St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-05
DR.. Talmage breaches in the Tabernacle
Upon the Subiecti Windows To-
wards Jerusalem.
Daniels Devotions and the Lions Den
Foreigners and America--The
Ideal Heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher Talks to His
Congregation About Paul's
Great Prayer.
The Study of Coda Question of
Faith--Humanity's Hope
of a Hereafter.
DR.. Talnase,s Sermon.

dlIlaSe preached IllS morning III Ino
Brooklyn tabernacle, on the subject, Win
doWs Toward Jerusalem. Before the SER
mon he eXpounded the parable in Luke
concerning the widows plea before the un-
just judge, and showed how God honored
prayer. To-day was communion Sabbath
and numbers were added to the church
membership, which now reaches considera-
bly, beyond three thousand. The text Of the
sermon was from Daniel vi, 10: His
windows being open and his chamber to-
ward Jerusalem" Dr. Talmage said: The
ScOundrelly princes of Persia, urged on by
political jealousy against Daniel, have sue
ceeded in getting law passed that whose
ever 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 earth
trembles. But the leonine threat did not
hinder the devotiOns of Daniel, the coeGr 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
a garden of magnOliaS, 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
Daniel hears of this enactment he leaves
his office of secretary of state, with its up
h0lStery 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 he can look toward
the sacred city of Jerusalem 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 con-
stabulary of the city rush to the police
headquarters and report that Daniel is on
his knees at the wide-Open window. ''Y Ou
are my prisoner" said the officer of the
law, dropping heavy hand on the shoulder
of the kneeling Daniel. AS the constables
| open the door of the cavern to thrust in
their prisoner they see the glaring eyes of
the monsters. But Daniel becomes the
first lion-tamer and they lick his hand 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, sleepless
IN the palace, has on him the paw and
teeth of a lion he cannot tame, the lion Of
| a remOrSeful conscience. But our text
stands us at Daniels window open toward
Jerusalem, Why in that direction open?
Jerusalem was his native land and all the
pomp of his Babylonish successes could not
make him forget it. He came there from
Jerusalem at IS years of age and he never
visited it. though he lived to be So years.
Yet when he wanted to arouse the deepest
emotions and grandeSt aspirations OF his
heart he had his window open toward his
native Jerusalem. There are many of you
to-day who understand that without any
exposition. This is getting to be
A NATION OF FOREIGNERS.
They have come into all occupations and
professions. They sit in all churches. 1t
may be twenty years ago since you got your
naturalization papers and you may be thor
oughly Americanized. but you can't forget
the land of Your birth and your warmest
sympathieS go out toward it. Your win
dOws are open toward Jerusalem. Your
father and mother are buried there. 1t
may have been a very humble home in
which you were born, but 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
parental blessings to make your own way in
the world; and God only knows how some
times you have Ionged to see the familiar
places of your childhood, and how in awful
crises of life you would like to have caught
a glimpse of the old wrinkled face that
bent over you as you lay on the gentle lap,
| twenty or forty or fifty years ago. You
may have on this side the sea risen in for
tune. and like Daniel, have become great,
and may have come into prosperitles which
YOU never could have reached if you had
stayed there, and you may have many win
dOwS in your house. bay windows and sky
light windows and windows of conservatory
and windows on all sides, but you have at
least one window open to Jerusalem.
When the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf you see the long line of sailors with
shouldered mail bags coming down the
plankS carrying as many letters as you
might suppose would be enough for
A YEARS CORRESPONDENTS,
and this repeated again and again during
the week. Multitudes of them are letters
from home. messages that say: ''Wher
are you coming home to see us? Brother
has gone into the army. Sister is dead.
Father and mothers are getting very feeble.
We are having a great struggle to get on
here. Would you advise us to come to you
or will you come to us? All join in love
and hope to meet you, if not in this world
then in better. Good byer Yes, yes: in
all these cities and the Towering Western
prairies and on the slopes of the Pacific
and amid the SierraS and On the banks Of
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there is an uncounted multitude who, thi:
hour, stand and sit and kneel with theil
windows open toward Jerusalem. What {
stirring, melting, gospelizing theory that al
the doors of other nations are open toward!
US, while our windows are open toward
them, The American aborlgineS look for
ward to heaven of illimitable hunting
ground, partridge and deer and wild duel
more than plentiful, and the hounds never
off the scent and the guns never missing fire
But the geographer has followed the eartf
round and round and found no Homer:
elysium. Voyagers have traversed the deeI
in all directions and found no HeSiod'S is
lands of the blest. The Mohammedan':
celestial debauchery and the Indians eter
nal hunting ground for vast multitudes have
no charm. But here rolls in the Bible
heaven. No more sea; that is, no wide sep
aration;
NO MORE NIGHT:
that is, no insomnia. No more tears: tina
is no heart-break. No more pain; that is
dismissal of lancet and bitter draught an(
miasma and banishment of neuralgias anC
catalepsies and consumptions. All color
in the wall except gloomy black. all the mu
sic in the major key because celebrative anC
jubilant River crystalline, gate crystalline
and skies crystalline because everything il
clear and without doubt. White robes, ant
that means sinlessness. Walls full of odors
and that means pure regalement of the
senses. Rainbow. and that means tn,
storm is over. Marriage supper. and tha
means gladdest festivities. Twelve name
of fruits, and that means luscious and un
ending variety. Harp, trumpet, grant
march, anthem, amen and halleluiah in tn
same orchestra. Choral meeting solo ant
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joining dithyramb as they roll into tn
ocean of dOXOlOgieS. And You and I ma,