The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-15
Dr.. Talmage on TIE Ciories OF the
Fathers Home.
THERE ARE MANY ROOMS.
And There is a Place For AL Of
Gods Children. The Family
Room ard lis BLESSED
Eeoo>;oS,n~
Association.

text, John xiv, :. : 4 ny Father
house are many rocna.
Here is bottle Of med cire that Is {
cure all The disciples were sad, arc
Christ offered heaven as au Alternative
a stiuulart and touic He shows
them that their sorrows are only dat /
background Of bright pic ure of eom,
ing felicity. He let, them know that,
though COW they live 90 the low lapds,
shey shall yet have a house on the up
lands. Nearly all the Bible descrip:
tious Of heaven may be figurative.
xn not positive that in all h.av'u U there
j. Literal crown or har? or pea:ly gate
ei throne or chariot. They may be only
used to illustrate the slorles OF the
place, but how well they co 1t! The
favorite symbol ty which the Bible
presents celestial happiness is house
Paul. wIo never owred house, al
though he hired cne for two years IN
Italy. speaks Of heaven as house not
ae5e with hands, AID Christ in our
text. the translation OF which is little
changed, Sd as :ogiv3 the more accurate
meaning, says, In my Fathers house
are many rooms.
This .diyinely authorized comparison
Of heaven to great homestead O. large
accommodations propose to carry out.
In some healthy neighborhood a man
builds very commodious hahitatioD.
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 George room,
that is Henry's room, that is Flora 5
room, that is Mayys room, and the
house is all occupied. But tine goes
by, and the sons go out into the world
and build their own homes, ard the
daughters are married or have talents
enough sHgly 70 90 ou. erd do good
work il tue world. After awhile the
father aud mother are almost alone IN
the big house, and, seated by the even,
ing stand, they say, We'll, our family
is no larger row than when We started
together 40 years ago" Bat time goes
still farther by, and some Of the chill,
dren are unfortunate and return to the
old homestead to live, and the graud-
children come with them and perhaps
great. grandchildren, and again tie
bouse is full
Millennia ago God built on the hills
of heaven great homestead for fsmi-
II innumerabIe, yet to be. At first he
lived alone in that great house, but af-
ter awhile it was occu. led BY a 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. | refer to
the fallen angels. Now these apart
nents are filing up again. There are
arrivals at the Old homestead of God 5
children every day, and the day will
come when there will be no unoccppied
room in all the house.
AS you and I expect to enter 1t and
make there eternal residence, | thought
you would like to get some more partlcu-
lars about the many roomed homestead.
''In my Fathers house are many
rooms" You see, the place is to be
apportioned of into apartments. We
shall love all who are in heaven, but
there are some very good people whom
we would not want to i've with in the
same room. They may be better than
We are, but they are of divergent
temperament. We would ike to meet
with them on the golden streets and
worship with them in the temple and
walk with them on the river banks, but
I an glad to say that We shall live in
different apartments. In my Father
house are many rooms You see,
heaven will be so large that if one wants
an entire room to himself or herself 1t
can be afforded.
An ineeaicus Statistlcian, taking the
statement made in Revelation, twenty
first chapter, that the heavenly Jerusa.
lem was measured a:.d found to be y,
900 furlcngs aud that tie length anc
and height AID 5r, al i. O.: !. are cQU'i,
says that wcuid Iuake heaven in >za
S4S sextillion 9SS quintillion cubio fves.
and then, reserving certain p0rll Il
for the court of heaven and the streeI>
and estimating that the world may last
hundred thousand years, he ciphers
out that there are over 5, 900, 600, 600,
600 rooms, each room Il feet long.
IS feet wide, Is feet high. But
have no faith in the accuracy Of
that calculation. He makes the room;
to small. From all l can read, the
rooms will be palatial, and those who
have not had enough room in this worlc
will have plenty Of room at the last
The fact is that most people in thi:
world are crowded, and, though out or
vast prairie or in mountain distric
people may have more room than the!
want, in most cases it is house bull
close to house, and the streets ~,
crowded, and the cradle is crowded BY
other cradles, a2G the graves crowded
in the cemetery by o,her graves, anc
one of the richest luxUries of nan!
people in getting out Of this world vii
De the gaming OF unAlnQeTcQ ana IN
eramped room And l should no
wonder if, instead of the room that the
statistician ciphered out as only Il foe
by IS, it should be larger than any O.
the roome at Berlin. St. James or Win
ter palace. In my Father house arr
many rooms.
Carrying out still further the symbol
lem Of the text, let US join hands ant
80 up to this majestic homestead and SCI
for ourselves. As We ascend the sol
den steps aninvisible guardsman swing
open the front door, and We are usherc,
60 the right into the reception room o
the old homestead. That is the plac
where We first meet the welcome o
heaven. There must be place wher
the departed spirit enters and a plac
in which it confronts the inhabitant
celestial. The rerepti0n room of tn