DR TALMAGE'’S SERMON:
The House on The Hills.
“In my Father's house are many mansions.”
John 14: 2,
Hegre is a bottle of medicine that is
a cure-all. The deseiples were sad, and
Christ offered heaven as an alterative,
a stimulant, and a tonic. He shows
them that their sorrows are only a dark
background of a bright picture of com-
ing felicity. He lets them know that
though now they live on the lowlands,
they shall yet have a house on the up-
lands, Nearly all the Bible descriptions
of heaven may be figurative. Iam not
positive that in all heaven thereis a
iteral crown or harp or pearly gate or
throne or chariot. hey may be only
used to illustrate the glories of the
lace, but how well they do it! The
an Mh symbol by which the Bible
oresents 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 translation of which is a Littl
changed, so as to give the more aceu-
rate meaning, “In my Father's
house are
BAaVS,
MANY ROOMS,"
This divinely authorized comparison
of heaven to a great homestead of
large sccommodations 1 purpose
carry out. In some healthy neighbor-
hood a man builds a very
habitation. He m
his children. The re to be
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Ooms come
{
called after the di nt 1
the family. The
That is George's room
room. Thatis Flora’s room
Mary's room. And ths
ocenpied. But time goes by. and the
sons the world, and buik
and daughters are
singly
4
at mother 8 room.
I'hat
is
go out nto
their own homes;
married, or have talents enoug ngly
goout and do a good work in the
world. After a while the father and
mother are alm alone in the
house, and seated by the evenin
they say: “Well, our family 1
il
to
si big
gr stand,
£¢
forty years ago. But es still
further by, and
ate unfortunate,
homestead to
dren come wi
great-grandchi
house 1s full. Millen:
on the hills of heaven
GREAT
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Hy
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1 and the
again
A HOMESTEAIL
for a family mnu
At first He lived
house, but after
by a very large
aphie, angelic.
wayward, and left,
And many of the
cated. I refer t«
Now these apartments are
again, There arrivals at
homestead of God's children every day,
and the day will come when there will
be no unoccupied room in all the house,
As you and I expect fo enter it and
make there eternal residence, I thought
you would like to get some more par-
ticulars about that many-roomed home-
stead. ‘In my Father's house are many
rooms.” You see the place i
TO BE APPORTIONED OFF
into apartments. We shall love all who
are in heaven, but there are some very
good people whom we would not want
to live with in the same room. They
may be better than we are, but they are
of a divergant temperament. We would
like to meet with them on the golden
streets, and worship with them in the
temple, and walk with them the
river banks, but I am glad to say that
we shall live in different apartments
“In my Father s house are many rooms.”
are
on
if
¥
Lb as
ne want an entire room to himse
herself, it can be afforded.
An ingenions statistic
statement made in Rev |
first chapter, that the heave nly Jerusa-
lem was measured and found be
twelve thousand furl ngs, and that the
length and height and breadth of it are
equal, says that would make heaven i
size 949 gextillion, 988 quintill
feet; and then reserving a certain por
tion for the court of heaven snd the
streets, and estimating that the world
may last a hundred thousand vears, he
ciphers out that there are over five tril-
lion rooms, each room seventeen foot
long, sixteen fect wide, fifteen feet wide,
fifteen feet high. But | have no faith
in the acouracy of that calculation. He |
makes the rooms toosmall. From all |
can read,
THE ROOMS WILL BE PALATIAL,
and those who have not had epough |
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
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 eradle 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 nn-
hindered and uneramped room. And I
should not wonder if, instead of the |
room the statistician eiphered out as |
gly seventeen feet by sixteen, itshould |
be larger than any of the rooms at Ber-
lin, St. James, or Winter Palace. “In
my Father's house are many rooms.”
Carrying out still further the symbol-
ism of the text, let us join hands and go
up to this majestic homestead and see
for ourselves. As we ascend the golden
steps fn invisible guardsman swings
open the front door, and we are ushered
to the right into
THE RECEPTION ROOM
of the old homestead. That is the
place where we firit meet the welcome
of. heaven. There must be a
where the d d spilt enters, and a
Jace in which it confronts the inhabi-
Pte celestisl. The reception room of
the newly arrived from this world
what scenes it must have witnessed since
of the
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or
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elation,
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macen spirit first sees the Lord!
Better than all we éveéiread about Him,
‘or falked about Him, or sengabont Him
in all the churches and through all our
second to see Him. The most rapturous
idea we ever had of Him on sacramental
days or at the heighth of some great
revival, or under the uplifted baton of
an oratorio are a bankruptey of thought
compared with the first flash of His
UpDtate in that reception room. At
that moment when
YOU CONFRONT EACH OTHER,
Christ looking upon you, and you look.
ing upon Christ, there will bo an ecstatic
thrill and surging of emotion that
beggars all description. Look! They
need no introduction. Long ago Christ
chose that repentant sinner, and that
repentant sinner chose Christ. Might.
iost moment of animmortal history—the
first kiss of heaven! Jesusand the soul.
