The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-05

Be them in early life drilled in the
sacrman army. Some of them were
accustomed at Lyons, or Marseiiles. or
Paris 70 see on the street Victor Hugo and Gam
beta. Some chased the channels among the AL
pine precipices. Some plucked the ripe clusters
from Italian vineyards. Some lifted their faces
underthe midnight sun of Norway. 1t is no dis
honor 20 our land that they remember the place
of their nativity. Miscreants would they be IT,
while they have some of their windows open to
take IN the free air Of America and the sunlight
OF an atmosphere which no kingly despot mas
ever breathed, they forgot sometimes to open
the windows toward Jerusalem. No wonder
that sometimes, when the Swiss is far away from
jhore. st hearing the national air OF his own
country sung, the malady OF inconsistencies
comes on him so powerfully as TO cause ms
death. You have the example OF the heroic
Daniel of my text for keeping early memories
fresh. Forget not the old folks at home. Write
often and il You have surplus of means and
they deficit, make practical contribution and
rejoice that America is bound to all the world by
ties of consangunity as is no other nation. Who
cen doubt but it is appointed for the evangelical
tion of all landsf What a stirring. melting. Cos
pelizing theory that all tho doors Of other ma
tions ara open toward US while our windows are
oren toward theml
TEMPTATIONS OF THE WORLD.
Bat Daniel in the text kept this portfolio OF
his domestic fortress Enclosed because Jerusalem
was the capital of sacred influences. There
smoked the sacrifice There 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, to-
ward the world that we m ay see. and hear, and
appropriate its advantages. What does the
world say2 What does the world think? What
does the world dot worshipers of the world
instead of worshipers of God. Windows open
toward Babylon. Windows open toward Cor
inth. Windows open toward Athens. Windows
open toward Sodom. Windows open toward the
fats instead Of windows open toward the hills.
Sad mistake; for this world as god is like
something saw the other day in the Museum
of Strasburg Germany-the figure Of virgin
in wood and iron. The victim in olden time was
brought there, and this figure would open Its
arms to receive him, and, once infolded. the
e cure closed with hundred knives and ances
upon him. and then afterward let him drop $50
feet sheer down. So the world first embraces
its idolaters, then closes upon them with many
fortunes, and then let's them drop forever down.
The highest honor the world could confer was to
make man Roman Emperor; but out of
sixty. three emperors, it allowed only six to die
peacefully in their beds. The dominion Of this
world over multitudes is illustrated by the
names of coins Of many countries: They have
their pieces of money which they call sovereigns
and half-sovereigns, crowns and halfcrowns
Napoleons and half-Napoleons, Fredericks and
double-Fredericks, and ducats and Isabellinos
all of which names mean not 80 much usefulness
as dominion. The most of our windows open
toward the exchange, toward the salon of fash
ion, 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 Henry l, and
we are apt to measure things by variable
standard, and by the human arm that in the
great crises of life can give us no help. We
need like Daniel, to open our windows toward
God and religion.
But, mark you, that good ion-tamer is not
standing at the window, but kneeiing while he
looks out Most photographs are taken of those
in standing or sitting posture l now remember
but one picture of a man kneeling, and that was
David Livingstone, who in the cause of God and
civilization sacrificed himself in the heart of
Africa. His servant Majawara, found him in
the tent by the light of candle stuck the
top of box, his head in hands upon the pillow
and dead on his knees. But here is great lion
tanner living under the dash of the light and his
hair disheveled OF the breeze praying. The
fact is that man can see further his knees
than standing on tip-toe. Jerusalem was about
$50 statute miles from Babylon, and the vast
Arabian desert shifted its sands between them.
Yet through that open window Daniel saw
Jerusalem. saw all between it, saw beyond, saw
time, saw eternity, saw earth and saw heaven.
Would you like to sec your way through your
sins to pardon, through your troubles to comfort,
through temptation to rescue, through dire sick
ness to immortal health, through night to day,
through things terrestrial to things celestial,
you will not see them till you take Daniels
posture No cap Of bone to the joints of the
fingers, no cap of bone to the joints of the
olbow, but cap of bone to the knees. Made SO
because the god of the body was the god of the
soul, an especial provision for those who want
to pray and physiological structure joins with
spiritual necessity in bidding us pray, and pray,
and pray. In olden time the Earl of Westmore
land said he had no need to pray because he had
enough pious tenants on his estate to pray for
him; but all the prayers of church universal
amount to nothing, unless, like Daniel, we pray
for ourselves o, men and women, bounded on
side by Shadrach's red hot furnace, and on the
other side by devouring lions learn the secret Of
courage and deliverance by looking at
that Babylonsh window open toward the
southwest ''Oh." you say, that is the direc-
ton of the Arabian desert" Yes but on the
other side of the desert is God, is Christ is
Jerusalem is heaven. The Brussels lace is
superior to all other lace-so beautiful. so multi
form, so expensive, four hundred francs pound
All the world seeks it, Do you know how it is
madel The spinning is done in dark room,
the only light admitted through small aper-
ture, and that light falling directly on the pat
tern. And the finest specimens of Christian
character l have seen or ever expect to see are
those TO be found in lives all of whose windows
have been darkened by bereavement and misfort-
me save one but under that one window of
prayer the interlacing OF divine workmanship
u
tial embroidery which angels admired and God
approved.
But it is another Jerusalem toward which we
now need 70 open our windows The exiled
evangelist OF EDhesus saw it one day AS the surf
of the lcarian sea foamed and splashed over the
powders at his feet and his vision reminded me
of a wedding day when the bride, by sister and
maid was having garlands twisted for her hair
and Jewels strung for her neck just before she
puts her bethrothed hand into the hand of her
affianced: Il, John, saw the Holy City, new
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
heaven prepared as bride adorned for her hus-
band !" Toward that bridal Jerusalem are our
windows opened9 We would do well to think
more of heaven. 1t is not a mere annex of
earth. IL is not desolate outpost. AS Jerusa-
lem was the capital of Judah and Babylon
tie capital OF Babylonian monarchy,
and London is the capital of Great
Britain and Washington is the capital of our