The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-11-17
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"MANY ROOMS IN HEAVEN
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From John Chapter XIV, Verse e. as
FoIIows:-"In My Fathers House Are
Many Rooms"-A Bottle of Medicine
That Is Cure-All.


a stimulant and a tonic. He shows
them that their sorrows are only d
dark BACKGROUND of a bright picture
OF coming felicity. He lets them hhO"
that though now they live on the low
lands. they shall yet have house on
the uplauds. Nearly all the BlDle ue-
scriptions of heaven may be iigurali'e'
/ am not positive that in all heaven
there is a literal crown or harp oF
pearly gate or throne or chariot. lhey
may be only used to Illustrate Tue
glories Of the place, but how well they
do It! The favorite symbol by whlch
the Bible presents celestial happiness
| is a house. Paul, who never owned
! house, although he hired one ior t"o
years in Italy, speaks OF heaven as
'house not made with hands, ana
! Christ in our text, the translation OIL
which is a little changed, so as 10
give the more accurate meaning, says
I'm my Fathers house are many
rooms"
This divinely authorized comparison
of heaven to a great homestead u
large accommodations propose 10 car
~ out. In some healthy neighbor-
hood a man builds very commodlous
habitation. He must have room Tor ali
his children. The rooms come 10 DC
called after the different members OIL
the family. That is mothers room
that is Georges ROOM that is Henry
room: that is Flora's room; that Is
Marys room, and the house is all oc-
cupied. But time goes by, ana the
sons go out into the world, and oullu
their own homes; and the daughters
are married or have talents enough
: singly to go out and do good work III
the world. After a while the tather
and mother are almost alone III tue
big house, and seated by the eVehlns
stand. they say: well, our family Is
no larger now than when we starteu
together forty years ago." But tine
= goes still further by, and some OF the
- children are unfortunate. and return
e to the old homestead to live, and the
= grandchildren come with them, anu
s perhaps observation-disclosures and again
e the house is full.
4 Millennia ago God built on the Nils
= of heaven a great homestead ior a
= family innumerable, yet to be. At hrs'
q he lived alone in that great house, pu'
after awhile 1t was occupied by very
large family, cherubic. seraPhlc, an
d gelic. The eternities passed on, anC
10 many Of the inhabitants became way
r. ward and left, never to return, anI
n many Of the apartments were vacated
i I refer to the fallen angels. NOW
20 these apartments are filling up again
There are arrivals at the old home
20 stead Of Gods children every day. am
IN the day will come when there VII
y, be no unoccupied room in all tn
ID house.
n AS you and expect to enter it an
i, make there eternal residence, though
ds you would like to get some more par
~ ticulars about the many-roomed nome
&c stead. In my Fathers house are man
- rooms" You see. the place is TO D
IL apportioned off into apartments. w
~ shall love all who are in heaven, bt
there are some very good people whol
&C. we would not want to live with in IN
40 same room. They may be better tina
20 we are, but they are of dlVergel
1io temperament. We would like to me-
- with them on the golden streets, an
=, worship with them in the temple, ar
-, "a walk with them on the river banks, b
am glad to say that we shall live
No different apartments. I'm my Father
iI' house are many rooms" You sc
y, heaven will be so large that II o.
wants an entire room to himself
~, ~. herself, it can be afforded.
zen An ingenious statistician, taking t
ia statement made in Revelation, twent
tal' first chapter, that the heavenly Jer
INC salem was measured and found to
'n9 twelve thousand furlongs, and that t
az length and height and breadth of
ouS are equal says that would make heav
in size 94S sextillion, 9SS quintilli
cubic feet; and then reserving a c.
'eoH tain norton for the court Of heav
ou' and the streets. and estimating Il
Ii the world may last hundred thousa
u"y wears he ciphers out that there
anu over FIVE trillion rooms, each ro
YER seventeen feet long, sixteen feet wi
q III fifteen feet high. But l have no ia
the IN the accuracy Of that calculation.
iPle' makes the rooms too small. FROM
'rms can read, the rooms will be palat
ense and those who have not had enot
rned room in this world will have plenty
Must room at the last. The fact Is, t
him. most people in this world are crowd
from and though out on vast prairie OF
have a mountain district people may h
eter more room than they want, in n
cir cases it is house built close to ho'
lting and the streets are crowded, and
stive cradle Is crowded by other cradles,
as to the graves crowded in the cemetery
re of other graves, and one of the ricl
had luxuries of many people in getting
lie If of this world will be the gaining
unhindered and uncramped room.
I should not wonder If, instead OF
COM room that the statistician ciphered
ne as as only seventeen feet by sixteen
cleo should be larger than any of the 70
deep at Berlin, st. James, or winter Pai
Is per "In my Fathers house are NJ
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