Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-09-13

ing theory that al the doors OF other ma
lions are open toward US, while our win
! dows are open toward theml
Idolsters.
But Daniel, in the text, kept this port
/ hole of his domestic fortress Enclosed be-
cause Jerusalem was the capital Of sacred
4 influences. There had smoked the sacri-
] Zee. There was the holy Of HOLES. There
was the ark Of the covenant. 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 appropriate Its advantages. What
does the world sayi What does the world
think? What does the world dor Wor-
shipers of the world instead of wOrshipers
of God. Windows open toward Babylon.
Windows omen toward Corinth. Windows
open toward Athens. Windows open to-
ward Sodom Windows open toward the
flats. instead Of windows open toward the
hills. Sad mistake, for this world as q
god Is Ike something 1 saw in the museum
of Suasburg Germany--the figure OF a
virgin in wood and iron. The victim In
olden time was brought there, and this
figure would open its arms TO receive him,
and. once onfolded, the dgure closed with
a hundred 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 fortunes,
and then lets them drop forever down.
Tho highest honor the world could confer
was to make a man Roman emperor, but
out Of 60 cmprrors, it allowed only six to
die peacefully in their beds.
The dominion of this world over null
titudes 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, kredericks
and double Iredericks and ducats and Is
abellinos, al 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 va
riable standard and by the human arm that
in the great crises of life can give us no
help. 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 photographs are
taken of those in standing or sitting pos
ture. now remember but one picture OF
a man kneeing, and that was David Liv-
ingstone, who in the cause of God and civ
ilization sacrificed himself, and in the
heart Of Africa his servant, Majwara,
found him in the tent by the light of a
candle. stuck on tho topof a box, his head
in his hands upon the pillows and dead on
his knees. But here is a great lion tanner,
living under the dash of the light, and his
hair disheveled Of the breeze, praying. The
fact is that a man can see farther on his
knees than standing on tiptoc. Jerusalem
was about $50 statute miles from Babylon,
and the vast Arabian desert shifted its
sands between them. Yet through that
omen window Daniel saw Jerusalem, saw
all between it, saw beyond, saw time, saw
eternity, say earth and saw heaven.
Would you like to see the way through
your siEs to pardon, through your troubles
TO comfort, through temptation to rescue,
through dire sickness to immortal health,
through night to day, through things ter
restrial 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, mado so be-
cause the God of the body was the God of
the soul, and especial provision for those
who want to pray, and physiological struc-
ture joins with spiritual necessity in bid
ding us pray and pray and pray.
In olden time tho Earl of Westmoreland
said he had no need to pray because he
had enough pious tenants on his estate to
pray for him, but all the prayers Of the
church universal amount to nothing I'M
less, like Daniel, We pray for ourselves.
o men and women, bounded on one side
bv Shadrach's redhot furnace and the
other side by devouring lions, learn the
secret Of courage and deliverance by look
ing at that Babylonish window open tow
ard the southwest "Oh, " you say THAT
is the direction Of the Arabian desertl'
Yes. but on the other side of the desert is
God, is Christ, is Jerusalem, is heaven.
The brussels lace is superior TO all other
lace. so beautiful, so multiform, so expen-
siye-4OO francs a pound. All the world
seeks it. Do you know how it is NADER
The summing is done in a dark room, the
only light admitted through a small aper-
ture and that light falling directly on the
pattern. And the finest specimens Of
Christian character 1 have ever seen or
ever expect to see are those to be found in
lives all of whose windows have been dark
ened by bereavement and misfortune save
one but under that one window Of prayer
tho interlacing of divine Workmanship
went on until it was fit to deck throne,
a celestial embroidery which angels adj
mired and God approved.
The Bridal Jerusalem.
But it is another Jerusalem toward
which we now need to open our windows
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 a
wedding day when the bride by sister and
maid was having garlands twisted for her
hair and Jewels strung for her neck just
before she puts her betrothed hand into
the hand of her afllanced. Il, John, saw
tho holy city, New Jerusalem, coming
down from God out Of heaven prepared as
a bride adorned for her husband To
ward that bridal Jerusalem are our win
dows openedg
We would do well to think more Of
heaven. 1t Is not a mere annex Of earth.
1t is not a desolate outpost. As Jerusalem
was the capital of Jud;ea, and Babylon the