Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-09-18
REV. DR.. TaLmaGE.
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "Open WinLows."

The scoundreily princes Of Persia urged
| n by political jealousy against Daniel, have
s,ccee led in getting n INV passed that who-
s1ever prays to Col shall BIZ nut under tho
| paws ant teeth OF the lions who are lashins
themselves N rage and hunger up and down
the uons cage or putting their lower jaws
On tho ground, believing till the earth
| trerhl,a. E.t the leonine threat did
net h.I der the devotions Of Daniel, the
| CRur de Lion OF the ages. His enemies
might IA we'll have a law that the sun should
| not draw water, or that the south wind
( should noi sweep across a garden of mag
nolios; or ttst God should be abolished.
They Gould lot s,are him with the red hot
| furnaces, AMI they cannot now scare him
| with the lions. As soon as Daniel hears Of
rs ens tment he leaves his Office of secre-
.afy of state, with its upholstery OF crimson
and gold. and comes down the white marble
steps and goes to his own house. He opens
his window and puts the shutters back and
pull '"e curtain aside So that he can look
Nv the sacred city of Jerusalem and
\ hen bays.
suppose the people in the street gathered
under and before his window and said:
| ''Jrsi see that man uefying the law. He
| ought TO be arrested" Amt the constabulary
OF the city rush to the police headquarters
and report that Daniel is on his knees at the
| wide open window. "You are my prisoner, ",
rays the officer Of the law, dropping d
| heavy hand on the shoulder OF the kneeling
| Daniel. As the constables open the door OF
| the cavern to thrust in their prisoner they
| see the glaring eyes Of the monsters. But
Daniel becomes the first lion tanner, and
they lick his hand and fawn at 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 palace has on
| him the paw and teeth of lion he cannot
tame-'he lion of Il remorseful conscience.
What a picture il would be for some artist
| Darius in the early Gusk of morning moi
| waiting for footmen or chariot fastening to
| the den. all flushed and nervous and in dis.
habille. and looking through the crevices o,
the cage to see what had become of his prime
minister. "What. no sound.' he saws.
| "Daniel is surely tevoured, and the lions are
| sleeping after their horrid meal. the bones
ntthe poor man scattered across the floor Of
the cavern" With trembling voice Darius
| calls out: 'Daniel?' No answer, for the
prophet is yet in profound slumber. But u
hon more easily awakened, advances, and
with hot breath blown through the crevice
| 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
port himself all unhurt and welt.
| But our IT stands us at Daniels window
| opened coward Jerusalem. Why in that di
| fec.ion open? Jerusalem was his nativs
land. and all the pomp of his Babylonish sue
| cesses could not make him forget it. He
| rane there from Jerusalem at eighteen years
| Of age, and he never visited it. though he
| lived to te eigrty-fve years. Yet when he
! wanted to dr,use the deepest emotions an I
| yrandes. aspirations of his heart he had his
window open toward his native Jerusalem.
| ahere U:e many of you to-day who under
| stend that without any exposition. This is
| getting to he Nation of foreigners. They
! have come into all occupations and profess
| .ions. They sit in all churches. II may
De twenty years ago since ycu
I fyrf 1,,,t
you may be thoroughly Americanized, but
you can't forget the land Of your birth. ano
| your warmest sympathies go out toward it,
| Your windows are open toward Jerusalem.
Your father and mother are buried there.
| I: may have been a very humble home i,
| which you were born, but your memory o..
ten 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 blessine
| 10 make yoIr own way in the world-an.
| God only tnt VS. how sometimes you hay,
! lOnged to- see the familiar places of YOU
childhood, and how in awful crises of life yol
/ 6oIl! like to have caught a glimpse ofthe ole
! wrinkled face that bent over you as you lay
en- the gentle lap twenty or forty or fifty
years ago. You may have on this side of tn,
| ssa risen in fortune and like Daniel have
| become great and may have come into pros
| Perities which you never could have reaches
| u you had staid there, and you NAV hav'
| many windows to your house-bay window
! and sky!ight windows and windows of con
| servatory and windows on all sides-but yo,
| have at least one window open toward Jeru
! ,alem.
When the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf, you see the long line of sailors, with
shouldered mailbags, coming down the
planks. carrying as many letters as you
might suppose to be enough for years
correspondence, and this repeated again and
| again during the week. Wultitudes of them
are letters from home. and at all the post
| offices Of the land people will go to the win
dow and anxiously ask for them, hundreds
of thousands of persons finding that win
dow of foreign mails the open window
toward Jerusalem. Messages that say
! "When ere you coming home to see usi
Brother has gone into the army. Sister is
dead. Father and mother are getting very
feeble. We are having a great struggle to
get on here. Would you advise us to come
| 10 you, or will you come to us? All join in
owe and hope to meet you, if not in this
| world, then in a better. Goodby."
Yes. yes. In all these cities and amid tht
lowering Western prairies and on the slopes
| Of the Pacific and amid the Sierras and or
the banks OF the lagoon and on the rancho.
| Of Texas there is an uncounted multitude
| who this hour stand and sit and kneei with
their windows open toward Jerusalem
Some OF these people played on the heather
Of the Scottish hills; some of them were
| utlVen out Dy lflsn some oil
| them in early life drilled in the German
| army; some OF them were accustomed at
| Lyons or Marseiiles Paris TO see on
the street Victor Hugo and Gambetta;
some chased the chamois among the Alpini
lprecpices; some plucked the ripe clusters
from Italian vineyard; some lifted theiI
faces under the midnight sun of Norway Ii
| is no dishonor to our land that they remem.
ber the place of their nativity. Miscreants
| would they be if, while they have some o
their windows open to take in the free all
| and the sunlight OF an atmosphere which nc
| kingly despot has ever breathed, they forgot
sometimes to open the window toward
| Jerusalem.
No wonder that the son of tho Swiss, when
| far away from home, hearing the National
| air of his country sung, the malay of home
Sickness comes on him so powerfully rs tc
| cause his death. You have the example o!
| heroi: Daniel Of my text for keeping early
| memories fresh. Forget not the Old folks al
| home. Write often. and if you have a sur.
plus OF means and they are poor make prac.
| Is bound to all the world by ties Of sanguin.
ity rs in no otrer Nation. Who can doubt
but it is appointed for the evanSelization o.
| other lands! What stirring. melting. Sos.
! peiizing theory that all the doors o! Other
| Nations are open toward US, while our wip
| lows are open toward them!
but Daniel in the text kept this port hole
OF his domestic fortress unclosei because
! jerusalem WAS the capital of sacreI inhu
ces. There had smoked the sacrifice.
ere was the holy OF hoiies. There was the
o the covenant. There 81 god the Irfn-
We are all tempted to keep our Wa.
.Ss open on The opposite side rowar! I5t
rid, thar We may see and hear ant
| r"prata its advantages. WHAT does "a
III say: Mhat "oes the world innS
at does the world do? Worshpers o
- RI! in-,'... of ~ p-rs of Go
| -.,n W.nfoH.
i ope.l eosar1 Co<inth. Windows open c~sr.
! Athene. Windo~s open towar. bodon.. Win
| dows open toward the fats ir eIi OF WIN
| dows open toward the hills. s; 4 mistake. for
! this world Is gol is like something saw
| in the m ,serm OF Strasburg, Germany-.he
! fignie Of virgin in wood and iron. The
| victim In olden time was brought there. an 4,
this figure would open its arms TO re.- "
him. and once en;olded the figure close