Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-08
uanv Millennia Ago God Built on
the High Hills of Heaven.
And Heaven will be So Large that if
You Want a Whole Room to
Yourself You Can Get 1t.
rsore IS a Room There for Everyone, but if
you Want IT You Must Make AppIlea-
ton and Take Il at Once

here to-day on the subject: Our House
on the Hills. His text was John xiv,
q. uTp my Fathers house are many
rooms. - He said:
Here is bottle Of medicine that is a
cnrs all. The disciples were sad and
Christ offered heaven as an alternative,
stfmulant and a tonic. He shows them
chat their sorrows are only dark back
Ground Of bright picture of coming
rli,i+v He lets them know that though
-ovr they live on the lowlands they shall
IT have house on the up
1.nds Nearly all the Bible
5as.riptfons Of heaven may be
erllrafive. I am not positive that in all
heaven there is literal crown or harp or
Tsarly gate or throne or chariot. They
no, he only used to illustrate the gloTies
If fine Mace, but how well they do it!
The favorite symbol by which the Bible
presents celestial happiness is house.
paul who never owned a house, al
though he hired one for two years in
T+alv. sneaks Of heaven as a ''house not
made with hands, and Christ in our
teyt the translation of which is little
changed so as to give the more accurate
meaning. saws. ''In my Father s house
are many rooms.
This divInely authorized comparison Of
heaven to a great homestead of large
accommodations I propose to carry out.
In some healthy neighbOrhood man
lufIds a very cOmmodious habitatiOn.
He must have room for all his children.
The rooms come to be called after the
different members Of the family. That
=
-ooin That is Henry s room That is
FIora's room. That is Mary 8 room.
And the house is all occupied. But time
roes bv and the sons 90 out into the
world and build their own homes, and
the daughters are married or have tall
euts enough to 20 out singly and do q
good work in the world. After awhile
the father and mother are almost alone
in the big house, and seated by the even
ing stand, they say: We'll, our family
IS now no larger than when we
started together forty years ago But
time goes still further by and some of the
children are unfortunate and return to
the old homestead to live, ard. the grand
children come with them, and perhaps
great-grandchildren and again the house
is fun Many miIlennia ago God built on
the hills Of heaven
4 GREAT HOMESTEAD FOR FAMILY IN
~ Vulnerable, YET TO BE.
At first He lived alone il that great
house. but after a while it was occupied
bv a very large family, cherubic, Sc
raDhic. angelic. The eternities passed
on and many Of the inhabitants became
maynard and left never to return. And
may of the apartments were vacated.
] refer to the fallen angels. Now these
apartments are filing up again. There
are arrivals at the old HON estead of God 5
children every day, and the day will come
when there viii be no unOccupied room
in all the house.
As YOU and l expect to enter it and
make there eternal residence, l thought
you would like To get some more partic-
lars about that many ToOmed homestead.
Gin nay father 5 house are many
rooms. - You see the place is TO be ap-
pogtionod off into apartments. We shall
love all who are in heaven, but there are
some very good people whom we would
not want 10 live with in the same room.
They may be better than we are, but
they are Of divergent temperament.
We would like to meet with them on the
golden streets and worship with them in
the temple, and walk with them on the
river banks, but i am glad to say that
we shall live in different apartments.
In my father 5 house are many
rooms - You see heaven viii be so
large that if one wants an entire room
20 himself or herself it can be afforded
An ingenious statistician, taking
the statement made in Revelation, TWEEN
ty-hrst chapter, that the heavenly Jeru-
salem was measured ana found to be u,
GOO turougS, and that the length and
height and breadth of it are equal, says
Jh2. would make heaven in size nine hun
uIed and forty-eight sextillion nine hun
NIed and eighty-elght quiintiliOn cubic
Feet. and then Teserving q certain por-
ton for the court of heaven and the
streets, and estimating that the world
may last hundred thousand years, he
tpAers out that there are over five tTll-
non rooms, each room seventeen feet
long, sixteen feet wide, fifteen feet
high. But I have no faith in the accu-
Taoy of that calculation He makes the
rooms too small. From all l can read,
j-a rooms viii be palatial, and those who
nave not had enough room III this world
VIII nave plenty of room at the last.
lAL FACT Is THAT MOST PEOPLE IN THIS
WORLD ARE CROWDED,
and though ont on the vast prairie or in
mountain district people may have
more room than they want, in most
cases it is house built close to house, and
iaH streets are crowded ana the cradle is
crowded by other cradles, and the graves
crowded in the cemetary by other graves,
ALa one of the richest luXuries of many
people IN getting out of this world will
." the gaining OF unhindered and I'M
l'amped room. And I should not Won
o.. II instead Of the room THAT the sta
lsueian ciphered out as only seventeen
leet by sixteen, il should be larger than
any of the imperial rooms at Berlin, ST.
James or Winter palace. 'In my
failer's house are many rooms -
carrying out Stiu further the symbolism
OF the text let us join hands and go up
10 this majestic homestead and see for
ourselves.
As we ascend the golden steps, an in
,.sia.e guardsman swings open the front
Coor ana we are ushered to the right
INTO the reception room of the old home
stead. That is the place where we
ATSt meet the welcome of heaven. There
must be a place where the departed
spirit enters and place IN which it con- |
fronts the inhabitants celestial. The re-
option room of the newly arrived from |
l4-s world-what scenes it must have |