Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-09-13

them in early life drilled in the German
army some of them were accustomed at
LYONS or MaIseilles 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 midnight
run Of Norway. 1t is no diGhonor 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
and the sunlight of an atmosphere which
no kingly despot has ever breathed, they
forgot sometimes to open the window
toward Jerusalem.
An Open Portfolio.
No wonder that the son Of the Swiss,
when far away from home, hearing the
national air of his country sung, the
malady of homesickness comes on him
so powerfully as to cause his death. You
have the example Of heroic Daniel OF
my text for keeping early memories
fresh. Forget not the old folks at home.
Write often, and if you have surplus OF
means and they are poor make practical
contribution, and rejoice that America
is bound to all the world by ties OF
sanguinity as in no other nation. VINO
can doubt but it is appointed for the
evangelization Of other lands? What a
stirring, melting, gospelizing theory
that all the doors Of other nations are
open toward us, while our windows are
open toward them
But Daniel in the text kept this port
hole of his domestic fortress unclosed
because Jerusalem was the capital OF
sacred influences. There had smoked
the sacrifice There was the holy OF
holies. There was the ark Of the COW
enant. There stood the temple. We are
all tempted to keep our windows open
on the opposite side, toward the world,
that we may see and hear and appro-
pirate its advantages. What does the
world say? What does the world think!
What does the world do? Worshipers
! of the world instead Of worshipers OF
God. Windows open toward Babylon.
Windows open toward Corinth. VIM
dows open toward Athens. Windows
omen toward Sodom. Windows open to-
ward the flats instead Of windows open
toward the hills. Sad mistake, for this
world as a god is like something l saw
in the museum Of Strasburg, Germany
the figure Of a virgin in wood and
iron. The victim in olden time was
brought there, and this figure would
omen its arms to receive him, and once
enfolded the figure closed with a hun
dred knives and lances upon him, and
then let him drop $50 feet sheer down
So the world first embraces its idolaters,
then closes upon them with many tor
tures. and then lets them drop forever
down. The highest honor the world
could confer was to make man Roman
emperor, but out Of 63 emperors 1t al
lowed only six to die peacefully in their
beds.
The dominion Of this world over mul-
titudes is illustrated by the names OF
coins Of many countries They have
their pieces Of money which they call
sovereigns, crowns and half crowns,
Napoleons and half Napoleons, Freder-
icks and double Fredericks and ducats
and Isabelhnos, all Of which names
mean not so much usefulness as domln-
ion. The most Of our windows open
toward the exchange, toward the salon
of fashion, toward the god OF TINS
world. In olden times the length Of the
English ward 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 crises Of life can give US no
heip We need, like Daniel, to open our
windows toward God and religion.
Necessity For Prayer.
But, mark you, that good lion tanner
is not standing at the window, but
kneeling while he looks out. Most Pho
tographs are taken of those in standing
or sitting posture l now remember but
one picture of man kneeling, and that
was David Livingstone, who IN the
cause of God and civilization sacrificed
himself, and in the heart OF Africa his
servant, Majwara, found him IN the
tent by the light of candle stuck on the
ton of n box. his head in his hands upon
the pillow and dead on his knees. But
here is a great lion tanner living under
the dash of the light, and his hair
disheveled by the breeze, praying. Inc
fact is that man can see farther on
his knees than standing on tiptoe.
Jerusalem was about $50 statute miles
from Babylon, and the vast Arabian
desert shifted its sands between them.
Yet through that open window Daniel
r saw Jerusalem, saw all between 1t, saw
beyond, saw time, saw eternity, sa"
, earth and saw heaven.
Would You like to see the way
through your sins to pardon, through
: your troubles to comfort, through temp
} tation to rescue, through dire sickness
to immortal health, through night tc
i dav. through things terrestrial to things
D celestial-you will not see them TIL you
3 take Daniels posture. No cap OF bone to
Q the Joints Of the fingers, no cap OF bone &c
? the Joints Of the elbow, but cap OF bone to
. the knees, made so because the God OF the
body was the God of the soul, and espe'
= cial provision for those who want &c
S pray and physiological structure joins
( with spiritual necessity in bidding Us
= pray and pray and pray.
q In olden time the Earl OF Westmore'
land said he had no need to pray because
be had enough pious tenants on his es'
o tate to pray for Him, but all the prayers
: Of the church universal amount to noth
9 ing unless, like Daniel, we pray fol
: ourselves. o men and women, bound
h ed ON one side by Shadrach's redho
= furnace and the other side by de
7. youriug lions, learn the secret NJ cour
n age and deliverance by looking at tina
Q Babylonish window open toward IN
d southwest. "Oh," you say, THAT !
4 the direction Of the Arabian desert.
/ Yes. but on the other side Of the deser
Y is God, is Christ, is Jerusalem
heaven.
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