The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-04
WISDOM FROM PUIPITS.


It Is a Place as Wen . Mental state
Or. Pogson Makes a Temperance
Lecture of His Life.
AT St. Paul's M. E. Church. Third
street, the pastor. the Rev. D. Halleron
has commenced a series Of sermons on
"Glimpses of the Other World." Last
evening his subject was Heaven" and
his text. the words of Christ to his dis
cipies, II 20 to prepare a place for YOU"
The Rev. Mr.. Halleron did not waste
words in proving that there is a future
state. He showed how widespread is the
belief in heaven. and gave it as his
opinion that this universal longing was
proof enough that heaven existed. Then
he passed to the consideration Of the
Christian idea Of heaven.
"The only source of knowledge OF
heaven,n said he, sis Gods word. The
future is yelled, ave by the teachings OF
that word. Without these teachings the
greatest philosopher of the world is as
ignorant of q future life as the most 1g-
norant and uncultured. There are three
heavens spoken of, the atmosphere, the
heaven of the stellar world, and the
heaven where in glory the spirits of just
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God and the angels.
APLACE AS WELL AS A STATE.
"Many claim that heaven is simply q
state, but 1t is both a state and location,
according to the Christian conception.
The Scriptures so declare it,"
The speaker then referred to Christ's
psomise to the thief on the cross, showing
chat his allusion was not to the paradise
OF Eden, in Asia, but to the paradise OF
God. He also spoke of st. Paul's teach
ings as to the inheritance of the Saints.
showing that he did not refer to the
territory promised in the land OF Canaan,
but to the heaven of the believer in Christ.
He spoke of illusions to Mount Zion and
Jerusalem, and claimed that they repre-
sented the glorious heaven of the righte-
Gus. Speaking of Christ's declaration to
His disciples, Tin my Fathers house are
many mansions. | go to prepare a place
for yon, that where | am we may be also
he presented the ancient temple as d TYPE
OF heaven. Christ, the Holy Priest, has
entered the Holy of HOLES. but soon the
yeilthat hides him from us will be lifted
and we will be admitted to share in the
glory of an eternal heaven.
LET FAITH PLACES HEAVEN.
In arguing that heaven is a locality he
spoke of human imaginings as to it's loca
elton. He referred to DIR. Dick, the
astronomer, examining the millions Of
heavenly bodies with his telescope and
finding that all the worlds were revolving
about an -undiscoverable common centre
in the Pleiades. and of there coming tc
him an angel whisper, that IL heaven
The speaker contrasted earthly with
heavenly conditions, and glowingly de
scribed the rest, glory and happiness oil
the home where K and signing
sorrow and death, are unknown, where
1--WE shall be priests and kings with
Christ and shall reign for ever; be led be.
side fountains of living waters and joir
in the everlasting song of Moses and the
Lamb" He quoted Bulwer, Edwards
Newman and other authors in theil
description of heaven, and ended his dis
course by reading the poem:-
There is a nome for weary souls,
4 By sin and sorrow driven,
When tossed on life's ternpestuous shoals,
Where storms abound and ocean rolls,
And all is drear, tits Heaven.