Milford chronicle., 1889-07-12
OUR HOUSE ON TILE HILLS.
SUBJECT OF SERMON DELIVERED BY
DR.. TALMAGE, SUNDAY, JULY 7.

DR.. TALMAGE, SUNDAY, JULY 7.
House the Tavorite Biblical Smile for
Heaven-"In My Fathers House Are
Many Rooms''-Tho Doctors Idea Of
What the Homie Of the BIest win BE.
THE HAMPToNs, N Y, July REV. T.
De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached here to-
day on the subject: "Our House on the Hills"
His text was John xiv, 2; ''In 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, stimulant and
tonic He shows them that their sorrows are
snly dark background for bright picture
Of coning felicity. He lets them know that
though now they live on the lowlands they
shall yet have a house on the uplands. Near
" 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'll The favorite
Symbol by which the Bible presents celestial
happiness is a house. Paul, who never owned
a house, although 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,
30 as to give the more accurate meaning,
says: "In my Fathers house are many
rooms"
This divinely authorized comparison Of
heaven to a great homestead of large accom-
modations propose to carry out. In some
healthy neighborhood a man builds 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 IIenry's room. That
lis Floras 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 mar
lried or have talents enough singly to 80 out
and do a good work in the world. After a
while the father and mother are almost alone
in the big house and, seated by the even
ing stand, they say: "Wen our family
lis 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 return to the
old homestead to live, and the grandchildren
come with them, and perhaps great-grand-
children, and again the house is full. Many
millennia ago God built on the hills of heaven
a great homestead for family innumerable,
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 Maynard and left,
never to return. And many of the apart
ments were vacated | refer to the fallen
angels. Now these apartments are filling
up again. There are arrivals at the old
homestead of Gods children every day, and
the day will come when there will be no UNI
occupied room in all the house.
SIN Ny FATHERS HOUSE ARE MANY ROOMS"
! As you and expect to enter it and make
there eternal residence, | thought you would
like to get some more particulars about that
many roomed homestead. I'm my Fathers
house arc many rooms" You see the place
is to be apportioned 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 am
glad to say that we shall live in different
apartments SIN my Fathers house are
many rooms You see heaven will be SO
large that if one want an entire room to him
self or herself it can be afforded. An iRge-
NOUS statistician, taking the statement made
in Revelation, hyenty-first chapter, that the
heavenly Jerusalem was measured and found
to be twelve thousand furlongs, and that the
length and height and breadth of it are equal,
says that would make heaven in size 94S sex
tillion 9SS quintillion cubic feet, and then re-
serving 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 over five trillion
rooms, each room seventeen feet long, sixteen
feet wide, fifteen feet high. But l have no
faith in the accuracy Of that calculation He
makes the rooms too small. From all 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, aud though out on a 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 grave
crowded in the cemetery by other graves,
and oneof the richest luxuries of many people
in getting out Of this world will be the gain
ing Of unhindered and uncramped room.
And should not wonder if, instead Of the
room that the statistician ciphered out as
only II feet by 10, it should be larger than
any Of the imperial rooms at Berlin, st.
James or Winter Palace. "In my Fathers
house are many rooms Carrying out still
further the symbolism Of the text, let us join
hands and go up to this majestic homestead
and see for ourselves.
WE WILL BE UsHERED IN.
As we ascend the golden steps an invisible
guardsman swings open the front door, and
we are ushered to the right into the recep-
ton room Of the old homestead That is the
place where we first meet the welcome Of
heaven. There must be place where the
departed spirit enters and place In which
it confronts the inhabitants celestial The
reception room OF the newly arrived from
this world-what scenes it must have wit
messed since the first guest arrived, the vic
tim Of the first fratrieide, pious Abel In
that room Christ lovingly greeted all new
corners. He redeemed them and he has the
right to the first embrace on their arrival.
What a minute when the assembled spirit hrst
sees the Lord Better than all wo ever
read about him or talkad about him o.