A Prepared Place by Bishop Simpson

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 26, 1882

A Prepared Place.

By Bishop Simpson

I WAS visiting a friend, some years ago, that had just built a new house. It was just finished. It was beautiful and useful. He took me up-stairs. It was a beautiful room into which he led me. It had wardrobes, toilet-glasses, books, and paintings. It was furnished grandly. And the father turned to me and said: "This room is for our daughter. She is in Europe. She does not know we are arranging it. Her mother and I have fixed up everything we could think of for her; and as soon as the house is fully finished, we are going to Europe to bring her back, and we are going to bring her up-stairs, and open the door, and say, 'Daughter, this is all yours.'" And I thought of the joy it would give her, and I thought, "How kind these parents are."

Just then I turned away, and I thought, "That is just what Jesus is doing for me." He says, "I am going away. I will come again. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also." Then I said, "This father and mother are rich; but they have not all treasures; there are a great many things they don't know how to get. But Jesus, who is furnishing my mansion in glory, has everything. He knows everything. He has undertaken to furnish a place for me, and I shall be with him forever." — Bishop Simpson.