Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29
TALMAGE ON HIS WAY HOME,
lie Breaches His Last Sermon in the
 Old World.


 He Takes Advantage of . Delay of n Few
 Hours at Queenstown and Speaks on
 "What Is in g Name" = The Music of
 Two Syllables-Ths Word "Jesus" Fits
 Every Tongue.
 QUEENsTowN, Jan. 26, 1s9O.-While the steamer Aurania, from Liverpool, was lying in this harbor few hours today waiting for the mails. many of the passengers went ashore. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. D. D., of the opportunity to preach. His subject was, "What Is in a Name?" and his text, Philippians it.. 9: "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 voysgetc America, preach to you from this text, whichwas one of Paurs rapturous and enthusiastic descriptions of the name of Jesus. By common proyerb we have come to believe that there is nothing in a name, and so parents sometimes present their children for baptism regardless of the title given them, and not thinking that that particular title will be either hindrance or a help. Strange mistake. You have no right to give to your child name that is lacking either in euphony or in moral meaning.
 
 kim or Tigath-Pileser. Because you your- self 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. filled with jargon, rattling down fir m generation to generation, simply because some one long while ago happened to be afflicted with it. Institutions and en- tertrises have ometime', without sufficient deliberation, taken their nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been decided by the significance of name. There are men who all their life long toll and tussle to get over the inf ence of some unfortunate name. While we may, through right behavior and Christian demeanor, Outlive the fact that we were baptized by the name of 8 despot, or an infdel, or cheat, how much better it would without any such incumbrance. When find the apo tie, in my text and in other parts o1 his writing, breaking out in ascriptions of admiration in regard to the name of Jesus, l want to inquire what are some of the char actrristics of that appellation. And O tha. me with his own presence, for we never can tell to others that which we have not our selves felt.
 First. this name of Jesus Is m 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 or three times, before we venture to speak 1t. But within the first two years the little child cl sps it's hands, and looks up, and says "Je,us." Can it be, amid all the families represented here today, there Is one household where the little ones speak of "frher' and "mother," and "brother'' and ''sister," and of ''the name which Is above every name?' Sometimes we forget the titles of our very best friends, and we have to pause and think before we can recall the name. But can you imagine any freak of intellect in which you could forget the Savour'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.
 Jesus, love thy charming name,
 'Tis music to my ear;
 Fain would sound 1t out SO loud
 That heaven and earth might hear.
 Still further, remark it is beautiful name You have noticed that 1t Is impossible to dis. sOciate name from the person who has the name. So there are names that are to me re- pulsive-I do not want. to hear them at all- while those very names are attractive to you Why the difference? It Is because happen to know persons by those names who art cross, and sour, and snappish, and queer while the persons you used to know by those names were pleasant and attractive. AS VI cannot dissociate name om the person wht holds the name, that consideration makes Christ's name so unspeakably beautiful. N | sooner is it pronounced in your presence thar you think of Bethlehem, and Gethsemane and Golgotha, and you see the loving face | and hear the tender voice, and feel the gentl, | touch. You see Jesus, the one who, though banque ing with heavenly hierarchs, cam, 1 down to breakfast on tho fish that rough mel l had just hauled out of Gcnessaret; Jesus, th l one who, though the clouds are the dust o his feet, walked footsOre on to the road t, Emmaus.
 Just as soon as that name is pronounced il nf he ef, in one gave back the centurion's daughter, ant l how he helped the blind man to the sunlight and how he made the cripple's crutches use less, and how he looked d. wn into the babe | laughing eyes. and, as the little one struggled | to go to him, flung out his arms around i and impressed loving kiss on his brow, an, said: "Of such is the kingdom of heayen.' | Beautiful name--,Jesus! It stands for love 1 for patience, for kindness, for forbearance for self-sacrifce, for magi animity. It is arc | matc with all odors and accordant with al harmonies. Sometimes I see that name, an, | the letters seem to be made out of tears; all, then again they look like gleaming crowns | Sometimes they seem to me as though twisted out of the straw on which he lay; and thel as though built out of the thrones Il whicl that word "Jesus," and I hear coming | through the two syllables the sigh of Geth l semane and the groan of Calvary; and agail I sound it. and it is all aripple with gladnes 1 and airing with hosanna. Take all the glorie of book bindery and put them around thu | page where that name is printed. On Christ mas morning wreathe it on the wall. l Let it drip from harp's string and thunder out in organs diapason. Sound it often sound 1t well, until every star shall seem tt shine it, and every flower shall seem tt | breathe it. and the mountain aud sea, anc l day and night, and earth and heaven acclaim | in full chant: "Rlessed be bis glorious name l forever. The name that is above every | name."
 'Jesus, the name high over all, In heaven and earth and sky" To the repenting soul, to the exhausted in valid, to tine Sunday school girl, to the snow white octogenarian, 1t Is beautiful. The oll man comes in from long walk, and trem | blingly opens the doors, and hangs his hat or the old nail, and sets his cane in the usua | corner, and lies down on a couch, and say | to his children and grandchildren: "My dears, I am going to leave you." They say "Why, where are you going, grandfatherF ..I am going to Jesus,' and 50 the old mar | faints away into heaven. The little child comes in from play and throws herself on | your lap, and says: "Mamma, am SO sick I am so sick" And you put her to bed, ant | the lever is worse and worse, until, In som, midnight, she looks up. into your face ant | says "Mamna. kiss me good-by, am going from ona And you gd hy q am going to Jesus." And the red cheek | which you thought was the mark of the fe yer, only turns out to be the carnation bloom l of heaven! Oh, yes, 1t Is sweet name spoken by the lips of childhood, spoken by | the old man.
 Still further, it Is 8 mighty name. Roths child is \ potent name In the commercial 1 world, Cuyier in the scientific world, Irving l powerful name In the literary world, Wash ington an influential name in tue politi.a