The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-13

see on the street Victor Hugo ant
Gambetta. Some chased the chamoi
among the Alpine precipices Som,
plucked the ripe clusters from the Ital
ian vineyard. Some lifted their face,
under the midnight sun of Norway. l
is no dishonor to our land that theI
remember the place of their nativity
Miscreants would they be if, Will,
they have some of their windows oper
to take in the free air of America anC
the sunlight of an atmosphere which
no kingly despot has ever breathed
they forgot sometimes to open the
window toward Jerusalem.
No wonder that the son of the Swis.
when far away from home. hearing
the national air of his country sung
the malady of inconsistencies comes OF
him SO powerfully as to cause his death
You have til example of heroic Daniel
of my text for keeping early memories
afresh. Forget not the old folks al
home: write often, and if you have
surplus of means and they are poor
make practical contribution. and re-
joice that America is bound to all the
world by ties of sanguinity as no other
nation. Who can doubt but it is ap
pointed for the evangelization of other
lands? What a stirring, melting, Cos
pelizing 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 UNI
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 tenn
pie. We are all tempted to keep our
windows 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 do? Worshipers of the world
instead of worshipers of God Win
dows open toward Babylon. Windows
open toward Corinth. Windows open
toward Athens. Windows open toward
Sodom. Windows open toward the
the hills Sad mistake, for this world
as god is like something 1 saw in the
museum of Strasburg. Germany-the
figure of virgin in wood and iron.
The victim in olden times was brought
there. and this figure would open its
arms to receive him. and, once en-
folded. 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 its idola-
tors, then closes upon them with many
tortures. and lets them drop forever
down. The highest honor the world
could confer was to make a man Roman
emperor: but, out of sixty-three en-
perors, it allowed only six to die peace
fully 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. Fredericks and double
Fredericls, and ducats and Isabellinos,
all of which names mean not so much
usefulness rs dominion. The most of
our windows open toward the ex-
change, toward the salon of fashion,
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 to-
ward God and religion.
But mark you, that good lion tanner
is not standing at the window. but
kneeling, while he looks out. Most
taken are of those in
standing or sitting posture. now re-
member but one picture of a 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,
Majwara, found him in tent by the
light of candle stuck on the top of
box, his head in his hands upon the
pillow. and dead on his knees. But
here is great lion tanner. living under
the dash of the light, and his hair dis
heveled of the breeze, praying. The
fact Is, a man can see further on his
knees than standing on tiptoe. Jeru-
salem was about $50 statute
miles from Babylon, and the
vast Arabian desert shifted its
sands between them. Yet through
that open window Daniel saw Jerusa-
lem. saw all between it. 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 tempta-
ton 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, an especial provision !
for those who want to pray, and phys |
biological 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. be- |
cause 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. Oh. men and |
women, bounded on one side by Shad- |
rach's red-hot furnace. and the other |
side by devouring lions, learn the secret |
of courage and deliverance by looking
at that Babylonish window open |
toward the southwe.t. ..Oh. - Won say. |