p. 139 | FATHER'S HOUSE

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1865

FATHER'S HOUSE.

But in my Father's house, the house that hath foundations, the house not made with hands, there are many, not tents, but mansions—abiding dwelling-places. And the picture of it is still more enhanced when he adds, it is "my Father's house." Under its roof-tree will meet all the brothers and sisters of the vast redeemed family of humankind; around our Father's fireside we shall one day gather; and if ever there was a happy Christmas roof-tree upon earth, it will be as nothing in comparison with the happiness of the bright group that meet beneath the roof of our Father's house, and gather around that home that shall never be taken down. "Our Father which art in Heaven;" "Father," the fatherhood of God; "our Father," the brotherhood of all the family of Christians; "our Father in Heaven," the common home to which we shall all one day be gathered. Conceive a home emancipated from its cares; a home denuded of its worst and its bitterest anxieties; a home into which sickness shall never penetrate; from which the dead shall never be carried out to the house appointed for all living—conceive a home where no cares cluster about the roof, where no shadows dim the brightness of the fireside; where there are no quarrels, nor losses, nor griefs, nor fears, nor anxieties; and multiply and magnify it ten thousand times ten thousand, and you will have some dim conception of that house which our Father has prepared for them that are his children, and that love him. p. 57.