DR TALMAGE'S SERMON: The House on The Hills. “In my Father's John 14: 2 Here is a bottle of medicine that is a cure-all, The desciples 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 deseriptions of beaven may be figurative. I am not yositive that in all heaven thereis a fitoral crown or harp or pearly gate or throne or chariot. They may be only used to illustrate the glories of the place, but how well they do it! The favorite symbx 1 by which the Bible Px sents celestial h pine: s is & house. aul, who never ewned 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 Little changed, as the more aceu- rate meaning, Father's house are house are many mansions.” to give xy roous,” divinely authorized Thi of heaven to hot ead of large accommodations 1 purpose parry out. In some healthy ni ighbor- hood a man builds a very o habitation. He must have room for all The x ome to be 1 mm bi rs of to OF corge’s room. That is He room. i nry’s . Tha 15 Mary's roo i occupied. 3 3 11 Im. no aul by ZOUS Y. world, and danghters 1 il sons go out x their own homes; i married, } lents ene to go out and do a good work In world. After a while the mother are st alone house, and seated by the ever they “Well, our family n ger no 1 we started tog forty years further by, and ale unfortunate, homestead to dren come 1 them, and, great-grandehildren, and house 1s full. Millennia ago on the hills of heaven A GREAT HOMESTEAD S114 ALIA with perhaps, again Cod built % t I for a family mnumerable, to be. At first He lived alone in that great house, but after a while it was occupied by a very large family, eherubie, ser- aphic, angelic. The efernities passed on, and many of theinhabitants became wayward, and I ft, never to return. And many of the apartments were va cated. 1 refer to the fallen angels Now these apartments are filling up again! There are arrivals at the old 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 to enter it and make there eternal residence, I thought you would like to get some more par ticulars about that many-roemed home- stead. “In my Father's house are many rooms.” You see the place ia TO BE AFPPORTIONED OFF into apartments. We shall love are in heaven, bat there are good people whom we wou to live with in the may be better than we are, of a divergant temperament. like to meet with them ; streets, worship with th temple, with them river | am glad to say that we shall live different apartments. «In my Father s house are many rooms.” Yon see, heaven will be so large that if onc want an entire room to himself or herself, it ean be afforded. An ingenious statistician, taking the statement made in Revelation, twenty- first chapter, that the heavenly Jerusa- lem 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 949 sextillion, 988 quintillion cubic feet; and then reserving a certain por- tion for the court of heaven and the stroete, and estimating that the world may last a hundred thousand years, he ciphers ont that there are over five tril- lion rooms, each room seventesn feet long, sixteen feet wide, fifteen feet wide, fifteen feet high. But 1 have no faith in the sccurscy of that ealeulation. He makes the rooms toosmall. 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 erowded, and though out on a vast prairie orin a mountain district people may have more vei SONG Tey d not want room. They but they are We weald i golden m in the on the sams and WARIK second to see Him, The most rapturous idea we ever had of Him on sacramental days or atthe 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 appearance in that reception room. At that moment when YOU CONFRONT EACH OTHER, Christ looking upon you, and you iook- ing upon Christ, there will be 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- jest moment of animmortal history—the first kiss of heaven! Jesusand the soul. The soul and Jesus. But into that reception room pour the glorified kinsfolk. Enough of earthly retention to let you know them, now but without their wounds or their sick- or their troubles. See what So radient, on transportingly lovely! they greet you 11, You dor elec They with 34 call y name; an proportioned to the sur parting and the length Father! Mother! | Sister joy. For in the ption room of the old Hom You sec, they will know you There | | all the anguish of Th re ye ars reco I Are coming. Hing news like that fl | gl hey hough they errand i ‘ thrown | Though might at fir fe azed and splendor, al the nd we from God, woul yon overawed I that | ir fir ir irs THAT RECEPTION-ROOM mestead have 18 Joseph r brighter room than they saw in Pharaoh's p { the little child for whom