The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-02-07
NOW GoMIt6 HOME.
While a Steamer Waits DR..
Talmage breaches q
Sermon.
The Words Spoken Are His
Farewell to the
Old World.

QuEENsTowN special.-while the steamer
Aurania, from Liverpool, was lying In this
harbor few hours waiting for the mails,
many Of the passengers went ashore. The
Rev. 7. Do Witt Talmage. DID,, WIS among
the number. and took advantage Of the op.
portunity to preach. His ssubject was "What
Is in Name?" and his text, PHILIPPIANS II, 0:
"A name which 10 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 one Of Paul's rapturous and en-.
thusiastic descriptions Of the name of Jesus.
By common provsrb we have como to believe
there 10 nothing In name. and SO pa.
rents sometimes present their children for
baptism regardless Of the title given
them, md not thinking that that particular
title will be either q hindrance or help.
Strange mistake. You have no right to
give to your child name that ia lacking
either in euphony or in moral meaning. 1t
is sin for yon to coll your child Jehoiakim
or Tiglath-Pileser. Because you yourself
may hnvo IN exasperating nnme is no reason
Why you should give it to those who come
after you. But how often We have seen some
name, filed with jargon, rattling down from
generation to generation, siGply because
some ono long time ago happened to bs
afflicted with 1t. Institutions and enterprises
have sometimes without sufficient delibera-
tion taken their nomenclature. Mighty des.
tinies have been decided by the significance of
nnmc. There nre men who all their lie
long toll and tusslc to get over the influence
Ofsome unfortunate name. While We mny,
through right behavior and Christian de-
meanor, outlive the fact thut We we're bap.
tizetl by the name Of despot, or nm infidcl,
Or cheat, how much better it would have
been il We could have started life without
any such incumbrance. When find the apos.
tic. lniny text md other parts Of his writing,
breaking cut in ascriT:onc o! admiration in
regard to tho nnmo of Jesus, want to- in-
quire what are somc of the characteristics Of
that nppcllntion. And o that the Savior
himself, while speak, might all me with his
own presence. for We never con tell to othsra
that which VIC hava not ourselves felt.
First, the mime of Jesus is an easy name
Sometimes We are introduced to people
whose name is SO long and unpronaunceabls
that We have sharply to listen, and to hear
the name given to us two or three times he.
fore we venture to speak 1t. But within the
first two years the littlechid claspsits hands.
an'l looks up. md snys Jesus" Can It bc,
amid all the families represented here today.
there is one household where the little ono
spcnks of "iuther'' and mother" and
brother" und "sister," and not of"ths name
which in above every name?"
Sometimes we forget the titles OF our very
hest friends md we have to pause and think
before Nc can recall the name. But Gun you
imncine any freak Of fintellect In which you
could forget I lle Sn vior'e dpSirn ntiOn? That
word ".Jesus" seems to fit the tongue III every
dincct. When the voicein old sgs gets feeSis
md tremulous, and indistipct, sfill this regal
word his potent utterunce y "