Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-24
CITY OF GOD a REALITY.
Opinion of New York Preacher
Regarding Heaven.
MAY SOON. BE LOCATED BY SCIENCE

Earth's Inhabitants JehOvah's
Throne, Around which All Other
Planets Revolve Wonderful Esti-
mate of City's Size.
In his sermon to large congregation
at the First Baptist church of Macon,
Mo-. the other morning the Rev. Will
liam Coburn of New York. an evangel-
list, took the position that 1.-The City of
Cod or the New Jerusalem. was as
material and as real city as London,
New York or Kansas City and express
ed himself as being confident that it
would yet be located by astronomers
and men of science and could be seen
by the inhabitants of earth before
death. says Macon dispatch to the
Kansas City Times.
The text was, Wherefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God, for lie
hath prepared for them a city."-Heb.
xi, is. Mr.. Coburn said in part:
I'VE know that our globe was at one
time, a part of the sun. The inclination
of the axis and the constituent parts as
shown by spectrum analysis make this
almost certain. Thrown off in a gas
eous form, it gradually cooled down as
the ages rolled until 1t became this
solid earth upon which man now lives.
at is impossible to conceive the spir
it taking up the various relations of
life in the world without body and q
sphere of activity for that body. The
logic that requires body and world
here demands q body and a world be-
yond the grave.
ut was supreme moment in the
history of the race when Calico placed
his eye to the telescope. with it's new
~ discovered powers. Up to that time
the universe had been earth centered.
The sun, the moon and the stars all
revolved around it. But Calico found
that instead of our earth being the cen
ter of the great unmeasured universe
it was one of the smallest bodies of the
solar system and that it, together with
others much larger, revolyed around
the sun, which. with other systems
like our own, was revolving around an
other and a larger and more central
sun.
"This led to the sublime question,
which was presented at a meeting of
famous astronomers, What Is the CEN
ter Of 1t ALL? An impressive silence fell
upon the assembly of students. Then
the question was replied to in this lam
guage by man who stands at the
very head of astronomical thought and
discovery: I know not what others
may think, but 1t seems to me it must
be the throne of the great jehovah
'1f you tell me where this great
sun is about which all other suns and
stars and worlds revolve, will tell you
where Gods city is, for the throne is in
the midst of the city, and the hour may
be near at hand when astronomy will
be able to exactly locate, out amid the
brilliant consultations yonder, the very
spot, the center of the universe of God,
There are those who are studying TO
that end right now, and they feel the
wondrous enthusiasm which is born of
the thought that they are approaching
nearer and nearer the hour and the
place.
The city of God is q place so vast
that it bewilders all attempts at com
putation. One great mathematician
devoted a full two years to the deyel-
opment of the measurements that
were given John In the Revelation. His
deduction was that If the race was to
continue on earth 5000 years longer
and to increase at the normal pro rata
there would be space for a five room
house, each room fifteen feet square
and fifteen feet high, for every member
of the race and that this would only
take up one-third of the area Of that
great city! Another third would re-
main for boulevards and beauty spots.
Another third would be for the palace
and the throne of the King of kings.
But there will be some things lack
ing In this great city of God. The city.
however, will be the gamer for It,
There will be no cemeteries, with their
beautiful flowers and foliage. There
will be no physicians, no undertakes.
no drug stores No somber hearses will
glide down the golden streets of the
new Jerusalem. for there will be no
death there and no night"