Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-30

going to Jesus" And the red cheek
which you thought was the mark Of the
fever, only turns out 10 be the carnation
bloom Of heavenl oh, yes; it is q sweet
name spoken by the lips Of childhood =.
spoken by the old man.
Still further: II is @ mighty name.
Rothsehild is q potent name in the COM
mercial world, Cuvier in the scientific
world, Irving powerful name in the lit
erary world, Washington an influential
name in the political world, Wellington
q mighty name in the military world; but
tell me any name in all the earth so
potent to awe, and lift, and thrill, and
rouse, and agitate, and bless, as this
name of Jesus. That one word unhorsed
Saul, and flung Newton on his face on
ships deck, and to-day holds 400, 900, 900
of the race with omnipotent spell. That
name in England to- day means more than
Victoria; in Germany, means more than
Emperor William; in France, means more
than Carnot; in Italy, means more than
Humbert of the present or Carl
baldi of the past. have seen
man bound hand and foot in sin, Satan
his hard task master, in q bondage
from which no human power could de-
liver him, and yet at the pronunciation
of that one word he dashed down his
cha ms and marched out forever free. /
have seen man overwhelmed with dis
aster, the last hope fed, the last light
gone out; that name pronounced in his
hearing, the sea dropped, the clouds
scattered, and a sunburst of eternal
gladness poured into his soul. 1 have
seen man hardened in intidelity. de-
FAINT of God, full of scoff and jeer, jocose
of the Judgment, reckless of an unending
eternity, at the mere pronunciation of
that name blanch, and cover, and quake,
and pray, and sob, and groan, and be-
lieve, and rejoice. o, it is mighty name!
At its utterance the last wall of sin
will fall, the last temple of SUPER
stition crumble, the last Juggernaut of
cruelty crash to pieces. That name
will first make all the earth tremble, and
then it will make all the nations sing. 1t
is to be the password at every gate of
honor, the insignia on every flag, the bat
tle-shout in every conflict. All the mill
ions of the earth are to know it. The red
horse of carnage seen in apocalyptic vis-
ion, and the black horse Of death, are TO
fall back on their haunches, and the white
horse of victory will go forth, mounted by
him who hath the moon under his feet,
and the stars of heaven for his tiara.
Other dominions seem to be giving out;
this seems to be enlarging. Spain has
had to give up much of its dominion.
Austria has been wonderfully depleted
in power. France had to surrender
some Of her favorite provinces. Most
of the thrones of the world are being
lowered, and most of the scepters of the
world are being shortened; but every
Bible printed, every tract distributed,
every Sunday-school class taught, every
school founded, every church established,
is extending the power of Christ's name.
That name has already been spoken under
the Chinese wall, and in Siberian snow
castle, in Brazilian grove and in Eastern
pagoda. That name is to swallow up all
other names. That crown is to cover up
all other crowns. That empire is to ab-
sorb all other Nominations.
All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall
fail
Returning justice lift aloft he- scale;
Peace Ger the world her olive wand extend,
And white-robed innocence from heaven de-
scend.
Still further: 1t is an enduring name.
You Chamber over the fence of the grave
yard and pull aside the weeds, and you
see the faded inscription on the tomb
stone. That was the. name of a man who
once ruled all that town. The mightiest
names of the world have either perished d
or are perishing. Gregory W., Sancho
of Spain, Conrad l. of Germany, Richard
I. of England, Louis XVI. of France,
Catharine of Russia-mighty names once,
th.t made the world tremble; but now,
none SO poor 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 perpetuated
in art, for there will be other Bellinis to
depict the Madonna; there will be
other Ghirlandjos to represent Christ's
baptism; there will be other Bronzinos
to show us Christ visiting the spirits
in prison; other Giottos to appall oul
sight with the cruciixion. The name
Will be preserved in song, for there will
be other Alexander Popes to write the
Messiah, other DR.. Youngs to portray
his triumph, other Cowpers to sing his
love. 1t will be preserved in costly and
magnificent architecture, for Protestant
ism as we'll as Catholicism is yet to have
its st. Marks and it's st. Peters. The
name will be preserved in the literature
of the world, for already it is embalmed
in the best books, and there will be othel
DR.. Paleys to write the Evidences oil
Christianity" and other Richard Baxteri
to describe the Saviour's coming to judg
ment. But above all, and more than all
that name will be embalmed in the m EN-.
ory of all the good of earth and all thu
great ones Of heaven. Will the delivered
bondman of earth ever forget who free(
him? Will the blind man of earth forge
who gave him sightp Will the outcast oi
earth forget who brought him home
No! No!
To destroy the memory Of that name o
Christ. you would have to burn up all the
Bibles and all the churcheson on earth, an(
then, in spirit of universal arson, gc
through the gate of heaven and put
torch to the temples and the towers ant
the palaces, and after all that city wa
wrapped in awful confagration, and tn
citizens came out and gazed on the ruiz
| even then they would hear that nam
in the thunder of falling tower and tn
crash of crumbling wall, and see it in
wrought in the flying banners Of flame
and the redeemed of the Lord on higl
would be happy yet and cry out: lie
the palaces and the temples burn, we have
Jesus leftl" Blessed be His glorioul
name for ever and ever. The name tina
is above every name"
| Have you ever made up your mind b,
what name you will call Christ when yol
meet him in heaven?' You know he ha
many names. Will you call him Jesus
or the Amounted One, or the Messiah. o
will you take some of the symbolica
names which on earth you learned from
your Bible?
/ Wandering some day in the garden 0
God on high, the place a-bloom wit
eternal springtide, infinite luxuriance Q