"My Father's House Is Finer Than This."

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A New Zealand chief, so called, was remarkable for the deep spirituality of his mind and his constant delight in the Word of God. One day he was taken to see a beautiful mansion. The gentleman who took him expected to see him greatly astonished, and much charmed with its magnificence and splendor; but it secured, to his surprise, to excite little or no admiration in his mind. Wondering how this could be, he began to point out to him its grandeur, the beauty of the costly furniture, brought from all parts of the world, the view from the windows, etc. Tamahana heard all silently, then looking round upon the walls, replied,
“Ah! my Father’s house is finer than this.” “Your father’s house!” thought the gentleman, who knew his father’s home as but a poor mud cottage. But Tamahana went on,
“My Father’s house is finer than this,” and began to speak, in his own expressive, touching strain., of the house above—the house of “many mansions”—the eternal home of the redeemed.
“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 he also.” John 14:2, 32In 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. 3And 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. (John 14:2‑3).
ML 07/26/1936