The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-18
Subject: "What Is in a Name?'
preached in Queenstown. Ireland)

taken their nomenclature Mighty destinie:
have been decided by the significance of q
name. There are men who all their life long
toll and tUssle to get over the influence d
some unfortunate name. While we NAV
through right behavior and Christian de,
meanor, outlive the fact that weNMIE11A
TIED by the name of despot, or an infidel
or cheat how much better it would have
been If we all could have started life witholS
any such incumbrance. When I find-tll
apostle, in my text and in other parts of his
writing, breaking out in Inscriptions of ad-
miratiOn in regard to the name of Jesus,
want to inquire what are some of the char
acteristics of that appellation. And o that
the Saviour Himself, while l speak, might
Gil 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 unpronounceable
that we have sharply TO listen, and to hear
the name given to US two or three times, be
fore 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, amid all the families represented here
To-day, there is one household where the little
ones speak of father and mother and
'brother,n and SISTER" and not of ''the
name which IS above every nameF' Some
times We forget the titles of cur very best
friends, and we have to pause and think be-
fore 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 this regal word has potent utterance:
Jesus. love Thy charming name.
IT'S music to my ear;
Fain would sound il out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
Still further, remark it is a beautiful
name. You have noticed that it is impossi-
bic to dissociate a name from the person who
/ has the name. So there are names TO me
I that are repulsive-I do not want to iicsr
/ them at all-while those very names are at
I tractiTe to you. Why the difference2 1t is
I because l happen to know persons by those
I names who are cross and sour, and snappish
and queer. while the persons you used to
I know by those names were pleasant and at
{ tractive. As we cannot dissociate a name
from the person who holds the name, that
consideration makes Christ's name so I'M
speakabiy beautiful. No sooner is it pro-
nounced in your presence than you think
Of Bethlehem, and Gethsemane and Col
gotha, 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
down to breakfast on the fish that rough
men had just hauled out Of GeneSsaret;
Jesus, the one who, though the clouds are
the dust Of His feet, walked footsore on to
the road to Emmaus. Just as soon as that
name is pronounced in your presence you
think Of how the shining one gave back the
centurion's daughter, and how he helped the
blind man to the sunlight, and how He made
the cTipple's crutches useless and how He
looked down into the babes laughing eyes,
and as the little one struggled to go to Him,
.-rvHEr t..
loving kiss on its brow, and said: of such is
the kingdom Of heaven Beautiful name
Jesusl 1t stands for love, for patience, for
kindness, for forbearance, for self-sacrifice
for magnanimity. 1t is aromatic with all
odors and accordant with all harmOnies.
Sometimes / 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 then as
though built out of the thrones on which His
people shall reign. Sometimes | sound that
word Jesus, and 1 hear coming through
the two syllabes the sigh OF Gethssmane and
the groan Of Calvary; and again [ sound it,
and 1t IS all a-ripple with gladness and airing
with hosanna. Take all the glories of book
bindery. and put them around the page
where that name is printed. On Christmas
morning wreathe it on the wall.
Let it drip from harp's string and thunder
out in organs diapason. Sound it ofte=,
sound i well until every star shall seem to
SHINE it md ever flower shall seem tc
FSL and mountain and sea and dav
and night, AMI earth and heaven acclaim in
full chant: BLESSED b. His glorious name for
ever. The name that is above every name"
Jesus. the name high over all,
In heaven and earth and SKY.
TO the repenting soul to the exhausted in [
valid, TO the Sunday-schOOl girl, TO the snow
white octOgenarian, it is beautiful The old
man comes in from long walk, and trem-
hllnEly opens the doors and hangs his hat on
the old nail and sets his cane in the usual 4
corner, and lies down on a couch. and saws to [
his children and grandchildren: my dears.
| am going to leave you.n They say: I
why, where are YOU going, grandfather" /
Il am going to Jesus" And so the old man
faints away into heaven. The LITTLE
child comes in from play and throws her
selr on your lap, and says: Mamma,
am 50 sick, 1 am 50 sick" And
you put her to bed, and the fever is worse
and worse, until in some midnight she
looks up into your face and SAYS: Mamma,
KISS me good-by, l am going away from
you And you say: my dear, where are
you going tor And she saws: 81 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 heaveni Oh,
- II ID a SWEEP name spoken by tile Inns of
spoken by the old man.
Still further: it is a mighty name. Roths-
;hlld Is a potent name in the commercial
world, Culver in the scientific world Irving
powerful name IN the literary world. Wash
-sssssfss-7- an influential name in the political
world, WeIIIag6ofa a mighty name in the mill
airy world; but tell me my 4ame in all the
areh 50 potent TO awe, and lift, aIId' thri ],
nd rouse, and agitate, and bless as this
iame OF Jesus. That on word endorsed Sank
nd flung Newton on his face on ships deck, -
M to-day holds 400, OO0, 900 of the race with
mnlpotent spell. That name in England
o-day means more than Victoria; in Ger
many, means more than Emperor William;
n France, means more than Carnot; in Italy
means more than Humbert of the present or
faribaldi Of the past. l have seen q man
o9nd hand and foot in sin, Satan his hard
ask master, IN bondage from which no
uman power could deliver him, and yet at
ne pronunciation of that one word he dashed
own his chains and marched out forever
rec nave seen man overwhelmed with
lsaster, the last hope fed, the last light gone
Ut that name pronounced in his hearing
ie sea dropped, the clouds scattered. and a ,
lnDurst OF eternal gladness poured into his
)ul- l have seen a man hardened in infidel-
y, defiant of God, full of scott and jeer jo- |
ose OF the judgment reckless of an unend-
ls eternity, at the mere pronunciation OF
hat name blanch, and cover, and quake {
nd pray, and sob, and groan, and believe
nd rejoice. it isa mighty namel At its
tterance the last wall of sin will fall the
ast temple of superstition crumble, the last ?
Of cruelty crash to pieces. That :
anne will first make all the earth !
remble, and then it will make all ,
lie nations sing. 1t is to be the pass 1
ord at every gate Of honor, the insignia '
n every flag, the battle shout in every con-
let. All the millions Of the earth are to
now it. The re horse Of carnage seen in a
pocalyptic vision, aud the black horse Of
cath, are to fail back on their haunches, and
ie white horse Of victory will 60 forth, :
counted by Him who bath the moon under
rs feet, and the stars of heaven for His tiara.
ther dominions seem TO be giving out; this
sens TO be enlarging. Spain has had to give r
? much OF It's dominion. Austria has been :
onderfully depleted in power. France had :
} surrender some Of her favorite provinces
ost OF the thrones of the world are being
Wered, and most Of the sceptres of the world l
e being shortened; but every Bible printed, n
1ery tract distributed, every Sunday-school =
ass taught, every school founded, every ?
iurch established, IS extending the power
Christ's name. That name has already
sen spoken under the Chinese wall, and in d
iberian snow castle, in Brazilian grove and
eastern pagoda. That name is to swallow
p all other names. That crown is to S
over up all other crowns. That empire is to b
1sorb all other nominations.