The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12
WHAT is IN A NAME"
The Subject Of Rev. DR.. Talmage's
Last Sermon Abroad.
The Name of Jesus is Easy, Beautiful,
Mighty and Enduring, and Fits the
Tongue in Every Dialect-The
Music of Two Syllables.


erpool, was lying in the harbor at
Queenstown few hours recently, wait
ing for the mails, many Of the passen-
gers went ashore. Rev. 7. De Witt
Talmage, d. d., was among the number
and took advantage of the opportunity
to preach. His subject was what Is in
Name?" and his text, Philippians ii, 9:
ga name which is above every name"
The eminent preacher said:
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 prov
erb we have come to believe that there
is nothing in name, and SO parents
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
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 Jehoiakim or Tiglath-Pileser.
Because you yourself may have an exas-
perating 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 hap
pened to be afflicted with it. Institu-
lions and enterprises have sometimes
without 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 despot, or an infdel or cheat, how
much better it would have been if we
could have started life without any such
incumbrance. When l find the apostle,
in my text and in otherparts of his writ
ing, breaking out in Inscriptions of ad
miration in regard to the name Of Jesus,
want to inquire what are some of the
characteristics of that application. And
o that the Savior Himself, while Ispeak
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
7 name. Sometimes we are introduced
to people whose name is so long and un
pronounceable that we have sharply tt
listen, and to hear the name given to US
r two or three times, before we venture
, to speaksit But within the first two
years the little child clasps its hands
and looks up and says "Jesus." Can i
= be, among all the families represented
n here to-day, there is one household
s where the little one speaks of ''father,
and mother" and "brother," and isis
q ter" and not of "the name which il
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 yol
:. imagine any freak of intellect in which
you could forget the Saviour's designa
the tongue in every dialect. When tn,
. voice in old age gets feeble and tremu
: lous, and indistinct, still this regal wor,
= has potent utterance.
Jesus, love Thy charming name,
II IT'S music to my ear
Y Fain would sound it out so loud
|. That Heaven and earth might hear.
Still further, remark it is a beauti
o full name. You have noticed that it
# impossible to associate name fror
is the person who has the name. So Their
are names that are to me repulsive-
=. do not want to hear them at all--whil
4 those very names are attractive to yo,
NJ Why the difference? 1t is because I har
pen to know persons by those name
who are cross, and sour. and snappisf
W and queer, while the persons you use
- to know by those names were pleasar
'' and attractive. AS we can not dissociat
~ a name from a person who holds tn
name, that consideration makes Christ
" name so unspeakably beautiful. N
Is sooner is it pronounced in your presenc
al than you think of Bethlehem, and Getl
oi semane, and Golgotha, and you see tn
loving face, and hear the tender voic,
~ and feel the gentle touch. You sc
a. Jesus, the one who, though banquetin
Is with heavenly hierarchs, came down
AZ breakfast on the fish that rough me
Just hauled out of Gennesaret; Jesu
u the one who, though the clouds are tt
ID dust of His feet, walked footsore on I'll
1t road to Emmaus. just as soon as TIL
le name is pronounced in your present
you thinl, OF how the shining one ga,
IS back the centurion's daughter, and no
of He helped the blind man to the SUI
IN light, and how He made the cripple
ne crutches useless, and how He lookt
% down into the babe'slaughing eyes, an
'as the little one struggled to go to Hir
IN flung out His arms around it and il
lv pressed loving kiss on its brow, al
is said: "Of such is the kingdom Of Hea
As en-" Beautiful name-Jesus! 1t STAN
~ for love, for patience, for kindness, f
forbearance, for self-sacrifice, for ma
,e nanimity. 1t is aromatic with all odo
" and accordant with all harmonic
or Sometimes l see that name, and the lt
of tiers seem to be made out of tears, al
~ then again they look like gleamil
crowns. Sometimes they seem to me
M though twisted QUITO the straw on Whit
a He lay, and then as though built out
90 the thrones on which His people sha
NO reign. Sometimes / sound that wo
60 Jesus" and hear coming through t