Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-31
TALMAGE COMING HOME
THE NOTED DlVlNE'S LAST SERMON
NTHEOLD WORLD.
Delivered at Queenstown, Ireland
"What / IA Nance The Music of two
Syllables-Thc Word Jesus" Fits
the Tongue in Every Dialect.

harbor a few hours today waiting for the
mails, many Of the passengers went ashore.
The Rev. r. De Witt Talmage, ID. D., was
among the number, and took advantage of
the opportunity to preach. His subject was
"What Is in a Name" and hSt-text, Philip
plans H. o: "A name which is above every
name.n The eminent preacher said:
On my way from the Holy Land, and
while 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 descriptions of the name of
Jesus. By common proverb we have come
to believe that there is nothing in n name,
and SO parents sometimes present their chill
dren for baptism regardless Of the title given
them, and not thinking that that particular
title will be either a hindrance or help.
Strange mistake. You have no right to give
to your child a name that is lacking either in
euphony or in moral meaning 1t is sin
for you to call your child Jehoiakim or Tig-
lath-Pileser. Because you yourself 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, rafting down from gem
Grafton to generation simply because some
one long while ago happened to be afflicted
sometimes without sufficient elaboration
taken their nomenclature. Mighty destines
have been decided by the significance of
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 a despot or an infdel,
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 descriptions of adj
miratiop in regard to the name of Jesus, l
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 80 long and unpronounceabe
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 it's
hands, and looks up, and says Jesus" Can
it be- amid all the families represented here
today, there is one household where the little
ones speak Of father" and mother" and
brother" and SISTER" and not of 1.-THE
name which is above every nameW 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 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,
'Ts music to my ear;
Fan would sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear
Still further, | remark it is beautiful
name. You have noticed that it is impos-
sible to dissociate a name from the person
who has the name. So there are names that
are to me repulsive-I do not want to hear
them at all-while those very names are at
tractive to you. Why the differencel 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 a name
from the person who holds the name, that
consideration makes Christ's name so I'M
speakably beautiful. No sooner is it pro-
nounced in your presence than you think
of Bethlehem, and Gethsemane and Col
gotha, and you see the loving face, and
hear the tender voice, and feel the gentle
touch. You see Jesus the one who, though
banquettiug with heavenly herarchs, 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 IL soon as that
name Is pronounced in your presence you
think Of how the shining one gave buck the
ceuturiOn's daughter, and how he helped the
blind man to the sunlight, and how he made
the cripple's crutches useless and how be
looked down into the babes laughing eyes
and, as the little one struggled to so to him
lung out his arms around ii and impressed
loving kiss on its brow, and said: "Of such i.
the kingdom of heaven" Beautiful name
jesus 1t stands for love, for patience, fol
kindness, for forbearance, for self sacrifice
for naGuauimity. 1t is aromatic with al
odors and accor1ant with all hermonies
Sometimes | see that name, and the letter
seem TO be made out of tears, and then again
they look like cleaning crowns. Sometime
they seem to me as though twisted out of tn
built out OF the thrones on which his peopl
shall reign. Sometimes i sound that wor,
Jesus" and hear coming through the tw
syllabes the sigh Of Gethsemane and tn
groan Of Calvary; and again | sound it, AM
il is all a-ripple with gladness and airing witt
hosanne. Take all the glories of book bind
cry and put them around the page where tina
name Is printed. On Christmas morning
WTeathe it on the wall
Let it drip from harp's string and thunde
out in organs diapason. Sound it often
sound it well, until every star shall seem t.
shine 1t, and every flower shall seem t.
breathe it, and mountain aud sea, and da,
and night, and earth and heaven acclaim il
fnll chant: Blessed be his glorious name for
ever. 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 the Sunday school girl, to the snoy
white octogenarian, it is beautiful. The oil
man comes in from long walk, and trent
lingly opens the doors aud hangs his hat o
the old nail, aud sets his cane in the usut
corner, and lies down on a couch, and says t
his children and grandchildren: MY dears,
am going to leave you" They say; why
where are you going grandfather" II al
going 10 Jesus" And so the old man faint