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Was liked by the length OF thu arm OF hlnS
Henry l.. and we are apt to measure things
by variable standard and by tie human
arm that in the great crises OF life can give
US no help. We need. like Daniel. to open
our windows towa-l God and religion.
Bat. mark you. that good lion tanier is not
Standing at the window, but kueelinS Will"
lie looks out. aIost photographs ara taken
OF those in standinS or sitting posture. l
now remember but one picture OF man
kne3ling. 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
h. the light of a candle stuck on the top OF
II box his head in his hands upon the pil-
low aa1 lead on his knees. But here is
cr"at lion tanner living under the
!nsh Of the light, and his hair
,'ish"vr.c! by the breeze, praying. The fact
* ;!at :: r?au can see farther on his Knees
than s,ardinG on tiptoe. Jerusalem was ABOUT
$50 staHt" miles from Babylon. and the vast
Arabian ,;aeeTt shifted its sands between
them. Y't thrGugh that open window Dan
iei saw Jerusalem. saw all between II, saw
and saw heaven.
Would you Ike TO 500 the way through
your sins TO pardon. through your troubles
10 comfort, through temptation to rescue,
through dire sickness to Immortal health,
through night to day, through things terres-
trial to things celestial-you will not see
them till you take Daniels posture. No cap
of bone to the joints of tho fingers, no cap OF
bone to the joints Of the elbow, but cap OF
bone to the knees, male so because the God
of the body was the God of the soul. and
especial 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 Westmoreland
said he had no need to pray because he had
enough pious tenants on his estate to pray
for him, but all tho prayers OF the churcn
universal amount to nothing unless, ike
Daniel, we pray for ourselves. 0 men and
women, bounded on one side by Shadrachis
redhot furnace and the other side by de-
vouring lions. learn the secret Of courage
and deliyerance by looking at that Baby
lanish window open toward the southwest.
"Oh,'' you say. '.ihat is the direction OF the
Arabian desert" Yes. but On the other side
Of the desert is Goa, is Christ. is Jerusalem.
is heaven.
The Brussels lace is superior to all other
lace, 50 beautiful, 50 multiform. 50 eXpen-
sive-400 francs Il 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 pat
tern. An, the finest specimens OF Christian
character hav" ever seen or ever expect TO
see are those to he found in lives ALL OF whose
windows have been darkened by bereave-
ment anl misfortune save one. but under
that ono window of prayer the interlacinS
OF divine workmanship went on until it was
fit to deck a throne, celestial embroidery
which angels admired and God approved.
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
the surf of the Icarian Sea foamed and
splashed over the boulders at his feet, and
his vision reminded me of wedding day
when the bride by sister and maid was hav-
ing garlands twisted for her hair and jewels
strung for her neck just before she puts her
betrothed hand into the hand of her
afflanced. 81, John. saw the holy city. New
Jerusalem, coming down from God out OF
heaven prepared as bride adorned for her
husband" Toward that bridal Jerusalem
are our windows opened?
We would do we'll to think more ofheaven.
It is not a mere annex Of earth. 1t is not
desolate outpost. AS Jerusalem was the cap
ita! Of Judea, and Babylon the capital OF the
capital of Great Britain, and Washington is
the capital Of our own Republic, the New
Jerusalem Is the capital of the universe. Tho
King lives there. and the royal family Of the
redeemed have their palaces there, AID there
is congress ofmany Nations and parliament
OF all the world. Yea, az Daniel had kindred
in Jerusalem OF whom he often thought,
though he left home whena a very young man,
perhaps father and mother and brothers and
sisters still living, and was homesick to see
them. and they belonged to the high circles
of royalty, Daniel himself having royal blood
in his veins, so We have In the New Jerusa-
lem a great many kindred, and we are some
times homesick to see them, and they are all
princes and princesses. In them the blood
Imperial, and we do we'll to keep our windows
open toward their eternal residence.
It Is q Joy for Us 70 believe that while We
are Interested in them they are interested in
US. Much thought of heaven makes one
heavenly. The airs that blow through that
open window are charged with life, and
sweep up to US aromas from gardens that
never wither, under skies that never cloud,
in a spring-tide that never terminates. Com
pared with it all other heavens are dead fall
ures.
Homer's heaven was an elyslum which he
describes as plain at the end OF the earth
or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and
the sun never goes down, and Rhedoman-
thus, the justest OF men, rules. Hesiod's
heaven Is what he calls the islands Of the
blessed. IN the midst Of the ocean, three
times year blooming with most exquisite
flowers, and the air is tinted With purple,
while games and music and horse races oc-
cupy the time The Scandinayian's heaven
was the hall of Walhalla, where the goa
Odin gave unending wine suppers to earthly
heros and heroines The Mohammedan's s
heaven passes its disciples in over the bridge
Al-Sirat, which Is finer than hair and
sharper than sword, and then they are let
loose into riot of everlasting sensuahty;
The American aborigines look forward 10
a heaven OF illimitable hunting ground,
partridge and deer and wild duck more than
plentiful, and the hounds never of the scent,
aud the guns never missing fire. But the
ceoSrapher has followed the earth round
and found no Homer's ely5ium. Foya-
gers have travarsod tho deep ii all dlrec.
tions and found no Hesiol's islands, OF
the blessed Tho Mohamm%dan ceies,
tial debauchery and the Indians eternal
hunting ground for vast mutltuaes
have no charm. But here rolls in the Bible
heaven. No more sea-that is. no wide sep
aration No more night-that is. no insom-
MIA. No more tears-that is, no more heart.
break No more pain-that is, dismissal OF
lancet and bitter draft and miasma ana ban,
ishment Of neuralgias and catalepsies ana
consumptions. All colors in the wall except
gloomy black. All the music in the MAJOR
key because ce!ebrative and jubllant. :,
River crystalline, gaze crystallne ana
skies crystalline because everything IS clear
and without doubt. White robes. ana ina,
means sinlssness. Viais full OF odors, and
that means pure resalement Of the senses.
Rainbow. and that means the storm is over:
Marriage supper. and TINT means Gladdest
festiritv. Twelve manner OF fruits. and that
means luscious and uuenlinS variety
Harp, Trumpet, grand march, anthem.
amen and halIeluiah in the same crehes-
tra. Choral meeting solo, anl overture
meeting antiphon. and dstrophe joining dlthE-
ramb, as they roll into the ocean OF d9Xolo-
gies. And you aud have all that. ana nave l1
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