HEAVENLY UAIISIOI.
DR. TAIiMAGEPRKACIIEiATTUE
nAMPl'ONi, NRW YORK.
Biblical Descriptions of thn Glories of
the Future State Should be
' Taken Figuratively.
. . Text: ' tny Father's house ar many
rooms." John adv., 3. ;
v ' ' H(!re bottle of medicine that la a cure
all. The disciples were sad and Christ of.
fered heaven as an alternatiTa, a stimulant
, ..v. mm nuuun uo BUUng U1HD lUHU IUOIT SOF-
rows are only a dark background of a bright
. picture of coming feSeity. He . lets
mow wias tnougn now they live
on the lowlands they shall -et Lave a
house on the uplands. Nearly all the Bible
descriptions of heaven may be figurative.
, I am not positive that in all heaven there is
a literal crown or harp or -pearly rate or
throne or chariot' They may be only used
to illustrate the glories of the place, but how
well they do it I The favorite symbol by
which the Bible presents celestial happiness
Is a house. Paul, who never owned a house,
although he hired one for two years in Italy,
speaks of heaven as a "house not made with
hands," and Christ in our text, the transla
tion of which is a little changed so as to give
the more accurate meaning says; "In my
Father's house are many roomsf"
anis ai vinery authorized comparison of
heaven to a great homestead of large accom
modations I propose to carry out. In some
healthy neighborhood a man builds a
very commodious habitation. He must
have room for all his children. The
rooms come to be called after : the
different members of the family. That is
mother's room. That is George's room.
That is Henry's 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 daughters are married
or have talents enough singly to go out and
tlo a good work in the world. After a while
the father and mother are almost alone in
the big house and, seated by the evening
. stand, they say: "Well, our family is no
larger now than when we started together
forty years ago.n But time goos still further
by and some of the children are unfortunate
, and return to the old homestead to live,
and the grand-children come with them, and
perhaps great-grandchildren, and again
; the house is full. Many millennia ago
. God built on the hills of heav
en a great homestead for a family innumer-
. able, yet to be. 'At first He lived alone in
that great house, but after a while it was
occupied by a very largo family, cherubic,
seraphic, angelic. The eternities passed on
and many of the inhabitants became way
ward and left never to return. And many
of the apartments were vacated. I refer to
the fallen angels. Now these apartments
.are fillincr nn nrYnin TKapa oh gmvals e.
i i m . "v ... j cm ill nu l
ibe old homestead of God's children everv
day, and the day will come when there will
be no unoccupied room In all the house.
As VOU and I exnoct to, nnfar it nnrl mab-a
. there eternal residence, I thought you would
; tike to get some more particulars about that
many-roomed homestead. "In my Father's
house are many rooms." You see the place
shall love all who are in heaven, but there
are some very eood oeoole whom we would
not want to live with in the same room. They
may be better than we are, but they are
or a divergent temperament. We would
tike 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 am glad to say that we Bhall
; live in different apartments. "In my Father's
house are many rooms." You see heaven, will
be so large that if one wanton entire room to
himself or herself, it can be afforded. An in
genious statistician taking the statement
made in Eevelation, twenty-first chapter, that
the heavenly Jerusalem was measured and
found, to be twelve thousand furlongs and
that the length and height and breadth
of it are equal, says that would make
heaven in size 948 sextillion 988
qnintillion cubic feet, and then reserving a
certain portion for the court of heaven and
the streets, and estimating that the world
may last a hundred thousand years, he ciphers
out that there are over five trillion rooms,
each room seventeen feet long, sixteen feet
wide, fifteen feet high. But I have no faith
in the accuracy of that calculation. He makes
, the room j two smalL From all I can read, the
rooms will be palatial, and those who have
: not had enough room" in this world will
have plenty of room at the last. The fact is
that most people in this world are crowded,
and though out on a vast prairie or in a
r mountain district people may have more room
than they want, in most cases it is house built
close to house, and the streets are crowded
and the cradle is crowded by other cradles,
and the graves crowded in the cemetery by
: other graves, and one of the richest
luxuries of many people in getting
out of ' this world will be the
gaining of unhindered and uncramped room.
s And I should not wonder if instead of the
room that the statistician ciphered out as
only seventeen feet by sixteen, it should be
larger than any of the imperial rooms at Ber
lin, St. James or Winter Palace. "In my
Father's bouse are many rooms." Carrying
out still further the symbolism of the text let
; us join hands and go up to this majestio
homestead and see for ourselves.
