Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-25
commerce of the country, will only tend
to obscure and distract counsels it is in
tended to illustrate.
THE NEW NAME.


THE NEW NAME.
l will write uponlhim my new name. Reve-
lations iii;12.
In the heroic age of Rome, when a
general distinguished himself in battle
the people gave him new name. When
Cornelius Scipio has conquered Hannibal
he received the surname of Africanus, and
when his victorious brother Lucius Scipio
returned from his victory over Antiochus
he was called Asiaticus. In the present
century the great English general Well
ington received the name of the Iron
Duke. In the great battle of life in
which all mankind are engaged, the
same things happen to all. First the
alarm, then the battle, afterwards the re-
call and the rest, until the trump shall
sound the reveille and all the world shall
gather for the final review. Through all
the conflict the most unceasing watchful-
ness is required to gain victory. After
the struggle and the relief, after the
judgment comes the award, and to
those that overcome shall be given new
name, (which no one knoweth saving he
that receiveth it." To the blessed re-
ceiver of that gift the new name signifies
many things. One of these will be per-
feet security from ills, from all mortal
woes. Pain and suffering will be forever
passed. Death with its agony and gloom
no longer will hold dominion, his scepter
will have passed away forever. What
must it be to be free from the fear Of
DEATH No more to put lover, friend and
child away into darkness, no more tears
of bereavement, instead of mortality i'm
mortality. The new name will mean
freedom from sin.
When the regenerate shall meet in the
eternal light of Gods countenance, all the
determines and pollution of sin will be
washed away. The fierce temper, the
ungovernable thought, the lust of the eye,
all malice, selfshness and impurity will
be gone. The child of God, without
spot, blameless,' in the full stature of per-
lection, clothed in white robes, shall bear
no faint of the fall. The human mind
cannot conceive the blessedness of such q
state-redeemed, ransomed, free from
sin. No more warfare with the world,
the flesh or the devil, instead of vain, en-
vious, selfish thoughts and acts, holiness.
The new name is life scholarship in the
school of infinite knowledge and wisdom.
The thirst for knowledge, which can
never be Stacked by any requirements
here, will there be satisfied. No .limlta-
lions of time or mortality will impede its
progress. The mind clear and untram-
meled will have eternity for its school
term. Better and more desirable than
all other blessings which the new name
will confer, is the presence and COM
partnership of God and Christ.
To see the King in his beauty, to meet
the Savior face to face, to talk with him
as one friend talks with another, to be-
hold his glory constitute bliss so perfect
that the thought Of man cannot conceive
-uO WOIUS eAplCSS IL. hiAOuS buO plCoS-
ings which appertain to the new name
and which embraces all is the one eX-
pressed by the psalmist in these words,
II shall be satisfied" Of all the joys of
the New Jerusalem none will be more
wonderful than this, perfect satisfac-
ton. All the unquiet longings, all the
unfulflled hopes, allsthe unsatlsfied am
billions of this life exchanged for the
peace of God. To have the eye satisfied
with seeing, and the ear with hearing,
the mind with knowledge, and the heart
with love, will constitute the perfect bliss
of Heaven. To him that overcometh
will l give a white stone, and on the
stone a new name written, (Which no
man knoweth saving he that receiveth
it, Only for those who overcome in the
conflict with sin and temptation and who
wash their robes and make them white in
the blood of the Lamb.