Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-07-14
OUR HOUSE on THE HILLS.
SUBJECT OF SERMON DELIVERED BY
DR.. TALMAeE, SUNDAY, JULY7.

Hnaven-"Iu Ny Fathers House Are
Many Rooms"-The Doctors Idea of
What the Home of the BIest WIN BE.
THE HANPToNs, n. Y, July u
Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, d. D.,
preached here today on the subject:
"Our House on the Hills" His text
was John xiv, q I'm my Fathers
house are many rooms" lie said;
Here is bottle OF medicine that is
cure all. The disciples were sad and
Christ offered heaven as an alterna-
tive. stimulant and a tonic. He
shows them that their sorrows are
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
tiglaative. | am not positive that in
al heaven there is literal crown or
harp or pearly gate or throne or char.
lot. They may be only used to illus.
trate 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 house, although he hired one
for two years in Italy, speaks Of heav.
Ell 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:
'ln my Fathers house are many
rooms"
This divinely authorized compari-
son Of heaven to great homestead Of
large accommodations propose TO ca,-
ry out. lnsome healthy neighborhood
a man builds very commodious hab-
itation. He must have room for all
his children. The rooms come to be
called after the different memsers 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 90 out into the world and build
their own homes and the daughters
are married or have talents enough
singly to go out and do good work
in the world. After while the fa-
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,
and perhaps great-grandchildren, and
again the house is full. Many millen-
MIA ago God built on the hills of heav-
en- a great homestead for family in
Vulnerable, yet TO be. At first he lived
alone in that great house, but after a
while il was occupied by a very large
family. clcrubic, seraphic, angelic.
The etcrnities passed on and many of
the inhabitants became wayward anh
| left never TO return. And many Of
| the apartments were vacated. | refer
10 the fallen angels. Now these apart
mcnts aie 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 unoccu-
! pi-A room in Ill the house.
"N NV FATHERS HOUSE ARE MANY
ROOMS
As you aud | expect to enter it and
! mako there eternal residence, i
.h7ugbt YOU would like to get some
UCl. particulars about that many
. --5lea homestead. fIn u, Fathers
hose ul many roms' ' You see the
j ID l. 10 be apport,oned 0f into
{ U.-ulr's. We shall love a'i who
a.. iu heaven, but there l5e anmG very
/ a5c5 people whom we would botwant
/ - Nv. nill ip the .me room. They
| Us he botucr tll1I We sre, but they
. GN II o. dW..gut temperament We
I lrc-ll like 20 U-et with their on tho
B golden -,rlUJ agG worshipWit tlcm M
! ..l u-uple and walk With them on tho
sivcr banks, bat am glad 10 say that
| w0 sG0il lyg IN different apartments.
"n any tItucrs house arc many
roams.' You see heaven Will bs 50
/ Lugg that il ono want an entire room
20 liusclt or blrseA, it cpn be afford
| ed AN ingenious stAtn tician, taking
t1, statement made ID Revelation
| trl0ty-irst chapter, that the heaven
! " Jerusalem was measured and found
20 1c twelve thousand furlongs anC
thai tac length and height anC
breadth Of itare equal, says that woulC
make heaven in size 9lS sextillion 9o'
ouintillion cubic feet aud then reserv
ing a cerain portion for Che court o
heaven and tho streets, and estimating
that the world may lat n nundr.S
thousand years, he cipbCr> out tha
there arc over five uilhon roomS eact
room seventeen feet long, sixteen feet
wldu. fifteen feet high. But have
nc faith in tho accuracy Of that calcu
latlou. lie makes the rooms too small,
From all l can read, the rooms WIZ
20 palatial. and those who have no.
had enough room IN this worldl WI wi
have plenty Of room at tho last Inc Inc
fact ls that most people IN TINS WORM
arc crowded, and though out on vast
prniiio OF Ia o mountain district peo-
plo may have more room than tney
want ia most cases II is house ouh1
close To house, and the streets arc
crowded and the cradle is crowded
by other cradles, aud the graves
crowded in Tie cemetery by other
graves and one Of the r'ches'
luxuries OF many people IN get
ting out Of this world wiu DO the
gaining of unhinderod and uncramp'
cd room. And l should not wonder
II instead Of the room that The statis'