St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-17

| in Luke concerning the widows plea be-
fore the unjust judge, and showed thow
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 it 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.-[Daniel vi, 10.
Dr. Taimage said: The scoundrelly
| princes of Persia, urged on by political
1 Jealousy OF Daniel, have succeeded in get
ling a law passed that whoever prays to
/ God shall be put under the paw and teeth
| Of the lions, who are lashing themselves
| IN rage and hunger up and down the stone
cage; or, putting their lower jaw on the
| ground, believing till the eaEth
trembles. But tie leonine threat did not
| binder the deyotions Of Daniel, the
coeur de lion. These enemies might as well
| have a 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
md q WI
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
people in 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,H said the officer of the law, dropping
a heavy hand on the shoulder of the kneeI-
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 a wild beast Tor his
pillow, while the King that night, Sleep
less in his palace, has on him ese paw and
teeth of a lion he can not tame, the lion of
remorseful conscience.
What picture it would be for some ar
fist. Darius, in the early dusk Of morn
ing, not waiting for the footman or char 1
lot, Fastening to the den, all flushed and
nervous and in deshabille, and looking
through the creVices of the cage to sec
what had become of his Prime Minister.
"What, no sound?2 he says; "Daniel is
surely devoured, and tho lions are Sleep
ing after their horrid meal, the bones of
the poor man scattered across the floor of
the cave n" With trembling voice, Darius
calls out, "Daniel!" NJ answer, for the
prophet is yet in profound slumber But
lion, more easily awakened, advances,
md with hot breath blown through tho
crevico 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 tho deepest emotions and grandest
,Sfb Fst bn 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 a nation of for
eigners. They have como into all oc-
equations and professions. They |
sit IN all churches. tt may be twenty
years ago since you got your naturaliza-
lion papers, and you may be thoroughly
Americanized, but you can'6 forget the |
land of your birth, and your warmest
sympathies go out toward it. Your win
dows are open toward Jerusalem. Your
ather and mother are buried there. 1t
m - have been very humble home in
which you were born, but your memory |
of en- plays around it and you hope some
day to go and SEQ it, the hill, the tree, the
brook, The house, the place so sacred, the |
DIOR from which you s arted of with pa
rental blessing o make your own way in
he world; and God only knows how |
sometimes you have lonsed to see the |
,miiiar places of your childhood, and |
now in awful crises of | fe you would like |
have caught a mpse of the old |
wrinklsd FAC tina b NJ over you as you
lay on the gentle lap, twenty or forty or
ii years ago. You may have on this
de the sea risen in fortune, and, like |
Daniel, have become great, and may have
come into properties which you never
could have reac4ed f you had stayed |
.-..ra. IN Won NAV have nlanx Euindorzs |