The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-09
EVER TO THE NEW JERUSALEM.
KEEP YOUR WINDOWS OPEN, AD-
VISES DIR. TALMAGE.

PerSIa's ScOundreIIy Princes Were
Actuated by Political Jealousy
when They Cast Daniel, the Great
Lion Tanner. Among Wild Beasts
Bat the LeOnine Threats Did Not
Hinder the DevOtiOns of the Great
Occur de Leon of the Ages-The
Pastors Eloquent Address.
New York. Sept. SIN his sermon for
to-day. Rev Dr. Talmage has chosen a
theme overlooking with Christian cheer
fulness and announcement. The subject
is open Windows and the text selected
was Daniel 6:lo His windows being
open in his chamber toward Jerusalem"
The scoundrelly princes Of Persia. urged
on by political jealousy against Daniel
have succeeded in getting a law passed
thar whatsoever prays TO God shall be put
under the paws and teeth of the lions.
who are lashing themselves in rage and
hunger UP and down the stone cage, or
putting their lower jaws on the ground.
believing till the earth trembles. But the
leonine threat did not hinder the devotions
of Daniel the Coeur-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 magnolias or that God should be
abolished. They could not scare him with
the red-hot furnaces. and they can not
now scare him with the lions. As soon
as Daniel hears of this enactment he
leaves his Office OF secretary Of state. with
it's upholstery of crimson and gold, and
comes down the white marble steps and
goes to his own house. He opens his win
dow and puts the shutters back and pulls
the curtain aside so that he can look to-
ward the sacred city of Jerusalem, and
then prays.
l suppose the people in the street gath
cred under and before his window and
said: Just see that man defying the
law; he ought to be arrested" And the
constabulary of the city rushed to the
police headquarters and reported that
Daniel is on his knees at the wide-open
window. you are my prisoner says
the officer OF the law, dropping heavy
hand on the shoulder Of the kneeling Dan
iel. As the constables open the door OF
the cavern to thrust in their prisoner they
see the glazing eyes Of the monsters. But
Daniel becomes the first lion tanner and
they lick his hand and fawn al his feet,
and that night he sleeps with the shaggy
name of wild beast for his pillow, while
the king that night sleepless in the pal
ace. has on him the paw and teeth of a
lion he cannot tame-the lion of re-
morseful conscience.
What picture II would be for some ar
fist: Darius, in the early dusk of morn
ing, not waiting for footmen or chariot
Fastening to the den all flushed and ner-
vous and In dishabille, and looking through
the crevices Of the cage to see what had
become of his prime minister! What, no
soundr he says. Daniel Is surely de-
voured and the lions are sleeping after
their horrid meal. the bones of the poor
man scattered across the floor of the cav
ern." With trembling voice Darius calls
out Daniel No, answer, for the prophet
is vet in profound slumber But a lion,
more easily awakened, advances, and,
w@th hot breath blown through the crew
ice, seems angrily TO demand the cause
of this interruption, and then another wild
beast lifts his name from under Daniels
head, and the prophet waking up, comes
forth to report himself all unhurt and
well.
But our text stands us at Daniels win
dow, open toward Jerusalem. Why in
that direction open2 Jerusalem was his
native land. and all the pomp of his
Babylonish successes could not make him
forget 1t. He came there from Jerusalem
at IS years of age, and he never visited
IL, though be lived to be So years. Yet,
when he wanted TO arouse the deepest
emotions and grandest aspiration of his
heart he had his window open toward
his native Jerusalem. There are many OF
you to-day who understand that without
any exposition. This is getting TO be
nation of foreigners. They have come into
all occupations and professions. They sit
in all churches. II may be twenty years
ago since YOU got your naturalization pa
pers. and you may be thoroughly Ameri-
canized, but you can't forget the land OF
your birth, and your warmest sympathies
20 out toward it. Your windows are open
toward Jerusalem. Your father and
mother are buried there. 1t may have
been a very humble home in which you
were born, but your memory often plays
around it, and you hope some day TO go
and see 1.-THE hill, the tree, the brook,
the house, the place so sacred, the door
from which you started off with parental
blessing to make your own way in the
world; and God only knows how some
times you have longed to see the familiar
places of your childhood, and how in awful
crises of life you would like TO have
caught a glimpse of the old, wrinkled
face that bent over you as you lay on
the gentle lap twenty or forty or
fifty years ago. You may have on this
Daniel have become great, and may have
come into properties which you never
could have reached if you had stayed there
and you may have many windows 10 your
house-bay windows, and sky-light win
dows, and windows of conservatory, and
windows on all sides-but you have AT
least one window open toward Jerusalem.
When the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf, you see the long line of sailors,
with shouldered mail bags, coming down
the planks, carrying as many letters as
you might suppose to be enough for a
years correspondence, and this repeated
again and again during the week. Multi
tudes of them are letters from home, and
at all the postoffices of the land people
will go to the window, anXiously ask for
them, hundreds of thousands of persons
finding that window of foreign mails the
open window toward Jerusalem. Messages
that say: when are you coming home
TO see US? Brother has gone into the
army Sister is dead. Father and mother
are getting very feeble. We are having
great struggle TO get on here. Would you
advise us TO come to you, or will yot
come to us? All join in love. and hope tC
meet you, if not in this world, then in Z
better. Good-by.'
Yes, yes; in all these cities, and annie
the Towering western prairies. and on tn,
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