The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-29

uroa is pr 1'linl-r in thi, sermon
under he lirtrc pi a i,nnr. text john
xiv. : IA Ms Father, house are
many ron.-.
lIrui~ h,iiio OF u.,'licinc that is
a curr ;.ll III, di i.ril,> were sad
and Christ otierc,i heaven a- an alter
ativc. a -,imu!an, and tonic. He
show ticm that their ;. rrows are on
Is a dark Background of Il bright PIE
ture Of coming felicity. lie ',-
them know ,hat, though nov iI..y
live on the lowiands, they -l.al! yt
have Il house on the upland Scar
ly all the Bible descriptions d. heaven
may be i-nratvc. an not i,u,ltivc
that in all heaven there i a literal
crown or harp Or pcally t.ttr or throne
or chariot. They may be- rnly used to
Illustrate the rlorc %! the place, but
how we'll they d. IT, The favortc
symbol by whicI the Bible presents
celestial happn, is Il house Paul,
who never owned a house, although
he hired one for two years in Italy,
speaks rl heaven as ''huu,c not
made with hands and Christ in our
text, the translation Of which is little
changed, :" as to give the more acrni-
ate meaning, says: 'lr My Father
house arc many rooms.
This Iivir.1,, an, Lnr;,n.l .,,,,.,;
son Of heaven to Il great homestead of
large accommodations | propose to
carry ~ IN som. healthy neigh
bprn',. n.A,. hnl,i Il very commo-
di"u> naAi'a'inn lie must have
room 10. MS children. The rooms
come to be called after the different
members Of thee family That is
mother $ room, that is George room,
that is Henry $ 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
daughters arc married or have talents
enough singly to 90 out and do IL good
work i'll the world. After while the
father and mother are almost alone i'm
the big house, and, seated by the
evening stand, they say, "Wcll, 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 unfortunate
and return to the old homestead to
live, and the grandchildren come with
them and perhaps rcat-grandchildren,
and again tho house is full.
Millcnnia ago God built on the hills
OF heaven great homestead for
family innumcrablc, yet to be. at
flrst lie lived alone in the great house.
but after awhile it was occupied by
very large family, chcrubic. scraphic,
angelic. The ctcrp;tics passed on,
and many Of the inhabitants became
wayward and left, never to return,
and many of the apartments were va
cant. refer to the fallen angels.
Now these apartments are filling up
again. There are arrivals at the old
homestead Of Gods children every
day, and the day will come when thcr.
will be no unoccupicd 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. ''In my Fathers house are
many rooms You sec, the place is
to be apportioncd off into apartments.
We shall love all who are in heaven,
but there arc somr very good people
whom we would not want to live with
In the same room. They may be bet
ter than We are, but they are of di-
vcrgent temperament. 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 l am glad to say that
We shall live in different apartments.
Gin my Fathers house are many
rooms You see, heaven will be so
large that if one wants an entire room
to himself or herself it can be afford
ed.
An ingenious statistcian, taking
the statement made in Revelation,
twcnty-6rst chapter, that the heaven
ly Jerusalem was measured and found
to be $4,000 furlongs and that the
length and height and breadth of it
are equal, says that would make hcav-
en- in size 948 sextillion 9SS quintil-
lion cubic feet, and then, rcscrving
certain portion sor the court of heaven
and the streets and estimating that
the world may last hundred thous-
and years, he ciphers out that there