Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-05

tory and windows on all sides. but Won
have "a least one window open toward
Jerusalem
Nhcn the foreign steamer comcS Ia the
wharf you see the long line VI sailors
With shonidcrcd mail-hags coming down
the pianks carrying as many letters rs
Non might suppose would bc enough for
years correspondence, and this repcat-
cd again aud again during the week
Multlmdcs OF them
ARE rtrrERs PROM noNlr,
and At all The poS,oniccs OF Che land
people viii 80 to the window aud anx
iously ask for them, hundreds Of thou.
sands OF persons finding that window OF
foreign malls the open window toward
Jerusalem. Messages that say. "Whcn
are YOU coming home to see usg brother
has gone into the army Sister Is dead
Father and mother are getting very
feeble. We are having great struggle
To get OF here, Would you advise us To
come To You or VIII you come 10 usy An
Join ~ love and hope TO meet YOU, II not
IA thls world, thcn Ia a better. Good
hyclm
Yes, yes in all these cities and amid
The towering Western prairicS and on
the slopes OF the Pacific and amid the
Slorfas and on the banks OF the lagoon
and on the ranches of Texas there is an
uncOunted multitude who, this hour,
stand and SIT and kncel with their win,
doWs open toward Jerusalem. Some OF
them played on the heather of the scot
tiSh hillS. some of them were driven
ont hy irish famine. Some Of them In
early life drilled IN the German
nj
toned at Lyons on MarSoillcS or
Paris TO see ON the street Victor hugo
ana Gamhctta. Some chased the chnmols
among the Alpine preolpiccs. some
plucked the ripc clusters FROM Italian
Vineyards. Some lifted their faces under
the midnight sun of Norway. II Is no
dlshonor To our land that tlIey remember
the place OF their nativity. Miscrcan,s
would they be If, while they have some
OF their windows opcu to take I'm the
free air of America and the sunlight of mn
atmosphere which no klngly despot has
ever bre0thed, they forgot sometimes 10
open The windows OF Jerusalem. No
wonder sometimes when the Swiss + far
away from home, of hearing the national
air OF his own country sung, the malady
of home sickness comes on him SO power.
fully rs to cause death. You have the
example of The heroic Daniel of my text
for keeping carly memories fresh For.
get not
rlft ON rolKs ~ HOME.
Write often and Il Won have surplus OF
means and they deficit, make practical
contribution aud rejoice that America Is
bound TO all the world by tics OF an-
Iunily as Is no other nation Who
can doubt but Il is appointed for the
eymgclization OF all Nndsg what "A
stirring, melting, gospclizlng theory that
all the doors OF other nations are open
toward us willie our windows are open
toward them
But Daniel In his text Kept this port
hole of his domestic fortress mcloscd be-
cause Jerusalem was the capital OF
sacred influence, Their smoked The
sacrifice here was the Holy OF Holes.
There was the ark Of the covenant.
There stood the temple. We are all
tempted TO keep our windows open on
the opposite side toward the world, that
we may see and hear aud appropriate its
advantages. What does the world say
What does the world think What does
the world doy WorShippcrs of the world
instead OF woTshlppers of cod Windows (
bltH ibNuIN hADNAhils W lllbMN open
toward CuTinth. Windows open toward
Athens. Windows open toward Sodom. !
Windows open toward the fats instead
of windows open toward the hills. sad
mistakes for this world m god is like /
something | saw the other day In the |
museum of Strasburg, Germany-thc /
figure of virgin In wood and iron. The
victim in olden time was brought there
nj IL
receive him, and once embodied, the
figure closes with hundred knives and
lancee upon him, and then aiterwurd let
him drop $50 feet sheer down. SO the
world first embraces its idolators, then
closes upon them with many tortures and
then lets them drop forever down. The
highest reward the world could offer was
TO make man Roman emperor But out
OF slXty-three emperOrs
n ALLOWED ONLY sIN
TO die peacefully In their beds. The do.
minion of this world over multltudcs Il
illustrated by the names of coins of many
countries. They have their pieces Of
money which they call soycreigns and
half sOyercgns, crowns and half crowns,
napolcons and half napoleons, l'redericks
and double Frcdericks and ducats and I
1sabellinos, all of which names mean not I
so much usefulness as dominion The
most of our windows open toward the
exchange, toward the saloon Of fashion, I
toward the god Of this world. In olden (
times the length Of the English yard was
fixed by the length OF the arm Of King I
Henry ], and we are apt 20 measure (
things by variable standard and by the 4
human arm that in the great crisis Of life (
can give us no help We need, like .
Daniel, to open our windows toward God (
and religion.
But mark You, that good lioniamor Is
hot standing at the window but
sneellng while ho looks out. Most
are taken OF those
In standing or sitting posture II
now remember but one picture 81
4 man. kneeling, and that was David Liy-
ngstonc, who, IN the cause Of God and 4
sacrificed himself, aud Ia the .
heart Of Africa his servant, Najwafa, (
Iound him IN the tent, by the light % . /
candle stuck ON the top Of box, his head .
IN hands upon the pillow, and dead Oh 4
bis knees. But here II o great lion-tamcr {
living under the dash OF the Hight and his (
hair dishcyelcd Of the breeze, praying
The fact Is a man can see further on his
knees than standing on iip-tOc, Jcrusa-
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