Jesus illustrate by the Mustard-seed and the Prodigal? Taking the city in its allegorical sense, the description of it as four-square has a profound meaning. The four sides of our city are the Word, Christ, Christianity, and Divine Science; “and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, and there shall be no night there.” This city is wholly spiritual, as its four sides indicate.
As the Psalmist saith, “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion, on the sides of The royally divine gates. the north, the city of the great King.” It is indeed a city of the Spirit, fair, royal, and square. Northward, its gates open to the North Star, the Word, the polar magnet of Revelation; eastward, to the star seen by the Wisemen of the Orient, who followed it to the manger of Jesus; southward, to the genial tropics, with the Southern Cross in the skies, — the Cross of Calvary, which binds human society into solemn union; westward, to the grand realization of the Golden Shore of Love and the Peaceful Sea of Harmony.
This heavenly city, lighted by the Sun of Righteousness, — this New Jerusalem, this infinite All, which to Revelation's pure zenith. us seems hidden in the mist of remoteness, — reached Saint John's vision while yet he tabernacled with mortals.
In Revelation xxi. 22, further describing this holy city, the Beloved Disciple writes:
And I saw no Temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it.
There was no Temple, — that is, no material structure wherein to worship God; for He must be worshipped in