As we ascend the golden steps, an invisible
guardsman swings open the front door and
we are ushered to the right into the recep
. tion room of the old homestead. That is the
place where we first meet the welcome of
heaven. There must be a place where the
departed scirit enters and a place in which it
confronts the inhabitants celestial. The re-
cupuuu room or the newly arrived from this
Wrtrlil whflt. ronM 4fr. must diva wffiuuua1
since the first guest arrived, the victim of
. the first fratricide,pious Abel. In that room
Christ lovingly greeted all new com
ers. . He redeemed them and Ho has the
rii;ht to the first embrace 'on their arrivL
IV hat a minute when the ascended spirit first
. sees the Lord. Better than all we ever read
about Him or talked about Him or sang
about Him in all the churches and through
all dm- earthly lifetime, will it be, just for
one second to see Him. The most rapturous
fclea we ever had of nim on sacramental
, days or at the height of somo great revival
or under tne uplifted baton of an oratorio
are A hankTlintr'v of r.liraiirrir. (mmnarail wifh
the first flash of His appearance in that
, v reception room. At that moment when you
confront each other, Christ looking upon you
and you looking upon Christ, there will bean
, ecstatic thrill and surging of emotion that
beggars all description. Look! Thoy need
no introduction. Long ago Christ chose that
" repentant shiner and that repentant sinner
chose Christ. Mightiest moment of an im
mortal history the first kiss of heaven!
. Jesus and the soul. The soul and Jesus.
But now into that reception room pour
. the ' glorified kinsfolk. Enough of
. earthly retention to let you know them,
but without their wounds or their sick
nesses or their troubles. , See what heaven
has done for them. So radiant so
tf eefnl, so transportingly lovely. They call
, you by name. They greet you with an
ardor proportioned to the anguish i of
,. your parting and the length of your separa-
uod. earner? jnoineri Tnare in vour nntkt
Misters! Brothers! Friends! I wish vouiov.
For years apart, together again in the recep
tion room of the old homestead. You see
t hey will know you are coming. There are
so many immortals filling all the spaces be
, t ween here and heaven that news like that flies
like lightning. They will be there in an in
. stout; though they were in some other world
on errand from God a ; signal would be
thrown that would fetch them. Though you
mifjht at first feel dazed and overawed at
their supernal splondor, all that feeling
will be gone at their first touch of heavenly
salutation, and we will say : "O my lost boy,"
"O my lost companion,"" my lost friend, are
wo nere icgetner?" y am scenes nave been
witnessed in the reception room of the old
Homestead!
fin
saw
wimessea in in a reception room or tne old
homestead! There met Joseph and Jacob,
finding it a brighter room t han anything they
saw in Ilmraoh's palace; L'avid a," litt N
child for' whom ha' once fasted and wept;
Mary and Lasarus after the heartbreak of
Bethany; Timothy and grandmother Lois;
Isabella Graham and her sailor son,
Alfred and George Cookman, the
mystery of the sea at last made manifest;
Luther and Magdalene, the daughter he be
moaned; John Howard and the prisoners
whom he gospolhsed; and multitudes without
number who, once so weary and . so sad,
parted on earth but gloriously met in heaven.
