The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-02-27
Will HEAVEN BE CROWD
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The Innumerable Hosts that will
"a Surely Crowd the Golden

The mnumerable Hosts that will
Surely Crowd the Golden
City.
From the New York World, 18th.
The Rev. Dr. L. F. Rogers deliv-
cred in the South Reformed Church.
Fifth avenue and Twenty.frst street.
yesterday. a sermon On "Heavsn,.
speaking upon the question: "Wilf
heaven be a crowded place p The
text was from the thirteenth chapter
of st. Luke: .'Are they few who
will be saved r DIR. Rogers said
that Christ did not answer the ques-
ton directly. The circumstances
under which the question was asked
we're peculiar. II it Was asked in
idle curiosity as to Gods purposes,
it showed that the maa was not in
a proper state Of mind and the
question was irrevelant on his part.
not deserving OF an answer. Mans
own curiosity will never place him
among the nsm6er. large or small,
who will enter heaven, and If the
answer had been that the number
would be immense it would not in
sure yeu admittauce. No one who
is negleetful OF his Christian duties
has right to ask or know. 1t is
the believer who can properly and
acceptaoly ask, Are they few who
will be saved % and when 3 Chris
tian does ask it is different. Each
one who enters hesysni is jewel in
the crown and a new victory for
Christ. There is more rejoicing
over the one sinner that repeuts than
over the ninety aud nine who need
no repentance. The question or the
text has a profound interest. To
be assured that the gospel is NO linn.
tied scheme /; to be assured that
Gods triumph will be on an immense
scale. is great joy. 81 rejoice. to
believe and say that on the great
scale of arrangement the number
saved will be far in excess Of the.
lost. and that heaven will be a
crowded place. At the beginning,
when man sinned. even then, there
was light, as it Was said that the
seed of woman would crush the devil
at last. Christ was the promised
seed. Satan did bruise Tie heel Of
man through him in his suffering,
but now, hayisg risen, shall ret
hruise the serpent's head and at the
end will crush it. II Christ is to
crush Satan'a head heaven will be a
crowded place. AT the tine Of the
.patriarehs it was said that Abrs-
hams seed should be as countless
as TIE dust OF the earth. Christ's
people are his seed. and no figure
could be employed to signify a mul-
titude such as these. Therefore
heaven must be eHowded place.
In Revelations, seventh chapter,
ninth verse, it reads: so a great
multitude which no one can numbsr.'
What . glorious vision Does this
look like heaven would be solitary
and lonely place? The city 10 de-
scribed, again, as 10000 furlongs
square and OF the like height. or
10000 miles square, and the natives
shall walk in the light OF 1t. Sup
posing there have been 100000. 900
Of people upon the earth sincs its
creation, aud q like number will oc-
cupy it in the next one hundred
thousand years. this city would hold
thousands OF worlds like ours. Man
never wrote this description. Of the
golden Jerusalem, therefore you
must balieVe heaven viii be crowded.
Further, we must consider the bless.
ed majority-the infants of the diff
ferent ages-who have died. There
ID nothing to show thatahe infants
born undet any circumstances. inf
del or not, are excluded from the
kingdom of God; for We must re-
member that Christ said, Suffer lit-
tie children to eome unto ne, aud
forbid them not.' ThaAk God for
the ianumerabls hosts or li.tls ones
who have been continually swelling
the racks Of those in heaven. Add
to these before mentioned the
myriads to arise when Christianity
shall overspread the world. and we
cannot but say that heaven win be
a crowded place .
The Harlan Family and George.
Mrs. Justice Harlan i a very
large and beautiful woman and
naiyely remarks that her large chill
dren-her son now eighteen years
old is six feet four inches high, and
weighs ESQ pounds-prObably got
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