The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-27
DIR fALMAGE's SERMON:
The House on The Inns.

aA114 IN y VI Aat@. W
q cure-all. The disciples were sad, and
Christ offered heaven as an Alternative,
q stimulant, and a tonic. He shows
them that their sorrows are only a dark
background of a bright picture Of CON-
ing felicity. He lets them know that
though now they live on the lowlands,
they shall yet have a house on the up
lands. Nearly all the Bible descriptions
Of heaven may be figurative. / am not
positive that in all heaven there is a
literal crown or harp or pearly gate or
throne or chariot. They may be only
used to illustrate the glories Of the
: place, but how well they do it! The
favorite symbol by which the Bible
presents celestial happiness is house.
Paul, who ' owned a house,
although he hired one for two years in
Italy, speaks of heaven as o 'shouse not
made with hands," and Christ in our
text the translation of nhich is a little
changed, so as to give the more accu-
rate meaning, says, ''In my Fathers
house are &&t
NAN DOM
M, h,;noIv orthor,zod comn.r;sop
81 haoSen ~ great Homestead of
large accommodations 1 purpose to
carry ont. In some healthy ne1ghbor-
hood a man builds a very commodlous
habitation. He must have room for all
his children. The rooms come to be
called after the different OF
the family. That is mothers room.
That is Georges room. h IS Henry.s
room. That is Flora's room That Is
Mary's room. And the % Is an
occupied. But time goes BY and the
sons go out into the world, and build
their own homes; n daughters are
married, or have talents enough singly
to go out and DO good work In the
world. After O while the fatner n
mother are almost alone IN the pig
house, and seated by the evening stand,
they say: well, u family is no lar
ger now than when we started togetner
forty years ago, but time goes sun
further by, and some OF tne cnlIore1
aIe uniortunate, ana return 70 tne o.u
hoinesteaa 10 i've, anu the granu
ureh come +. them, hnu' PeInaps,
anu ASaia sHe
mouse Is iuil. Mnlehhia "oo o"ii'
on the nils OF heaven
A GREAT HOMESTEAD
for a family ,nnumerable, vet to be.
A.sss. H. lived alone in that great
honse. Inf after a while il was occupied
NV a yerv large family. cberubic. SER
anbic, angelic. The ~eternities passed
IN. and many of the inhabitants became
wavward. and left. never to return. |
And many Of the apartments were va
Gated L refer TO the fallen angels. |
Now these apartments are filing M
again. There are arrivals at the old
bomestead of Gods children every day. |
he no unoccupied room in all the house,
AS YOU and / expect to enter it and
make there eternal residence, 1 thought
Won would like to get some more par
t~icnlars about that many-roomed home
stead. sIn nv Fathers house are many |
rooms Y0n see the place is "
mo np .ppopr,oupn orr
;n.o onortmants W. shall live al, who
orc IN haayen Int there are some verv
aood naonle whom wa wonId not want
p H. III IN an san,a roo,o Thay
NOV he hat,or thar NO arc INIT tbay are
of . OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 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 hanks. bnt 7 am glad to saw that
we shall live in different apartments.
sIn nv Father house are many rooms"
Yon ace. heaven will he 40 large that if
one want an entire room to himself or
herself. it can be- afforded.
An ingenious statistician. taking the
statement made in Revelation. twenty
frst chapter. that the heavenly Jerusa-
lem was measured and found to be
twelve thousand f~urlonns. and that the
length and height and breadth OF il are
equal. saws that would make heaven in
size 949 sextillion. 983 auintillion cubic
feet: and then reserving n certain por-
ton for the court of heaven and the
streets. and estimating that the world
NAV last n hundred thousand wears. he
ciphers M that there are over five tril-
lion rooms. each room seventeen feet
long. sixteen feet wide. fifteen feet wide. (
fifteen feet high. But 1 have no faith
in the accuracy of that calculation. He
makes the rooms too small. From all 1 |
can read, s
n ooM WILL BE pALAr1A1. |
and those who have NOT bed enouab
room in tbis worId will have nlenty IF
room at tba last TN fact 10 hat most
naonle in this world arc crowded and
tbonob ont an n vast ~nra;r;e ~ in a
mountain district neonie NAV have more
room than they want, in most cases Il Is
bonse bn;Jt Close II house and tba |
streets are crowded and the cradle ia
crowded nv other cradles. and tbe
oraves crowded in tbe ~ceneterv nv
Ether oravas and ono nj tba r,cbe:t
Injuries al many neorle in GETTING out |
of tb;s world viii he tbe aaining ~ nm
bindered and nncramned room And T
shonld NOT wonder # instead Of the
room the stat;st;c;an c;nbered ont as
only seventeen feet Nv s;Iteen Il sbouId
he larger Than anv of tbe rooms ut Rer-
lin. St' James or Winter Palace ssTn
NV Fatber's bonsa ave many roorsn
Carrying ont still furtbar the svmbo,-
ism of The text lat MS ;o;n hands and 20
mn to this ma;estic bomestead and see
for ourselves AZ we sscenJ tbe anlden
stems nm Invisible ssyings
oSSP' wings /