The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-09-20
THE OPEN WINDOW.
nx. TaIss%ge Draws Lessons From
the Life of Daniel
excepting the Windows Open Toward tho
Einai Haven and Holding In Sight
the Glories and Pleasures
of Heaven. Nnt

Dewitt Talmage for publication tn
week. 1t is based on the text:
HIS windows being open In his chamber +
ward Jerusalem. Daniel VI. TO-
The scoundrelly princes of Persi'
urged on by political jealousy again.
Daniel, have succeeded in getting
law passed that whoever prays to Go
shall be put under the paws and teet
OF the lions, who are flashing them
selves in rage and hunger up an
down the stone cage, or putting thei
Cover jaws on the ground, believing
sill the earth trembles. But the lee
mine threat did not hinder the devotion
of Daniel, the Coeur-de-Lion of thu
sRes. His enemies might as we'll hav,
- law that the sun should not draw
water, or that the south wind should
mot sweep across a garden of magno
Eias or that God should be abolished
they could not scare him with the
rcd-hot furnaces, and they cannot now
scare him with the lions. As soon as
Daniel hears of this enactment he
teaves his Office of secretary OF state.
with its upholstery of crimson and
gold, and comes down the white mar
Die steps and goes to his own house.
HE opens his window and puts the
shutters back and pulls the curtain
aside so that he can look toward the
sacred city of Jerusalem, and then
prays.
suppose the people in the street
gathered under and before his win
dow, and said: Just see that man
siefying the law; he ought to be ar
rested" And the constabulary of the
city rush to the police headquarters
and report that Daniel is on his knees
ut the wide-open window. "You are
amy prisoner" says the officer of the
law, dropping a heavy hand on the
shoulder of the kneeling Daniel. AS
ehe constables open the door of the
cavern to thrust in their prisoner,
they see the glazing eyes of the mon
@ters. But Daniel becomes the first
kion-tamer, and they lick his hand and
Gawn at his feet, and that night he
sleeps with the shaggy name of wild
beast for his pillow. while the king
chat night, sleepless in the palace, has
avn him the paw and teeth of . lion
he can not tame-the lion of o re-
morseful conscience.
What a picture it would be for some |
artist: Darius, in the early dusk of |
morning, not waiting for footmen or |
chariot, Fastening to the den. all |
flushed and nervous aud in dishablle,
and looking through the crevices of
the cage to see what had become Of
his prime minister! "What, no soundm
he says. Daniel is surely devoured,
and the lions are sleeping after their
1orrid meal, the bones of'the poor man
scattered across the floor of the cav
srn." With trembling voice Darius
-alis out: Dauielw No answer, for
The prophet is yet in profound slum-
Eer But a lion, more easily awak-
,Hed, advances, and, with hot breath
blown through the crevice, seems
lngrily to demand the cause of this in
eruption, and then another wild
BEAST lifts his name from under
Daniels head, and the prophet waking
Up comes forth to report himself all
tnhnrt and well.
But our text stands us at Daniels
open toward Jerusalem. Why
"a that direction open? Jerusalem was
ms native land, and all the pomp of
lbs Baby lonish successes could not ,
make him forget it. He came there ,
rom Jerusalem at eighteen years of ,
ge, and he never visited it, though he ,
ived to be eighty-ive years. Yet,
vben he wanted to arouse the deepest
motions and grandest aspirations of
lis heart, he had his window open to- ,
yard his native Jerusalem. There are
many of you to-day who understand
hat without any exposition. This is
citing to be a nation of foreigners ,
hey have come into all occupations
nd professions. They sit in all !
hurches 1t may be twenty years .
go since you got naturalization pa
ers, and you may be thoroughly
but you can't forget ,
he land of your birth, and your warm
81 sympa thies 60 out toward It, Your 4
1indows are open toward Jerusalem. 8
Our father and mother are bur- ,
ID there. 1t may have been
very humble home in which you {
Iere born, but your memory often |
lays around it. and you hope some
az to go and see 1.-THE hill, the :
rec, the brook, the house, the place so T
acred, the door from which you
5arted off with parental blessing to d
AXE your own way in the world; and {
cd only knows how sometimes you d
ave longed to see the familiar faces of v
our childhood, and how in awful I
Uses of life you would like TO have d
night glimpse of the old, wrinkled a
zee tlat bent over you as you lay on
'e gentle lap twenty or forty or fifty v
Ears ago You may have on this side q
the sea risen in fortune, and. like Z