Among all the rooms of that house there is
no one that more enraptures mv soul than
that reception-room. ,. "In my Father's house
are many rooms. '
Another room hi our Father's house is the
throne room. We belong to the royal fam
ily. The blood of King Jesus flows in our
veins, so we have a right to enter the throne
room. It Is no easy thing on earth to get
through even the outside door of a King's
residence. During the Franco-German war,
one eventide in the summer of 1870, I stood
studying the exquisite sculpturing of the
gate of the Tuilerfes, Paris. Lost in admira
tion of the wonderful art of that gate I knew
not that I was exciting suspicion.. Lower
ing my eyes to the crowds of people I
found myself being closely inspected by
governmental officials, who from my com
plexion judged me to be a German, and that
for some belligerent purpose I might be ex
amining the gates of the palace. My ex
planations in very poor French did not
satisfy them and they followed me long dis
tances until I reached my hotel, and wero
not satisfied until from my landlord they
found that I was only an inoffensive Ameri
can. The gates of earthly palaces are care
fully guarded, and, if so, how much moro
severely the throne room. . A dazzling place
ia tt ior mirrors and all costly art. No
one who ever saw the throne of the first and
only Napoleon will ever forget the, letter N
embroidered in purple and gold on the up
holstery of chair and window, the letter N
gilded on the wall, the letter N chased on the
chalices, the letter N flaming from the (wil
ing. -What a conflagration of brilliance the
throne room of Charles Immanuel of Sard in a,
of Ferdinand of Spain, of Elizabeth of Eng
land, of Boniface of Italy, But the throne
room of our Father's house hath i a
glory eclipsing all the throne rooms that ever
saw scepter wave or crown glitter or foreign
Ambassador bow, for our Father's throne is
a throne of grace, a throne of mercy, a
throne of holiness, a throne of justice, a throne
of universal dominion. We need not stand
shivering and cowering before it, for our
Father says we may yet one day come up and
sit on it beside Him. "To him that overcom
eth will! grant to sit with Me in My throne.'
You see we ore Princes and Princesses.
Perhaps now we move about incognito, as
Peter the Great in the garb of a ship carpen
ter at Amsterdam, or as Queen TirzAh in the
dress of a peasant woman seeking the prophet
for her child's cure; but it will be found out
after awhile who we are when we get into
the throne room. Aye! we need not wait
until then. We may by prayer and
song and spiritual uplifting this mo
ment enter the throno room. O King,
live forever! We touch the forgiving
scepter . and prostrate ourselves at Thy feet!
The crowns of the royal families of this
world are tossed about from generation to
generation and from family to family.
There are children four years old in Berlin
who have seen the crown on three Emperors.
But wherever the coronets of this world riso
or fall, they are destined to meet in one place.
And I look and see them coming from north
and south and east and west, the Spanish
crown, the Italian crown, the English crown.
ihe Turkish crown,, the Russian crown, the
Persian crown, aye, all the crowns from un
der the great archivolt of heaven; and while
I watch and wonder they are all flung in rain
of diamonds around the pierced feet. , - r
Jeans shall reign wher'er the ran
. Does his successive Journeys ran,
HIb kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
Oh, that throne room of Christ! "In my
Father's house are many rooms."
Another room in our Father's house is the
music room. . St. John and other Bible
writers talk so much about the music of
heaven that there must be music there,
perhaps not snch as on earth was thrummed
from . trembling string or evoked by
touch of ivory key, but if not that, then
something better. There are so . many
Christian harpists and Christian com
posers arj Christian organists and Christian
choristers and Christian hymnologists that
have gone up from earth, there must be for
them some place of especial delectation.
