The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-18
mr. FATHERS HOUSE.
L.puoN BY DR. rALMAGE
In. Many Rooms There Are In the
Heavenly Mansion.


roog.s.r-John xiv,2'
,I,r0 is A bottle Of medicine that Is cure
The disciples were sad and Christ OF.
AZ eelL., heaven as an alternative stfmulant
IsSN IsSs tonic. lie shows them that their sor.
rows are only n,ipg dsLS O"fun" fscitv, He lets
p'.ui' know that though now they live
tne'. ~. iowlands they shall yet have q
on on.,'. s"o on tbe uplands. Nearly all the Bible
eouss; eloossr;ntions OF heaven may be flgurativc.
am not positive that In all heaven there Is
literal crown or harp or pcarly gate or
ssrS,s or chariot. They may be only uscd
.ni "a ni,strote the elories OF the place, but how
vi ,hcv do itl The favorite symbol by
',ts.s the Bible presents celestial happiness
W. house Paul. who mover owned house,
Although he hired one FOR two years IN Italy,
,l.aJs y and Christ in our text, the trnnsla-
IT, N which Is n little changed so as TO give
,hs more accurate meaning, says: I'm my
Fathers house are many rooms"
TIss diyinely authorized comparison OK
heaven to great homestead oil large nceom-
,nciatons propose to carry out In somo
healthy neighborhood q man builds q
,srv commodious habitation. Hc must
ssy. room for all his children. Tho
naoms come 20 be called after the
Nferent members Of tho family. That is
,nothsr's room. That Is Georges room.
That is Henry's room. That Is Floras
rom. That's Mary's room. And tho house
IL III occupied. But time goes by and the
4 cons 20 out into the world and build
/ their own homes and daughters are married
or have talents enough singly to 60 out and
5o n good work In the world. After while
4 inc father and mother are almost alone in
ihe big house and, seated by the evening
\ ,,anl they say: "Well, our family is no
iarper now than when we started together
forty years ago.n But time goes still further
by and some OF tho children are unfortunate
a.. tla al l......rN.aI a..
and the grandchildren come with them, and
uerhaps grcat-grandchildrcn and again
he house is full. Many millenuia ago
God built on the hills of heav-
en- a great homestead for n family innumor-
able. vet TO be. AT first He lived alone in
that great house, but after while il was
occupied by very largo family, cherubic,
sernphic, angelic. Tho eternitios passed. ON
and many OF the inhabitants became way
ward and left mover 10 return. And many
Of the apartments were vacated. / refor to
the fallen angels. Now these apartments
are filling up again. There arc arrivals at
the old homestead of Gods children every
day, and the day will como when there will
be no unoccupied room in oil tho house.
As you and expect TO enter IL and make
there eternal residence, thought you would
like 10 get some more particulars about that
many-roomed homestead. "In my Fathers
house are many rooms.' You see the plAco
is 10 be apportioncd OF into apartments. We
shall love all who are in heaven but thcro
are some very good people whom wo would
not want TO live with in the same room. They
may b, better than we are but they are
OF divergent temperament. We would
ike 10 meet with thom on the golden
streets and worship with thom in
the temple and walk with them on the river
banks, but | am glad 10 say that we shall
live In different apartments "In my Fathers
house are many rooms.n You SEQ heaven will
H.. 1a-,, l..e.
himself or herself, IL can be afforded. An In
genious statistician taking the statement
made in Revelation, twenty-iirst chapter, that
the heavenly Jerusalem was measured and
found TO be twelve thousand furlongs and
that the length and height and breadth
of 1t are equal, says that would make
heaven In size 04S sextillion 988
quintillion cubic feet, and then rsserving a
certain portion for the court of heaven and
the streets, and estimating that the world
may last hundred thousand years he ciphers
out that there are ovcr five trillion rooms,
each room seventeen feet long, sixteen feet
wide, fifteen feet high. But have no faith
In the accuracy of that calculation. He makes
V1rooms two small. Il nm all can read, tho
ICONS will DO palatial, and those who have
not had enough room in this world will
have plenty of room at tho last. Tho fact il
that most people In this world nrs crowded,
and though out on vast prairie or in a
mountain district people may have more room
than they want, in most cases IL is house built
close TO house. and the streets are crowded
and the cradle is crowded by other cradles,
and the graves crowded in the cemetery by
luxuries. of many people in getting
out OF this world will bo the
gaining Of unhindered and uncrampsd room
And should not wonder if instead Of the
room that the statistician ciphered out rs
only seventeen feet by sixteen, IL should be
nf ha in,YN t,al, u.
lin, st. James or Winter Palace. SIN my
Fathers house are many rooms.n Carving
out still further the symbolism OF tho text let
us join hands and go up TO this majestic
homestead and see for ourselves.
Aswe ascend the golden steps, an invisible
guardsfnan swings open the front door and
care ushered to the right into the recep-
Hon room of the old homestead That is tho
place where we first meet the welcome of
heaven. There must be place where the
Ieparted spirit enters and place in which ID
S'nfrontS tho mhabitanto celestial Tha r,.-
eeption room OF the nowly arrived from this
world-whot scenes IL must have witnessed
since the first guest arrived, the victim al
tne ilrst iratricide, pious Abel In that room
ohrist lovingly greeted all new COM
ers; lie redeemed them and Ho has the
,fight 10 the first embrace on their arrival
my minute when the ascendod spirit first
sees the Lord. Better than all We ever read
about Him or talked about Him or sang
nDout Him IN all the churches and throu Il
all our earthly lifetime, will it be. lust for
one second to SEQ Him. The most rapturous
iuea we ever had OF Him on sacramental
Gays OF at the height Of some great revival
or under the uplifted baton of an orstorio
arc aLe bankruptcy Of thought compared with
.ne hIsp HASH Of His appearance in that
reception room. At that moment when Won
coiIront each other Christ looking upon Won
oop iria yon looking upon Christ there win be an
Ic IS'auc thrill ana surgins Of emotion that
neggars an description. Looltl They need
40 introduction. Long ago Christ chose that
lgPchtsht snner and that repentant sinner
@ @.nose Shrlst. Mightiest moment of an i'm
mortar history-the first liss of heayen
Jesus and The soul. Tho soul aud Jesus.
huO now into that reception room pour
the gloriled kinsfolk. EnouSh or
I,,,, 'nly retention to let You know thsnl.
out without their wounds or their sirk.
iIaSes or their troubles SEQ what haayon
mas done for thom. So radiant so
Wv SlVViIu, so iransportingly lovely. They call
soI all oy name, Thoy greet you with an
Sn ur Ptoportioned 10 tho anguish of
ti sour parting and tho longth of your sopara-
''o"' rather! Mother There is your child.
Slsters. Brothers Friends! wish Won low
.I years apart together again In the recen-
thni. room OF the old homestead You see
sn my Z, WIN Know you are coming. Thero arc
tSsnn. many immortals filling all The spaces be.
il iSlneen mere and heaven that nows lke thai flies
sta ae hshtning. They will be there In AN in