The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-02-13
THE POW Err OF A NAME.
DIR TALMAGE breaches DUR
INCA DELAY OF THE SHIP.

QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 26.-Wh lie th
steamer Aurania, from Liverpool, wa
lying in this harbor few hours toda,
waiting for the mails, many of the pas
sengers went ashore. The Rev T, d,
Witt Talmage, ID. D., WAS amoi {: the
opportunity to preach. His subject
was, "What is in names" and his text
PHILIPPIANS ii, 8: "a name which il
above every name" The erirrI'
preacher said:
On my way from the Holy Land
and while / wait for the steamer TO re
sumo her voyage to America, preach
to you from this text, which was one
of Pauls rapturous aud G, VhuaiasIic
d ,criptions of the name Of Jesus BY
&C nmon proverb we have cotnu to be-
lieve that there is n"th;ng iu i nar'c,
and 81 parents sometimes present lneir
children fDr baptism regardIr ; Of the
hameg.ven them, and Ii IT thinking that
that particular title wall be either a
hiudrance or ~ help. strange mis-
take. You have 40 right TO give to
Nour child a name that is lacking
either in cup cny or in moral
meaning. 1t il sin for you
to call your child Jehoiakim or Zig
lath-Pile5er. Because you yourself may
have un exaSperating name is no rea-
sou why YEA should give it to those
who come after. But now often we
have seen sotue name, filled with jar
gon, rnttliny dDwn from generation 10
generation, simply because some one a
long while ago happened to be afflicted
wiz a it. Institutions and enterprises
have somttimc cs without sufficient de-
liberation ;Aken their nomenclature.
Mighty hes;iRies have been decided by
the Significance eta name. There are
RlvN who all thcir life long toll and
tu>sle to yet over the influence OF some
unfortunate name. While we may,
through right behavior and Christian
uAeneanOr, outlive the factthat we were
S"6nptihed by the name Ola despot, or
an intidel, or II cheat, how much bet
ter it wnu!, have been if we all could
have started life without any such en-
Cuinhi ancc. When | find tEoapostle,
i'll my text and in other parts of his
Wiillug. breaking out in Inscriptions of
admiration IN regard to the name
of Jc$u~, want 70 inquire what are
SJ,re II he characteristics of that ap-
peliAtion. Aud ., that the Savior
himself, hiie / speak, might fill me
with bis own presence, for we never
cnn Ial TO others that which we have
II t ourselves felt.
First, this name Of Jesus is IN easy
name. Sometimes we are Introduced
to people whose name is SO long and
uupronounCenbie that we have sharply
to lis: en-, and to hear the name given
H. us two or three times, before We
venture ~ speak il. But within the
first two years the little child clasps
its hands, aHd looks up, and says, "Je-
sus." Can il be, amid all the fomi!ies
represented here today, there is Ole
A0us. hold where the little ones speak
Of 'Gather' and mother" AID O. roth
er," and "SiSter," and not of tho name
which is a.OVc every name?" SOI!c-
times we forget tho title Of our Ve'y
bet tviends, and we have to pause
AID think before Wa call tho name
IN. elect in which you could forget
"Jesls" seems to fiji the tongue in
cry dialect. When the voice in old
a.. gots feeble, and tremuIous, and
iyujstinct, still this regal word has po-
tent utl erance.
j, sus, love thy charming name;
IT IS music to my ear;
Faiu won't sound 1t out SO loud
that. heaven aud earth might hear
still further: / remark it is y beau
tifui rane. You hAye noticed that
it is impossible to dissociate name
from The p,,rson who has the name
So there are names that are to me re-
uulsivc--I do not like to hear them
while those very names are attractive
to YOU Why the difference? 1t is
because happen to know persons by
those names chO are cross, and sour
and snappish, and queer, while the
persons yoIt used TO know bv those
names were pleasant and attractive
AS we cannot diS5oCiate 81 name from
the person who holds the name, that
consideration makes Christ's name sc
unspeakably beautiful. No sooner is
Vt pronounced In your presence thar
YOU think of Bethlehem and Gethsem
nne aud GolgOtha, and you sec the
loving face, hear the tender voice, anC
feel tho gentle touch. You see Jesus
the one who, though banqucting will
heavenly hierarchs, came down t.
breakfast on the fish that rough mel
had lust hauled out of GcnCssarot; Je
sus, the one who though the cloud
are the dust Of his feet, walked foot
sore On the road to Emmaus Ju.t a
soon as that name is pronounced i
your presence you think of how tn
shining one gave back The centurion
daughter, aud how he helped tn
blind man to sunlight, and how h
made the cripp!o'5 crutches useless
and how he looked down into tb
babes laughing eyes. and, Gs the ittl
one struggled TO go TO him, flung OF
his arms around it and impressed
loving kiss on its brow, and said: &C
such is the kingdom of heaven" Bear
tiful name --JeauaI II stan - for love
for patience, for Kindness for forbeal
ance, for self sacrifice, for magnanim
ty. 1t is aromatic with all OdOrs an
accordant with AL harmoOics. Som,
times see that name, and the lGttej
seem to 0e made out of tears, and the
again they Look like cleaning crowns
Sometimes they seem to me as thong
twisted out of the straw on which h