Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-05
OPEN TOWARD JERUSALEM.
Or. TaIinags's Brooklyn Tabernacle
Sermon Yesterday.
sToRYfaF DANIEL AND THE LIONS
Keep theFHindows Of Your Hearts Open to
theEoOd Influences of Home and
the New Jerusalem.
A SERMON FOR PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
Specidl % he Re1iSte

Special 10 fss Rsoists.
BRooE y, October 4-The Rev. T. De
Witt Tai pge preached this morning in the
BrooklY sbernsele, on the subject win.
dow tow 9 Jerusalem" Before the sermon
be expcs led the parable in Luke concern.
ing the eRs plea before the unjust jadge,
and show bow God honored prayer. To.
-dsy vas ! mhrnion-SabbHth and-numbers
were added to the church membership, which
now reaches considerably beyond three
thousand. The opening hymn was:
Nearer my God to thee;
Zen though 1t be
A CLOS that rai.eth me,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer my God to thee,
Nearer TO Thee.
The text of the sermon was from Daniel
vs 10: His windows being open and his
chamber toward Jerusalem" DR.. Talmsge
said:
The scoundrelly princes OF Persia urged
on by political jealousy against
Dantel,
bsve succeeded in getting law passed that
whosoever prays to God shall be put under
the paw and teeth of the lions, who are lash.
ing themselves in rage and hunger up and
down the stone cage or putting their lower
Jaw on the ground, believing Till the earth
trembles. But the leonine threat did not
hinder The devcdons of Daniel, the occur de
lion. These enemies might as well have q
law that the sun should not draw water or
that the south wind should not sweep across
a garden of msgnolias, or that God should be
abolished. They could not scare him with
the red hot furnaces and they cannot now
scare him with the lions. AS soon as Dan
iel hears of this enactment he leaves his
cfice of Secretary of State with its upholst-
cry of crimson and gold, and 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 be can look toward the sacred city
Of jerusalem, and then prays. | suppose
the people in the ST. eet gathered under and
before his window and said: Just see that
man defying the law; he ought to be arrest
ed" And the constabularY Of the city rush
to the police headquarters and report that
Daniel is on his knees at the wide open
window. "You are my prisoner" said the
officer of the law, dropping heavy hand
on the shoulder of the kneeling Daniel As
the constsbles open the door of the cavern
to thrust in their prisoner they see the glar-
ing eyes of the monsters. But Daniel be
comes
The Finst Lion Tanner,
ard they lick his hand and fawn at his feet,
and that night be sleeps with the shaggy
mane of wild beast for his pillow,
while the king that night sleepless In the
palace has on him the paw and teeth Of q
lien he cannot tame, the lion of q remorse-
tul conscience.
What picture it would be for some 1rt.
ist. Darius, in the early dusk Of morning,
not waiting for the tootmsn or chariot, hast
enipg to the den, all flushed and nervous
and deshsbille, and looking through the
crevice of the cage to see what had become
of his prime minister. "Whst! no sound y
be says, Daniel is surely devoured and the
lions are sleeping after their horrid meal
and the bones of the poor man scat
tered across the floor Of the cav
eru." With trembling voice Darius calls
out, "Danielp No answer, for the prophet
is vet in profound slumber. But lion,
more easily awakened, advances, and with
hot breath blown throw the crevice, seems
apgrily to demand the cause of this inter
ruption, and then another wild beast lifts
bis name from under Daniels head and
he prophet, waking up, comes forth to re
port himself unhurt and well.
But our text stands US at
Daniels Window, Open Toward Jerusalem.
Why in that direction open2 Jerusalem
wss his native land, and all the pomp of his
Babylonish successes could not make him
forget it. He came there from Jerusalem
at eighteen years Of age, and be never visit
d it, though he lived to be elghty-fVe years
vt, when he wanted to arouse the deepest
III criors and grandest aspirations Of his
heart, be had his window open toward his
Lsrive Jerusalem. There are many Of you
today who understand that without any
exposition. This is getting TO be nation
Of foreigners They have come into all oc-
cUpations and professions. They sit in all
churches. 1t may be twenty years ago
since you got your naturalization papers
an6 you may be thoroughly Americanized,
but you cant forget
The Land of Your Birth,
and your NsTmest sympathies 20 out toward
it. Your windows are open toward Jerusa
lem. Your father and mother are buried
here. 1t may have been very hum Die
home in which you were born, but yolr
me mory often plays around it and you have
some da To- 90 and zee it, the bill, The tree
the brock, the Rouse, the place 90 sacred
the door from which you started of with
parental blessing TO make your own way in
he world; an6 God only knows how some
times you have lorged to see the familiar
places Of your childhood, and how in aFful
crises Of life you would like to have calgh:
q glimpse Of the old wrinkIed face that bent
over you as ycu lay on the genle LAP,
twenty. or forty or 6fty years ago. You
may on this eide The sea risen in fortune
and like Daniel have become great and
may have come into properties which you
ueyer could have reached if you had stayed
there, and you may have many Windows to
your house, bay windows and skylight win
doEs and windows of conservatory and
vii dows on all sides, but you hsva o. least
Ore window open towart Jsrufalem.
when the Foreign Steamer Comes
70 tte wharf you see the long line of sailors
zi,h shouldered mail bags coming down
the plsnks carrying as many lettsrs as you
mig b. suppose would be enough for year.
eorrespordsBce and this repeated again and
again during the week Multitudes otthem
sre letters from home, and At all the post
ficss Of the land people will 90 to the win
dow ard snxicusly ask for them, hundreds
Of thousands Of persons finding that window
Of foreign mails the open window toward
Jerusalem. Messages that say: When are
you coming home 70 see us2 Brother has
gone into The Srmy Sister is dead PSshsr
4nd mother are getting very feeble. We are
sayirg a great struggle to gss on here
Would Won advise "a N come 20 you or viii