The soul and Jesus.
But now into that reception room
poar 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 radient,
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earthly lifetime, will it Le, just for ona
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so gleeful, so transportingly lovely!
They eall yon by name; they greet you
with an ardor proportioned to the
anguish of your parting and the length
) paration. Father! Mother!
There is your child. Sisters! Brothers!
Friends! 1 wish j For
apart, together again reception
f the old Homestead. You see,
ey will know vou are coming. There
so many immortals filling all the
between here and heaven that
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th
news like tha
* in an instant, though they
y» other world on errand
would be thrown
them. Though you
fe 1 dazed and OVerawy d
were In
t wonl
might at
their first touch
tion, and we will say,
0 my lost compan
wt friend, we are here
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I RECEPTION-ROOM
been witnes
and Jac sh,
sr room than any
Pharaoh's
child for whom he
wept; Mary and Lazarus
heartbreak of Beth
Joseph
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#0 we have ight
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get through even
king's residenocs
Urérman war,
row
room
one eventide in the sum.
mer of 1870, I stood studying the exqui
site sculpturing of the gate of the Tuil-
eries, Paris o8t 1n admiration of the
f th
hat I was exciting suspicion
ing my eves to the crowds
found myself y inspected by
10 from my
to be 8 German,
nt purpose |
gates of the
My explanations in ve ry poor
fid t satisfy them, and tl
long distance
t
ei, and Wer
Lower
being close]
found that
American
palace # Are ocare
if so, how much
in
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aid all e art
throne room
Napoleon will ever
mbroidered in pur.
on the upholstery «
v, the letter N gildex
N chased on the
flaming from the
milagration of bril
liane: f Charles Im
manuel of of Ferdinand of
Spain, of Elizabeth of England, of Boni-
face of Italy! But the throne room
#1s
wats
mw the
¢
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ceiling
room Oo
Sardinia,
sing all the throne rooms that ever saw
sceptre wave, or erown glitter, or
justice, a throne of universal dominion.
Ve need not stand shivering and cower-
ing before it, for our Father says we
“To him that overcometh
WE ARE PRINCES
Perhaps now we move
about incognito, as Peter the Great in
dam, or as Queen Tirzah in the dress of
a pheasant woman seeking the prophet
for her child's enre; 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
enter the throne room. ©
King, live forever! We touch the
Stepire and prostrate ourselves at thy
ent!
The crowns of the royal families of
this world are tossed obout from gener-
ation 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 rise 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 Span-
ish crown, the Italian crown, the Eng-
ligh crown, the Turkish crown, the
Russian crown, the Persian crown, aye,
all the erowns from under the great
archivolt of heaven; and while I watch
and wonder, they are all flung in rain
of diamonds around the pierced foot,
Jesus shall reign where'or the sun
Does His successive journeys run,
Hin kingdom streteh from shore to shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
“In
Oh that throne room of Christ!
my Father's house are may rooms,”
Another room in our Father's house
is Lo
THE MUSIO-ROOM,
St. John and other Bible writers talk so
a
wneh about the musio of heaven that
there must be music there, perhaps not
such as on earth was thrummed from
trembling string or evoked by touch of
ivory key, but if not that, then some-
thing better. There are so many Christ-
ian Sarpists and Christian composers
and 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 music in the
land of complete harmony? 1 cannot
give you the notes of the first bar of the
new song that is sung in heaven, I can-
not imagine either the solo or the dox-
ology. But heaven means music, and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally
that music has escaped the gate. Dr.
Fuller dying at Beauford, 8. C., said:
“Do you not hear?’ “Hear what?"
exclaimed the bystanders. “The music!
Lift me up! Open the window!” In
that music room of our Fathers’s house,
you will some day
MEET THE OLD MASTERS,
Mozart and Handel and Mendelssohn
and Beethoven and Doddridge, whose
sacred poetry was as remarkable as his
sacred prose; and James Montgomery,
sang of
| Heber, who “Greenland's
| monntains and India's coral strand:
i and Dr. Raffles, who wrote of *‘High in
| yonder realms of light;"and Isaac Watts,
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney
cy
and
| agreeable a guest that they made
stay thirty-six years; and side by
Agustus Toplady, who has g :
| dislike for Methodists, and Charl
Wesley, freed from his dislike for C
| vinists; and George W. Bethune.
sweet 1g maker as he
as a her and the author
i Village hym and
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and antiphon!
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Will the aged remain aged there
no; everything is perfect there
child will go ahead to glorified matun
and the age
maturity.
to meredian,
the other will
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sun of
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earth we
disaster if
consider it a
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their Erow
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and infirm he
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five or fifty
and mental
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and the heave
that. When we join them in that family
advance
1 age will retreat to
nly ol
MUCH TO TELL THEM.
