The Forrest City times., 1890-02-01
TIE BEST NAME.
Manifold Beauties of tn, Word Jesus
 Pointed Out.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmags Preacher Pow erful Sermon on Board tho Ocean ship on Which He Takes Passage for Home

tor at Queenstown last Sunday Rev Dr. Talmage, who was passengeg on his homcward way, preached to his fellow voyagers. His subject was "Nhat is in Name!" and his text PhilIipians ii g.: "A name which is above every name" The eminent preacher said
 On my way from the Holy Land, and while I wait for the steamer to resume her voyage to America l preach to you from this text which was one Of Pauls rapturous and enthusiastic descrip- tions of the name of Jesus. By common provcrb we havo como to believe that there is nothing in name, and so parents sometimes present their children for baptism regardless of the title given them, and not thinking that that par ticular title will be either hindrance OF help Strange mistake. You have no right to give to your child name that is lacking either in euphony or in morat meaning It is sin for you to call yonr child JehoialSim or Tiglath, Pilescr. Be- cause you yourself may have an exasperat- ing name is no reason why you shoald give it to those who come after you But how often we have seen some name, filled with jargon, rattling down from generation to generation simply because some ono n long while ago happened 10 be afflicted with 1t. Institutions and enterprises have some times without sufficient deiberation taken their nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been decided by the significance of name. There are men who all their lie long toll and tussle to get oyer the influence Of some unfortunate name. While we may through right behavior and Christian de- meanor, outlivc the fact that we were baptized by the name of a despot, or an intdel, or a cheat how much better it would have been if we could have started life without any such ineumbrancs. When find the apostle, in my text and in other parts Of his writing breaking out in ascriptions of admiration in rcg gard to the name of Jesus, want co inquire what are some of the characteristics of that appeila- ton, And Q, that the Saviour Himself while speak, might hli me with His own presence, for we never can toll to others that which we have not ourselves felt
 THE sAviorWs HEST NAME.
 First, this name Of Jesus ia an easy name Sometimes we are introduced to people whose name is so long and unpronoanceapie that we have sharply 10 listen and to hear the name given to US two or three times be- fore we venture to speak it Iut within the first two years the little child clasps ts hands and looks up and says .JCsns.n Can 1t be, amid all the families represented here today there is ono household where the little ones speak of father, and "mother7 and "brother,n and sister and mol Of ''the name which is above every nameW Sometimes we forgot 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 Sayioar's desig- nationi That word "Jesusu seems to nt the tongue in every dialect N hen the voice in old age gets feeble and tremulous ard indistinet still the regal word has potent utterance
 Jesus, love Thy charming name
 lis music to my ear;
 Faiu would sound it so loud
 That heaven and earth nignt bear.
 Still further remark 1t is a beautiful name You have noticed that it is fn- possible to eissoeiate u name from Inc person who has the name So therc are names that are 10 me repulsise--l do not want to hear them at all-Wnile thase very names arc attractive to you. hy the differencei 1t is because happen to know persons by those names who are cross. and sour, and snapplsh, and queer, while the persons you used to know by those names were pleasant and attractive. As we can. not dissoeiate name from tho person who holds the name, that consideration makes Christs name so unspeaiSably beautiful ' than you think Of Bethlehem and Geth- semane, and Golgotha, and you see the loving face, and boar the tender voice. and feel tue gentle touch. You sec Jesus, tho one who though hanqueting with heavenly hierarchs came down to breakfast on the fish that rough men had just hauled out of Genessaret; Jesus, the one who, thoueu the clouds are the dust of His feet walked footsore on the road to Emmaus,
 TOWER OF THE WORD JESUS.
 Just as soon as that name is pronounced in your presence you think Of how the shining one gavo back the ccnlurlouis daughter, and how He helped lie blind man to the sunlight, and how He mado the crippes crutches useless, and how He looked down into the babe's laughing eyes and, as the little ono struggled to go to Him, flung out His arms around il and iul- pressed q loving kiss on its brow, and said. "Of such is the kingdom Of heaven" Beautiful name~-Iesusl It stands fer love, for patience, for kindness, for forboarauce. for self-sacrifce, for magnanimltY. It ia aromatic with all odors and accordant wth all harmonies. Sometimes sec that nalae, and tue letters seem to be mado out of tears, and then again they look like ggeaia- ing Srowns. Sometimes they seem to me as though twisted out of tue straw on which he lay, and then as though built out of the thrones on which his people shall reign. Sometimes sound that word "dcsus ' and hear com ing through tho two syllabcs the sigh of Gethsemane and the groaR of Calvary; aud again sound il and it is all a-rippie with giadness and aringing with hosanna. Take all the giorles of book biudery and put them around the page where that name Is printed On Christmas morning wreath t on the l ts a
 thunder out in organs diapason Sound lt often, sound 1t well, until every star snal seem 10 shine 1t, and every flower shall seem to breath ii, and mountain aud sea- and day and night and earth and heaven acclaim in fuli chant; Blessed To Ills glorious name forever. The name that is above every nameM
 Jesus the name hish oyer all,
 In heaven and earth aud sky
 To the repentime soul, to tho exhausted invalid, to the sunday school gir fo the snow white oetocenarian, t is beautifuL Tue old man comes in from loAg walk aud trcmblinely opens the doors, and hangs his nato the old nail, and sets his canc in the usnnl corner, and les down on a couch and says 10 his children and grandchildren My dears, | am going to ieaye you And they say "Why. where are you going grandfather3' T am going Do Jesas And So the old man falnts away into heaven.
 rnE HiGATirsr 10 NIEsg
 Tho little child comes iu from play and throws herself ou your lap and says. Mamma am SO sick, 1 am SO sick Aud you put her to bed and the fever Is worse until in soma midnight she looks up into your face and says Mamma, kiss me good bye anu going awag from you And you say "My dear where are you going toi" And she sayss "I anu going to Jesns,n Aud tha red cheek whiaA you thought was tho mark of the fevee only turns oat to ha the carnation bloom of heavenl Q, yes; it lsa sweet nasne spoken by tue lips Of childhood, spoken by tac old man.
 Still further, II k mighty name Roths. child is a potent name ia tho oonmefciai world, Cuviee in the scientific warld, lr, wing q powerful name in tho literary world Washington aa la.l1ehtiai nama in rho ssnlftit.al yasnrtA al fssr4st,r