h mee fasted and wept; Mary and Lazarus heartbreak of Bethan Ii ther Lois; sailor son; > the manifest; sught LE becn witnes and Jacob, ter the rail ranam mystery of th Luther he bemoaned John Howard and the prisoners whon and multitudes without | r who, once so weary and so sad parted on earth but gl ly met in | Amor all the rooms of that | is no one that more enrap- | an that reception room are many made ) 1s LRH v er rion heaven. hon Ik sy th a is ires my In my s her' h FINE house mneh about the music 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 harpists and Christian composers and Christian organists and Christian choristers and Christian hymunologists that have gone up from earth, there must be for them somo place of especial delectation. Shall we have music in this world of discords, and no music in the land of complete harmony? I 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 ean mean nothing else. Occasionally that music has escaped the gate. Dr. Fuller dying at Beanford, 8. C., said: “Do you not hear?” ‘Hear what?” Lift me up! Open the window! that music room of our Fathers’: you will some day ho Ine, MEET THE OLD MASTERS Handef and Me and Poddridge, Mozart Be sored and thaven poetry wrod prose; whos wi and James Montgomery, 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.” r 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 yon would rather stay than IN THE ENRAPTURED CIRCLE of your ascended and glorified kinsfolk, We might visit other rooms in our Father's house. There may be picture galleries penciled not with earthly art but bry BONE 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 I : served for heavenly ins) thing whiter than Venetian t Rooms beside | TOONS, Large rou | opals SCent rooms, ning “In my Father's § Yur of earthly richer wrought. and chaster and culpture ever rooms Over HAE, rool and Bish JH and oral Baffle 5 mder realms o light; Of : and Isaac Wat 10 want to visit prove i his agreeable a guest thy file 3 side 1s Toplady, who has got ovel for Methodists, and Cl wl from his dis ; and Geor Ww. 1 maker as he wilt Se stay thirty-six vears; and A gust Ww 160 pre Gr 801 1 HIRE srthly (r stsch . yi, the hea dpa symphony and sutiphon! ur when Hayde hi rhvihm, It may I THRONE ROOM famil OWS 11 on royal sus fl ht to enter the is no easy thing on the outside pari got throt W gh ever King's res German war, one eventide mer of 1870, I stood study sit nig of the gate in sdmiration o mt gate, I kn suspicion idence ng the ¢ sculptur: eries, Pari ful art wonderful wrthly palaces are and, if SO, w room! A DAZZLING FLACE nirrors and all costly art saw the throne room ly Napoleon will ever letter N embroidered in pur- ple and gold upon the upholstery of chair and window, the letter N gilded on the wall, the letter N chased on the | chalices, the letter N flaming from the | eciling. What a conflagration of bril- lance the throne room of Charles Im- manuel of Sardinia, of Ferdinand of Spain, of Elizabeth of England, of Boni- | CAT No of But the throne room of | our Father's house hath a glory eclip- | sing all the throne rooms that ever saw | or erown glitter, or house built close to streets are crowded, and the eradle is erowded by other cradles, and the graves crowded in the cemetery by other graves, and one of the richest luxuries of many people in getiing out of this world will Pe the gaining of nn- hindered and uncramped room. And I should not wonder if, instead of the room the statistician ciphered out as galy 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 farther the symbol- ism of the text, let us join hands and go up to this majestic homestead and see for ourselves. As wo ascend the golden an 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 first meet the weleome of heaven. There must be a place where the d d spirit enters, and a lace in w it confronts the inhabi- hate celestial. The reception room of the newly arri from this world what scenes it must have witnessed since the first guest arrived, the victim of the first fratrieide, pious Abel! In that room Christ lovingly jrosted all new- comers. Heo redeemed them, and he has a right to the first embrace on their arrival. What a minute when the aacended spirit first sees the Lord! Better than all wo ever read about Him, or talked about Him, or sang about Him in all the churches and through all onr earthly lifetime, will it De, just for on. Ve need not stand shivering and cower- ing before it, for our Father says we | may yet one day come up and sit on it ““T'c him that overcometh You see WE ARE PRINCES Perhaps now we move the garb of a ship