The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-11-05

BRooKIYN, n. Y, October 4-Ths Kew.
T. De Witt Talmage preached this morn
ing in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the sub
iect. "Windows Toward Jerusalem" Be-
fore the sermon he expounded the parable
in Luke concerning the widows plea be.
fore the unjust judge, and showed ihow
God honored prayer. To-day was COM
munion Sabbath, and numbers were adj
ded to the church membership, which now
reaches considerably beyond 1000. The
opening hymn was:
Nearer my God, to Thee:
Fen though 1t be
A cross that raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee
Nearer to Thee.
The text of the sermon was:
His windows being open and his chamber
toward Jerusalem.-GDaniely vi, 10.
DR.. Talmage said: The scoundrelly
princes of Persia, urged on by political
jealousy of Daniel, have succeeded in get
ting law passed that whoever prays to
God shall be put under the paw and teeth
of the lions, who are flashing 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 devotions of Daniel, the
coeur de lion. These enemies might as well
have law that the sun should not draw
water or that the south wind should not
sweep across garden of magnolias, or
that God should be abolished. They could
not scare him with the red-hot furnaces,
and they can not now 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, and comes down the white mar
bic steps and goes to his own house. He
opens his window and puts the shutters
back, and pulls the curtains aside so that
he can look toward the sacred city of Je-
rusalem, and then prays. l suppose the
peoplein the street gathered under and
before his window and said: "Just see
that man defying the law; he ought to be
arrested" 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 pris-
oner,n said the officer of the law. dropping
a heavy hand on the shoulder of the kneel-
ing Daniel. AS the constables open the
door of the cavern to thrust in their pris-
oner they see the glaring eyes of the mon.
sters. But Daniel becomes the first lion
tanner, and they lick his hands and fawn
at his feet, and that night he sleeps with
the shaggy name of wild beast for his
pillow. while the King that night, sleep
less in his palace, has on him the paw and
teeth of lion he can not tame, the lion of
a remorseful conscience.
What picture it would be for some ar
tist. Darius, in the early dusk of morn
ing, not waiting for the footman or char
lot, Fastening to the den, all flushed and
nervous and in deshabille, and looking
through the crevices of the cage to see
what had become of his Prime Minister.
"What, no sound?" he says; sDaniel is
surely devoured, and the lions are sleep
ing after their horrid meal, the bones of
the poor man scattered across the floor of
the cavern" With trembling voice Darius
calls out, "Daniel" No answer, for the
prophet is yet in profound slumber. But
a lion, more easily awakened, advances,
and with hot breath blown through the
crevice seems angrily to demand the cause
of this interruption, and then another
wild beast lifts his name from under
Daniels head, and the prophet, waking
up, comes forth to report himself unhurt
and well.
But our text stands us at Daniels win
dow open to toward Jerusalem. Why in
that direction open? Jerusalem. Jeru-
salem was 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 he never visited it though he lived to
be eighty five years. When he wished to
arouse the deepest emotions and grandest
aspirations of his heart he had his win.
dow open toward his native Jerusalem.
There are many of you to- day who UNDER
stand that without any exposition.
This is getting to be nation of for.
eigners. They have come into all oc-
equations and professions. They
sit in all churches. It may be twenty
years ago since you got your naturaliza.
tion papers, and you may be thoroughly
AuicEtCauiAcuY Dub yOu Ctu'b lOfS6b b0o
land of your birth, and your warmest
sympathies go out toward it. Your win.
dows are open toward Jerusalem. Your
father and mother are burie1 there. II
may have been very humble home in
which you were born, bus your memory
often plays around it and you hope some
day to go and see it, the hill, the tree, the
brook, the house, the place so sacred, the
door from which YOU started Off with pa.
rental blessing to make your own way in
the world; and God only knows how
sometimes you have longed to see the
familiar places of your childhood, and
how in awful crises of life you would like
to have caught glimpse of the old
wrinkled face that bent over you as you
lay on the gentle lap, twenty or forty OF
fifty years ago. You may have on this
side the sea risen in fortune, and, like
Daniel, have become great, and may have
come into properties which you never
could have reached If you had stayed
there; and you may have many windows
to your house, bay windows and skylight
windows and windows of conservatory.
and windows on all sides, but you have at
least one window open toward Jerusalem.
Z When the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf you see the long line of sailors with
shouldered mail bags coming down the