The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-06-24
Room in Heaven.
BY REV. w. H. POOLE.


Rev. 81, 16, "And the city lieth foursquare,
and the length 10 as large as the breadth and
he measured the city with the reed twelve thou
sand furlongs. The length and the breadth
and the height of 1t are equal"
TOHN was in the Spirit on the mountain
~ of holy contemplation, and he had
delightful conversation with one of the roy
al surveyors of the heavenly country. He
says, YER. 10, And he that talked with
me had golden reed to measure the city,
and the gates thereof, and the walls there
Of" The idea he gives us is, that there
was solidity, firmness, durability, and
strength, all combined with indescribable
beauty, SURPRISING grandeur and infinite
glory. 3gad .ioV fea 't H
The city, as he saw it, was in the form
of magnificent cube, of vast dimensions.
The surveyor had the golden reed, and he
measured the city in the presence of his
visitor. 1t was 12,000 furlongs (stadute)
long, and $4,000 furlongs broad, and 12, 900
furlongs high. The length, and the breadth,
and the height of it are equal. a III.
Here is absolute uniformity, q thing long
talked of and prayed for but something
not to be realized on this side the heavenly
home. M ..l.,
In this cubic form the new Jerusalem re-
called somewhat the form of the far famed
old Jerusalem, on its escarpment above
the valley of the Kedron.
In this view of the. great city we are
quite in harmony with the sabbinical books.
/ need not occupy room with quotations.
We take the passage as it reads, "12,-
900 furlongs," which, when reduced to
feet and cubed, is 94s, 938, ,OOO, 600, 0OO, OOO,-
000 900 cubic feet. The half of which we
reserve for the throne of glory and the
heavenly court. Half of the remainder /
reserve for the angels thrones, dominions,
| principalities, and powers. Half Of the
remainder reserve for celestial gardens of
heavenly fruits and flowers. Half of the
remainder for shady bowers and lovely
parks. Half of the remainder for the gold
en- streets and walks, and the remainder, or
one thirty-sccond Of the whole, divide
into rooms of (20) twenty feet square, and
ten feet high, of rooms we have 2, ,413, 578,
125,00O, 600, 100000.
Then suppose that this world was pop
ulated as at present with say 900, 600, 900 of
human beings, and that these generations
passed away every hundred years, that is
allowing 33A years for each generation,
and that at the close Of the seventh thou
sandth year, the trumpeter of heaven
would proclaim that "time would be no
longer" and that earth's population would
all be brought home to the city of God.
also suppose that in the universe of our
Father there are 900, O,OO0) eight hundred
thousand worlds like ours existing under
the same circumstances, and for the same
term of years as ours each having the
same number of inhabitants as our own,
and each inbabitant obedient to the univer-
sal "come."' tt tiff
Take all these multitudes of human OF
created beings, and the heavenly home the
angel measured for John and for us, dear
reader, would afford (49) forty-nine such
rooms as are measured above for each in.
habitant of all the 500, 900 worlds, and leave
more than four millions Of cubic feet yet
J unsurveyed. And yet there is room
Oh, how true IL is that in "my fathers
house there are many mansions"