We shall want to know of them, right
such things as these: Did von
in this or that or the other
Did you know when we lost
our property, and sympathize with ua?
Did you know we had that awful sick.
ness? Were you hovering anywhere
around us when we plunged into that
memorable sceident? Ind you know
of our backsliding?
that moral victory? Were you pleased
when we started for heaven? Did you
BeQ us
And then, whether they know it or not,
we will tell them all. But they will
have more to tell us than we to tell them.
Ten years on earth may be very event.
ful, but what must be the biography of
ten years in heaven? They will have
to tell us the story or coronations, story
of news from all immensity, story of
conquerers and hierarchs, story of
wrecked or ransomed planets, story of
angelio vietory over diabolie revolts, of
extinguished suns, of obliterated con-
stollations, of new galaxies kindled and
swung, of stranded comets, of worlds on
fire, and story. of Jehovah's majectio
reign. If in that family room of our
Father's hovise we have so much to tell
them of # hat we have passed through
since we parted, how much more thrill.
ing and arousing that which they have
to tell 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 nover
again be in a hurry! “Let me open a
window,” said an humble Christian ser-
vant to Lady Raffles, who, because of
the death of her child, had shut herself
up ina dark room and refused to see
anyone: ‘‘you have been many days 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 beautiful child that
ever was soen, and instead of leaving
him in this world till he should be worn
with trouble, has not God taken him to
heaven tn all his beauty? Leave off
—
weeping, and let me open a window.”
Bo to-day I am trying to open upon the
darkness of earthly separation the win-
dows and doors and rooms of the heav-
enly 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? I
am sure there is no room in which you
would rather stay than
IN THE ENRAPTURED CIRCLE
of your ascended and glorified kinsfolk.
Wo might visit other rooms in our
Father's house. There may be picture
galleries penciled not with earthly art
but by some process unknown in this
world, preserving for the next world the
brightest and most stupendous scenes of
human history. And there may be
lines and forms of earthly beauty pre-
served for heavenly inspection in some-
thing whiter and chaster and richer
than Venetian sculpture ever wronght,
Wwoms beside rooms Rooms over
rooms. Large rooms, majestic rooms,
opalescent rooms, amethystine rooms,
“In my Father's house ar
rooms,’
I hope none of us will be disappoint
ed about getting tuere. There 1s a room
for us if we will go and take it, but
| order to reach it, it is absolutely nec
BATY take the right
{ Christ is the way; and we must enter at
{ the right door. and Christ is door:
and we must start in sand the or
{hour you are
| clock now strikes, and the
your watch is
n my hand a roll of
many
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Was the scimping dimensio
these arm holes, small tha
little fat arm conld seared ly be Squeeze a
through them Nota bit of space al-
lowed for the play and growth and
breathing ro for the poor littl
choked limbs
In selecting boots for our little peo-
ple we must see that plenty of ankle
it
iti
pus
cut so
yn
the fast growing feet. You and I find
acute misery in pinching boots, espec-
the instep. How mach
more must baby suffer with cruel strie-
tures cutting into her soft flesh and
| strangling sensitive chords.
I have seen sock ribbons and ankle-
| ed into a purple ridge, and who has not
| strangled in too snugly buttoned boots
| evil consequences?
Little folks-—and big folks, too, as
for that-—need breathing room all over:
feet and arms and wrists and ankles;
and common sense tells us to let them
have it.
Plenty of breathing room, and good,
pure air to breathe, with common sense,
care and cleanliness, means a sound
body and a sunny nature for the grow-
ing baby.
Dh yout little one is fretful and
troublesome, instead of attributing its
irritability and wretchedness to colic or
teeth or worms, as we are so apt to do,
soo if baby's miserableness is not caused
by acruel hunch or band or seam that
somewhere is chafing or choking its
person. — Ladies Home Journal,
Cranissa Porren,
Rropa Brovaemrow, the well-known
English novelist, is forty-eight and a
highly intelligent looking woman,
although her features are hard and
rathor masculine. She is a good talker,
and has a rich fund of humor of a very
racy and piquant kind, Most of her
literary work is done early in the morn-
ing. It is her sustom to allow at lonst
two years to i ig between the publica,
tion of her stories. She is fund of pug
dogs and has a number of them.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Buspar JuLy 75 1890,
Israel Asking fora King.
LESSON TEXT.
4-20.
(1 Bam. # Memory verses, 4, 7)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER ;
and Disobedience,
Obedience
Gorpex Text vor Tur Quarter: fe.
hold, to obey in Letter than sacrifice,
and to hearken than ithe fal of rams.
