Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-02-27
WHAT is IN A NAME? ?"
The Subject of Rev. DIR. Talmage's
Last Sermon Abroad.
Ia Name of Jesus is Easy, Beautiful,
Mighty and Enduring, and Fits h
Tongue In Every Diaiect-The
Music of Two Syllables.


erpool, wal lying in the harbor at
Queenstown a few hours recently, wait
ing for the mails, many of the passen-
gers went ashore. Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, d. D., was among the number
and took advantage of the opportunity
to preach. His subject was what Is in
a Nance" and his text, Philippians ii, Q:
"a name which is above every name"
The eminent preacher said:
On my way from the Holy Land, and
while | wait for the steamer to resume
her voyage to America, / preach to you
from this text, which was n of Paul's
~rapturous and enthusiastic descriptions
of the name of Jesus. BY common prov
erb we have come to believe that there
rs nothing in a name, and so parents
sometimes present their children for
baptism regardless of the title given
them, and not thinking that that partie-
ular title will be either q hindrance or a
help. Strange mistake. You have no
right to give to your child a name that
is lacking either in euphony or in moral
meaning. 1t is a sin for you tocaI your
child Jehoiakim or Tiglath-Pileser.
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perating name is no reason why you
should give it to those who como after
you. But how often we have seen some
name, filled with jargon, rafting down
from generation to generation, simply
because some one a long while ago hap
pened to be afflicted with it. Institu-
tons and enterprises have sometimes
without sufficient deliberation taken
their nomenclature. Mighty destinies
have been decided by the significance of
a name. There are men who all their
life long toll and tussle to get owe the
influence Of some unfortunate name.
While we may, through right behavior
and Christian demeanor, outlive the
fact that we were baptized by the name
of a despot, or an infdel, or a cheat, how
much better it would have been If we
could have started life without any such
incumbrance. When / find the apostle,
in my text and in other parts OF his writ
ing, breaking out in Inscriptions of adj
miration in regard to the name Of Jesus,
/ want to inquire what are some of the
characteristics of that application. And
o that the Savior 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 un-
pronounceable that we nave sharply to
listen, and to hear the name given to us
two or three times, before we venture
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years the little child clasps its hands,
and looks up and says "Jesus." Can it
be, among all the families represented
here to-day, there is one household
where the little one speaks OF "father,"
and mother" and brother r" and isis
ter" and not of ''the name which is
above every name?" Sometimes we for
get the titles of our very best friends,
and we rave to pause and think before
we can recall the name. But can you
imagine any freak OF intellect in which
you could forget the saviour's designa-
tion2 That word ''Jesus'' seems 10 Mt
the tongue in every dialect. When the
voice in old age gets feeble and tremu-
lous, and indistinct, still this regal word
has potent utterance.
Jesus, 1 love Thy charming name,
IT'S music to my ear;
Fain would / sound 1t out so loud
That Heaven and earth might hear.
Still further, l remark it is a beauti-
full name. You have noticed that it is
impossible to dissociate a name from
the person who has the name. So there
are names that are to me repulsive-I
do not want to hear them at all-while
those very names are attractive to you.
Why the difference? 1t is because Ihap-
pen to know persons by those names
who are cross, and sour, and snappish,
and queer, while the persons you used
to know by those names were pleasant
and attractive. AS we can not dissociate
a name from a person who holds the
name, that consideration makes Christ's
name so ~unspeakably beautiful. No
sooner is it pronounced in your presence
than you think of Bethlehem, and Geth-
and Golgotha, and you see the
loving face, and hear the tender voice,
and feel the gentle touch. You see
Jesus, the one who, though b%anqueting
with heavenly hierarchs, camo down to
breakfast on the fish that rough men
Just hauled out of -Gennesaret; Jesus,
the one who, though the clouds are the
dust of His feet, walked footsore on 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 sun
light, and how He made the cripple's
crutches useless, and how He looked
down into the babe'slaughing eyes, and,
as the little one struggled to go to HIM,
flung out His arms around it and inn
pressed a loving kiss on its brow, and
said: 'Of such is the kingdom OF Heav-
en-" Beautiful ~name-Jesusl 1t stands
for love, for patience, for kindness, for
to~rbearance, for self-sacrifce, for mag
nanimity. It is aromatic with all doors
and accordant with all h~armonies.
/ see that name, and the let
seem to be made out of tears, and
again they look like cleaning
Sometimes they seem to me as
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