The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-20


early life, drilled I'm the German army.
Some OF them were HRcustothed at
Lyons or Marsgiiies or Paris to see on
Tie street Victor Hugo and Gambetts-
Some chased the chanois among the
Alpine precipices. Sorns hlnckea the
ripe slnstefs from Italian vineyard.
Some lifted their faces under the mid
night sun of Norway. IL is no dis
honor to our land that they remember
the place of their nativity. AIiscreants
would they be If, while they have
some of their windows open to talfe ia
the free air Of America and the sum
light of an atmosphere which no king
" destot has ever breathed, they for
got sometimes TO open the window to-
ward Jerusalem
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 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 advan-
taFes. What does the world say?
What does the world think? What
does the world do7 Worshipers of
the world instead of worshipers of
God. Windows open toward Babylon.
Windows open toward Corinth. Win
dows open toward Athens. Win
dows open toward Sodom. WIN
dows open toward the flats, in
stead of the 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 a 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 en-
folded, the figure closed with hun
bred knives and lances upon him, and
then let him drop one hundred and
eighty feet-sheer down. So the world
first embraces its idolaters, then closes
upon them with many tortures, and
then let's them drop forever down.
The highest honor the world could
confer was to make man Roman en-
peror; but. out of sixty three emperors,
it allowed only six to die peacefully in
/ their beds.
The dominion of this world over
multitudes is illustrated by the names
of coins of many countries They have
their pieces Of money which they call
sovereigns and half-sovefeigns, crowns
and half crowns Napoleons and half
Napoleons, Fredericlxs and double
Fredericks, and ducats, and isabella
nos, all of which names mean not so
much usefulness as dominion. 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 crisis of life can give us no help.
We need, like Daniel, to open our win
dows 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. now re-
member but one picture of a man
kaeeling, 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 a candle, stuck on the top of
a box, his head in his hands upon the
pillow, and dead on his knees. But
here is great lion tanner, living un-
der the dash of the light, and his hair
disheveled of the breeze, praying
The fact Is, that man can see fur
Their on his knees than standing on
tiptoe. Jerusalem was about five hun
dred and fifty statute miles from Baby
Ion, and the vast Arabian desert
shifted its sands between them. Yet
through that open window Daniel saw
Jerusalem, saw all between it, saw be-
yond, 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 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 be-
cause the God of the body was the God
of the soul, and especial provision for
those who want to pray, and physi-
illogical 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,
bounde& on one side by Shadrach's
red-hot furnace, and the other side bv
devouring lions, learn the secret OF
courage and deliverance by looking at
that Babylonish window open toward
the southwest ''Oh," you say, "that is
the direction of the Arabian DesertP'
Yes; but on the other side of the des-
ert Is God. is Christ, is Jerusalem, IS
Heaven.
The Brussels lace is superior to all
other lace, SO beautiful, so multi
form, so expensive-four hundred
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 admitted
through a small aperture, and that
light falling directly on the pattern.
And the finest specimens Of Christian
character / have ever seen or ever ex-
lives all OF whose windows have been