The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-03-10
Room in Heaven.

Room in Heaven.
And the city lieth fouIsquare, and the length
with the reed $1,000 rurlongs. The length and the
breadth and the height OF ii are equal Rev 2: l6
There are some who never think of
heaven. In their mind thought of the
better country would starve for every
loneliness. Others think of it OCCASION
ally, when the voice Of sweet music steals
upon their car. or Providence or the
preacher lifts them above earth. But
when they do think Of it, how poor and
meGgre their thoughts; to them it is a
narrow, circnmScribed spot in the uni
verse, small place just large enough for
their church, but too small to admit
within its pcarly enclosure, even the good
beyond their communion. Such We're
not the views entertained by John when,
OH the lonely isle, he saw, in grand pano-
raplic view, the'hcavenly city.
John was in tile spirit on the mountain
Of holy contemplation, and he had de-
lightful conversation with one OF the
royal surveyors of the heavenly country.
lie SAYS, verse 10, "And he that talked
with me had golden reed to measure
the city, and the gates thereof and the
walls thereof" The idea he gives to us
j., that there was solidity, firmness, du-
rahility and strength all combined with
Undesirable beauty, surprising gran
dcur and infinite glory.
The city, as he saw it, was in the form
Of n magnificent cube, OF vast dimen-
sions. The surveyor had the golden
reed and he measured the city in the
presence of his visitor. 1t was 10000
flulongs lstadii) long, and $1,000 fur
longs broad, and $1,000 fuIlongs high.
| The length, and the breadth, and the
( height of ii are equal.
In this view of the great city we are
quite in harmony with the r0bincal book.
need not occupy room with quotations.
In almost every other theory proposed
great violence is done to the Greek text.
In this Interpretation the sense is natu-
/ raj and grammatical construction re-
| spectod.
We take the passage as il reads ''l2,
| coo fullOngs," which, when reduced TO
/ feet and cubed is 94S,93S, 600, 900, 600,
100000, 900 cubic feet, the half of which
We reserve for the throne of glory and
the heavenly court. Half of the remain
/ der l reserve for the angels thrones, do
minions, 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 remain
der for the golden streets and walks, and
the remainder, OF one thirty-second OF
the whole, ] divide into rooms of 20 feet
square, and 10 feet high. OF rooms we
have 7,4l3,5 ,57S, 125, ,00G, 900, 100000,
Then | suppose that this world Was
populated as at present, with say 900,
OOO, 900 of human beings, and that three
generations passed away every hundred
years, that is allowing 33 and one-thirc
years for each generation, and that at the
close of the seven thousandth year til,
trumpet of heaven would proclaim tina
''time would be no longer" and tina
earth's population would all be brough
home to the city of God.
also suppose that in the universe o
our Father there are 500, 900 worlds hk'
ours existing under the same numbe
term of years as ours; each having tn
same number of inhabitants as our own
and each inhabitant Obedient to the uni
versal ''come."
Take all these multitudes of human o
created beings, and the heavenly HON
the angel measured for John and for u.
dear reader, would afford 40 such room
as are measured above for each inhab
tant of all the 100000 world and leay
more than 100000 cubic yet unsuIve,
/; ed. "And yet there is room" Oh, no
true it is that sin my Fathers houi
D there are many mansions. - W. H. Pool