Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-20

DttOOhht ~ ~ . FtRtf A'f AN 49,
T. Dewitt Talmage, DID, preached il
the Brooklyn tabernacle this morning OF
the subject, DISADVANTAGES Of Som'
People" The opening hymn was;
"Biow ye the trumpet blow
The gladly solemn sound
Let all the nations know,
To earth'e remotest bound"
After expounding appropriate passages
OF scripture DR.. Talmage took his text
from Genesis xiii, SO can these things
are against me-" ana preached the follow
ing sermoni
Father Jacob, you are wrong You
think your son Joseph Is dead, but he Is
prime minister Of Egypt, and has the keys
OF the great corn crib. You think that
circumstances are all adverse, but they
will turn out well. In all your life you
never made greater mistake than when
you said; San these things are against
me.n
A great multitude OF people are under
seeming disadvantages, and ! will, to-
day, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that
can manage, treat their cases; not as a
nurse counts out eight or ten drops Of a
prescription and
sTIRs THEM IN
half glass Of water, but as when man
has, by mistake, taken a l6rge amount OF
strychnine or paris green, or belladonna,
and the patient Ia walked rapidly round
the room, and shaken up and pounded
until he gets wide awake. Many OF you
have taken large draught Of the poison
OF disc engagement, aud l come out by
the order of the Divine Physician TO rouse
you out Of that lethargy
E1rat manu- manila ara uu1ar tho
disadvantage OF an unfortunate name
given them by parents who thought they
were doing good thing. Sometimes at
the baptism OF children, while | have
held up one hand in prayer, have held up
the other hand In amRzement that parents
should have weighted the babe with such
dtssonant and repulsive nomenclature
have not so much wondered that some
children should cry out at the chrsten-
ing font, as that others with such smiling
face should take title that will be the
burden OF their lifetime. II Is outrageous
TO aiiiict children with an undesirable
name because II happened TO be pos
sessed by parent or rich uncle from
whom favors are expected, or some
prominent man Of the day who may end
his life In disgrace. 1t Is no excuse, be-
cause they are Scripture names, TO
CALL A CHILD JEHoIAKIM,
or Tiglath-Plleser. AT this very altar,
baptized one by the name of Bathsheba.
Why, under all the circumambient
heaven, any parent should want TO give
to child the name OF that loose and
Infamous creature OF Scripture times |
cannot Imagine. have often felt at the
baptlsmal altar, when names were an.
nounced to me, like saying, as did Rev.
DR.. Richards OF Morrlstown, N. j., when
child was handed him for sprinkling,
and the name given; Hadn't you better
call II something elseYn Impose not
upon that babe name suggestive OF
nlppancy or meanness. There is no ex-
cuse for such assault and battery on the
cradle when our language Is opulent with
names musical In sound and suggestive
In meaning, such as John, meaning "the
gracious gift OF God;n or Henry, mean.
ing "the chief OF household;r or
Alfred, meaning "good counsellor;n or
Joshua, meaning "God, our salvation -
or Nicholas, meaning "victory of the
peoplei" or Ambrose, meaning "lmmor.
tai or Andrew, meaning "manly;" OF
Esther, meaning t'a starr or Abigail,
meaning my father's joy;n or Anna,
meaning 'gracei" or Victoria, meaning
victory" or Resale, meaning "beauti.
lui as a rosei" or Margaret, meaning ga
pearl" or Ida, meaning "god-like;n OF
Clarai meaning "illustrlous;" or Amelia
meaning "busy;n or Bertha, meaning
"beautitul,h and hundreds OF othel
names just as good, that are q help rathel
than hindrance.
But sometimes the great hindrance II
life IL not In the given name but in tn,
family name. While legislatures are will
ing TO lift such incubus there are fami
lies that keep name which mortgages al
the generations with great disadyan
tage. You say ~ wonder II he Is an,
relation to so and so, mentioning some
family celebrated for crime or deception
~ Is wonder TO me that 10 all such faml
Hes some spirited young man does not
rise, saying to his brothers and sisters
III you want 70 keep this nuisance o,
standardization OF u name, will keep 1
no longer than until by quickest cours,
of law
CAN SLOUGH orr
this gangrene.n When the general as
sembly OF the Presbyterian church of IN,
United States met In this building n
1876, two estimable men OF the sweetes
disposition stopped at the same house
and one had the mlsnomer OF being Mr.
Sour, and the other the misnomer OF be
ing MIR. Pickle. And your city director,
has hundreds of names the mere pronun
citation OF which has betn hfe-lonR OBJ
stacle, II you have started life under
name which either through ridiculous or
typography or vicious suggestion has beer
an inoumbrance, resolve that the mex
generation shall not be so weighted.
II IL no bemeaning to change name
Saul OF Tarsus became Paul the apostle
Hadasah, the "myrtle," became Esther
''the star" We have IN America, and
suppose II is so In AL countries, name,
which ought to be abolished, and can be
and Will be abolished for III,
reason that they are a. libe
and Islander. But II for any reason Vol
are submerged either by given name 81
by family name that you must bear
God VIII help you 10 overcome the out
rage by life consecrated to the rooc
and useful. You may erase the ours,
from the name. You may somewhsl
change the significance. II once Il stoot
for mesnness, You can make II stand fol
generosity. II once II stood for pride
you can make Il stand for humility. Il
once II stood for fraud, you can make n
stand for honesty III once AZ stood %,