The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-09-20

l INC WHIT YOU sec tHc iouk Ahc
sailors, with shouldered mail bags
coming down the planks. carrying a
many letters as you might suppose t
be enough for years correspondence
and this repeated again and agail
during the week.. Multitudes OF then
are letters from home. and at all thu
post offices Of the land people will e
to the windows and anxiously ask fol
them. hundreds Of thousands Of per
sons finding that window of foreign
mails the open window toward Jerusa'
lem. Messages that say; when are
you coming home to see us? Brother
has gone to the army. Sister is dead.
Father and mother are getting very
feeble. We are having great strug-
gle to get on here. Would you advise
us to come to you, or will you come to
us? All join in love, and hope to meet
you, if not in this world, then in bot
ter. Good-by."
Yes, yes; in all these cities, and
amid the towering western prairies,
and on the slopes of the Pacific, and
amid the Sierras, and on the banks Of
the lagoon, and on the ranches Of
Texas there is an uncounted multitude
who, this hour, stand and sit and
kneel with their windows open toward
Jerusalem. Some of these people
played on the heather of the Scottish
hills. Some of them were driven out
by Irish famine. Some of them, in
early life, drilled in the German army.
Some of them were accustomed at
Lyons or Marseilles or Paris to see on
the street Victor Hugo and Gambetta.
Some chased the chamois among the
Alpine precipices Some plucked the
ripe clusters from Italian vineyard.
Some lifted their faces under the mid
night sun of Norway. 1t is no dis
honor to our land that they remember
the place of their nativity. Miscreants
would they be If, while they have
some of their windows open to take in
The free air of America and the sun
light of an atmosphere which no king
" despot has ever breathcd, they for
got sometimes to open the window to- !!
ward Jerusalem.
But, mark you, that good lion tam
n is not standing at the window. but
while he looks out. Most |
are taken of those in
tanding or sitting posture. now re-
member but one picture of man
,2eeling, and that was David Living
tone, who, in the cause of God and
utilization, sacrificed himself; and in
he heart of Africa his servant. Mai
yara, found him in the tent by the
ght of a candle, stuck ON the top Of
box. his head in his hands upon the
illow. and dead on his knees. But
ere is great lion tanner, living un.
err the dash OF the light, and his hair
isheveled of the breeze, praying.
he fact is. that man can see fur
Ter on his knees than standing on
ptoe. Jerusalem was about five hun
red and fifty statute miles from Bab by
IN, and the vast Arabian desert
lifted its sands between them. Yet
trough that open window Daniel saw
saw all between it, saw be-
md. saw time, saw eternity, saw
nth and saw Heaven. Would you
ke to see the way through your sins
pardon, through your troubles to
mfort, through temptation to rescue,
rough dire sickness to immortal
'alth. through night to day, through
ings terrestrial to things celestial,
III will not see them till you take q
lniels posture. No cap of bone to
e joints Of the fingers, no cap Of l
me to the joints of the elbow. but I
p of bone to the knees, made so be-
use the God of the body was the God G
the soul, and especial provision for Q
ose who want to pray, and physi- !
ogical structure joins with spiritual
cessity in bidding us pray. and pray, b
d pray.
In olden time the earl of Westmore- t
nd said he had no need to pray, be- r
use he had enough pious tenants on c
J estate to pray for him; but all the l,
ayers of the church universal amount
nothing unless, like Daniel, we pray o
: ourselves. Oh, men and women, a
unded on one side by Shadrach's z
1-hot furnace, and the other side by r
lions. learn the secret OF
urage and deliverance by looking at G
at Babylonish window open toward r.
e southwest! ''Oh," you say, that is r.
e direction of the Arabian Desertr p
IS; but on the other side of the des- Il
is God. is Christ, is Jerusalem. il C,
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her lace, 80 beautiful, SO multi
I'M, SO expensive-four hundred n
Incs a pound. All the world a
,ks it. Do you know how it is r
lde? The spinning Is done in =,
rk room, the only light admitted a
rough a small aperture, and that q,
hit falling directly on the pattern. h
Id the finest specimens of Christian !,
aracter have ever seen or ever ex- :,
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