The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-02-14
TALMAGE's SERMON.
The Glories OF the Kings High
way to Heaven.
Humanity Should Make Sure that II Is
on the Right Road--The High
tyay can Not well be
Mistaken:

Rev. T. Dewitt Talnage delivered
the following sermon on "The Kings
Highway" before his Washington con-
gregation, taking for his text:
And an highway shall be there, aid way,
and it shall be called the way OF holiness; the
unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be
for those: the wayfaring men, though fools,
shall not err therein. No lion shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast sha II 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 Zien with
songs and everlasting JOY upon their heads:
they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sor-
row and signing shall fee away:-Isaiah xSxv.;
8, 9; 10.
There are hundreds of people in this
house who want to find the right road.
You sometimes see person halting at
cross roads, and you can tell by his
looks that he wishes to ask a question
as to what directioa he had better
take. And l stand in your presence
conscious of the fact that there are
many of you here Who fea1i5e that
there are thousand wrong roads, but
only one right one; and l 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 it. There
AFe great many expensive
tol1-gates scattered all along the way.
Indeed, at every rod you must pay in
tears, or pay in genufiections, or pay in
fagellations. 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 l have heard in re-
gard to the right way, 1 believe it Is
the wrong way. Hereis another road.
On either side of it are houses of sim
full entertainment; and invitations to
eof1ie in and dina and Testi but from
the looks of the people who stand on
the piazza, l am certain it is the wrong
house and the wrong way.
Here is another road. It is very
beautiful and macadamized. The
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 saw the
bit in the mouth of the fiery steed; and
cry: "Ho! hop But it is too late,
nd-crash!-they go over the embank
ment. We shall turn and see if we can
not find different kind of road. You
have heard of the Appian Way. It was
$50 miles long. It was "a feet wide,
and on either side of the road was
a path for four passengers, It was
made out of rocks cut in hexagona1
shape and fitted together. What
road it must have beeni Made of
hard rock, $50 miles long. No
wonder that in the construction of it
the treasures of whole empire were
Because of invaders, and
the elements, and Time-the old con-
queror who tears up road as he goes
over it-there is nothing left of that
structure but ruin. But Lhave to
tell you of road built before the APP
plan Way, and yet it is as good as when
first constructed. 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.
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 precipice; through tun-
nels adrip with the MEETINGS of the
glaciers, and, perhaps, for the first
time, learn the majesty of road built
md supported by governmental au-
5hority. Well, my Lord the King de-
,ided to build highway from earth to
Heaven. Itshould span all the chasms
If human wretchedness; it should tun-
lel all the mountains of earthly diff
,ulty; it should be wide enough and
strong enough to hold $4,000, 900, 900 of
he human race, if so many of them
should ever be born. 1t should be
blasted out of the "Rocl1 of Ages" and
with the blood of the cross,
md be lifted amid the shouting of an
gels and the execration of devils. The |
King sent his son to build that road. |
lie put head, and hand, ard heart to |
t, and after. the road was completed |
waved his blistered hand over the way,
.rying: ''It is finished!' Napoleon |
,aid Is, 900, 900 francs for the building |
# the Simplon road, that his cam
ION might go over for the devasta-
ion of Italy; but our King, at great
r expense, has built road for diff |
erent purpose, that the banners of |
dominion might come down
,ver it. Being a kings highway, of |
~ - rrzo11 h5,sIf p,f1 cy11nv,-
idly arched and buttressed have Civ
n way and crushed the passengers
Who attempted to cross them. But
'hrist, the King, would build no such
hing as that. The work done, He
MOUNTS the chariot of his love, and
mount with Him, and he
rives on and up the steep of Heaven
mid the plaudits of gazing worldsl
he work is done-well done-glori-
usly done-magnifcently done.
Still further, this road spoken of is a
lean road. Many a fine road has be-
ONE miry and foul because it has not
cen properly cared for; but my text
ays the unclean shall not walk on
his one. Room on either side to throw
way your sins. Indeed, if you want
D carry them along you are not on the
ight road. That bridge will break,
hose cverhanging rocks will fall, the
light will come down, leaving you at
he mercy of the mountain bandits,
nd at the very next turn Of the road
on will perish. But If you are really
n this clean road of which I have
cen speaking, then you will stop ever
nd anon to wash in the water that
-ands in the basin of the eternal
1ck.
Aye at almost every step OF the