News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

Still further, it is an enduring name. You
| Chamber over the fence ofthe graveyard an0
| pull aside the weeds, and you see the FADED
inscription on the tombstone. That was the
name of man who once ruled all that town.
The mightiest names of the world have either
| persisted or are perishing. Gregory w.,
Sancho OF Spain, Conrad |. of Germany,
Richard l. of England, Louis XVI. of France,
Catherine of Russia-mighty names once
| that made the world tremble, but now, none
! SO poor as to do them reverence, and to the
great mass of the people they mean absolute
| ~ nothing; they never heard of them. But
the name of Christ is to endure for ever. 1t
VIII De perpetuated to art, for there will be
| other Bellinis to depict the Madonna; there
VIII be other Ghirandajos to represent
! Chrlsts baptism; there will be other Bron-
zinos to show us Christ visiting the spirits in
prison; other Giottos to appall our sight
| with the crucifXIon.
The name will be preserved in song, for
there will be other Alexander Popes to wri' 9
the Messiah" other DR.. Youngs to portray
| his triumph, other COwpers to sing his love.
1t will be preserved in costly and magnificent
architecture, for Professionalism, as well as
| Catholicism, Is yet to have its St. Marks and
| its st. Peters. That name will be preserved
in the literature of the world, for already it
is embalmed in the best books, and there will
be other DR.. Paleys to write the evidences
of Christianity" and other Richard BaXters
to describe the Saviour's coming to Judgment.
But above all, and more than all, that name
will be embalmed in the memory of all the
good of earth and all the great ones of heaven.
Will the delivered bondman of earth ever
forget who freed him? Will the blind man
of earth forget who gave him sight? viii the
utcast of the earth forget who brought him
home? No! No!
To destroy the memory of that name of
Christ you would have to burn up all the
Bibles and all the churches on earth, and then
IN spirit OF universal arson go through the
gates Of heaven, and put a torch to the
temples and the towers and the palaces, and
after all that city was wrapped In awful con-
migration, and the citizens came out and
gHzed on the ruin-even then, they would
hear that name in the thunder of falling tower
and the crash of crumbling wall, and see it
unwrought in the flying banners of flame,
and the redeemed of the Lord on high would
be happy yet and cry out: ''Let the palaces
and the temples burn, we have Jesus left!''
"Biessed be his glorious name for ever and
ever. The name that is above every name.n
Have you ever made up YOUR mind by
what name you will call Christ when you
meet him in heaven? You know he has
many names. Will you call him Jesus, or the
Amounted o e, or the Messiah, or will you
take some of the symbolical names which on
arth you lea ned from your Bible?
Wandering some day in the garden of God
on high, the place abloom with eternal spring
tide, infinite luXuriance of rose, and lily, and
amaranth, you may look up into his face and
say: "My Lord, thou art the rose Of Sharon
and the lily of the valley"
Some day, as a soul comes up from earth to
take it's place in the armament, and shine as
star for ever and ever, and the lustre of
useful life shall beam forth tremulous and
beautiful, you may look up into the face of
Christ and say: "My Lord, thou art a bright
er star-the morning star-a star forever"
Wandering some day amid the fountains of
life that toss in the sunlight and fall in crash
of pearl and amethyst in golden and crystal
line urn, and you wander up the round
banked river to where it first tingles its silver
on the rock, and out of the chalices of love
you drink to honor and everlasting joy. you
may look up into the face of Christ and say
"My Lord, thou art the fountain of living
water"
Some day, wandering amid the lambs and
sheep in the heavenly pastures, feeding by
the rock, rejoicing in the presence of him who
brought you out of the woltish wilderness to
the sheepfold above, you may look up into
his loving and watchful eye and say: "My
Lord, thou art the shepherd of the everlasting
hills"
But there is another name you may select.
throne has its king. Every harp has its
harper. Heaven has gathered up everything
that Is worth having. The treasures of the
whole universe have poured into 1t. The
song full. The ranks full. The mansions
full. Heaven full. The sun shall set afire
Be
FURNISH the golden streets into a blaze and
be reflected back from the solid pearl Of the
II gates, and it shall be noon in heaven, noon
on the river, noon on the hills, noon In all
the valleys-high noon. Then the soul may
look up, gradually accustoming itself to the
vision, shading the eyes as from the almost
iusutierable splendor of the MONDAY light,
until the vision can endure it, then CRYING
out: ''Thou art the sun that never sets"!
At this point l am staggered with the
thought that, notwithstanding all the charm
in the name of Jesus, and the fact that it is
so easy name, and so beautiful a name, and
so potent a name, and so enduring a name,
there are people who find no charm in those
two syllables. come this day and see
whether there is anything in Jesus. 1 chal-
lenge those of you who are further from
God to come at the close of this service and
test with me whether God Is good, and Christ
is gracious, and the Holy Spirit is omnipo-
tent. l challenge you to come and kneel
down with me at the altar of mercy. will
= - aldo esf tho o liar ssd Lsse.s,
on the other side of it, and neither of US will
rise up until our sins are forgiven, and we
aseribe in the words of the text, all honor to
the name of Jesus-you pronouncing it, PRO
nouncing 1.-THE name that is above every
name.
His worth If all the nations knew,
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