Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-08
THE HEIR OF TIE THRONE.
It was promised that One should

-''a ruler Of Iny people Israeli" SO here
Christ comes, in his second characteristic,
is a son; and you will all remember
how beautifully he seems to have
answered this prophecy when he called
himsele the Sou OF man" It WIS the
only name he gave himself; he never called
himself the son Of Joseph or the son Of
Mary, nor did he call himself Jew, nor
did he give himself any distinctive appel
lGtion as confined to individuals or to
races. out he called himself the "Son of
Dan." Ee wss the one given 10 humanity
rs It's soH; ne came to bear all that was in
humanity, TO put his arms down under that
huWanity and to raise it up to The very
throne of God. He was the son of God,
upon him was the kingdom, the govern
Inent; ne was :he heir; and thus, in the
first lesson We read, God said: yet have
set My son upon My holy hill Of Hior,"
and he seems 30 say, in the connection,
''Tbe princes may rage, the kings of the
earth may set themselves together, all the
powers Of earth may combine against him,
but He that sitteth in the heavens shall
laugh, the Lord shall havs them in deri-
sior, all their bands shall be broken,
! Christ shall be king OF nations in spite of
all the combinations Of all the kings of
the earth, for the government shall be
upon his shoulder" And so, while he
came as the child, and he came as the son
of humanity, and he lived a lowly life-a
life full of sorrow and reproaoh, and final
ly gave himself as the sacrifice, as the
lamb slain" for our eins-yet, at the same
time, or Immediately after,
HE BURST THE Bos1s OF DEATH,
He rose triumphant from the grave, and
then declared to his apostles, before He
left the earth, "All power is given unto
me in heaven aud in earth, go ye, there
fore, into all the wor d. The world is mine,
the nations of the earth have redeemer;
mansverJvhere has been purchased byny
atoning blood; I rule this lower earth
Go! Go ogsr seas and over mountains.
Go over plains and across wiIdernesses
Go into evsry nation and into every island.
Go, teach ali nations, baptiZipg them in
the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost"
The government was put upon his should
er, and SO Christ is the great governor; He
Is becoming the ruler of natious. I can
only at this time pause to say,hov, ,alreedy,
have We seen the prophecy fulfilled, from
the little beginning until the christian ma
tIons of the earth, the nations
that sit under the shadow of the
cross, are tho ruling nations of this world
The commerce, the literature, ths wealth,
the power ef the world, is now in the
hands OF natioas that call themselves
Christian. But nov there come charac-
teristics: Christ's attributes are shadowed
forth by the names given. In ancient times
il was customary to name persons accord
ing to some attribute or to give the names
in after life according to something which
they did; thus, among the Greeks, Plato,
the great philosopher, received his name
"Plato" from the fact of his very broad
shoulders, not the name given him in in
fancy, but the name by which be has heen
known in all history. So Soipio Africanus
received his name from his conquests in
Africa. And SO I might name others, and,
in the Scripture, very often the name was