The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-02-06
An crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud. shall

fall
Rsturning Justice lifi aloft her scale;
Ieseo Der the world her olive wand extend
anu Wiute ROBBED Innocence from heaven descend.
Still further IL is an enduring name. You
Chamber over the fence of the graveyard and
pun away the weeds, and you see the faded
inscription on the tombstone That was tho
name OF man who once ruled all that
town. The mightiest names of the world
have either persisted or are perishing.
Gregory VI, Sanoho of Spain, Conrad
!, of Germany Richard l. OF Eng
land, Louis XVI, OF France, Catharine OF
hussia-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 absolutely nothing:
they never heard Of them. But the name OF
Christ is TO endure forever. 1t will be Der
petuated in art for there will be other Ben
linis TO depict the Madonna; there will I'D
other Ghirlandjos TO represent Christ's hap,
tism; there will he other Bronzinos 10 show
us Christ visiting the spirits in prison; other
Giottos TO appall our sight with the cruclilxt
ion. The name will be preserved in song, for
there will be other Alexander Popes 10 write
the Messiah" other DR.. Youngs 10 portray
His triumph, other Cowpers to sing His love.
Ii will be preserved in costly and magnificent
architecture, for Professionalism as well as
Catholicism is yet 10 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 judg.
ment. 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
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earth ever forget who freed him9 Will the
blind man of earth forget who gave him
sghti Will the outcast Of earth forget who
brought him homer No! Mol
10 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
gate OF heaven, and put a torch to the temples
and the towers and the palaces, and after all
that city was wrapped in awful coniagration,
and the citizens came out and gazed 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 inwrought 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 leftp BLESSED be His
glorious name for ever and ever. The name
that's above every nameo
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
One, or the Messiah, or will you take some of
the symbolical names which on earth you
learned from your Bible2
Wandering some day in the garden Of God
ON high, the place a-bloom 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 soul comes up from earth
TO take its 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 brighter
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 peal and amethyst in golden and
crystalline 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.n
Some day, wandering amid the lambs and
sheep in the heavenly pastures feeding by
the rock, rejoicing in the presence Of Him
ness 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
will imagine that heaven is done Every
throne has its King. Every harp has it's
harper. Heaven has gathered up everything
that is worth having The treasures of the
whole universe have pouredinto it. The song
full The ranks full. The mansions full.
Heaven full. The sun shall set afire with
splendor the domes of the temples, and burn
ish the golden streets into a blaze, and be re-
aected back from the solid pearl Of the twelve
gates, and it shall be noon in heaven, noon on
Che river, noon OH 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 insuffera-
BILE splendor of the MONDAY light, until the
vision can endure it, then crying out: Thou
art the sun that never setsr
AT this point / 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 name, and
50 potent name, and so enduring a name,
there are people who find no charm in those
two syllables o come this day and see
whether there is anything in Jesus. chal-
l,ngc those of you who are farther from God
10 come at the close of this service and test
with me whether God is good, and Christ is
gracious, and the Holy Spirit is omnipotent.
challenge you to come and kneel down with
me at the altar of mercy. l will kneel on
one side of the altar and you kneel on the
other side of it, and neither of us will raise
up until our sins are forgiven, and we
ascribe, in the words of the text, all honor to
the name of Jesus-you pronouncing it, l
pronouncing 1.-THE name that is above
every name.
His worth if all the nations knew.
Sure the whole earth would love Him too.
Q that God to-day, by the power of His
holy spirit, would roll over you vision Of
that blessed Christ, and you would begin to
weep and pray and believe and rejoice. You
have heard of the warrior who went out to
fight against Christ He knew he was in the
wrong and while waging the war against the
Kingdom of Christ, an arrow struck him and
he fell. 1t pierced him in the heart, and ".
ing there, his face to the sun, his life blood
running away, he caught handful of the
blood that was rushing out in his right hand,
and held it up before the sun and cried out.
70 Jesus, Thou hast conqueredw And if to-
day the arrow of Gods spirit piercing your
soul, you felt the truth of what have been
trying to proclaim, you would surrender now
and forever to the Lord who bought you.
Glorious namel know not whether you will
accept it or not: but will tell you one thing
here and now, in the presence of angels and
men. take Him to be my Lord, my God, my
ton, my heaven! BLESSED be His glorious
name forever. The name that is above every
name.n "Hallelujahl unto Him that sitteth
upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever
and ever. Amen and amen and amen"