Shall we have music in this world of discords
and no musio in the land of complete har
mony? I cannot give you the notes of the
first bar of the new song that is sung in
heaven. I cannot imagine either the solo or
the doxology. But heaven means music, and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music lias escaped the gate. Dr. Fuller
dying at Beaufort, S. C, said: ,"Do you
not hear?" "Hear what?" exclaimed
the bystanders. "The music t Lift me
up! Open the windows P', In that music-room
of our Father's house,- you will some day
meet the old Christian no asters, Mozart and
Handel and Mendelssohn and Beethoven and
Doddridge, whose sacred poetry was as re
markable as his 6acred prose, and James
Montgomery and William Cowper, at last
Sot rid of his spiritual melancholy, and
ishop Heber, who sang of "Greenland's icy
mountains and India's coral strand;" and
Dr. Baffles, who wrote of "High in yonder
realms of light," and Isaac ' Watts,
who " went to visit Sir Thomas Abney
and wife for a week but proved himself so
agreeable a guest that they made him stay
thirty-six years; and side by side, Augustus
Toplady, who has got over his dislike for
Methodists, and Charles Wesley freed from
his dislike for Calvlnists; and George W,
Bethune, as sweet as a song maker as he was
great as a preacher and the author of "The
Village Hymns;" and many who wrote in
verse or song, in church or by eventide
cradle, and many who were passionately
fond of rausio but could make none them
selves.. The poorest singer there more than
any earthly prima donna, and the
poorest players there, more than
any earthly Uottechalk. Oh that musio
room, the headquarters of cadence and
rhythm, symphony and chant, psalm and
antiphon! May we be there some hour when
Haydn sits at the keys of one of his own or
atorios, and David the psalmist fingers the
harp, and Miriam of the Red sea banks claps
the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his lips to the
trumpet and the four-and-twenty soldiers
chant, and Lind and Parepa render match
less duet in the musio room of the old heav
enly homestead. "In my Father's house are
many rooms." , - ,
Another room in our Father's house will be
the family room. It may correspond some-
wuai witn ine iamuv room on eartn. as,
morning and evening you know, that is the
place we now meet. Though every member
oi tne nousenoia nave a separate room
in ' the family room they all gath
er and joys and sorrows and experi
ences oi an siyies are mere renearsea. . a
cred room in all our dwellings! Whether it
be luxurious with ottomans and divans and
books in Russian lids standing in mahogany
case, or there be only a few plain chairs
and a cradle. So the family room on high
will be the place where the kinsfolk assem
ble and talk over the family experiences of
earth, the weddings, the births, the burials,
the festal days of Christmas and Thanksgiv
ing reunion. Will the children depaoted re
main children there? Will the aged remain
aged there? Oh, no; everything is perfect
there. The child will go ahead to glorified
maturity and the aged will go back to glo
rified maturity. The rising sun of the one
will rise to meridian and the descending sun
of the other will return to meridian. How
ever much we love our children on earth we
would consider it a domestic disaster if they
stayed children and so we rejoice at their
growth here. And when we meet in the
family room of our Father's house, we wiO
be glad that they have 'grandly and glorious
ly matured; while our parents who were
aged and infirm here, we shall be glad to find
restored to the most agile and vigorous im
mortality there. If forty or forty-five or fif
ty years be the apex of physical and mental
hf e on the earth, then ; the hea venly child
hood will advance to that and the heavenly
old age .will retreat to that.
A V lion we join thorn in that family room
we shall have much to tell them. Wo shall
want to know of thorn right away such
things as these i Did you ifpe us in this or thai
or tlio other struggle ? Did you know when
we lost our property and sympathize with ust
Did you know we had that awful sickness!
Were you hovering anywhere around when
we plunged into that memorable accldentl
Did you know of our backsliding? Did
you know of that moral victory? ' Wer
you pleased when we started for heaven? Did
you celebrate the hour of our conversion!
And then, whether they know it or not, ws
will tell them all. But they will have mor
to tell us than we to tell them. Ten years on
earth may be very eventful, but what must
be the biography of ten years in heaven!
They will have to tea ui the . story
of coronations, story of news from ail
immensity, story of conquerors ana
hierarchs : story of. wrecked or - ran
romed planets, story of angelic victory
over diabolic revolts, of extinguished suns, of
obliterated constellations, of new galoxioi
kindled and swung, of stranded comets, ol
worlds on fire, and story of Jehovah's ma
jestic reign. If in that family room of our
Father's house we have so much to tell them
of what we have passed through since we
Jartod, hew much more thrilling and arous
ng that which they have to toll us of what
they have passed through since we parted.
Surely that family room will be one of the most
favored rooms in all our Father's house.
What, long lingering there, for we
shall never again be in a hurry.
"Let me open a window," said an
humble Christian servant to Lady Baffles,
who, because of the death of her child,
had shut herself up in a dark room
and refused . to see any one; "you have
Ikhwi many davs- in this dark , room.
Are you not ashamed to grieve in this
manner, when you ought to be thanking
God for having given you the most beauti
ful child that ever was seen, and instead of
leaving him in this world till ho should be
worn with trouble, has not God taken him to
heaven in all his beauty? Leave off weeping
and let me open a window." So to-day I am
trying to open upon the darkness of earthly
separation the windows and doors and rooms
of the heavenly homestead. "In my Father's
house are many rooms."
