The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-09-14
OPEN WINDOWS. "
TIE THEME OF DR.. TALaIAGE
On Sunday. Cpcn Your Windows To-
ward God and Religion.

paws and teeth Of Ii lions VINO are iashinS
themselves IL rage am,l hunger ap and down
the stone car" or nrt;:nG their Lover JaTs
on the ground b.!owin- till the earth
trembles Bul the LGonne !hreat did
not hinder tn" dcvot;ons Of Darie' the
Crur dc Lion Of the ages His enemies
might cs we'll have Il iawthatthe snn should
not draw water. or that n" s:uth wind
should not sweep across q garden Of mag
noiics or that Gol should be abolished.
They could not scare hin, with the red hot
furnaces. and they cannot now scare him
with the lions. Az soon as Daniel hears OF
this enactment he leaves his otfic2 Of Secre-
tary o. state. with i!s upholstery o: crimson
aud gold. anl comes down the white n!arn!s
steps and gnes 10 his own house. He opens
his window anil pats the shutters hack 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 window aud said:
''Just see that man GofyinS the law. He
ought to be arrested" AMI the const ahulary
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"
says the officer of the law, dropping a
heavy hand On The shoulder Of the kneeling
Daniel As the constanlcs open the door Of
see the glaring eyes of the monsters. But
Daniel becomes the first lion tanner, and
they lick his hand and fawp at his feet, and
that night he sleeps with the shaggy name
of q wild beast for his pillow. while the king
that night, sleepless in the palace. has On
him the paw anil teeth Of lion he cannot
tame-the lion Of p rcmorseful conscience.
What picture it woull be for soma artist!
Darius in the early dusk Of morning not
owls hos. n
the den, all flushed anil nervous and iG dis
habille, and looking through the crevicps OF
the cage to see what had become Of his prime
minister. "What, no sound" he says.
"Daniel is surely tcvoured, and the lions are
sleeping after their horril meal the bones
ofthe poor man scattered across tn" floor Of
the cavern" With trembling voice Darius
calls out: 'DanieY' No answer, for the
prophet is yet in profound slumber. But a
lion more easily awakened. advances, and
with hot breath blown through the cr"vice
seems apSrily to demand the cause Of this
interruption, and then another wild beast
lifts his name from under Daniels head, and
the prophet, waking ur, comes forth to re-
port himself all unlurt ami we'll.
But our text stands US ut Daniels window,
opened toward Jerusalem. Why in that di-
rection open? Jerusalem was his native
land, and all the pomp OF his Ba5ylGnish sue
cesses c.uld not make him forget it. He
came there from Jerusalem at eighteen years
Of age, and he never visited if. though he
lived to be eiShtv-nve years. Yet when he
wanted t. arouse the deepest emotions and
grandest aspirations ci his heart he had his
window open toward his native Jerusalem.
There are many Of you to-day who under
stand that without any exposition. This is
getting to he Il Nation Of foreigners. They
have come into all occupations and proles-
sions. They sit in all churches. It may
be twenty years ago since you
got your naturalization papers. and
you may be thoroughly Americanized, but
you can't forget the land Of your birth, and
your warnest sympathics go Out toward it.
Your windows are open toward Jerusalem.
Your father and mother are buried there.
It may have been a very humble home in
which YOU ware born, but your memory Of
ten plays around if. AMI you hope some day
to 90 and see It'll. 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 thu wcrl'i-and
God on V knows how sometimes you have
longed to see the familiar places OF your
childhood. and how in awful crises OF lif-you
would like to have caught Il glimpse ofthe old
wrinkled face that bent over you rs you lay
on the gentle lap twenty CT forty Or fifty
years ago. You may have on this side Of the
sen risen in fortune. and like Daniel have
become great and may have como into pros
perities which YOU never could have reached
if you had staid there, and YOU NAV have
many windows to your house-bay windows
and skyliSht windows and windows Of con-
servatory ard wn.icws on all si!es-but you
have at least one window open toward Jeru-
salem.
When the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf. You sec the long line of sailors. with
shonlderel mailhags, coming down the
plankS, carrying us many letters as you
might suppose TO be enough for years
correspondence. and this repeated again and
again during the week. Multitudcs of them
are letters from home. and ut all the post
Offices Of the land people will go to the win
dow and anxicusiy ask for them. hundreds
of thousands Of persons finding that win
dow cf foreign mails the open window
toward Jerusacm Messages that say:
when are YOU coming home to see us?
Brother has Gon" into the army. Sister is
dead. Father and mother are getting very
feeble. We are having u great struggle TO
get on here. Would you aIvs us to come
10 you. or will you come to US? All join in
loyn anl 'l:..,. - lla I yn'l. if not in this
word, then II l::'!t"r. Gcnl"y.
Yes. ycs IN all these cities and amid the
Towering Western rr;iries and on the s!npss
OF the PacGr an; amid the Sierras and on
the hanks oi the lagoon and or the ranches
of Texas there is an uncounted multitude
who this hour,stanA and sit and kneel with
their windows open toward Jerusalem.
Some Of these people played on the heather
Of the Scottish hills: some Of them were
driven out by Irish inmine; some OF
them in early life drilled in the German
army; some of them wera accustomed at
Lyons or NIarseil!es or Paris 10 SEQ on
the street Victor Hugo and Gamhetta;
eo1ne chased the chamois among the Alpine
precipices; some plucked tho ripe clusters
from italian vineyard; somo lifted their
faces under the midnight sun of Norway. 1t
Is no dishonor to our land that they renenl-
ber the place Of their nativity: MsHreauts
would they be If, while they have some of
their windows open to take in the frcs air
and the sunlight OF ali atmosphere which no
kingly despot has ever breathed. they forgot
sometimes to open the window toward
Jerusalem.
No wonder that the son of the Swiss. when
far away from home, hearing the National
air Of his country sung, the MALAY OF home
sickness comes on him 50 powerfully as 10
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 sur
plus of means and they are poor make prac-
tical contribution, and rejoice that America
Is bound to all the world by ties of sanguin-
ity as in no ot'er Nation. Who can doubt
but it is appointed for the evangelization OF
other lands? What stirring, melting, Cos
peizing theory that all the doors OF otner
Nations areopen toward US. While our WILL
dows are open toward them!
But Daniel in the text kept this port hole
of his domestic fortress unclosei because
Jerusalem was the capital of sacred infu-
ences. There had smoked the sacrifice.
There was the holy of holes. There vas the
ark of the covenant. There stood the tenn
pie. We are all tempted to keep our WIN
dows open on the opposite side toward the
world, that we may see and hear ana
appropriate its advantages. What does me
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