Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-02-14
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Washington Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Subject: "Tho Kings Highway"

ransomed of the Lord shall return and come
to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon
their heads. They shall obtain JOY and GLAD.
ness, and sorrow and signing shall flee away"
Isaiah xxxv., 8, 8, 10.
There are hundreds Of people in this house
who want to find the right road. You some
times see person hating 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 [ stand in your presence
conscious OF the fact that there are many OF
YOU here that realize that there are thou
sand wrong roads, but only one right one,
aud 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 are great many expensive
tollgates scattered all along that way. In
deed at Every rod you must pay in tears. or
pay in genufexions, or pay in NEGOTIATIONS
On that road, if you get through 1t at ALL
you will have to pay your own way, and
since this differs so much from what nave
heard in regard to the right way believe 1t
Is the wrong way.
Hero is another road. On either side of 1t
are houses Of sinful enteri anment and invi-
tations to come in and dine and rest, but
from the looks Of the people who stand on
the piazza, / am certain it is the wrong
house and the wrong way. Here is another
road 1t is very beautiful and macadamized.
The horses hoofs CHATTER and ring, and they
who ride over it spin along the highway I'M
til suddenly they find that the road breaks
over an embankment, and they try to halt,
and they see the bit In the mouth OF the fery
steed and cry: "Hol HoI" But it is too late,
and. crash! they 90 over the embankment.
| We shall turn and see if we cannot find diff
ferent kind of road. You have heard OF tho
Appian way. 1t was $50 miles long. 1t was
twenty.fOur feet wide, and On either side oil
the road was path for foot passengers. 1t
! was made out of rocks cut in hexagonal shape
and fitted together What road it must
have been! Made OF smooth. hard rock, $50
miles longl No wonder that in the con-
struction of il the treasures Of whole en-
pire were exhausted. Because Of invaders
and the elements and time--the old con-
uueror who tears up road as he goes over
| it--there is nothing left of that structure but
a ruin, Bat have to tell you OF road
built before the Appian way, and yet 1t is as
| good as when first constructed. Millions OF
! souls have gone over it, Millions more will
come.
The prophets an 4 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 King 9
highway. Ia the diligence you dash on over
the Bernard rass Of the Alps, mile after
mile, and there is not so much as pebble TO
Jar the wheels. You 60 over bridges which
cross ebasms that make you no your
BREATH under projecting rock. along by
dangerous precipice through tunnels a-dr;p
with the meetings. of the glaciers and per-
haps for the first time learn the majesty OF
road built and supported by Governmental
authority. Well, my Lord the King decided
TO build highway from earth to heaven. 1t
should span all tho chasms Of human
Indebtedness; il should tunnel all the
mountains of earthly difficulty; it should be
wide enough and strong enough to hold
nfty thousand millions Of the human race,
If SO MANY of them should ever be born; 1t
should be blasted out of the crock OF ages
and cemented with the blood OF the
cross and be liftel amid the shout
ing OF angels and the eXecration OF davis.
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 fintshed!
Napoleon paid Is 600, 600 francs for the build
ting of the Simplon roal that his cannon
might 60 over for the devastation of Italy,
but our King at great expense has Dulit d
roa for a different purpose, that the ban
hers Of heavenly dominion might come down
over it. Being Kings highway, of course
It is well built. Bridges splendidly arche1
J 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 multitudei
mount with Him, and He drives on and vi
The steep of heaven amid the plaudits OF gaz
Ing worlds The work is done-well done
gloriously done-magniflcently done.
Still further, this road spoken of is clear
road. Many fine road has become miry
and foul be ause it has not been properly
cared for, but my text says the unclean shall
not walk on this one. Room on either sid'
}. to throw away your sins. Indeed. If yor
want to carry them along you are not on tn'
right road That bridge will break, those
overhanging rocks will fall, the night viii
come down leaving you at the mercy OF TIL
mountain bandits, and at the very next turn
of the road you will perish. But If you ar
really on this clean road of which have
been speaking, then you will stop ever an(
n anon to wash in the water that stands IN tn
: basin Of the eternal rock.
J. Aye, at almost every step OF the iourne
you will be crying out: "Create within m
i a clean heart" If you have no such aspira
atoms as that, it proves mat you nave ms
taken YOUR way, and if you will only 100!
) IN and see the fngerboard above your head
: YOU may read upon it the words, There is
way that seemeth right unto man, but tn
: eni thereof is death" Without holiness n
: man shall see the Lord. and if you have an
idea that YOU can carry along your Sins
your lusts. your worldliness, and vet get
The end of the Christian race, you are so aW
fully mistaken. that, i'll the name OF GOO,
shatter the de.usion.
Sill further, the road spoken of is plal
road. "The wayfaring men, though tool
shall not err therein" That is, it man
,, three.fourhs an idiot, he can find thi
, road lust as we'll as if he were philosophe
The iinbecle boy, the laughing stock OF 10
0 street. and followed by a mob hootlng at hin
has only just TO knock once at the gate
heaven. and it swings open, while there III
been many man who can lecture apo'
D pneumatics. and chemistry, and tell u
t story OF Faraday' theory OF electrical poia
, ization and yet has been shut out OF heavel
There has been many man who stood IN a
observatory and swept the heavens with h
telescope and yet has not been able TO s.
the morning star. Many II man has been j
miliar with all the higher branches OF mat
ematics and vet could not do the slmp
sum. "What shall it profit man II he ga
the whole world aud lose his own soul
MANY n man has been fine reader OF trag
dies and poems and yet could not read h
!. tile clear to mansions in the skies.
= MANY n man has botanized across the CO.
0 tinent. and vet not known the Rose
: Sharon. and the Lily of The Valley" But
- one shall come in the right spirit, asking t
way to heaven. he will find it plain wa
The nardon is plain. The peace is plai