Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-10-03

not in this world, then in the better
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 ID
an uncounted multitude who, this hour,
stand and sit and kneel with their win
dows open toward Jerusalem. Some OF
these people played on the heather OF
the Scottish hills. Some of them We're
driven out by Irish famine. Some OF
them, in early life, drilled in the Ger
man army. Some Of them were accus-
toned 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
vineyards. Some lifted their faces un-
der the midnight sun Of Norway. 1t is
no dishonor to our land that they 70
member the place of their nativity.
No wonder that the son of the Swiss,
when far away from home, hearing the
national air Of his country sung, the
malady of Inconsistencies comes on him
SO powerfully as to cause his death.
You have the example Of heroic Daniel
Of my text for keeping early memories
fresh. Forget not the old folks at
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 in no
other nation. Who can doubt but 1t is
appointed for the evangelization Of
other lands? What stirring, melting,
gospelizing theory that all the doors Of
other nations are open toward them!
But Daniel, in his text, kept this
port-hole of his domestic fortress un-
closed because Jerusalem was the
capital of sacred influences. There had
smoked the sacrifice. There was tho
holy of holies. There was the ark Of
the covenant. There stood the temple.
We are all tempted to keep our win
dows 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. Windows open
toward Babylon Windows open to-
ward Corinth. Windows open toward
Athens. Windows open toward Sodom.
Windows open toward the fats, in
stead of 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 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 embodied,
the figure closed with a hundred knives
and lances upon him, and then let him
drop one hundred and eighty feet
sheer down. So the world first en-
braces its idolaters, then closes upon
them with many tortures, and then lets
them drop forever down. The highest
honor the world could confer was to
make man Roman emperor; but, out
of sixty-three emperors, it allowed only
six to die peacefully 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 crowns, crowns
and half crowns, Napoleons and half
Napoleons, Fredericks and double
Fredericks, and ducats, and Isabellinos,
all of which names mean not so much
as dominion. The most OF |
our windows open toward the ex.
change, 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 I. and we are apt to meas.
ure things by 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
toward God and religion.
But, mark you, that good lion-tamer
is not standing at the window, but
kneeling, while he looks out. Most
photographs are taken IT those in
or sitting posture. / now re.
but one picture of man
and that was David Living
stone, who in the cause of God and
civilization sacrificed himself; and in
the heart Of Africa his servant, Mai.
wara, found him in the tent by the
light of candle stuck on the top of q
box, his head in his hands upon the
pillow, and dead on his knees. But
here is great lion-tamer, living under
the dash Of the light, and his hair
Of the breeze, praying.
The fact is, that a man can see fur
ther on his knees than standing on
tiptoe. Jerusalem was about five hun.
dred and fifty statute miles from Baby
lon and the vast Arabian desert shifted
It's sands between them. Yet through
that open window Daniel saw Jerusa.
lem, saw all between it, saw beyond,
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
lire sickness to immortal health,
through night to day, through things
terrestrial to things celestial, you will