"The Extent of Heaven."

According to Rev. XXI., 16, "He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length, and breadth, and the height of it are equal." Twelve thousand furlongs, or 7,920,000 feet, when cubed equals 496,793,088,000,000,000,000, cubic feet. Divide this by the number of cubic feet in a room of ordinary size, say sixteen feet square, and we find the number of rooms in Heaven to be 121,280,050,781,250,000. In this calculation no allowance of space is made for streets and squares, nor yet for the channel of "the river of the water of life," nor for the trees of marvelous leaves and yet more marvelous fruits. It is an old tradition that, as the Holy Family, on the Flight to Egypt, rested under a palm-tree, cherubs brought them dates. Then the child Jesus bade an angel carry a palm branch up to heaven and plant it there. This palm branch spread into a grove (Palmetum coeleste) which yielded all the palms which John in prophetic vision beheld waving before the throne in the hands of ransomed sinners.