Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-27
The Potent Word Of Issus-Ths One Word
That ENDORSED Saul and Upset
Nswlon-lIs Far-Rsaching
Influences.
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Wheo find the apostle, in my text, and
in other parts Of his writing, breaking out
in ascriptions Of fsdmiration in regard to the
NAME OF JESUS,
| want TO inquire what are some OF the
characteristics of that appellstion. And
o that the Saviour Himself, while / speak,
might fill me with His own presence, for
we never can tell TO others that which we
have not ourselves felt.
First, this name of Jesus is an easy
name. Sometimes we are introduced to
people whose name is so long and unpro-
nounceable that we have sharply TO listen
and to have the name given 10 us two or
three times before we venture to epesk it
But within the first two years the little
child clasps its hands and looks up and
says "Jesus." Can it be, amid all the
families represented here to day, there is
one household whe,e the little ones speak
OF "father, and mother" and "brotffer," "
and SISTER" and not Of "the name which
ia above every nameP" Sometimes we
forget the titles of our very best friends,
and we have to pause and think he ore VI
can recall the name. Bat can you imsgine
any freak of intellect in which you could
forget the Saviour's designation? That
word Jesus" seems to fit the tongue in
every dialect. When the voice in old age
gets feeble and tremulous, and indistinct,
still this regal word has potent utterance
Jesus. love Thy charming name,
rls music TO my ear;
Fain would sound II out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
Sometimes sound that word "Jesus, "
and hear coming through the two sylla-
bles the
SIGH OF GETHsEMANE
and the groan of Calvary; and again
sound it, and it is al s.ripple with glad
ness and ring with Aosanna. Take all
the glories of book bindery and put them
around the page where that nsmei is print.
ed. On Christmas morning wreathe il on
the wall.
Let it drip from hsrp's strings and
thunder out 10 organs dispason. SQUAD
il often, eOund it well, until every star
shall seem to shine it, and every 1oN or
shall seem to breathe il, and mountsir
and sea, and day and night, and earth and
beaven acclaim in full chant: blessed bt
his glorious name forever. The name that
is above every name.
Jesus, the name high over all,
In heaven and earth and sky.
To the rfpsntirg soul, to the exhausted
invalid, to the Sunday school girl. to the
SHOW white octogenarisn, it is beautiful.
The old man comes il from long walk,
and trembliDgly opens the doors, and
hangs mis- hat on the old nail, and sets his
cane in the usual corner, and lies down on
a couch, and says 10 his children and
grandchildren: "My dears, am going to
leave YOU" They say: why, where are
YOU going, grandfather" 81 am soing to
Jesus" And go the old man faints away
in beaver. The little Guild comes in from
play and throws herself on your lap, and
saws: Mamma, sm so sick, ! am 80
SICK" And you
PUT HER TO BED,
and the fever is worse and worse, until in
some midnight she looks up into your
face and says: Mamma, kiss me good
bye, am going away from you" And
You say: my dear, where are you going
to?" And she says: II am going to
Jesus" And the red cheek which you
thought was the mark of the fever, only
turns ont to be the carnaticn bloom OF
heaven Oh, yes; il is sweet name
spoken by the lips of childhood, spoken by
the old man.
Sill further; il ia a mighty name
Rothschild is q potent name in the COIN
mercial world, Cuvier in the scieutiic
world, Irving pOwe. ful name in the liter
airy world, Washington an Influential
name in the political world, Wellington a
mighty name in the military world; but
tell me any name In
ALL THE EARTH
80 potent to awe, and lift, and thrill, and
rouse, and sgitate, and bless, as this name
of Jesus. That cne word pnhoreed Saul,
and fang Newton on his face on ships
deck, and to-day holds 400, 900, 600 of tue
race with omnipotent spell. That name
in England to-day means moro than Vic
toria; in Germany, mears mere than En-
peror William; in France, means more
than Osrnot; ia Italy, means more than
Humbert Of the present, or Galibaldi OF
the past. Ihave seen man bound hand
and foot in sin; satan his hard task
master; 10 a bondage from which 70
human power could deliver him, and yet
al the pronunciation of that one word be
dashed down his chaiLs and marched out
forever free. / have seen a man over
whelmed with disaster, the last hope fled,
the last light gone out; that name pro-
nounced in his hearing, the sea dropped,
the clouds scattered, and sunburst OF
eternal gladness poured into his soul. l
have seen man hardened in infdelity,
defiant of God, full Of scoff and jeer, Jo'
cose Of the judgment, reckless OF an I'M
ending eternity, at the mere pronunciation
of that nsms blanch, and cover, and
quake, aud pray, and sob, and grosn, and
believe and rel Iice o. it is might name !!
At its utterauce the last wall OF sin will
fail. the last temple Of superstition crum-
BILE, the last iaggernRut of cruelty crash to
pieces. That name will fist make all the
earth tremble, and then il will make
ALL THE NATIONS SING.
It's to be the password at every gate OF
honor, the insignia on every flag, the bat
tie shout in every conflict. All the mil
lions of the earth are to know il. The red
horse Of carnage seen in apocslyptic vision
and the black horse Of death are to fall
back on their launches, and the white
horse of victory will 20 forth, mounted by
him who hath the moon under his feet,
and the stars OF heaven for his tiara. Other
dominions seem to be giviog out; this
seems 10 be enlsrging. Spain has had TO
give up mush of its dominion. Austria
has been wonderfully depleted in power.
Frame had to surrender some OF her ia
yorite provinces. Most of the thrones Of
the world are being lowered, and most oil
the sceptres Of the world are being short
eued: bat every Bible printed, every tract
distributed, every Sunday school class
taught, every school founded, every church
established, is extending the power oi
Chri,t's name. That name has already
bsen scoken under the Chinese wall, and
in Siberian snow castle, in Brazilian grove
and in Eastern paGods. That name is to
swallow up all other names. That crown
il to cover up all other crowns. That en-
pire ia to absorb all other Nominations. I,
All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall
fail
Returning Justice lift aloft her scale;
Peace Ger the worli her olive wand xtend,
And white robed innocence from heaven de
scend.
Sall further: Ii is an enduring name
You Chamber over the fence OF the grave
yard and pull aside the weeds, and yoI
see the faded inscription on the tomb