The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-02-05
TIE POWER OF A NAME.
DR.. TALNAGE breaches DUR
ING A DELAY OF TIE SHIP.

lecs-rhe Importance VI Appropriate +
Appslla,ions.
QUEENSTOWN, Jaa. 26.-Whiie the
Aurania, from Liverpool, was
lying in this harbor a few hours today |
waiting for the mails, many of the pas
sengers went. ashore. The Re: De |
Witt ralmage, D. D., was ame the
number. snd took advantage ct the
oPpo tuni'y TO preach. His sabject
was, ''What is in name2'and his text,
Philippians ii, 8: "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 re-
same her voyage to America, ! preach
to You from this text, which was one
of Paul's rapturous and enthusiastic
d. scrip;ions Of the name OF Jesus BY
common proverb we have come TO be-
lieve that there Is uuthius Ia i name,
and So parents sometimes present their
caildren for baptism regardless of The
name given them, and 4 ot thinkios that
that particular title will be either
hindrance or help. Strange mis-
take. You lave no right to give to
our child name that is lacking
either in cup ony or in mera'
meaning. 1t is sin for yon
to call your child Jehoiakim OF Tlg-
iath-PileSer. Because you yourself may
have an eXasperatinS name is no rea-
sou why you should give ii TO those
who come after. Eus now often We
have seen some name, filled with jar
gon, rattling down from generation TO
generation. simply because some one
loas while ago happened to be afflicted
with It Institutions and enterprises
have sometimes w!tiouG sufficient de
liberation aiken their nomenclature.
Mighty destinies have been decided by
the significance ola name. There are
men who all their life long Toll aad
tu>sle 10 get over the influence Of some
unfortunate name While We may,
through right behavior and Christian
demeanor, outlive the fact that we were
baptized by the uame ofa depot, or
an inideI, ora chess, how much be5-
ter it woulC have been if we all could
have started life without auy such en-
cumbrance. When l ind ;heapoSile,
in my text and in other parts Of his
" ritiug, breaking out in ascriptions OF
admiration IN regard to the mime
Of Jesus, want to inquire what are
soiue Of ne cnaracterlsC cs of that APP
pel,ation. Ard 0, that the Savior
himself, While I speak, might Fill me
with his own presence, : we never
CAT tell 10 Others that which we have
n / ourselves felt.
First, this name of Jesus is N easy
name. sometimes we sre Introduced
to people whose nams Is so long and
cupronounceab!e 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 ,he
first two years the little child clasps
it's hands, aad looks up, arc says, "Je-
sus." Can i; be, amid all the families
represented here today, there Is ole
hous hold where the little ones speak
of father; aud mother" aud' roth
er," and sister," and not OF the name
which is a1ove every Gams?" So'.'e-
times we forget the title 0! our ve'y
best friends, and We have to pause
aud think before we call th~ name
But CAN you imagine any freak OF
intellect IN Which you could forget
the S,ior's designation? fhac word,
3tEs seems TO ut the t0rgee IN
every dialect. When the voice il old
age gets feeble, and tremplous, and
indistincs, still this regal word has po-
tent utterance.
j. sus, love thy charming name;
IT music TO my ear;
Fain wouli sound 1t out so loud
Tha: heaven and earth might hear.
Still further: I remark it is beau
tiful rame. You have noticed that
it is impossible to dissociate d name
5 from the person who has the name.
So there are names that are to me re
palsive-I do not like TO hear them
while those very lanes are attractive
to you. Why the difference? 1t is
because I happen TO know persons oy
those names Who are cross, and sour:
and snappish, and queer, while the
persons you used to know by those
names were pleasant and alta Stive.
as We cannot dissociate a name from
the 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 Gethsem-
ane aud Golgotha, and you sac the
loving face, hear the tender voice, and
feel the gentle touch. You see Jesus,
the one who, though banqueting with
heavenly hierarchs, came down to
breakfast on the fish that rough men
had Just hauled out Of Genessaret; Je-
sus, the one who, though the clouds
are the dust of his feet, walked foot
sore on the road to Emmaus. Just as
soon SIS that name is pronounced in
your presence you think of how the
shining one gave back the centurlon,s
daughter, and how he helped the
blind man to sunlight, and how he
made the cripple's crutcbes 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 impressed a
loving kiss on its brow, and said: "Of
such is the kingdom ofheaven." Beau
tiful name-Jesus. It stands for love,
for patience, for kindness for fortear-
anee, for self sacrifice, for magnauimi-
ty. 1t is aromatic with all odors and
accordant with all harmories. Some.
times I see that name, and the letters
seem to De made out of tears. audtheu
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 out of
the thrones on which his people shall
reign. Sometimes sound that word