Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-02-01

petuated in art, for there viii be other Bel
| iinis to depict the Madonna; there will be
other Ghirlandjos to represent Christs bap-
tism there will be other Bronzinos TO show
us Christ visiting the spirits in prison; other
Giottos to appail our sight with the crucl1x-
ion The name will be preserved In song, for
there will be other Alexander Popes TO write
the messiah. y other DR.. Youngs to portray
His triumph, other Cowpers TO sing His love.
1t will be preserved ia costly and magnificent
architecture for Professionalism as well as
Catholicism is vet to have its ST. Marks and
its St Peters. That name will be preserved
in the literature of the world for already lt
is embaImsd in the best books, and there viii
be other DIR. 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 enbalmed in the memory OF all
the good of earth and all the great ones of
heaven. Viii the delivered bondman OF
earth ever forget who freed hims Will the
blind man of earth forget who gave him
sight2 VIII the outcast of earth forget who
brought him home? No! No!
To destroy the memory of that name Of
Christ you would have to burn up all tho
Bibles and all the churches on earth, and then
in spirit of universal arson 60 through the
gate of heaven, and put torch to the temples
and the towers and the palaces, and after all
that city was Wrapped in awful conflagration,
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 leftr Blessed be His
glorious name for ever and ever. The name
that is above every name"
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name you will call Christ when you meet Him
in heaven? You know He has many names
VIII 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 Bible?
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 a 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 brighter
star-the morning star-a star forever"
Wandering some day amid the fountains
of life that toss i'll the sunlight and fall in
crash of peal and amethyst in golden and
cFySIailHo ufil, ana you WilIlleF up uuc TOuuu
banked river to where 1T 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:
ttMy 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 i'll the presence CT Him
who brought you out of the wolfish wilder
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
/ viii imagine that heaven is done. Every
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 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 blaze and be re-
fected back from the solid pearl of the twelve
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 insuifera-
BILE splendor of the monday light, until the
vision can endure it, then crying out: Thou
art the sun that never setsp
At this point ! am staggered with the
thought that notwithstanding all the ch1rm
in the name of Jesus. and the fact that it is
SO easy name, and SO beautiful name, and
so 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-
lenge those of you who are farther 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 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 lis 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 pronouneing it,
pronouncing 1.-THE name that is above
every name
His worth if all the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love Him too.
o that God to-day, by the power of His
holy spirit, would roll over you a 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 ly-
ing there, his face to the sun. his life blood
running away, he caught a handful of the
blood that was rushing out in his right hand,
and held it up before the sun and cried out:
so 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 name l know not whether you will
accept it or not: but 1 will tell you one thing
here and now, in the presence Of angels and
men. 1 take Him to be my Lord, my God, my
pardon, my peace, my life, my joy, my saliva
oil,
name forever. The name that is above every
name" "Hallelujahl unto Him that sitteth
upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever
and ever. Amen and amen and amen"