carpenter at Amster- dam, or as Queen Tirzah in the dress of a pheasant woman seeking the prophet for her child's eure; 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 moment enter the throne room. O King, live forever! We touch the sceptre and prostrate ourselves at thy feet! The erowns 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 erown on three emperors. But wherever the coronets of this world rise or fall, they are destined to meet in one place, = And 1 look and see them coming from North and south and east and west, the Span- ish erown, the Italian crown, the Eng- ligh erown, the Turkish erown, the Russian crown, the Persian crown, aye, all the crowns from under the great archivolt of heaven; and while I watch snd wonder, they are all flung in rain of diamonds around the pierced feet, seus, Shall FO ay the sun 8 81100088 4 shore kin sire ET Inare 10 Till sun shall rise more. Oh that throne room of Christ! “In my Father's house are many rooms.” : Another room in our Father's house s THE MUSIC-BOOM,, 84 John and ether Bible writers talk so family wher talk earth, burials, ti 1 Than Bl the ¥ have tured; while our parents, who and infirm here, we shall be glad to fin restored to the most agile and vigorous immortality there. If forty fort fOr or fort Wore age : physical and mental life on earth, then the hea- venly childh wil will advance to that, and the heave.ly old age will retreat to that. When we join them in that family MUCH TO TELL THEM. Wo shall want to know of them, right guch things as these: Did you ns in this or that or the other struggle? Did you know when we lost our property, and sympathize with us? Were vou hovering anywhere around us when we plunged into that memorable accident? Did you know of our backsliding? Did you know of that moral victory? Were you pleased when we started for heaven? Did you colebrate the hour of our conversion? And then, whether they know it or not, we will tell them all have more to tell us than we to tell them. Ten years on carth 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 pews from all immensity, story of conquerers and hicrarchs, story angelic victory over diabolie revolts, of extinguished suns, of obliterated con- stellations, of new galaxies kindled and swung, of stranded comets, of worlds on fire, and story of Jehovah's majectic roign. If in that family room of our Father's house we have so much to tell them of what we have passed through gines we parted, how much more thrill ing and arousing that which they have to toll us of WHAT THEY HAVE PASSED THROUGH since we parted. Surely that famil room will one of the most favor rooms in all our Father's house. What long lingering there, for we shall never uy be in a hurry! “Let me open a dow,” said an humble Christian ser- vant to Luiiy Raffles, who, because of the death of her child, had shut herself up in a dark room and rofused to seo anyone: ‘‘you have been many days in dark room. Are you not ashamed to ¢ in this manner, when youn ought to be thanking God for havisg given you the most beautiful child that over was seen, and instead of leaving him in this world till he should be worn with trouble, has not God taken him to heaven in all his besuty? Leave off CVOR they ard Ph’ ' flesh anda i hard, since, I saw a fond making under waists for her ¢ auntie [he garments were cut from stout unbleached drilling that would wear like shes lmost as little For stron _ the arm sizes bound with a strip of the same stout goods, making a thick, scraping finish that was hard and rough enongh to rasp th if it had encireled it a no less eruelty in the scimping dimensions of these arm holes, small that the little fat arm could scarcely be squeczed through them. Nota bit of space al- lowed for the play and growth and breathing room for the poor little choked lunbs. In selecting boots for our little peo- ple we must see that plenty of ankle and instep, as well ss toe room, 18 given the fast growing feet. You andl find acute misery in pinching boots, espee- ially across the instep. How much more must baby suffer with erue 1 strie- | tures cutting into her soft flesh and strangling sensitive chords. [ have seen sock ribbons and ankle- nieCes, sme and three years old tironand give alt greater rth were OX 8 eek WAS cut so ed into a purple ridge, and who has not in them and ice-cold feet be one of the evil consequences? Little folks—and big folks, too, as | for that—need breathing room all over: fect 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. en your 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 seo if babiv’s miserablencss is not canned by