Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-15
SERMONS Of THE Day.
Preached by Rev. Dr.. falnaga

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0nhjesfs Our Fathers House - Gcd',
Homestead. Builded ON the Hills o
Heaven, Provides R0oms For ALI
Vivid Picture Of the Celestial Home.
tCopyright. Louis Klopsch. 1891
WARRINGTON, D. C.-In unique way the
heavenly world is discoursed upon by DR.:
Talmage In this sermon under the figure ol
. home; text, John XIV, 2, "In My Fathers
house are many rooms"
Hero Is bottle OF medicine that is q
sure all. The disciples were sad, and
Christ offered heaven as an Alternative, q
stimulant and q tonic. He shows them
that their sorrows are only a dark back.
ground Of bright picture Of coming
felicity. He let's them know that, though
now they live on the lowlands. they shall
yet have house on the uplands. Nearly
ngurative. am not positive that in all
heaven there Is a literal crown or harp OF
pearly gate or throne or chariot. They
may be only Used to illustrate the glorie:
Of the place, but how we'll they do Il! The
favorite symbol by which the Bible pre-.
who never owned q house, although he
hired one for two years In Italy, speaks OF
heaven as "house not made with hands, u
aud Christ In our text, the translation oil
which Is a little changed, SO as to give the
more accurate meaning, says: 'In My
Fathers house are many rooms"
This divineiy authorized comparison of
commodations propose TO carry out. In
some healthy neighborhood a man builds
. very commodious habi,ation. He must
have room for all his children. The rooms
come to be called after the different men,
bers Of the family. That Is mothers room,
hat Ia hat 10
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 sinsly to go out and do a good
father and mother are almost alone in the
big house, and. seated BY the evening
stand, they SAY, "Well. our family Is NO
larger now than when We started together
forty years ago" But time goes still
further by, and some Of the children are
stead to live, and the grandchildren come
with them and perhaps great gran dchil.
dren, and again the house is full.
Millennis ago God built on the hills oil
heaven q great homestead for family In.
Vulnerable. yet to be. At first He lived alone
in that great house, but after awhile il
was occupied by very large family, cher
ubic, seraphic, angelic. The eternfties
passed on, and many OF the inhabitant.
became wayward and left, never to return
and many Of the apartments we're vacant
refer to the fallen angels. Now these
arrivals at the old homestead OF God.
children every day, and the day will com,
when there will be no unoccupied room II
all the house.
A. you and I expect to enter It and make
there eternal residence. I thought you
would like TO get some more particular.
about the many roomed homestead. "Iu
my Fathers house are many rooms" You
see, the place Is to be apportioned OF Into
apartments. We shall love all who are il
heaven, but there are some very good peo
pie whom We would not want to live witt
in the same room. They may be better
than We are. but they are OF divergen
them on the golden streets and worship
with them In the temple and walk witt
them on the river banks, but am glad {,
say that We shall live In different apart
ments. In my Fathers house are man,
rooms" You see, heaven will be so larg.
that II one wants an entire room to bimseT
or herself 1t can be afforded.
An ingenious statistician, taking tn
statement made In Revelation, twenty -flrs
chapter, that the heavenly Jerusalem wa
meas ured and found to be IL, 900 furlong
and that the length and height and breadtl
of 1t are equal, says that would max
heaven In size 948 sextillion 9Ss quintilliol
bic feet, and then, resef%inR Ia-certail
portion for the court of heaven and tn
streets and estimating that the world ma,
last hundred thousand years, he cipher
out that there are over 5000 900 900 90
rooms, each room seventeen feet long, six
teen feet wide. fifteen feet high. But hav
no faith in the accuracy OF that calcula
tion. 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 a
the last. should not wonder II, instea,
of the room that the statistician ciphere,
should be larger than any OF the rooms a
Berlin, st. James or Winter palace. "Il
my Fathers house are many rooms"
ACarrying out still further the symbolism
Of the text. let us join hands and 60 up t.
this majestic homestead and see for our
selves. As We ascend the golden steps al
invisible guardsman swings open the from
door, and We are ushered to the right int,
the reception room OF the old homestead
That Is the place where We first meet tn
welcome Of heaven. There must be u plac,
where the departed spirit enters and
place In which It oonfronts the inhabitant
celestial. The reception room Of the new
must have witnessed since the first Rues
arrived. the victim Of the nrst fratricide
pious Abell In that room Christ lovingl,
gro0ts all newcomers. He redeemed them
and He has the right to the arst embrace OIL
arrival. What . minute whom the ascendet
spirit first secs the Lordi Better than al
We ever read about Him or talked abou
Him or sang about Hin In all the churche
and through all our earthly lifetime vii
It be. Just for one second to see Him
The most rapturous idea we ever had o
Him on sacramentsl days or at the heigh
OF some great revival or under the upliftet
baton OF an oratorio Is q bankruptcy o
thought compared with the first dash o
His appearance In that reception room. A
that moment when you confront eacl
other, Christ looking upon you and yol
looking upon Christ, there will be an &c
static thrill and surginR Of emotion tina
beggar all description. Look! They neet
that repentant sinner, and that repentan
sinner chose Christ. Mightlest moment o
an immortal htstory-tbe first kiss o
heaven! Jesus and the soull The soul an'
Jesusi
But now into that reception room pou
the Rloriled kinsfolk, enough OF earthl
retention to let you know them. but with
out their wounds or their sicknesses o
their troubles. See what heaven has don
for them-so radiant, SO Rleeful, 8
/ trnnsportingly lovelyi They call you b
name. They greet you with an ardor pro
portioned to the anguish OF your parting
and the length Of your separation
Father! Mother! There Is your child
SistersI Brothersi Friendsl I wish yo,
Joy. For years apart, together again i
the reception room Of the old homestead
You see, they will know you are coming
There are SO many fmmortals filling all tn
spaces between here and heaven that new
like that dies like lightning. They will b
there in an instant. Though they were ii
some, other world on errand from God.
signal would be thrown that woul
| fetch them. Though YOU might at frs
feel daxed and overawed at their supeI
| nal splendor, all that feeling will b
gone at their first touch of heavenl
salutation, and We will say: "Oh. my lost
| boyr' "Oh, my lost companion" "Oh
my lost friendi Arc We here together!
/ What scenes in that reception room OF tn
i old homestead have been Witnessed Ther
met Joseph and Jacob. finding It brighte
room than anything they s1w in Pharaoh
palace; David and the little child for whor
he once tasted and wept: Mary and La;
/ arus after the heartbreak Of Bethan!
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