The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-09


often; and. If you have surplus Of means
and they are poor. make practical contri-
button, and rejoice that America Is bound
TO all the world by ties of sanguinity as
in no other nation. Who can doubt but IL
is appointed for the evangellzation of other
lands? What a stirring, melting, gospel
ling 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 Enclosed be
cause Jerusalem was the capital of sa-
cred influences. There had smoked the
sacrifice There was the holy Of HOLES.
There was the ark of the covenant.
There stood the temple. We were all
tempted 10 keep our windows open on
the opposite side, toward 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. Win
dOws open toward Corinth. Windows
open toward Athens. Windows open to-
ward Sodom. Windows open toward the
flats instead of windows open toward the
hills. Sad mistake, for this world as
god is like something I saw in the mu-
scum OF Strasburg, Germany-the figure
OF a virgin in wood and iron. The vic
tim in olden time was brought there.
and this figure would open its arms 10
receive him and once EMBODIED. the fig
ure 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 embraces its idolaters,
then closes upon them with many tor
lures, and then let's them drop forever
down. The highest honor the world
could confer was to make man Roman
emperor; but, out of slxty-three emper-
ors, it allowed only six to die peacefully
IN their beds.
The dominion of this world over multi
tudes is illustrated by the names OF coins
of many countries. They have their
pieces of mohey which they call sover-
eigns and half sovereigns crowns and
half crowns, Napoleons and half Napo-
Icons, Fredericks and double Fredericks,
and ducats and Isabellinos. all of which
names meant 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 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 of those in standing or sitting post
ure. l now remember but one picture of
man kneeling, and that was David Liv-
ingstone who in the cause of God and
civilization sacrificed himself: and in the
heart of Africa his servant, Majwara,
found him in the tent by the light of the
candle. stuck on the top of a box, his
head in his hands upon the pillow, and
dead on his knees. But here is a great
lion-tamer. living under the dash of the
light and his hair dishevelled of the
breeze praying. The fact Is, that a man
can see further on his knees than standing
on tptoe. Jerusalem was about $50
statute miles from Babylon. and the vast
Arabian desert shifted it's sands between
them. Yet through that open window
Daniel saw Jerusalem, 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
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, and especial provision for those who
want to pray, and psychological structure
joins with spiritual necessity in bidding us
pray, and pray. and pray.
In olden times the Earl of Westmoreland
said he had no need to pray, because he
had enough pious tenants on his estate to
pray for him; but all the prayers of the
church universal amount to nothing un-
less, like Daniel, we pray for ourselves.
Oh, men and women, bounded on one side
by Shadrach's red-hot furnace, and the
other side by devouring lions, learn the
secret of courage and deliverance by look
ing at that Babylonish window open to-
ward the southwest! oh" you say. that
is the direction of the Arabian desertr'
Yes; but on the other side of the desert
is God, is Christ is Jerusalem, is heaven.
The Brussels lace is superious to all other
lace, so beautiful so multiform, so expen-
sive-four HUNDRED francs per pound. All
the world seeks H. Do you know how IL
is made? The spinning is done in a dark
room, the only light admitted through a
small aperture and that light falling di-
rectly on the pattern. And the finest
specimens of Christian character 1 have
ever seen or ever expect to see are those
to be found in lives all of whose windows
have been darkened by bereavement and
misfortune save one, but under that one
window of prayer the interlacing of divine
workmanship went on until 1t was fit &c
deck a throne, a celestial embroidery which
angels admired and God approved.
But il is another Jerusalem toward
which we now need to open our windows
The exiled evangelist of Ephesus saw II
one day as the surf of the IcaEan sea
foamed and splashed over the boulders
at his feet, and his vision reminded me oil
a wedding-day when the bride by sister
and maid was having garlands twisted
for her hair and jewels strung for hel
neck just before she puts her betrothet
hand into the hand of her affianced: 81
John, saw the Holy city New Jerusa
lem, coming down from God out of HEAVIER
| prepared as a bride adorned for her hus
band" Toward that bridal Jerusalem
are our windows opened?
We would do well to think more Of
! heaven. 1t is not mere annex of earth
1t is not a desolate outpost. AS Jerusalem
was the capital of Judea and Babylon tbs
/ capital of the Babylonian monarchy, ant
/ London is the capital of Great Britain
| and Washington is the capital of our owr
republic, the New Jerusalem is the CAPT
/ tai OF the universe The King lives there
and the royal family of the redeemed
/ have their palaces there, and there is :
! congress of many nations and the parlia
ment of all the world. Yea, as DAME
had kindred in Jerusalem of whom h,
often thought, though he left home wher