The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-02-07
ABOVE ALL NAMES.
Or. Talmage on the Manifold
Beauties Of the Name Jesus.
Name Easy to Speak and Of Wonderful
Power-Beautiful Alike to Young and
Old Christians-An the Earth to
Sing Its Praises.

During the European tour of Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage the vessel upon which
ae was a passenger stopped at Queens
,own and the distinguished divine took
advantage of the opportunity to preach.
His subject was ''What Is In name?'
and his text, Philippians ii, o: "a name
which is above every name" The emf
| nent preacher said:
On my way from the Holy Land, and
while i 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 partic-
ular title will be either hindrance or a
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 Tiglath-Pileser. Be
cause you yourself may have an exasper-
ating 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 generation to generation.
| simply because some one long while
ago happened to be afflicted with it. In
| situations and enterprises have some
| times with sufficient deliberation taken
their nomenclature. Mighty destinies
have been decided by the significance of
| a 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 demeanor, oUtlive the fact
that we were baptized by the name of a
despot, or an infidel, or cheat, how
much better it would have been if we all
could have started life without any such
| incum brance. When l find the apostle,
| in my text and in other parts of his
writing, breaking out in Inscriptions of
admiration in regard to the name of
! Jesus, l want to inquire what are some
of the characteristics of that appellation?
| And o, that the Saviour Himself, while
I 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 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 its hands and
looks up and says Jesus" Can it be,
among all the families represented here
| to-day, there is one household where the
little one speaks of father" and moth
err" and brother" and SISTER" and
not of ''the name which is above every
nance" Sometimes we forget 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 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
the regal word has potent utterance.
| Jesus, love Thy charming name,
Ills music to my ear,
Fain would sound it forth so loud
That Heaven and earth might hear.
Still further, l remark it is a beautiful
name You have noticed that it is i'm
| possible to Gissociate a name from the
person who has the name. So there are
| names that are to me repulsive-l do not
want to hear them at all-while those
very names are attractive to you. Why
the difference? 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
attractive. 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 Geth-
semane, and Golgotha, and yoa see the
loking face and hear the tender voice,
and feel the gentle touch. You see Je-
sus. 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 footsore on
the road to Emmaus.
just as soon as that name is pro-
nounced in your presence you think OF
how the shining one gave back the CEN
turion's daughter, and how He helped
the blind man to the sunlight, and how
He made the cripple's crutches useless
I l. DO nj % ha hn' 6
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 of Heaven" Beautiful
name-Jesus! 1t stands for love, for pa
thence, for kindness, for forbearance, fol
self-sacrifice, for magnanmity. 1t is
aromatic with all odors and accordant
with all harmonies. Sometimes 1 see
that name, and the letters seem to be
made out of tears, and then again they
look like cleaning crowns. Sometimes
they seem to me as though twisted out
of the straw on which He lay, and ther
as though built out of the thrones or
which His people shall reign. Some
times sound that word ''Jesus," and
hear coming through the two syllable:
the sigh of Gethsemane and the groar
of Calvary; and again l sound il
and it is ali a-ripple with giadness and
a-ringing with hosanna. Take all the
glories of book bindery and put then
around the page where that name is
printed. On Christmas morning wreath
it on tho wall. Let it drip from harp:
strings and thunder out in organs dap
| ason Sound IL often sound it we'll, un