How would it do for my sermon to leave
you in that family room to-day? Iam sure
there is no room in which you would rather
stay than in the enraptured circle of your as
cended and glorified kinsfolk. We might
visit other rooms in our Father's house. There
may be picture galleries penciled not with
earthly art but ' bv some process
unknown in this world. '' nrortB.
tng tor the next worll the bright
est and most stupendous scones of human nis
tory. And there may be linos and forms of
earthly beauty preserved for heavenly in
spection in something whiter and chaster and
richer than Venetian sculpture ever wrought.
xvoums oesiae rooms, itooms over rooms.
Large rooms. Majestic 'rooms, opalescent
rooms, amethystine rooms. "In my Father's
house are many rooms."
I hope none of us will be disappointed
about getting there. There Is a room for us
if we will go and take it, but in order to reach
it it is absolutely necessary that we take the
right way; and Christ is the way: and we
must enter at the right door, and Christ is
the door; and we must start in time, and the
only hour you are sure of is the hour the clock
now strikes and the only second the one your
watch is now tickins. .1 hold in
my nana a roll of letters inviting you all
to make that your home forever. , The New
Testament, is only a roll of lotters inviting
you, as the spirit of them practically says:
"My dying yet immortal- child in earthly
neighborhood, I have built for you a great
residence. It is full of rooms. I nave
furnished them as no palace was ever fur
nished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds are
nothing, chrysophrasus is nothing; fllu-'
mined panels of sunrise and sunset,
nothing; the aurora of the northern
heavens, nothing compared with the splen
dor with which I have garnitured them.
But you must be clean before you can enter
there, and so I have opened a fountain
where you may wash all your sins away.
Come now I Put your weary but cleansed
feet on the upward pathway, Do you not
see amid the thick foliage on the heavenly
hill-tops the old family homestead?" "In
my Father's house are manv rooms.?
Calamities in Congress.
The .disaster at Johnstown makes the
third colossal calamity in this country
in recent 'years. . The destruction of
Portland, Me., in 1866, and of Chicago
in 1871, both by hre, touched the sym
pathetic heart of the people just as the
floods of Johnstown are doing now. In
the former, instances Congress at once
came to the relief of the stricken com
munities. Direct appropriations of
money : were J not ,mftde, but a greater
measure of relief was aftbrded.no doubt,
by abolishing the Customs and Revenue
laws, so far as those points were con
cerned, for one year. These commun
ities were absolved from payment of all
tithes to the government Whatever
,'they needed, of foreign importation, to
construct their homes and business
houses and put them again on a light
ing equality with their neighbors, was
relieved of all government tax. No
doubt the bill for the relief of Johnstown
will be formed on the model of the Port
land and Chicago bills, and the views.
pro and cm., given in the Senate debate
of 1871 will be repeated when Congress
meets in December. New York Telegram.
A Cure for Lockjaw.
.Lockjaw is generally popularly be
lieved to be invariably fatal. , Recoveries
are, indeed, comparatively rare, and yet
they Ho take place. The proportion of
them is much larger now than it was a
score of years ago, and it is safe to pre
dict that it will grow larger as time goes
on and the malady is better understood.
Professor Rienzi, since 1882, has ap
plied one form of treatment in six cases,
with the result of obtaining five cures.
TV.e essentials of his treatment are as
follows: " 1. The patient, having the
ears staffed with cotton or wax, is to be
kept in a quiet room, and in total dark
ness. 2. The sick room, as well as ; the
adjoining ones, is to be thickly carpet
ed in order to avoid the noise of foot
steps, s 3. The room is to be opened for
ventilation everr four hours with the
greatest care. The diet is to consist of
quids, milk, " eggs beaten in broth,
water and wine, etc. 4. All light neces
sary shall carefully be covered from the
sight of the sick.. 5 If constipation ex
ists, both purgatives and injection are
interdicted. . Above all, quietness is
necessary. 6. Should the pains be in
tense, with the object of quieting, pow
dered belladona and ergot of rye should
be used.
