Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-05


The text Of the sermon was from Daniel
vi. 10. "His windows being open In his
chamber toward Jerusalem." DR.. Tai
mage said:
The scoundrelly Princes Of Persia. urg-
ed on by political jealousy against Daniel,
have succeeded in getting a law passed
that whosOeVer pray To God shall be put
under the paw and teeth Of tue liOns, who
are lashing themselves in rage aud hun
ger up and down the stone cage, or put
ting theIr lower jaw on the ground, bel
lowing till the earth trembes. But the
leOnine threat did not hinder the devo-
tiOns Of Daniel, the occur dc 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 magnO-
has, 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 tue 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 Jerusa-
lem, and then praYs. l suppose the peO-
pie in the street gathered under aud be-
fore his window and said: "Just see that
man defying the law; he ought to be ar
rested" 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 prisoner" said the officer of the
law, dropping heavy hand on the
shoulder of the kneeling DOniel. AS the
constabes 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 tanner, 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 remorseful con-
science.
What picture IL would be for some ar
tist. Darius in the early dusk of morn
ing, not waiting for iootman or chariot,
Fastening to the den, all flushed and ner-
vous and in dishabille, and looking
through the creVices Of the cage to see
what has become OF his Prime Minister.
"What, no sound ?'' he says. "Daniel is
surely devOured and the lions are sleeping
after their horrid meal, the bones Of the
poor man scattered across the floor of the
cavern" With trembling voice Darius
calls out, "Danielw No answer, for the
prophet Is yet in profound slumber. But
a lion. more easily awakened, advances,
and, with hot breath blown through the
creyice, seemed angrily to demand the
cause of this interruption, and then an
other wild beast lifts his name from under
Daniels head, and the prophet waking
up, comes for TO report himself unhurt
and well.
But our text stands us at Daniels win
dow open toward Jerusalem. Why In that
direction Open2 Jerusalem was his native
land and all the pOmp Of his Babylonish
successors could not make him forget IT.
He came there from Jerusalem at Is
years OF age, and he never revisited it,
though he lived TO be 50 years. Yet when
he wanted TO arouse the deepest emotions
and grandest aspirations OF his heart he
had bis window open toward his native
Jerusalem. There are many OF you to-
day who understand that without any
exposition. This is getting 70 be nation
OF foreigners. Tney haye come into all
occupations and professions. They sit I'm
all churches. IL may be twenty years
ago since you got your naturalization pa
pers and you may be thoroughly Ameri-
canlzed, but you can't forget the land Of
your birth and your warmest sympathies
20 out toward IT,. Your widows are open
toward Jerusalem. Your father and
mother are buried there. IL may
have been very humble home In which
you we're born, but your memory often
plays around II, and you hope some day
20 90 and see It, the hill, the tree, the
brook, the house, the place so sacred, the
door from which you started of with
parental blessing 10 make your own way
In the world, and God only knows how
sometimes you have longed 10 see the
familiar places Of your childhood, and
how In awful crises Of life you would like
20 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 fortune, and like
Daniel have become great, and may have
come into properties which you never
could have reached n You bad stayed
there, aud you may have many windows
70 your house, bay windows and skyllght
windows, and windows Of conservatory,
and windows on all sides, but you have
at least one window open toward Jeru-
salem.
When the foreign steamer comes 70 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
years correspondence, and this repeated
again and again during the week. Null
titudes OF them are letters nom home,
and at all the post offices OF the land peo-
pie will 20 the window and anxiously ask
for them, hundreds OF thousands Of per-
sons finding that window Of foreign mails
the open window toward Jerusalem.
Messages that say: "When are you com
ing home 20 sec usi Brother has gone
into the army. Sister Is dead. Father
and mother are getting very feeble. We
are having n great struggle 70 geton here.
Would you advise us 10 come to you, or
will you come 70 uef All join Ia love,
aud hope 10 meet you, n not In this world,
then IN a better. 0oOd-byW
Yes. yes; In All these cities aud amid
the flowing Western prairies and on the
slopes Of the Pacific and amid the sierras
and on the banks Of the Lagoon and on
the ranches OF Texas there is an un-
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