THE DIMENSIONS OF HEAVEN.
The following paragraph,, entitled " The Dimensions of Heaven," is.frcm Lewis's "Penny Readings"And he measured the city with a reedtwelve thousand furlongs, The length and breadth and the height of it are Eev.'xxi., 16. Twelve thousand furlongs equal 7,920,000 feet, which, being oubedj is exactly K 496,793,088,000,000.000,000 cubic ft. ■ Reserving ,half of this space for the throne and court of Heaven, and half of the balance for streets, we have 124,198,272,000,000,000,000 cubic ft, Divide this by 4,006, the cubical feet in a room sixteen feet square, and there will;,be 30,321,843,750,000,000 rooms, We will now suppose the wojjd always did and always will coninhabitants, and that a generation lasts 33| years, making in all 2,070,000,000,000 every century, and that the world will stand 100,000,000 years, or 1,000 centuries, making in all 5,070,000,000,000 inhabitants. Then suppose there, were ' 100 worlds equal to this in the number of inhabitants, and duration; of years, making a total of 5,070,000,000,000,000 persons; and there would be more than 100 rooms sixteen feet square for each person,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 16 September 1884, Page 3
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173THE DIMENSIONS OF HEAVEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 16 September 1884, Page 3
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