Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11
Many Millennia Ago God Built on
the High Hills Of Heaven.
And Heaven will be So Large that if
You Want Whole Room to
Yourself You Can Get 1t.
There is a Room There for Everyone, but if
You Want 1t You Must Make A2pliea-
ton and Take 1t at 0nce
Special to the Gazette.

l. DeNIlI 1dlLudSos L. u, pE6dCuSO
here to-day on the subject: ''Our House
on the Hills. His text was John xiv,
2: SIN my Fathers house are many
rooms He said:
Here is a bottle of medicine that is a
cure all The disciples were sad and
Christ offered heaven as an alternative,
a stimuIant and a tonic. He shows them
that the SORROWS are only dark back
ground of q bright picture of coming
felicity. He lets them know that though
now they live on the lowlands they shall
yet have house on the up
lands. Nearly all the Bible
descriptions OF heaven may be
figurative 1 am not positive that in all
heaven there is 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 never owned a house, al
though he hired one for two years in
Italy, speaks OF heaven as ''house not
made with hands, and Christ in our
text, the translation of which is little
changed so as to give the more accurate
meaning, says; In my Fathers house
are many rooms. -
This divlnely authorized comparison of
heaven to great homestead of large
accommodations l propose to carry out.
In some healthy neighbOrhood a man
builds 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
is mothers room. That is Georges
room That is Henry's room. That is
Flora's room. That is Mary's room.
And the house is all occupied. But time
goes by and the sons go out into the
world and build their own homes, and
the daughters are married or have tai
ents enough to go out singly and do
good work III the world. After awhile
the father and mother are almost alone
III the big house, and seated by the even
ing stand, they say: Well, 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, and the grand
children come with them, and perhaps
at-grandchildren, and again the house
is full. Many millennia ago God built on
the hills Of heaven
A GREAT HOMESTEAD FOR A FAMILY IN
VULNERABLE, YET TO BE.
At first He lived alone in that great
house, but after while it was occupied
by a very large family, cherubic, Sc
raphic, angelic The eterDities passed
on and many of the inhabitants became
maynard and left never to return. And
may of the apartments were vacated.
l refer to the fallen angels. Now these
apartments are filling up again. There
are arrivals at the old homestead of God IS
children every day, and the day will come
when there will be no unoccupied room
in all the house.
AS you and expect to enter it and
make there eternal residence, l thought
you would like to get some more partic-
lars about that many roomed homestead.
"In my fathers house are many
rooms You see the place is to be ap-
portioned 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 a 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 1 am glad to say that
we shall live in different apartments.
'In my fathers house are many
rooms - You see heaven will be so
large that if one wants an entire room
to himself or herself it can be afforded.
An ingenious statistioian, taking
the statement made in Revelation, TWEEN
ty-first chapter, that the heavenly Jeru-
salem was measured ana found to be 49,
900 furlongs, and that the length and
height and breadth of it are equal, says
that would make heaven in size nine hun
dred and forty EIGHT sextillion nine hun
dred and eighty-elght quiintilion cubic
feet, and then reserving q certain por-
ton for the court of heaven and the
streets, and estimating that the world
may last a hundred thousand years, he
cipheTs out that there are over five tr1l-
lion rooms, each room seventeen feet
long, sixteen feet wide, fifteen feet
high. But l have no faith in the aoou-
racy of that calculation. He makes the
rooms too small. From all 1 can read,
the 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 ARE CROWDED,
and though out 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
the streets are crowded and the cradle is
crowded by other cradles, and the graves
crowded in the cemetary by other graves,
and one of the richest luxuries of many
people in getting out of this world will
be the gaining of unhindered and IN
cramped room. And l should not won
der if instead of the room that the sta
tistician ciphered out as only seventeen
feet by sixteen, it should be larger than
any of the imperial rooms at Berlin, St.
James or Winter palace. Gin. my
Fathers house are many rooms -
Carrying ont still further the symbolism
of the text let Us join hands and go up
to this majestic homestead and see for
ourselves.
AS we ascend the golden steps, an in
visible guardsman swings open the front
door and we are ushered to the right
into the reception room of the old home
stead. That is the place where we
first 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-
ception room of the newly arrived from
this world-what scenes il must have