Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-10-03
OPEN WINDOWS.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on tho
New Jerusalem.
He Calls Attention to the Courage and
Fidelity Of Daniel Believers Conf
IDENTIFY Look Forward to Heaven
~ Reward Of Christian
Courage ON Earth.

In his latest sermon Rev DR.. Tai
mage called attention to the subject o
Christian fidelity and encouraged hi
hearers with the example of Daniel
The text he selected was from DAME
vi. 10: 'His windows being open IL
his chamber towards Jerusalem.
The scoundrelly princes of Persia
urged on by political jealousy against
Daniel, havNsucceeded in getting Law
passed that whatsoever prays to Goo
shall be put under the paws and teeth
of the lions, who are lashing them
selves in rage and hunger up and down
The stone cage, or putting their loves
Jaws on the ground, believing till the
earth trembles. But the leonine threat
did not hinder the devotions Of Daniel,
the Coeur-de-Lion Of the ages. His
enemies might as well have 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 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 upholstery
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
curtain aside so that he can look to-
ward the sacred city OF Jerusalem and
then prays
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 prisoner" says
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 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 lion he can
not tame-the lion of remorseful con-
science.
What a picture 1t would be for some
artist: Darius, in the early dusk Of
morning, not waiting for footmen or
chariot, Fastening to the den, all
flushed and nervous and in deshabille,
and looking through the crevices of the
cage to see what had become of his
prime minister sWhat, no sound" he
says, Daniel is surely devoured, and
the lions are sleeping after their horrid
meal, the bones Of the poor man scat
tered across the floor Of the CAVERN
With trembling voice Darius calls out:
sDanielP No answer, for the prophet
yet in profound slumber. But lion,
more easily awakened, advances, and,
with hot breath blown through the
crevices, 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 him
self all unhurt and well.
But our text stands up 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 Jer-
usalem at IS years of age, and he never
visited II, though he lived to be IS
years. Yet, when he wanted to arouse
the deepest emotions and grandest as
pirations Of his heart, he had his win
dow open toward his native Jerusalem.
There are many Of you to-day who I'M
derstand that without any exposition.
This is getting to be nation OF for
eigners. They have come into all occu-
pations and professions. They sit in
all churches. 1t may be twenty years
ago since you got your naturalization
papers, and you may be thoroughly
Americanized, but you can't for
get the land Of your birth, and
your warmest sympathies go out
toward it. Your windows are
open toward Jerusalem. Your ia
Their and mother are buried there. 1t
may have been very humble home
in which you were born, but your
memory often plays around it, and you
hope some day to go and see 1.-THE
hill, the tree, the brook, the house, the
place so sacred, the door from which
you started off with parental blessing
to make your own way in the world,
and God only knows how sometimes
you have longed to see the familiar
places Of your childhood, and how in
awful crises Of life you would like to
have caught 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 of the sea risen into for
tune, and, like Daniel, have come into
properties which you never could have
reached If you had stayed there, and
you may have many windows to your
house bay-windows, and skylight-
windows, and windows Of conservatory,
and windows on all sides but you have
st least one window open toward Jeru-
salem.
When the foreign steamer comes to
the wharf you sec the long line Of sail