for, but my text says the mclean 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 overhang- ing rocks will fall, the night will come down leaving you at the mercy of the mountain bandits and at the very next turn of the road you will perish. But if .,o., ara raal1p op fhio claau r0ad of