PntsiDENT Hajimson has received
from William , Candy, a stonemason of
Melbourne, Australia, photograph of a
beautiful and imposing monument to the
memory of the late ! President Garfield
which? Candy erected in his front yard.
Tlie monument is of unique design, be
ing a 8ummer-liou.se with suitable ini
scriptionson the stono front. . A bust of
Garfield ornaments a niche, over the
door. Candy says that he is an Eng
lishman, but has a great lore for Amelia
cans. He was always a great admirer of
Garfield and knows some of his speeches
by heart ,' v. ,
' An Estimate of Elsuiere. '
' ' The Chicago Tribune does not mince
matters in its editorial notice of Robert
Elsmere. It saysr
"At the conclusion of the Squire's
vapid talk the limp priest says : 'I will
not fight you any more, Mr. Wendover,'
and he does not. The reader can nevei
be nuite sure what it was that over
whelmed Robert so easily, or why he
did not fight any more, or if he had
ever fought before that time. If he had
resisted the Squire with half the sjpirit
of adroitness with which he resisted
the charms and seduotions of Mme.
de Netteville, it would have gone far
toward making a ; climax in the book
and elevating the wean priest m tne
reader's estimation. One -would like
to witness o tussle between a real
Squire and Prof. Patton or the Kev. Jo
Cook. Blood would be drawn and
blows would be hit from the shoulder. '
But Robert Elsmere bah I
"There is room for congratulations,
however, that the clergy have recov
ered from their panic ; that the church
is in no danger ; and that the laity
once more can turn its attention to the
practical work of faith, hope and char
ity, undisturbed by this important
book, already gathering dust on the
shelves. They were Beared by a bug
aboo, v No Christian man or woman oi
the tens of thousand who have waded
throutrh the volume has had his or her
faith shaken, and no agnostic has had
doubts strengthened." The thin stuff
has done neither good nor harm, exoept
that the time spent in reading it was
wasted and the money" paid for it
thrown away."
Parliamentary.
Brown "Where's that fiver I laid on
the table a moment ago?" r
Mrs. Brown" lou never expected
So see that again, did you?" ,
Brown " And why not r
Mrs. , Brown "I supposed you un-
Ier8tood enough of parliamentary prac
sice to know that when a bill was laid
n the table it was seldom heard of
tgain." Harper's Bazar.
To the Tterfume of "flowers M. TJn-
rerer ascribes the power of protecting
tgainst and even arresting consump
tion. In the perfume-distilling town
)f La Grasse lung. troubles are but lit
tle known.
TJrown's Iron Bitters furnishes aid to the
tomach to accomplish its work. Only a med
icine which has a specific action upon the
itomach will do you say good, and Brown's
Iron Bitters will act directly upon that organ,
toning it up and giving it strength to do its
work, relieving the premure upon the nervous
system, strengthening the nerves, quickening
and improving the appetite, removing flatu
lency and heartburn, restoring the appetite
and dispelling the dizzy Fpelis which are so
annoying, and may prove very dar serous.
Even a small barber may be called a strap
ping fellow. .
The Wlneat Gift.
" I bought my wife a velvet sack."
. Thus proudly boasted Mr. Brown.
" She'll be, with that upon her back.
The beat dresst'd dame in town."
But velvet sack or diamond ring
Can bring no balm to suffering wife.
Favorite Prescription is the thing
To save her precious life.
The great and t-overeign remedy, know the
world over.f or all female troubles, Inflamma
tion, cruel backache and internal displace
ments is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It
a the only gxtariuUetd cure. See guarantee on
very bottle-wrapper. - ;,
Dr. Pierce's Pellets gently laxative or ac
tively cathartic aoco dins to dose. 25 cents.
The successful farmer has to be sharp as a
raiser. --, -
. "Stick to your business," is very good advice,
but still there are a great many people in the
world who have no regular and profitable busi
Dess to stick to; and there are others who are
following a line of business which is manifest
ly unsulted to them. Now, when such is the
rase, you had better write to B. F. Johnson &
Co., Richmond. Va., and see if they cannot
rive you a pointer. They have helped a great
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