The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-11
OUR HOUSE ON THE HILLS.
SUBJECT OF SERMON DELIVERED BY
DR.. TALMAGE, SUNDAY, JULY 7.
n House the Favoritef Biblical Smile for
Heaven-"In My Fathers House Are
Many Rooms"-The Doctors Idea OF
What the Home of the BIest. VIII BE.

What the Home OF the BIest. VIII BE.
THE HAMPToNs, N. Y, July T.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, d. D.,
preached here today on the subject:
"Our House on tho Hills" His text
was John xiv, 2: 'Iu my Fathers
house are many rooms. He saidi
Here is bottle of medicine that is
cure all. The disciples were sad and
Christ offered heaven as an alterna-
five, a stimulant and a tonic. He
shows them that their sorrows are
onl y dark background of bright
picture of coming felicity. He lets
them know that though now they live
on the lowlands they shall yet have a
house on tho uplands. Nearly all the
Bible descriptions of heaven may be
hgITative. ! am not positive that in
all heaven there is literal crown or
harp or pearly gate or throne or char
iot. They may be only used to illus
trate the glories OF the place, but how
we'll they do It'll The favorite symbol
by which the Bible presents celestial
happiness is a house. Paul, who never
owned house, although he hired one
for two years in Italy, speaks Of heav
en- as "house not made with hands"
and Christ in our text, the translation
of which is a little changed so as to
give tho more accurate meaning, says:
''In my Fathers house are many
rooms"
This divinely authorized compari,
son of heaven to a great homestead of
large accommodations propose to car
ry out. In some healthy neighborhood
man builds very commodious hab-
itation. lie must have room for all
his children. The rooms como to be
called after the different members of
tho family That is mothers room.
That is Georges room. That is Hen
ry's room. That is Elora's room. That
is Mary's room. And tho house is all
occupied But time goes by and the
sons 90 out into the world and build
their own homes and the daughters
are married or have talents enough
singly TO go out and do good work
in tho world. After while the fa-
ther and mother are almost alone in
the big house and, seated by the even
ing stand, they say: "Well, our fam
lily is no larger now than when we
started together forty years ago" But
time goes still further by and some Of
the children are unfortunate and re-
turn to the old homestead to live, and
the grandchildren, come with them,
and perhaps great grandchildren, and
again the house is full. Many millen-
MIA ago God built on tho hills Of heav-
en- great homestead for family in
numorable, yet to be. At first he lived
alone in that great house, but after a
while il was occupied by very large
family, cherubic, seraphic, angelic.
The eternities passed on and many of
the inhabitants became wayward aud
left never TO return. And many of
the apartments were vacated. | refer
10 tho fallon angels. Now these apart
ments are filing up again. There are
arrivals at tho old homestead of God s
children every day, and the day will
come wl4cn there will be no unoccu-
pied room in all tho house.
TN MY FATHERS HOUSE ARE MANY
ROOMS"
AS you and expect to enter it and
mako there eternal residence,
thought you would like to get some
more particulars about that many
roomed homestead ''ln my Fathers
house are many rooms" You see the
place IS to be apportioued off into
apartments We shall love all who
are in heaven, but there are some very
good people whom we would not want
to live with in the same room. They
may be better than we are, but they
are of n divergent temperament. We
would like to meet with them on the
golden streets ana worship with them jn
tho temple and walk with them on tho
river banks, but am glad TO say that
we shall 1.-Two in different apartments.
"In my Fathers house are many
rooms" You see heaven will be sc
large that if ono want an entire room
TO himself or herself, it can be afford
ed An ingenious statistician, taking
tho statement made in Revelation,
twenty first chapter, that tho heaven
ly Jerusalem was measured and found
To DO twelve thousand furlongs pnd
that the length and height and
breadth of it are equul, says that would
mako heaven in size 94S seXtillion 9SS
quintihon cubic feet, and then rcserv-
ing a certain portion for the court oi
heaven and tho streets, and estimating
that the world may last hundred
thousand years, ho ciphers on. that
there arc over five triliior rooms, each
room seventeen feet long. sixteen feet
wide fifteen feet high. But | have
no fail!i I'm the accuracy of that calcu
!ation lie makes the rooms too small
From all | can read, tho rooms will
be palatial and those who have not
had enough room in this world will
have plenty of room at the last The
fact is that most people in this world
Gre crowded, and though out on a vast
prairie or in a mountain district peo
want. in most eases it is house built
close TO house, and the streets are
crowded and the cradle is crowded
by other cradles, and the graves
crowded in tho cemetery by other
graves, and one of the richest
Iuxurics of many people IN got
gaining of unhindercd and uncramp
cd room. And | should not wonder
If instead of the room that the statis
ticiau Siphered outas only l7feet by 16,
ii should be larger than any of the inn
pcrial rooms at Berlin, St James OF
Winter palace in my Fathers house
are many rooms" Carrying out stall
further the symbolism of tho text lot
us join hands aud so up 10 this majes
tic homestead and see for ourselves
WE WILL hk ISlihktiAD IN.
AS we ascend the golden steps, al
d invisible guardsman swings open The
front door aud wo are ushered to The
right into the reception room Of tht
old homestead. That is tho place Where
we first meet the welcome OF heaven
There must be n place where the
departed spirit enters and place il
which it confronts the inhabitants ce
lcstial. The reception room Of the new
ly arrived from this world-wha
scenes il must have witnessed since th
first guest arrived, tho victim OF the frs
fratricde, pious Abel In that room
Christ lovingly greeted all new com
crs He redeemed them and he ha
the right to tho first embrace on thei
arrival What minute when th
uscendod spirit first sees tho Lord
Better than ali we ever read abou
him or talked about him or san,
about him in all the churches an
through all our earthly lifetime, v
it be, Just for one second TO see l.
The most rapturous idea we ever l.
Of him on sacrameutal days or at 4
height of some great revival or undo
the uplifted baton of an oratorio arc
bankruptcy of thought compared wit
the first fash Of his appearance in tina
reception room. At that moment who
a#R you confront each other, Christ lool
ing upon you and you looking upo
Christ, there will DO an ecstatic ulri
and surging OF emotion that bcggars a
description Look They need no il
PRODUCTION. Long ago Christ chos
that repentant sinner and that repen
nt CinnaE chaGa flriSi MiObfia
rnomenL cf ON. immortal hiGtnrv--n