The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-09-18

no hIuS4s NStOoAS it.io Nv AK StiItiSIi,
they forgot sometimes to open the
window toward Jerusalem.
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
nim so powerfully as to cause his
death. You have the example OF he
roic Daniel of my text for keeping
early memories fresh. Forget not the
Did 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 e'evangeliza-
ton of other lands2 What stirring,
melting, gospelizing theory that all
the doors of other nations are open to-
ward US, while our windows are open
toward them!
But Daniel, in the text, kept this
portfolio of his domestic fortress un-
closed because Jerusalem was the cap
ital of sacred influences. There had
smoked the sacrifice. There was the
holy of holes. There was the ark Of
the covenant. There stood the temple.
We are all tempted to keep our win
dows open on the opposite side, to-
ward the world, that we may see and
hear and appropriate its advantages.
What does the world say? What does
the world think? What does the world
do2 Worshippers of the world in
stead of worshippers of God. Win
dows open toward Babylon. Win
dows open toward Corinth. Windows
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 some
thing I saw in the museum of Stras-
burg, Germaay-the figure of a virgin
in wood and iron. The victim in old
en- time was brought there, and this
figure would open its arms to receive
him, and, once EMBODIED, the figure
closed with a hundred knives and Ian
ces upon him, and then let him drop
$50 feet sheer down. So the world
first embraces its idolaters, then closes
upon them with many tortures, and
then lets them drop forever down.
The highest honor the world could
confer was to make man Roman en-
peror, but out of 63 emperors, it al
lowed only six to die peacefully in
their beds.
The dominion of this world over
multitudes is illustrated by the namse
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, Fredericks and
double Fredericks and ducats and Isa-
belinos, all of which names mean not
so much usefulness as dominion. The
most of our windows open toward the
exchange, toward the saloon of fash
ion, 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 |, and we are apt
to measure things by a variable stand
ard and by the human arm that in the
great crises of lifecan give US no help.
We need, like Daniel, to open our
windows toward God and religion.
But, mark you, that good lion tam
er is not standing at the window, but
kneeling, while he looks out. Most
photographs are taken of those in
standing or sitting posture. I now
remember but one picture of man
kneeling, and that was David Living
stone, who in the cause of God and
civilization sacrificed himself, and in
the heart of Africa his servant. Maj
wara, found him in the tent by the
light of candle, stuck on the top of a
box, his head in his hands upon the
pillows and dead on his knees. But
here is a great lion tanner, ivish un-
der the dash of the light, and his hair
disheveled of the breeze, praying.
The fact is that a man can see farther
on knees than standing on tiptoe.
Jerusalem was about $50 statute miles
from Babylon, and the vast Arabian
desert shifted it's 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 temptation to
rescue, through dire sickdess to i'm
mortal 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 especial provision
for those who want to pray, and ply
siological structure joins with spirit
ual necessity in bidding us pray and
pray and pray.
In olden time the Earl of West
moreland 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 unless, like Daniel,
we pray for ourselves. 0 men and
women, bounded on one side by Shad-
rach's redhot furnace and the other
side by devouring lions, learn the Sc
cret Of courage and deliverance by
looking at that Babylonish window
open toward the southwest. "Oh,
you say, ''that is the 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 a POUND.
All the world seeks it. Do you know
how it is made? The spinning is done
in dark room, the only light admit
ted through a small aperture and that
light falling directly on the pattern.
And the finest specimens of christian