The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-09-21

us to come to you, or will you come to
us? All join in love, and hope to meet
you, IL not in this world, then in bet
ter. Good-by."
| Yes, yes; in all these cities, and
amid the towering 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 uncounted multitude
who. this hour, stand and sit and
kneel with their windows open toward
Jerusalem. Some of these people
played on the heather of the Scottish
hills. Some of them were driven out
| by Irish famine. Some OF them, in
early life, drilled in the German army.
Some of them were accustomed at
Lyons or Marseilles or Paris to see on
the street Victor Hugo and Gambetta.
| Some chased the chamois among the
| Alpine precipices. Some plucked the
| ripe clusters from Italian vineyard.
Some lifted their faces under the mid
night sun of Norway. 1t is no dis
honor to our land that they remember
the place of their nativity Miscreants
would they be If, while they have
some of their windows open to take in
the free air of America and the sun
| light of an atmosphere which no king
ly despot has ever breathed, they for
got sometimes to oDen the window to-
ward Jerusalem.
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 half-crowns. Napoleons and half
| Napoleons, Fredericks and double
| Fredericks, and ducats, and isabella
nos, all of which names mean not so
much usefulness as dominion. The
most of our windows open toward the
| exchange, toward the salon of fashion,
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 crisis of life can give us no help
We need, like Daniel, to open our win
dows toward God and religion.
But, mark you, that good lion tam
err is not standing at the window, but
knecling, while he looks out. Most
photographs are taken of those In
standing or sitting posture. i now re-
member but one picture of man
kaeeling, and that was David LIVING
stone, who, in the cause of God and
civilization, sacrificed himself; and in
the heart of Africa his servant, Maj
wara, found him in the tent by the
| light of candle, stuck on the top of
a box, his head in his hands upon the
pillow, and dead on his knees. But
here is great lion tanner, living I'M
der the dash of the light, and his hair
disheveled of the breeze, praying.
The fact is, that man can see fur
Their on his knees than standing on
tiptoe. Jerusalem was about five hun
dred and fifty statute miles from Baby
lon. and the vast Arabian desert
shifted it's sands between them. Yet
through that open window Daniel saw
Jerusalem, saw all between it, saw be-
yond, saw time, saw eternity, saw
earth and saw Heaven. Would you
like to see the way through your sins
to pardon, through your troubles to
comfort, through temptation to rescue,
through dire sickness 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 elbow. but
cap of bone to the knees, made so be-
cause the God of the body was the God
of the soul, and especial provision for
those who want to pray, and physi-
illogical structure joins with spiritual
necessity in bidding MS pray, and pray,
and pray.
In olden time the earl of Westmore-
land said he had no need to pray, be-
cause he had enough pious tenants on
his estate to pray for him; but all the
prayers of the church universal amount
to nothing unless. like Daniel, we pray
| for ourselves Oh, men and women,
bounded on one side by Shadrach's
red-hot furnace, and the other side by
devouring lions, learn the secret of
courage and deliverance by looking at
that Babylonish window open toward
the southwest! "Oh," you say, that is
the direction Of the Arabian Desertw
Yes; but on the other side of the des-
| ert Is God. is Christ, is Jerusalem. is
| Heaven. d.
The Brussels lace is superior to all
other lace, 30 beautiful, so multi
form, SO approximations hundred
francs pound. All the world
seeks 1t. Do you know how it is
made? The spinning is done in
dark room, the only light admitted
through small aperture, and that
| light falling directly on the pattern.
| And the finest specimens of Christian
character have ever seen or ever ex-
pect to see are those to be found in
| lives all of whose windows have been
| darkened by bereavement and misfor-
| tune save one, but under that one win
dow Of prayer the inteflacing of divine
workmanship went on until it was fit
to deck throne, celestial embroi-
derry which angels admired and God
approved.
| But it is another Jerusalem toward
which we now need to open our win
| dows. The exiled evangelist of
Ephesus saw it one day as the surf of
the Icarian sea foamed and splashed
over the powders at his feet, and his
vision reminded me of wedding day,
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