Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-02-01
THE BROOKLYN DIyINE,s SIM
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "wbat IL In Manner
preached In Queenstown. Ireiand.j

ulied with 11fgoD, rafting down from gen.
GRAFTON to generation. simply because some
one long while ago happened TO be afflicted
with it. Institutions and enterprises have
sometimes without sufficient elaboration
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 over the influence of
| some unfortunate name. While we may,
| through right behavior and Christian de-
meanor, outlive the fact that we were bap-
tized by the name Of despot, or an infidel,
or a cheat how much better it would have
been If we all could have started life without
any such incumbrance. When / find the
apostle, in my text and in other parts of his
writing, breaking out in Inscriptions of adj
miration In regard TO the name of Jesus
want to inquire what are some of the char
acteristics of that appellation. And o that
the Saviour Himself, while 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 uupronouneeable
that we have sharply to listen, and to hear
the name given to us two or three times, be-
fore we venture to speak it. But within the
first two years the little child clasps its
hands, and looks up, and says Jesus" Can
| it be. amid all the families represented here
tO-uuy, There Is ole nOuSetOlQ WuerE Ile llltlc
ones speak of father and mother and
''brother," and ''sister," and not of ''the
| name which is above every namep Some
times we forget the titles of our very best
friends and we have to pause and think be-
fore we can recall the name. But can you
imagine any freak of intellect in which you
could forget the Saviour's designation That
word Jesus seems to fit the tongue III
every dialect. When the voice in old age
! gets feeble and tremulous, and indistinet,
/ still this regal word has potent utterance:
| Jesus I love Thy charming name,
IT'S music to my ear
Fan would sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
! Still further, l remark it is a beautiful
name. You have noticed that it is impossi-
| bic to associate name from the person who
has the name. So there are names to me
| that are repulsive-I do not want to hear
4 them at all-while those very names are at
tractive TO you. Why the difference? 1t is
because | happen 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 at
/ tractive. As we cannot associate name
from the person who holds the name, that
| consideration makes Christ's name SO I'M
speakably beautiful. No soonar is it pro-
nounced in your presence than you ink
Of Bethlehem and Gethsamane, and Col
!
! the tender voice, and feel the gentle touch.
| You see Jesus, the one who, though BAN
quoting with heavenly hierarchs, came
| down to breakfast on the fish that rough
men had just hauled out of Genessaret;
| Jesus, the one who though the clouds are
| the dust Of His feet, walked footsore on to
| 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 sunlight, and how He male
| the cripple's crutches useless and how He
] looked down into the babes laughing eyes,
and as the little one struggled TO go to Him,
| flung out His arms around it and impre ssed a
/ loving kiss on its brow, and said: ''Of such is
the kingdom of heaven" Beautiful name
/ Jesus 1t stands for love- for patience for
! kindness, for forbearance, for self-sacrifice
| for magnanimity. 1t is aromatic with all
| odors and accordant with all harmonies
| Sometimes see that name, and the letters
seem to be made out Of tears, and then again
they look like cleaning crowns. Sometimes
| they seem to me as though twisted out OF
the straw on which He lay, and then as
| though built cut of the thrones on which His
| people shall reign Sometimes | sound that
word Jesus, and | hear coming through
| the two syllaJles the sigh of Gethsemane and
the groan Of Calvary; and again sound it,
and it is all asripple with gladness and airing
bindery and put them around the page
where that name is printed On Christmas
morning wreathe it on the wall.
| Let it drip from harp's string and thunder
out in organs diapason. Sound it often,
| sound it well, until every star shall seem to
shine it, and every flower shall seem to
breathe it, and mountain and sea, and day
and night, and earth and heaven acclaim in
full chant: BLESSED be His glorious name for.
fIaoy fInf L ~,
Jesus, the name high over all,
In heaven and earth and sky.
To the repenting soul, to the exhausted ill.,
valid, TO the SundaySchool girl, to the snow
white octogenarian, it is beautiful The old
man comes in from long walk, and trem-
| blingly opens the doors, and hangs his hat on
the old nail, aud sets his cane in the usual
corner, and lies down on a couch, and says to
, his children and grandchildren: my dears,
| am going to leave you" They say:
! why, where are you going, grandfather"
IT am going to Jesus" And SO the old man
| faints away into heaven. The little
child comes in from play and throws her
self on your lap, and says: Mamma,
am so SICK | am so sick" And
| you put her to bed, and the fever is worse
and worse until in some midnight she
| looks up into your face and says: Mamma,
Kiss me good-by, | am going away from
you going toy And she says; Il am going
to jesus" And the red cheek which you
| thought was the mark of the fever, only turns
! out to be the carnation bloom of heaveni Oh,
yes, It is sweet name spoken by the lips of
childhood, spoken by the old man
Still further: it is a mighty name. Roths-
child is a potent name in the commercial
world, Culver in the scientific world, Irving
powerful name In the literary world, WASH
| ington an influential name in the political
| world, Wellington mighty name in the mill
tary world; but tell me any name in all the
earth so potent to awe, and lift, and thri /,
and rouse and agtate, and bless as this
| name OF Jesus. That on word unhorse1 Saul
| and flung Newton on his face on ships deck
and to-day holds 400, 600, 900 Of the RAGS with
omnipotent spell. That name in England
to-day means more than Victoria: in Ger
| many, means moro than Emperor William;
\ In France means more than Carnot in Italy,
means more than Humbert of the present or
Garibaldi of the past, have seen man
| bound hand and foot in sin, Satan his hard
task master, in bondag, from which no
human power could deliver him, and yet at
the pronunciation OF that one word he dashed
| down his chains and marched out forever
/ free. l have seen man overwhelmed with
disaster the hope fed, the last light gone
4 out; that name pronounced in his hearing,
/ the sea dropped, the clouds scattered, ami a
|
| soul. have seen man hardened in infidel-
lty defiant of God, full of scott and jeer, jo-
! cose OF the judgment reckless of an unend-
ing eternity, at the mere pronunciation of
that name blanch, and COVER, and quake,
and pray, and sob and groan, and believe,
and rejoice 0 it is mighty namei At It's
! utterance the last wall of sin will fall, the
last temple of superstition 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 pass
WORD at every gats of honor, the insignia
on every flag, the battle shout in every con-
fiict. All the millions of the earth are TO
know it. The red horse of carnage seen in
apocalyptic vision, aud the black horse of
death, are to fail back on their launches, and
the white horse of victory will 90 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 sceptres of the world
are being shortened; but every Bible printed.
! every tract distributed, every Suuday-schooI
class taught every school founded. every
church established, is extending the power
OF Chrlsts name. That name has already
been spoken under the Chinese wall, and in
4 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
absorb all other nominations.
fail,
Returning justice lift aloft her scale;
Peace Ger the world her olive wand extend,
AUD white robed innocence from heaven descend
! Still further: it is an enduring name You