1 Bam. 15 : 22.
Lesson Toric Warning Against
Disobedience,
Israel's Cholee, vs 4,1
149 9
Jehovah's Protest vs
LESSON OUTLINE
Gorpex Text Nevertheless the peo-
oJ
aid, Nay: but we
1 Sam. 19
iMRI
and the will
have a king ove 5:
JO8N0ON
ANALYSIS,
HHO
. Jehovah F
They have
t be ki
thant 1
but
Il. Acquiescence Granted
Ne harken unt
(a
The refore sl nll
their own
(rod
yw thereiore they
eat of the irnit o
We.
they
{ Pro
Way
4:17
they
alone (Hos,
Let them alone
(Matt. 15 : 14).
are blind guides
hearts (Rom. 1 : 24).
Protest Uttered:
Protest solemnly anto them, and
The thing (Sam.
8:6)
The Lord your God
{1 Sam. 12 : 12).
displeased Samuel
was your king
great,
12:17)
is
have done (1 Sam
(Hox 13 : 11)
1. “The thing displeasing Samuel... .
And Samuel prayer.” Samuel's
displeasure: (1) Its cause; (2) Its
course; (3) Its consequences.
2, “They have not rejected thee, but
they have rejected me.” (1)
represented in his servants; (2) God
rejected in his servants; (3) God ac-
Sebted in his servants.
8. “Now therefore harken unto their
voice.” (1) Man's rebellious voice;
(2) God's permissive decree.
11. SAMUEL'S WARNING,
I. They Shall be Subjugated:
He will take your sone ...He will
take your daughters (11, 13).
And they shall run before his chariots
(1 Sam. 8: 11).
When Saul saw any mighty man....he
took him (1 Sam. 14 : 45).
And David sent messengers, and took
her (2 Sam. 11 : 4),
Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the
hottest battle (2 Bam. 11 : 15).
il. They Shall be Despolled:
He will take your fields, and your
vineyards (14).
So shall no inheritance. . . .remove from
tribe to tribe (Num. 38 : 7).
Neither shall he romhy multiply to
himself silver and gold (Deut. 17 : 17),
I will give thee the vineyard of Nobo
(1 Kings 21 : 7).
© prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance (Ezek. 46 : 18).
il. They Shall be in Despair:
Ye shall ery; and the Lord wil
not answer (15),
Then shall they call upon me, but}
will not answer (Prov. 1 : 28).
When ye make many prayers, 1 will not
hear (Isa, 1 : 15).
Call ye upon him while he is near (Isa
55 : 6).
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask
amiss (Jas. 4 : 3).
1. “Samuel told all the words of the
Lord unto the people. (1) The Lord's
words; (2) The Hn INeRsenIeT
(3) The Lord's pupils
. “He will take.” (1) The merciless
ruler: (2; The sweeping spoliation
(3) The impoverished people
“Ye shall ery; the Ee will not
answer.” (1) Dire distress; (2; Im-
portunate cries; Unanswered
prayers,
a
(3)
LESSON BIBLE READING
CHEIBT THE
Id (Num. 24 : 17 ; Psa. 2
Glorious 1 Cor -'B + of a
{1 Cor. 15
KING,
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Vagaries of Et
CURTOMS OF
FARAWAY LANDS
if vou address the
von must 11
street
COUurtasy 1s insisted up
.
nm the
n the
slairwa
arm of a
and
obiect
ject
ror
, and they rare]
aristoc
ur or
1 gives a day & DOW
great import
before he
, and other conside
wwn him according to
rank. The left, and not the right, is
considered the position of honor.
No Turk will enter a sitting
with dirty he upper
wear tight fitting shoes, with
over them. The latter, which receive
all the dirt and dust, are left outside
The Turk never washes in
Water is poured over his
hands, so that when polluted it runs
of
servants
room
classe a8
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HORDES
shots
Py
K
:
In Syria the people never take off
their caps or turbans when entering the
house or visiting a friend, but they al-
leave their shoes on the door.
clean in
kneel on
rugs, kept very
In China grief is associated with a
Turkey with violet, in Egypt with yel-
low.
Etiquette requires in Chinese conver-
sation that each should compliment the
other and depreciate himsel} and all his
belongings. It is affirmed that the fol-
lowing is not an exaggeration. “What
is your honorable name?” “My insig-
nificant appellation is Chang.” *‘Where
is your ificent palace?” “My con-
temptible hut is at Luchan.” “How
many are your illustrious children?”
“My vile, worthless brats are five”
“How is the health of your distinguish
spouse? “My mean, for-nothing
old woman is well "Detroit Free
Press,
aI A A OA
Drew THR LINE AT A NICKEL.
First Boy--Will your cross your heart
and take your oath that it is so?
Second Boy—You bet I will.
i Boy— Will you take your dying
oath?
Second Boy--Yes, I will,
Fig Boy Will you bet a mickle it
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Second Boy
-No, I won't take sunb
chances as that,