The Newtown bee., 1899-01-27

magnitude and brillancy appear to my ohasslated vision; all these planets and and stars are occupants of "Father's house."
 The astronomer takes me to the lar9- est CeIe cope. he properly adjusts it, and then tells me to look through it. To noe worlds innumerable appear. I cannot count them, cannot make even an an. prcximate estimate of their number: but he tells me that 77,0OO, 900 worlds have been revealed. My teacher now turns the mighty instrument toward the neb. ulae, and now see 5000, 1000, GOO worlds Which are already known, and all these worlds are in Fathers house. God knows them all, for they are his creation. s'By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth." Again, He tell. eth the number of the stars, he calIeth 1 them all by their nGmes.'
 I In Psalms l03: II, the greatness of Gods mercy is compared with the height of the heavens. How high are the heavens? Saturn is 900, GOO, GOO miles from the earth. Theta is twenty one trillions of miles away. The unre- solved nebuiae are supposed to be 16s,. i OOO,0OO, OOO, GOO, miles above us; and yet the dome of Fathers house Is above all these. They are occupants of His dwelling place. We can measure the 1i- mensions of the Fathers honse only by measuring the universe; for he inhabits every part of 1t. From what has been said, we may get some feeble idea of the many mansions, which the Fathers house contains. Yet these mansions do not seem to be designed as the abode of the saints; they seem to be already oc- cupied, celestial orders, angels as num- erous as the stars may inhabit them.
 The Christ seems to have passed beyond them all, to locate a place for His re- deemed ones,-to prepare place for the 1 church which is His Bride, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. O, what 8 place will Christ preparei The pearly gate, the golden streets, the jasper walls, it's river clear as crystal. it's foundations :. of all manner of precious stones will be some of the ornaments tions of the ''place" of Gods saints. A place without sorrow, pain, disease, nor death. It will be place where no graves are dug. where no angel with marble finger pointing upward shall mark the ashes of departed families. PLACE WHERE GOOD EYES ARE NEVER SAID,
 where farewells are never spoken.-such are few characteristics of that place.
 Some, nay, many are going there. ! Many dear ministers have gone, fathers and mothers are gone over, brothers and 1 sisters, husbands and wives have kissed each other good bye. What do they see, what do they hear, what do they feel yon- der. Surely, not all that the dear Say four will prepare; for, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it enter ed into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."
 May it not be that Jesus designs to give His people grand surprise, when at the head of the ransOmed church, He will lead them up to the shining city. Haiti is the command which goes ringing down the lorg line of his Jewels, which He has gathered up from tho various local- ities and conditions of earth. Then turning his lace toward the city, he shonts to the attendant angel, Lift up your heads ye gates and be ye lift up ye