The Penn's Grove record., 1895-09-13
REY. DR.. TaLuaGE.
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.


- III AIJ btlllS VIGIL III HE
chamber toward Jerusalem. Daniel vi, 10.
The ~scoundrelly princes of Persia, urged
on by political jealousy against Daniel, nave
succeeded in getting n law passed that Who
soever prays to God shall he put under the
Jaws and teeth OF the ions who are flashing
themselves in rage and hunger up and down
the stone cage or putting their lower jaws
on the ground, believing till the earth
trembles. But the leonine threat did
not hinder the devOtiOns of Daniel, the
tnU de Lion of the ages. His enemies
might as well have a law that the sun should
not draw water, or that the south wind
should not sweep across a garden OF mag
nhltos, or that God should be abolished.
They could not s3are him with the red hot
furnaces, and they cannot now scare hin
with the lions. As soon as Daniel hears OF
this enactment he leaves his Office of secre-
tary OF state, with its upholstery Of crimson
and gold, and comes down the white marble
steps and goes 10 his own house. He opens
his window and puts the shutters back and
pulls the curtain aside so that he can look
toward the sacred city of Jerusalem and
then prRys.
suppose the people In the street gathered
under and before his window and said:
Just see that man defying the law. He
ought TO he arrested" And the c~onstabulary
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 a
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 iawn at his feet, and
that night he sleeps with the shaggy name
Of a 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.
What a picture it would be for some artist
Darius In the early dusk of morning not
waiting for foetmen or chariot, fastening to
the den, all flushed and nervous and In dis
habille, and looking through the %crevices of
the cage to see what hadbecome 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 maj scattered across the loo of
the cavern" With trembling voice Darius
calls out; "DanieI?'' No answer, for the
prophet is yet in profound slumber. But a
lion more easily awakened, advances, and
with hot breath blOwn through the crevice
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 re-
port himself all unhurt and well.
But our text stands us at Daniels window,
opened toward Jerusalem. Why in that di-
tection open? Jerusalem was his native
land, and all the pomp of his Babylonish sue
eesses could not make him forget it. He
came there from Jerusalem at eighteen years
of age, and he never visited it. though he
lived to be eighty-flve years. Yet when he
wanted to arouse the deepest emotions AMI
| grandest aspirations of his heart he had his
window open toward his native Jerusalem.
There are many OF you to-day who under
| stand that without any exposition. This is
getting to be a Nation of foreigners. They
have come into all occupations and profess
sions. They sit in all churches. 1t may
be twenty. years ago since you
got your naturalization papers, n
you may be thoroughly Amerieanized, but
| you can forget the land of your birth, and
| your warmest sympathies go out toward it.
| Your windows are open toward Jerusalem.
Your father and mother are buried there.
| 1t may have been n very umbl home in
| which you were born, but your memory Of
ten plays around it, and you hope some day
\ to go mi 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 howl in awful crises of life you
| would liketo have caught a glimpse ofthe old
wrinkled face that bent over you as you lay
on the gentle lap twenty or forty or fifty
wears ago. You may have on this side of the
| sea risen in fortune, and like Daniel have
| become great and may have come into pros
| p~erities which YOU never could have reached
| in YOU had staid there, and you NAV have
/ many windows to your house bay windows
| and skylight windows and windows OF con-
| servatory and windows on all sides-but you
have at least one window opentoward Jeru-
| salem.
When the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf, YOU see the long line of sailors, with
| shouldered mailbags, coming down the
| planks, carrying as many letters as you
\ might suppose to be enough for a years
| correspondence, and this repeated again and
again during the week. M~ultitudes Of them
are letters from home. and at all the post
| offices of the land people will go to the VIM
dow and anxiously ask for them, hundreds
of thousands of persons finding that win
| dow of foreign mails the open window
toward Jerusalem. Messages that say:
"When are you coming home to sec us2
Brother has gone into the army. Sister is
dead. Father and mother are getting very
feeble. We are having a great struggle to
get on here. Would you advise us to come
| 70 you, or will you come to us? All join in
love and hope to meet you, II not in this
world. then in a better. Goodby."
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 u~ncOunted 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 faminei some OF
them in early life drilled in the German
army; some Of them were accustomed al
LYONS or Marseiiles or Paris TO SEQ on
the street Victor Hugo and Gamhettai
some chased the chamois among the Alpine
precipices; some plucked the ripe clusters
from Italian vineyard; some lifted their
faces under the midnight sun of Norway. 1t
Is no dishonor to our lane that they remem-
her the place of their nativity. Miscreants
would they be II, while they have some OF
their windows open TO a in the free air
and the sunlight OF an atmosphere which nc
kingly despot has ever 6reathed, they torgot
sometimes to open the window toward
Jerusalem.
No wonder that the son Of the Swiss, wher
far away from home, hearing the Nationa
air of his country sung, the MALAY of home
sickness comes on him so powerfully as t
cause his death. You have tho example o
heroic Daniel OF my text for keeping earl!
memories fresh. Forget not the old folks a
home. Write often, and II you have a sur
plus Of means and they are poor make prac
IDEAL contribution, and rejoice that AmerieI
IL bound to all the world by ties OF sanguin
ity as in no other Nation. Who can doub
but II is appointed for the evangelization o
other lands2 What a stirring, melting, gos
pelizine theory that all the doors of othe
Nations are open toward us, while u wiz
dows are open toward them!
But Daniel in the text kept this port hole
Of his domestic fortress Enclosed because
Jerusalem was the capital Of sacred inhu
ences. There had smoked the sacrifice
There was the holy Of holles. There was tn
ark OF the covenant. There stood the TEN
ME, We are all tempted to keep our win
dows open on the opposite side toward tn
world. that We may sec n hear an
appropriate is advantages. What does tn
world say? What docs the world think
What does the world dor Worshipers 9
the world instead OF worshipers OF Goo
Windows open toward Babylon. Window
,pen toward corinth. Windows opentowar
Athens. Windows open toward Sodom: WI
! dows omen toward the fats instead OF vii
dows open toward the hills. Sad mistake, fC
this world as a god is like something l 50
!. In them museum OF S~trasbu-g, Germany-th
figure OF a virgin in wood and iron. III
victim in olden time was brought there, an
this figure would open its arms to reeeiN
! MIN. and once embodied the figure close
with a hundred knives and lanees upon hin