The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-12
REV. IR. TAIMAGE.
SUNDAYS bIscoURsn nY THE
NOTED DIVINE.
Subject: sOpen Windows"

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The scoundreliy princes Of Persia. urged
on 1v political Jealousy against Daniel. have
gc'teded in getting a law passed that who.
u'v'r prays 60 Col shall b. uut under tb,
paws aud teeth OF the lions who are lashina
themselves in rage and hunger up and down
The stone cage or putting their lower Jaws
on the ground. believing till the earth
trerbles. But the leonine threat did
not hinder the devotlons Of Daniel. the
Crur de Lion Of the ages. His enemies
might as well have a law that the sun should
not draw water, or that the south wind
should not sweep across garden OF mag
nolios. or that God should bn abolished.
They could not s,are him with the red hot
furnaces, and thCy cannot roy scare him
with the lions. As soon as Daniel hears of
this enactment he leaves his of,ae Of secre-
ury oi state. with its upholstery OF crimson
tnd gold, and comes down the white marble
steps and goes to his own housa He opens
BIZ window and puts the shutters back aud
pulls the curtain aside so that he can look
nwari the sacred city OF Jerusalem aud
ben prays.
| suppose the people in the street gathered
| rnler and before his window and said
Just see that man defying the law. He
ought TO be arrested And the constabulary
Oi the city rush 20 the police headquarters
and report that Daniel is on his knees at the
ay- the officer Of the law. dropping a
| heavy hand on the shoulder OF the kneeling
| paniel. As the constables open the door Of
/ The cavern to thrust in their prisoner they
pe the glaring eyes OF the monsters, But
| Daniel becomes the first lion tamer. and
/ they lick his hand and fawn at his feet and
. that night he sleeps with the shaggy name
t' a Wild boast for his pillow. while the king
that night, sleepless in the palace, has on
| kttt w - IL.
hmc-the lion Of "A reno -seful conscience.
What picture 1t would be for som artist
| Darius In the early dusk OF morning not
waiting for footmen or chariot fastening 10
| the den, all flushed and nervous and In dis
| hahille. and looking through the creyices OF
| the cage To see what had become OF bis prime
minister. "What, no soundr 4 saws.
. "Dauiel is surely devoured and the Hons are
| sleeping after their horrid meal. the bones
oithe poor man scattered across the foor of
. the cavern" With trembling voice Darius
calls out: "Daniel2" No answer, Tor the
prophet is yet in profound slumber. But n
| hon more easily awakened advances. and
With hot breath blown through ,e creyice
seems angrily to demand the cause Of this
Interruption, and then another wild beast
i't' his name from under Daniels head. and
the prophet, waking M, comes forth to re-
port himself all unhurt and well.
But our text stands US at Daniels window.
opened toward Jerusalem. Why in that di-
rclion open? Jerusalem was his native
land and all the pomp OF his Babylonish sue
te,ses could not make him forget IT, He
came there from Je.usalcm at eighteen wears
Of dago, aud he never visited il. though he
lived 10 be eighty-nye years. Yet when he
wanted 10 arouse the deepest emotions aud
grandest aspirations Of his heart he had his
window open toward his native Jerusalem.
"a n ~ Df 70 a..
stand that without any exposition. This is
getting to be Nation OF foreigners. They
have come into all occupations and profess
SONS. They sit In all churches. II NAV
h twenty years ago since you
gn your naturalization papers, and
you may be thoroughly Americanized, but
you cant forget the land Of your birth, and
your warmest sympathies go out toward it.
Your windowSa:ts, pen toward Jerusalem.
Your father and mother are buried there.
may have been n very humble home in
which you were born, but your memory Of
len plays around-it, and you hope some day
10 60 and see 1.-THE hill, the tree, the brook.
the house. the place so sacred, the door from
which you started of with parental blessing
70 make your own way In the world-and
God only knows how sometimes you have
hEget to see the familiar places of your
ehldhood, and how in awful crises of life YOU
WnnRled face that bent over you as you lay
On tue gentle lap twenty or forty or fly
years ago. You may have on this side OF tho
sea risen IN fortune, and like Daniel have
become great and may have come into pros
lertle- which you never could have reached
U You had staid there, and you may have
many windows to your house bay windows
and 'kylsht windows and windows Of con-
StNatory and windows on all sides-but YOU
n tA ND
salem.
when the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf you see the long line of sailors, with
sIouluered ma!lbags, coming down the
p@hG- carrying rs many letters rs you
hlght suppose TO be enough for a years
correspondence, and this repeated again and
gain during the week. Mutitudes OF them
ave letters from home. and at all the post
IHces pt the land people will go to the win
d9w and anxiously ask for them hundreds
thousands OF persons finding that win
uow ol foreign mails the open window
Nward Jerusalem. Messages that say:
Nheh are you coming home to see usl
pi',hef mas gone into the army. Sister Is
aeS1 rather and mother are getting very
sool'' We ARE having a great struggle to
.eI on mere. Would you advise us to come
you or VIII you come TO usI All Join In
Ne ana nope to meet you, II not In this
'Qrln then in better. Goodby."
les yes. In all these cities and amid the
WSerlng Western prairies and on the slopes
'he Pacific and amid the Slerras and on
IIe nahks OF the lagoon md on the ranches
4eAas there Is an uncounted multitude
.u9 thls hour stand and sit and kneal with
ler windows open toward Jerusalem.
yme Of these people played ON the heather
lhr Scottish hills; some Of them were
nYen out by Irish famine; some of
lem Ia early life drilled in che German
hy some Of them were accustomed at
3oaS or Marseilles or Paris 10 see on
street Victor Hugo ana Gambetta;
% ne CHASED the chamols among the Alpine
e'P,er,; some plueked the ripe clusters
OM lthllan vineyard; some lifted their
yes under the midnight sun Of Norway. 1t
Nv aIshonor 10 our lard that they remem-
a,Vt Ine place OF their nativity. NIiscreants
9G'u lhey be II, while they have some of
n windows open 10 take In the free air
Ia iae sunlight Of an atmosphere which no
asy uespot has ever breathed. they forgot
sgvineS to open the window toward
so wonder that thC son Of tho Swiss. when
SEay from home, hearing the National
Io,n1ls w MS couutry sung, the malay OF home
,nlps3 HnesS comes on hun so powerfully as to
s.sg ms death, You have the example of
Se~o 'UIp Daniel OF rsy text for keeping early
omo'es .r',h. Forget not the old folks at
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