Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-02-06

AND you put her to bed and the 1eVer Is
worse and worse until in some midnight
she looks up into your face and says:
Mamma, kiss me goodbye, am going
away from YOU" And you say: MY
dear, where are you going to?" 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 Heaven! o, yes;
it is sweet name spoken by the lips of
childhood. spoken by the old man.
Still further, it is a mighty name.
Rothschild is potent name in the COM
mercial world, Cuvier in the scientific
world, Irving a powerful name in the
literary world, Washington an influen-
tial name in the political world, We'll
lington mighty name in the military
world; but tell me any name in all the
earth so potent to awe, and lift, and
thrill, and rouse, and agitate, and bless
as this name of Jesus. That one word
endorsed Saul and flung Newton on his
face on ships deck, and to-day holds AGO.
900, 900 of the race with omnipotent spell.
That name in England to-day means more
than Victoria; in Germany, means more
than Emperor William; in France, means
more than CarnOt; in Italy, means more
than Humbert of the present or Carl
baldi of the past. have seen a man
bound hand and foot in sin, satan his
hard task mater, in bondage 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 a man overwhelmed with disaster,
the last hope fled, the last light gone
out; that name pronounced in his hear
ing, the sea dropped, the clouds scattered
and sunburst of eternal gladness
poured into his soul. / have seen man
hardened in infidelity, defiant of God,
full of scott and jeer, jocOse of the judg-
ment, reckless of an unending eternity,
at the mere pronunciation of that name
blanch and cover and quake, and pray,
and sob, and groan, and believe, and re-
joice. On, it is mighty name! At its
utterance the last wall of sin will fall,
the last temple of superstition crumble,
the last jGggenaut of cruelty crush to
pieces.
That name will first make all the
earth trembIe, and then it will make all
nations sing. 1t is TO be the password
at every gate. 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 apocalyptie vision and the black
horse of death are to fall back on their
launches, and the white horse of victory
will go forth, mounted by Him who hath
the moon under his feet, and the stars
of Heaven for his tiara Other domin-
ions seem to be giving out; this seems to
be charging. Spain has had to give up
much of its dominion. Austria has been
wonderfully depleted in power. France
had to surrender some of her fayOrite
provinces. Most of the thrones of the
world are being lowered and most of the
scepters of the world are being short
ened; but every Bible printed, every
tract distributed, every Sunday school
class taught, every school founded, every
church established, is extending the
power of Christ's name. That name has
already been spoken under the Chinese
wall, and in 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.
All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds
shall fail,
Returning Justice lift alott her scale;
hav ol hr.an ax-
tend,
And white robed innocence from Heaven
descend.
Still further; it is an enduring name.
You Chamber over the fence of the
graveyard and pull aside the weeds, and
you see the faded inscriptions on the
| tombstone. That was the name of a
| man who once ruled all that town. The
mightiest names of the world have
either persisted or are perishing. Greg
orv VI, Sancho of Spain Conrad L. of
Germany, Richard L, of England, Louis
| XVI. of France, Catharine of Russia
mighty names once, that made the world
| tremble; but now, none so poor as to do
them reverence, and to the great mass
of the people they mean absolutely
nothing; they never heard of them. But
| the name of Christ is to endure forever.
1t will be perpetuated in art, for there
will be other Bellinis to depict the Ma
donna: there will be other Ghirlandjos
to represent ChriSt's baptism; there will
be other Bronzinos to show US Christ
visiting the spirits in prison; other
! Giottos to appal our sight with the cruel
| fxion.
The name will be preserved in song
| for there will be other Alexander POpes
| to write the Messiah" other DR.
Youngs to. portray His triumph, Other
Cowpers to sing His love. 1t will be
preserved in costly and magnificent
architecture, for Protestanism as well a;
Catholicism is yet to have its st. Marks
and St. Peters. That name will be pre-
served in the literature of the world, fol
already it is embalmed in the best books
and there will be other DR.. Paleys tC
write the Evidences of Christianity
and other Richard Baxters to describe
the Saviour's coming to Judgment.
To destroy the memory of that name
of Christ, you would have to burn up all
the Bibles and all the churches on earth
and then in spirit of universal arson &c
through the gate of Heaven and put a
torch to the temples and the towers and
the palaces, and after all that city was
wrapped in awful confagration and the
citizens came out and gazed on the ruin
even then they would hear that name in
the thunder of falling tower and the
crash of crumbling wall, and see it in,
wrought in the flying banners of flame,
and the redeemed of the Lord on high
would be happy yet and cry out: ''Let