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REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
: 49,. DAY SERMON.

3. -. DAY SERMON.
Subject: "What Is in Manner
preached in Queenstown, Irclandl
TEXT: "A name ,ohich is abovs every
name."- Philippians IL, 8.
On my way from the Holy Land, and
while I wait for the steamer to resume her
voyage to America, preach to you from
this text, which was one of PauPs rapturous
and enthusiastic descriptions Of the name OF
Jesus. By common proverb we have come
to believe that there is nothing in a name,
and so parents sometimes present their chill
dren for baptism regardless of the title given
them, and not thinking that that particular
title will be either a hindrance or help
Strange mistake. You have no right to give
to your child q name that is lacking either in
euphony or in moral meaning. 1t is q sin
for you to call your child Jehoiakim or Tig-
lath-Pileser. Because you yourself may have
an exasperating name is no reason why you
should give it to those who come after you.
But how often we have seen some name,
filed with jargon, rattling down from gen.
GRAFTON to generation, simply because some
one a long while ago happened to be afflicted
with it, Institutions and enterprises have
sometimes without sufficient deliberation
taken their nomenclature. Mighty destinies
have been decided by the significance of
name There are men who all their lie long
toll and tussle to get over the influence OF
some unfortunate name. While we may,
through right behavior and Christian de-
meanor, outlive the fact that we were bap-
tized by the name of q despot, or an infidel,
or cheat how much better it would have
been if we all could have started life without
any such incumbrance. When l find the
APOSTLE, in my text and in other parts of his
writing, breaking out in Inscriptions of ad-
miration in regard to the name OF Jesus, l
want to inquire what are some OF the char
acteristics Of that appellation: And o that
the Saviour Himself, while l 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 unpronounceable
that we have sharply to listen, and to hear
the name given to us two OF three times, be-
fore we venture to speak 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 where the little
ones speak of "father," and mother" and
s'brother,n and ''sister," and not of ''the
name which is above every namer Some
times we forget the titles Of our very best
friends, and we have to pause and think be-
fore we can recall the name. But can you
imagine 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:
To,ra r toyo Thu oh arnninp name
'Ts music to my car;
Fain would sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
Still further, remark it is beautiful
name. You have noticed that it is impossi-
bic to dissociate name from the person who
has the name. So there are names to me
that are repulsive--I do not want to hear
tractive to you. Why the difference? 1t is
because I happen to know persons by those
names who are cross, and sour, aud snapplsh,
and queer, while the persons you used to
know by those names were pleasant anu at
tractive. As we cannot dissociate O name
from the person who holds the name, that
consideration makes Christs name so un-
speakably beautiful. No sooner is it pro-
nounced in your presence than you think
eotha and you see the loving face, and hear
the tender voice. and feel the gentle touch.
You see Jesus, the one who, though ban
ouettine with heavenly hierarchs, came
down to breakfast on the fish that rough
men had Just hauled out Of Genessaret;
Jesus, the one who, though the clouds are
the dust Of Ills feet, walked footsore on to
the road to Emmaus. Just as soon as that
name is pronounced in your presence you
think of how the shining one gave back the
centurion's daughter, and how He helped the
blind man to the sunlight, and how He made
the cripple's crutches useless, and how He
looked down into the babes laughing eyes,
and as the little one struggled to go to Him.
flung out His arms around it and impre ssed a
loving kiss on its brow, and said: "Of such is
the kingdom of heaven" Beautiful name
Jesusl 1t stands for love, for patience, for
kindness for forbearance, for self-sacrifice,
for magnanimity. 1t is aromatic with al
odors and accordant with all harmonles
seem to be made out Of tears, and then again
they look like cleaning crowns. Sometime:
they seem to me as though twisted out OF
the straw on which He lay, and then as
though built out of the thrones on which Hi;
people shall reign. Sometimes sound that
word "Jesus," and hear coming through
the two .sYllaLles the sigh of GethSemane anId
the groan of Calvary; and again sounu IL,
and it is all a-ripple with gladness and airing
With nOSanna. Lake I'LL IIe Sio! ieo oA oooh
bindery and put them around the page
where that name is printed. On Christmas
morning wreathe it on the wall.
Let it drip from harp's string and thunder
out in organs diapason. Sound it often
svund it well, until every star shall seem tt
shine it. and every flower shall seem tc
breathe it, and mountain and sea, and day
and night, and earth and heaven acclaim IL
full chant: "Blessed bo His glorious name for
ever. The name that is above every name.
Jesus, the name high over all,
In heaven and earth aud sky.
TO the repenting soul, to the exhausted in
valid, to the Sunday-school girl, to the snow
white octogenarian, it is beautiful. The old
man comes in from long walk, and trem.
blingly opens the doors, and hangs his hat OH
the old nail, and sets his cano in the usual
corner, and lies down on couch, and says to
his children and grandchildren: "My dears,
am going to leave you" They say:
"Why, where are you going, grandfather"
''I am going to Jesus" And so the old man
child comes in from play and throws her
sell OH your lap, and says: Mamma,
am so sick, I am so 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-by, am going away from
you.n And you say: "My dear. where are
YOU going tor And she says: 81 am going
to Jesus" And the red cheek which you
thought was the mark Of the fever, only turns
out to be the carnation bloom OF heaven! Oh,
yes, it is sweet name spoken oy the ups Oh
childhood, spoken by the old man.
Still further: it is mighty name. Roths.
child is O potent name in the commercial
,vorld Cuvinr in the scientific world, Irving