The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-07-11
OUR HOUSE ON TIE HILLS.
SUBJECT OF SERMON DELIVERED BY
Or. TALMAGE, SUNDAY. JULY 7.

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preached here today on the subject:
Our House on tho Hills" His text
was John xiv, 2: ''In my Fathers
house are many rooms" He said:
Here is bottle of medicine that is q
cure all The disciples were sad and
Christ offered heaven as an alterna-
tive, a stimulant and tonic He
shows them that their sorrows arc
only dark background of a bright
picture OF coming felicity. He lets
them know that though now they live
on the lowlands they shall yet have a
house on the uplands Nearly all the
Bible descriptions Of heaven may be
iigTatiye. ! am not positive that in
oil heaven there is IL literal crown or
harp or pcarly gate or throne or char
lot. They may be only used to illus
trate the glories OF the place, bat how
well they do i'll The favorite symbol
by which the Bible presents celestial
happiness is house. Paul, who never
owned house, although he hired one
for two years in Italy, speaks of heav-
eli as Il house not made with hands"
and Christ in our text the translation
of which is a little changed SO rs to
| give the 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
a man builds very coInmodious hab-
| itatiOn. 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 Hen
ry'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 talents enough
singly to go out and do a good work
in the world After a while the ia
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,
anu tillNA
again the house is full. Many millen-
MIA ago God built ON the hills of heav-
eli great homestead for family in
Vulnerable, yet to be. AT first he lived
alone in that great house, but after a
while it was occupied by very large
family, cherubic, seraphic, angelic;
The eternities passed on and many OF
the inhabitants became wayward and
left never to return. And many OF
the apartments were vacated | refer
to the fallen angels. Now these apart
ments are filling up again. There arc
arrivals at the old homestead of Gods
children every day, and the day will
come when there will be no unoccu
pied room in all the house.
''IN MY FATHERS HOUSE ARE MANY
ROOMS.
AS you and l expect to enter it anC
!, mako there eternal residence,
thought you would like to get som'
o. more particulars about that man,
roomed homestead. in my Father
1 house are many rooms You see th'
' place is to be apportioned off int
apartments We shall love all wh'
' are in heaven, but there are some yer.
: good people whom we would not wan
to live with in the same room. The,
: may be better than We are, but the,
: are of divergent temperament. w
y would like to meet with them on tn
golden streets anti worshipwitl, them i
the temple and walk with them on tn
river banks, but am glad to say tha
D we shall live in different apartments
It 'Tn my Fathers house are man
" rooms" You see heaven will be S
large that if one want an entire roor
;. to himself or herself, it can be atfort
e ed. An ingenious statistician, takln
" the statement made in Revelation
twenty-frst chapter, that the heaveI
ly Jerusalem was measured and toun
d TO be twelve thousand furlongs an
f. that the length and height an
breadth of it are equal, says that woul
e make heaven in size 94S seXtllllon g
II ouintillion cubic feet, and then reser'
70 ing a certain portion for the court {
heaven and the streets, and estlmatln
~ that the world may last a hundre
g thousand years, he ciphers out th'
n there are over five trillion rooms, eac
90 room seventeen feet long, sixteen te
50 wide, fifteen feet high But | hay
1T no faith in the accuracy of that calc'
| IL.
,,, From all l can read, the rooms WI
y be palatial, and those who have n
'e- had enough room i'll this world1 WI
al have plenty of room at the last. II
ad fact is that most people in this wor
:, are crowded, and though out on va
IL, prairie or in mountain district pc
ey pie may have more room than the
nd want, in most cases 1t IS house bul
- close to house, and the streets a
Gil crowded and the cradle is crowd
lr, by other cradles, and the gray
jlv crowded in the cemetery by 9th
~ graves, and one of the richie
''h luxuries of many people in g
he ting out of this world will be t
ms gaining of unhindered and uncram
y ed room. And l should not wond
ne if instead of the room that the stat
nd tician siphered outas only II feet by
ew it should be larger than any Of the il
nc perial rooms at Berlin, st. James
al Winter palace ''In my Fathers hou
he are many rooms" Carrying out st
On further the symbolism of the text
bt us join hands and go up to this maj
' tic homestead and see for ourselves.
as WE WILL BE UsHERED IN.
i've AS we ascend the golden steps,
;no invisible guardsman swings open t
-"e front door and we are ushered to t
e a right into the reception room of t
md old homestead. That is the place VI he
we first meet the welcome of heave
a', l"n There must be a place where
ned departed spirit enters and a place
rid which it confronts the inhabitants
not lestial. The reception room of the ne
ted ly arrived from this world-wf
BILE scenes it must have witnessed since
inc first guest arrived, the victim of the fi
on, fratricide,, pious Abel. In that rot
Ills. Christ lovingly greeted all new co
@ ;nn ers He redeemed them and he
iUn ,'na the right to the first embrace on tn
7"9 arrival. What a minute when
10. assembled spirit first sees the Lo