The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-03
WHATS IN A NAME"
Sermon by Rev T. Dewitt Tai
mage at Queenstown.
The Beautiful Name "Jesus" and the In
fuence it Has Exerted for Good
Throughout the World-The
Sun that Never Sets.

the holy Land, from the text:
a name that is above every name.-IPhil-
lipians, H., 9.
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 Pauls
rapturous and enthusiastic descriptions
Of the name of Jesus. By common
proverb we have come to believe that
there is nothing in a name, and so par
ents sometimes present their children
for baptism regardless of the title given
them, and not thinking that that par
tieular title will be either hindrance
or help. Strange mistake. You have
no right to give to your child name
that is lacking either in euphony or in
moral meaning. 1t is sin for you to
call your child Jenoiakim or Tiglath-
Plleser. 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, filed with jargon, rafting
down from generation to generation,
simply because some one long while
ago happened to be afflicted with it.
Institutions and enterprises have some
times without sucffiient deliberation
taken their nomenclature. Mighty des-
tines have been decided by the signifi-
cance of name. There are men who
al their lifelong toll and tussle to get
over the influence of some unfortunate
name. While we may, through right
behavior and Christian demeanor, out
live the fact that we were baptized by
the name of despot, OF an infidel, or a
cheat, how much better it would have
been if we all could have started life
without any incumbrance. When | find
the apostle, in my text and in other
parts OF his writing, breaking out in
Inscriptions or admiration in regard to
the name of Jesus, I want to inquire
what are some of the characteristics of
that appellation. And o that the Saviour
Himself, while l speak, might fill me
with His own presence, for we never
can tell to others that which we have
not ourself felt.
First, this name of Jesus is an easy
name. Sometimes we are introduced to
people whose name is so long and I'M
pronounceable that we have sharply to
listen, and to hear the name given to
us two or three times, before 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 to-day, there is one household
where the little ones speak of father"
and mother" and "brother," and isis
ter" and not of ''the name which is
above every name?" Sometimes we for
get 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 Saviour's designa-
ton? That word 'sJesus" seems to fit
the tongue in every dialect. When the
voice in old age gets feeble and tremu-
lous and indistinct, still this regal word
has potent utterance.
Jesus, love Thy charming name.
It's music to my ear:
Fain would sound 1t out so loud
That Heaven and earth might hear
Still further, l remark it is beauti-
ful name. You have noticed that it is
impossible 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 attractive to you. |
Why the difference? It 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 attractive. As we can not dissociate
a name from a person who holds the /
name, that consideration makes Christ's
name SO unspeakably beautiful No
sooner is it pronounced in your presence
than you think of Bethlehem, and
Gethsemane, and Golgotha, and you see
the loving face, and hear the tender
voice, and feel the gentle touch. You
see Jesus, the One who, though ban
quoting with heavenly hierarchs, came
Town to breakfast on the fish that
rough men had just hauled out of Gen
sssaret; Jesus, the One who, though
5he clouds are the dust of His feet.
Salked footsore on to the road to EN-
naus. just as soon as that name is
pronounced in your presence YOU think
II how the shining One gave back the
'enturian's daughter, and how He
Helped the blind man to the sunlight.
nd how He made the cripple's crutches
seless, and how He looked down into
he babes laughing eyes, and, as the l
title one struggled to go to Him, flung /
ut His arms around it aud impressed a !
OVely kiss on its brow, and said: ''Of ,
uch is the kingdom of Heaven"
Beautiful name-Jesusl 1t stands for i
ove, for patience, for kindness for for !
earance, for self-sacrifice, for magma {
unity. 1t aromatic with all odors and G
ccordant with all harmonies Some '
ines see that name, and the letters Y
sem to be made out of tears, and then t
gain look like cleaning crowns. Some 8
mes they seem to me as though twist t
/ out of the straw on which He Law. +
nd then as though built out of the i
lrones on which His people shall reign. f
ometimes / sound that word Jesus" !;
nd / hear coming through the two syl- T
,bles the sigh of Gethsemane and the /,
roam of Calvary, and again sound r
, and it is ripple with gladness and a
ring with hosanna. Take all the y
cries of book-bindery and put them a