The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-11
OUR HOME IN HEAVEN
D.. Talmage breaches on the Glories
of Our Fathers House.
There Are In ~ Mnny Rooms, and
There II . Place for Every
One of Gods Chill
drea.
Copyright. 1899. by Louis KiopschJ
---- WashinRlon. Nov. ..

Is discoursed upon by DIR. Talmagc ia
this sermon under the figure of "A home
text. John 1872: ''ln my father
house are many rooms"
Here is bottle of medicine that is {
cure all. The disciples were sad, anG
Christ offered Heaven as an alternative
a siimulant and n tonic. lie shows
them hat their sorrows are only darl
background Of bright picture Of com
ing felicity. lie lets them know that,
though they live on the lowlands, they
shall yet have a house on the uplands.
Nearly all the Bible descriptions OF
positive that in all Heaven there is n
literal crown or harp or pcarly 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
porite symbol by which the Bible pre-
scnts celestial happiness is a house
Paul, who never owned n house, al
though he hired one for two years in
Italy, speaks of Heaven as n "house not
made with hands," and Christ in our
V1cNt, the translation of which is lit
Tie changed, SO as to give the more ac-
curatc meaning, says: in my Fathers
house are many rooms"
This DivineIy authorized comparison
of Heaven to a grcat homestead Of large
accommodations propose to carry out.
In some healthy neighborhood a man
builds n very commodious habitation.
lie must have room for all his children.
Tho IN. hp called al In no
different members of the family. That
il mothers room, that is Georges room,
that is IIenry'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 daugh-
tiers are married or have talents enough
singly TO go out and do good work in
the world. After awhile the father and
mother are almost alone in the house,
aud, 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
10 live, and the grandchildren come
with them. and perhaps great-grand-
children, and again the house is full
Millcnnia ago God built on the hills o!
Heaven great homestead for family
innumerablc, yet to be. At first He lived
alone in that great house, but after
awilc it was occupied by very large
family, chcrubic, seraphic, angelic.
The eternitics passed on, and many o!
the inhabitants became Maynard and
left, never to return, and many of the
apartments were vacated. Irefer to the
fallen angels. Now these apartments
arc 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 unoccupied room in all
the house.
As you and expect to enter it and
make there eternal residence, ! thought
you would like to get some more par
ticulars about the many roomcd home
stead. I'm my Fathers house are many
rooms" You see the place is To be APP
portioncd 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 arc of divergent tempera-
ment. 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. ''ln my Fathers house
are many rooms" You see, Heaven will
be so large that IL one wants an entire
room to himself or herself it can be af-
fordcd.
An ingenious statistician, taking the
statement made i'm Revelation, twenty
first chapter, that the Heavenly Jeru-
salem was measured and found to be
10000 furloDgs and that the length and
height and breadth OF il are equal, says
that would make Heaven in size 0iS
sextillion oss quintillion cubic feet, and
then, rcserving a certain portion fer
the court of Heaven and the streets and
estimating that the world may last n
hundred thousand years, he ciphers out
that there are over 100000, 100000
rooms, each room IL feet long, l6 feet
wide, Is feet high. But have no faith
in the accuracy of that calculation.
lie makes the rooms too small. From
all ! can read, the rooms will be pala-
tial. and those who have not had enough
room in this world will have plenty OF
room ut the last. The fact is that mos I
people in this world are crowded, and
though out on a vast prairie or in u
mountain district people may have
more room than they want, in most
cases il is n house built close to house
and the streets are crowded, and the
cradle is crowded by other cradles, and
the graves crowded in the cemetery by
other graves, and one of the richest
luxuries of many people in getting gu,
of this world will be the gaining OF un.
hiDdered and uncramped room. And
should not wonder II. instead of the
room that the statistician ciphered out
us only ~ feet by l6, IL should b,
larger than any of the rooms mt Berlin
ST. James or Winter palace. ''In my
Fathers house are many rooms"
Carrying out still further the symbol.
ism OF the text, let us join hands, and &c
mp TO this majestic homestead and see