Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-05
TALMAGE'S Sermon.
An Eloquent Discourse Of the Eminent
Divine in Tabernacle
Pulpit
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BRoohiNN, NY. Oct The Rcv. n.
De Witt Talmage preached this morning
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, on the sub.
icct; "windows toward Jerusalem
Before the sermon he expoundcd the
parable in Luke concerning the widows
plea before the unjust Judge, and showed
how God honorcd prayer To-day was
communion Sabbath ana numbers were
added 70 the church membership, which
now reaches considerably beyond 5000.
The opening hymn was:
Nearer my God to thee,
~ n though n be
y ross that raiscth me-
sun ailiny song shall be,
Nearer my Goa TO thee,
Nearer To thee,
| The taxi of the sermon was from Dam
! iel vi, 10; ellis windows being omen and
] his chambers toward jerusalem Dr..
Talmage said;
The scoundrclly princes OF Persia,
urged on by political jealousy against
Daniel, have succeeded in getting a law
passed that whosoeyer prays to God shall
be put under the paw aud teeth of the
lions, who are laShing themselves In rage
up and down the stone cage or putting
their lower jaw on the ground, believing
till the earth trembles But the
leoninc threat did not hinder the devo.
lions of Daniel, the cour de leon.
These enemies might as well have law
that the sun should moi draw water or
that the south wind should not sweep
across garden OF magno-
las, or that God should be
abolished, They could not scare him
With the rcd-hot furnaces and they can
notnow scare him with the lions. As soon
as Daniel hears of this enactment he
leaves his Office Of secretary Of state with
its upholstery OF crimson and gold, aud
comes down the white marble steps and
goes TO his own house He opens his
window and puts the shutters back. and
pulls the curtains aside SO that nc can
look toward the sacred city of Jerusalem,
and then prays. suppose the people in
the street gathered under and below his
window and said; Just see that man
deiying the law; he ought to he arrested
And the constabulary OF the city rushed to
| the police headquarters and report that
| Daniel Is on his knees at the wide-opcn
window. "Iou are my prisoner" said
the officer of the law, dropping heavy
hand on the shoulder of the knceling
Daniel. As the constabes opened the
door of the cavern to thrust in their
prisoner they see the glaring eyes OF the
monsters. But Daniel becomes
rIIE FIST LIoN-TAMER,
and they lick his hand and fawn at his
feet, and that night he sleeps with the
shaggy name of wild beast DOR his pil.
low, while the king that night, sleepless
IN the palace, has on him the paw and
teeth of Il lion he cannot tame, the lion
of a remorscful conscience.
What picture it would be for an
artist Darius, in the early dusk OF
morning, not waiting for footman or
chariot, Fastening to the den, ali flushed
and nervous and in deshablllc, and look.
ing through the crcvices of the cage 10
see what had become OF his prime min.
lister. "What, no soundlm he says
'Danlcl is surely dcyoured and the lions
are sleeping after their horrid meal, the
bones of the poor man scattered
across the floor of the cavern
With trembling voice Darius calls
out, "Daniclr' No answer, for the
prophet is yet in profound slumbor. But
lion, more easily awakened, advances
and with hot breath blown through the
creyce seems angrily 10 demand the
cause OF this interruption, and then an
other wild beast lifts his name from un-
der Daniels head and the prophet, wax
ing up, comes forth 10 report himself UNI
hurt and we'll.
But our text stands us at Daniels Win
dow open toward Jerusalem. Why In
that direction openg Jerusalem was his
native land and all the pomp of his Baby
lonish successes could not make him for
get It, He came there from Jerusalem al
eighteen years OF agc and he never visited
Il, though he lived TO be eighty-iiye years.
Yet when he wanted 10 arouse the deep I
est emotions and grandest aspirations OF
his hear lie had his window open toward |
his native Jerusalem. There are many Of
you to-day who understand that without I
any exposition. This is getting 10 be
"a NATION on FOREIGNERS.
They have come into all occupations and
They sit in all churches ltI
may DC twenty years ago since you got 1
your naturalization papers and you nlny 4
be thoroughly Americanized, but you (
can't forget the land of your birth, and 4
your warinest sympathies 20 out toward /.
II. Your windows are open toward Jern- /
salem. Your father and mother are |
buried there. II may have been very /
humble home IN which yon were born
but your memory often plays around II, /
and you hope some day TO 90 aud see ~ 4
the ill, the tree, the brook, the house, \
the place so sacred, the door from which 4
YOU started of with parental blessing 70 /
make your own way IN the world and 4
God only knows how sometimes you
have longed 20 see the familiar places Of
yeur childhood, and how In awful crises
OF life you would like TO have caught
glimpse Of the old wrinkled face
that bent over you a. you
lay on the gentle lap, twenty or forty Or
nity years ago You may have on this
side the sea risen In fortune and ike
Daniel have become great and may haze
come into properties which you never
could have reached II you had stayed
there, and you may have many windows
In your honse, bay windows and sky
liaht windows and windows Of conserya-