The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-11
OUR HOME IN HEAVEN
Dr.. Talmage breaches on the Glories
of Our Fathers House.
There Are In 1t Many Rooms. and
There IL . Place for lcvery
One Of Gods Chill.
dren.
copyright. 1889. by Louis KlopschJ
Washington,

N~opS'Ae"S ~s L:--.,
In unique way the Heavenly world
is discoursed upon by DR.. Talmage in
this sermon under the figure of a home;
text, John l4:2: "ln my fathers
house are many rooms"
Here is bottle of medicine that is
cure all. The disciples were sad. and
Christ offered Heaven as an alternative,
a stimulant and g tonic. He shows
them that their sorrows are only dark
background of a bright picture OF COM
| ing felicity. He let's them know that,
though they live on the lowlands, they
shall vet have house on the uplands.
| Nearly all the Bible descriptions of
Heaven may be figurative. l 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 ia
vorite symbol by which The Bible pre-
sents 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 lit
tie changed, so as to give the more ac-
curate meaning, says: I'm my Fathers
house are many rooms"
This Divinely authorized comparison
of Heaven to a great homestead of large
accommodations propose to carry out.
In some healthy neighborhood a man
builds very commodious habitatlon.
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 60 out into the world and
build their own homes, and the daugh-
ters are married or have talents enough
singly to 60 out and do good work III
the world. After awhile the father and
mother are almost alone in the house,
and, seated by the evening stand, they
say: ''Well, our family is no larger
now than when we started together 40
years ago." But time goes still farther
by, and some of the children are unfor-
tunate, 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.
AIillennia 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
awile 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. Irefer 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 unoccupieG room in all
the house.
AS you and I expect to enter it ant
make there eternal residence, thought
you would like to get some more par
e ticulars about the many roomed home
e stead. "In my Fathers house are many
e rooms" You see the place is to be ap
Il portioned off into apartments. We shall
n love all who are in Heaven, but ther'
r. are some very good people whom w
Il would not want to live with in the SAM
II room. They may be better than we are
e but they arc of divergent tempera
II ment. We would like to meet will
Il them on the golden streets and worship
with them in the temple and walk will
# them on the river banks, but am gla,
d to say that we shall live in differen
,e apartments. I'm my Fathers hous
are many rooms" You see, Heaven viii
g. be so large that if one wants an entir
" room to himself or herself it can be al
At forded.
If An ingenious statistician, taking tn
e. statement made in Revelation, twenty
|: first chapter, that the Heavenly Jeru
ut salem was measured and found to b
es $4,000 furlongs and that the length an
height and breadth of it are equal, say
that would make Heaven in size "a
" sextillion 0ss quintillion cubic feet, an
then, reserving a certain portion fc
the court of Heaven and the streets an
estimating that the world may last
s. hundred thousand years, he ciphers on
e. that there are over 100000, 0O0,O(
rs rooms, each room II feet long, 16 fec
ne wide, Is feet high. But have no fait
re in the accuracy of that calculation
IS. lie makes the rooms too small. Frol
III all can read, the rooms will be pal'
ch tial, and those who have not had enoug
room in this world will have plenty
sc, room at the last. The fact is that mo!
w people in this world are crowded, AM
gil though out on q vast prairie or in
mt mountain district people may ha,
1g more room than they want, in moi
le. cases it is q house built close to hous
nj and the streets are crowded, and II
ed cradle is crowded by other cradles, ar
the graves crowded in the cemetery
of other graves, and one OF the richie
luxuries Of many people in getting o.
an of this world will be the gaining of VI
,e. hindered and uncramped room. And
he should not wonder II, instead Of Il
W. room that the statistician ciphered o