Connecticut western news., 1883-09-05

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 the most powerful name pronounced II this world and but one voice will come from all these,-Jesus the Carpenter. Il is the name engraven on the tower O. humanity and the sophisms of men the rage of earth and the fires of hel can not blot it out See what gods have fallen before it-Dagon and Thor ano Woden, Jupiter and Venus-Apollo ano Mars, and all tne gods of all the temples of the heaahen world. All these have 1 fallen before the name that we adore the mightiest, the dearest, the sweetest and most glorious of all the names o1 I the universe.
 Not long since, visited the Capitol of this State, and in 8 closet of glass n one room there was collection of flags | that were borne in the battles of the last war. They were riddled and torn some of them mere rags. There were ] bullets holes, the marks of the fire and smoke of the deadly conflicts and the old blood stains, and on all of these were the records of battles fought and victories won under them. There they remain as evidences of the valor of our heroes, of the glorious victories won, and as fadeless testimo onials of the righteousness and grandeur of the cause, for which those flags were unfurled. If we look we shall find more glorious symbols of the victories won in the name of Jesus. These victories are inscribed on banners of light, and they are forever unfurled before our eyes. The days of the week and the months of the year comprise these banners, on each of which is inscribed the name of a dead god and every one of them have gone down under the brig ghtness and glory of that name, which is above ev- cry name. And as long as the caval- cade of the days and months shall sweep on, so long shall the records of defunct deities on those banners, be flung to the heavens.
 But let us descend somewhat into particulars and remark first: Names, in the sense in which we have been con- templating them, represent ideas. This is more than anything else, 8 world of ideas. The race of man is race throbbling with ideas-moved forward, or backward, or upward or downward by ideas. A man of ideas is a man of power of some kind. All men have their controlling ideas. One man represents the idea of property-another of com merce- another of government and law-another of education-another of beauty and culture of reform another of religion and piety etc. We can easily find names in history representing all these ideas. We can not think of those names without the ideas come with them. Such are the names of the Rothchilds and Wander bilts as regards wealth /; or Fulton as re- gards invention etc.
 Now we cannot think of the name Jesus, without ideas of infinitely great CT importance, arising in the mind.
 1st-The Fatherhood of God. God had been revealed to the nations as the thunderer-the avenger. His name brought shudder-a resurrection of horrors into tho soul. He was. the northern Thor, smiting with his omnip- otent hammer. He was 8 love, ever pois1ng thunder bolt in his hand. He was Moloch, embracing his children in his red hot iron arms and then rolling them from his arms into furnace at his feet. He was theDemiurge of the an cient Gnostics, having within him the el- ements of all evil He was the dark and relentless fate of the Stoics. Then he was revealed to the Jews as the AL mighty-the Iam-the eternal-the Je- hovah, wrapping Sinai in flames and shaking it with his thunders until the people trembled and quaked.
 But with Jesus Christ he is FATHER The infinite magnitudes, and powers and glories and ethical wrath toned down to the soft and tender idea and character of FATHER. Jesus puts the name of FATHERS crown onto the infinitely glorious and powerful. Jesus shows us God welding all the forces of nature, driving his chariot of thunders through the heavens launching the worlds, or putting out their fires. He reveals this wonderful Being as myFather-as your Father. The adorable name of Jesus stands for this. When he Was baptlsed and commenced his ministry-the work of revealing God-FATHER was the first announcement. As he came up out of the water, pure white dove-.purer and winter than imagination can conceive flew down from above and lit upon him and then voice, sweeter than ever heard, came out of the heavens, saying, in the accents of tender and loving Father "This is my beloved son, in whom am well pleased, hear ye him. ,
 This revelation marks the grandest and most illuminated epoch in the his tory of the world. At last Fathers face gleams through the grim concep tions of God. At last the ghastly an6 inky clouds part and Father smiles through-down-upon his hitherto frightened children. The theology O Jesus is the Fatherhood of God. The tender hearted John caught the amaz
 ing and stupendous truth, when he ut
 tered those infinitely deep words "Ne