The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-09-13

10 IL, WHiiN thog huNo nuiiV vi tilelr
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 tho
national air of his country sung, the
malady of inconsistencies 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. Who
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 Enclosed
because Jerusalem was the capital of
sacred influences. There had smoked
the sacrifice. There was the holy of
HOLES. 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. Win
dows open toward Athens. Windows
open toward Sodom. Windows open to-
ward the flats instead of windows open
toward the hills Sad mistake, for this
world as god is like something | saw
in the museum of Strasburg, Germany
the figure of 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
embodied 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 it's idolaters,
then closes upon them with many tor
lures, and then let's them drop forever
down. The highest honor the world
could confer was to make man Roman
emperor, but out of So emperors it al
lowed 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, crowns and half crowns,
Napoleons and half Napoleons, Freder-
icks and double Fredericks and ducats
and Isabellinos, all of which names
mean not so much usefulness as domin-
ion. 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 a variable
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 pho
are taken Of those in standing
or sitting posture. now remember but
one picture of man kneeling, and that
was David Livingstone, who in the
cause of God and civilization sacrificed
and in the heart of Africa his
servant, Majwara, found him in the
tent by the light of a candle stuck on the
top Of box, his head i'll 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. The
fact is that man can see farther on
his knees than standing on tiptoe.
Jerusalem was about 900 statute miles
from Babylon, and the vast Arabian
desert shifted its sands between them.
Yet through that open window Daniel
saw Jerusalem, saw all between it, saw
beyond, 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 temp
tation 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 because the God OF the
body was the God of the soul, and espe-
cial provision for those who want to
pray and physiological structure joins
with spiritual necessity in bidding us
pray and pray and pray.
In olden time the Earl of Westmore-
land said he had no need to pray because
he had enough pious tenants on his es-
tdUc w btii al tliO pay oic
of the church universal amount to moth
ing unless, like Daniel, we pray for
ourselves 0 men aud women, bound
ed on one side by Shadrach's redhot
furnace and the other side by de-
vouring lions, learn the secret of cour-
age and deliverance by looking at that
Babyionish window open toward the
southwest. "Oh," you say, that is
Che direction of the Arabian desert.
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 expensive-400 francs pound. All
the world seeks it,. 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
l have ever seen or ever expect to see
are those to be found in lives all Of
Iyboco ypipdoxys have hppn darkened hy