a cruel hunch or band or seam that somewhere is ehafing or choking its person. — Ladies Home Journal, Oranissa Pore. Rmooa Brovamrox, the well-knows lish novelist, is forty-eight and a highly intelligent looking woman although her features are hard an rather 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 custom to allow at least two years to Slapas between the Jahiies. tion of her stories. She ia fund of pug dogs and has a number of them. . . SUNDAY sCHOOL LESSON, Suspay JULY 24, 13%), Israel Asking fora King. LESSON TEXT. {d Sam.8 : 4 20. Memory verses, 4, 7.) LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER : and Dizohedicnce, (hedirnee Gonpex Text hold, pon THE Quarter: Hee to obey ia better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of ram 1 Sam. 15 ; 22. I Tori Disobedience. NECN FHOYVAH R I. Jehovah Rejected ordinand that rejecteth, re) but God (1 Thess, 4 : 11. Acquiescence Granted: Now therefore 41 wid wri wy not man, +% harken unto their voice a Therefore shall they eat of the fruit ot their own way (Prov. 1 : 31 Ephraim is joined to idols; alone (Hos 4:17). Let them alone: they are blind guides { Matt. 15 : 14). God gave them up in the lusts of hearts (Rom. 1 : 24). 111. Protest Uttered: Protest solemnly unto them, and shew them (9). The thing displeased Xx: 6) The Lord {1 Sam. Your wickedness great, have done (1 Sam. 12 : 17). 1 have given thee a king in mine anger {Hos 13 : 11) 1. “The thing displeasing Samuel. ... And Samuel prayer.” Samuel's displeasure: (1) Its cause; (2) 1ts course; (3) Its consequences. let him their Samuel (Sam. ur God kin cK y whe hd was your 2 is which represented in his servants; (2) God rejected in his servants; (3) God ac- cepted in his servants, 8. “Now therefore harken unto their yotee.” (1) Man's rebellious voice; (2) God's permissive decree. 111. SAMURL'S WARNING, {. They Shall be Subjugated: He will take your sons....He will take your dsughters (11, 13). And they shall run before his chariots (1 Sam. 8: 11). When Saul saw any ighty 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 Sam. 11 : 15). tl. They Shall be Despoiled: He will take your fields, and your Sineyaria (14). 80 shall no mheritance. . . .remove from tribe to tribe (Num. 36 : 7). Neither shall he tl maldply himself silver and gold (Deut. 17 : a. I win give Shee the vineyard of Nobo (1 Kings 21 : 7). The prince shall not take of the people's inheritance (Ezek. 46 : 18). to 111. They Shall bein Despa'r: Ye sha and the 1x not answer (15, The shall they call Hpon ‘ 4 y n wil oY , FR vill not answer (1 ov. } 13 ii ©ry me, A 253. When ve makemany prayers, I will ne hear (Isa. 1:15) s upon him wi 1 told all the Lord unto the people (2) The Lord (33 The Lord's pupmi “eH ruier; Th We eping will take.” (1) NIT J { A ———— JESSON BIBLE BEADING Vagaries of Etiquetts a Spanisi Ive A lads smut walk a decided wi0lati 1{ a Spaniard says, wh visit, “This ho ur disposal whe Lever y y favor 18,” he i regard ye family-—awno de ¥ Xpress 1% 4 wishes 8 YOIuI 88 pant raos (ON If the wordsare not conclude that you are as thi SPOR n you can not welcome to call again Persia, among the arst visitor sends notice an hour or fore calling, and gives a day's notice if the visit of great importance He is met by servants before he reach- es the house, and other considerations are shown him according to re lative rank. The left, and not the right, is considered the position of honor. No Tark enter a sitting room with dirty shoes. The upper wear ticht fitting shoes, with goloshes over them. The latter, which receive all the dirt and dust, are left outside the door. The Turk never washes in dirty water. Water is poured over his hands, so that when polluted 1t runs away. In Syria the people never tak: + i Tracy, & two be- 8 one wiil Classes a of house or visiting a friend, but they al- ways leave their shoes on the door, rugs, kept very clean in while saying prayers. 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 i 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 Chiang.” “Where is your magnificent palace?’ “My con temptible hot is at Luchan.” “How many are your illustrious children?” “My vile, worthless brats are five," «How is the health of your distingwash spouse?” “My mean, good-for-nothing d woman is well "Detroit Free Press, DRew Te AT A NICKEL, frst J, your cross your heart and take your oath that it is sot second Boy—You bet I will, Fim Boy--Will you take your dying on Second Boy-Yes, I will, First Boy—Will you bet a nickle it’ so? Second Boy-No, I won't take suns ehanoes as that,
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