The Russellville Democrat., 1890-02-06
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Tal-
 mage at Queenstown.
The Beantifui Name "Jesus'' and the In- fiucncs 1t Has Exerted for Good Throughout tho worid--The
 Sun that Never Sets.

the Holy Land from the text,
 Auaue that Is above every nauae.--lPhh. | lipiaBs, il., 9.
 On my way from tho Holy Land. and while l wait for the steamer to resume her voyage to America, preach to you
 from this text, which was one of Paul's rapturous and enthusiastic descriptions of the name of Jesus. By common proverb we have come to believe that there is nothing in name, and so par ents sometimes present their children
 for baptism regardless of the title given them, and not thinking that that par ticular 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. It is a sin for you to call your child Jenoiakim or Tiglath- l Pileser. Because you yourself may have
 an exasperating 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, rattling down from generation to generation,
 simply because some one long while l ago happened to be afflicted with it.
 Institutions and enterprises have some | times without sucffiient deliberation
 taken their nomenclature. Mighty des-
 tines have been decided by the signih- canoe of name. There are men who l all their lifelong toll and tussle to get l over the influence of some unfortunate
 name. While we may, through right
 behavior and Christian demeanor, out l live the fact that we were baptized by l the name of despot, or an infidel, or cheat, how much better 1t would have 1 been if we all could have started life
 without any incumbrance. When find the apostle, in my text and in other | parts of his writing, breaking out in ascripuons or admiration in regard to
 the name of Jesus, want to inquire
 what are some of the characteristics of
 that appellation.- And 0 that the Saviour 1 Himself, while I speak, might fill me with His own presence, for we never can tell to others that which we have not ourself felt.
 1 First, this name of Jesus is an easy name. Sometimes we are introduced to | people whose name is so long and un- pronounceable that we have sharply to l listen, and to hear the name given to us two or three times, before we venture l to speak it. But within the first two | years the little child clasps it's hands, and looks mp, and says Jesus" Can it 1 be, amid all the families represented here to-day, there is one household where the little ones speak of father, l and mother" and brother" and isis | ter,n and not of ''the name which is | above every name?r 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 you imagine any freak of intellect in which you could forget the Saviour's designa- tion? That word Jesus" seems to fit the tongue in every dialect When the voice in old age gets feeble and tremu- ilous and indistinct. still this regal word has potent utterance.
 Jesus, love Thy charming name, Iris music to my ear:
 Fain would sound it out so loud
 That Heaven and earth might hear.
 Still further, l remark it Is beauti- ful name. You have noticed that it is impossible to dissociate a name from the person who has the name. So there are names that are to me repulsive-I do not want to hear them at all-while those very names are attractive to you Why the difference? It is because 1 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 can not dissociate name from 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 Gethsemane, and Golgotha, and you see the loving face, and hear the tender l voice, and feel the gentle touch. You l see Jesus, the One who, though ban queting with heavenly hierarchs, came | down to breakfast on tho fish that l rough men had just hauled out of Gen | essaret; Jesus, the One who, though | the clouds are the dust of His feet, | walked footsore on to the rosd to Elm maus. Just as soon as that name is | pronounced in your presence you think of how the shining One gave back the | renturian's daughter, and how He | helped the blind man to the sunlight. | and how He made the cripple's crutches useless, and how He looked down inR the babe's laughing eyes, and, as the little one struggled to go to Him, flung | put His arms around it and impressed lovely kiss on Its brow, and said: ''Of such is the kingdom of Heaven
 Beautiful name--Jesus! It stands for
 love, for patience. for kindness for for bearance, for self-sacriice, for magma nimity. It is aromatic with all odors and accordant with all harmonies. Some times see that name, and the letters seem to be made out of tears, and then again look like gleaming crowns. Some times they seem to me as though twist ed out of the straw on which He lay, and then as though built out of the thrones on which His people shall reign. Sometimes l sound that word Jesus, and hear coming through the two syl- fables the sigh of Gethsemane and the groan of Calvary, and again l sound it, and it is a ripple with gladness and a ring with hosanna. Take all the glories of book oh-bindery and put them around the page where that name is printed. On Christmas morning wreathe 1t on the wall. Let it drip from the harp's string and thunder out in or gan's. s.diapason. Sound it often, sound it well, until every star shall seem to shine it. and every flower shall seem to breath it, and mountain and sea, and day and night, and earth and Heaven acclaim in full chant; Blessed be His glorious name forever. 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 exhaust ed invalid, to the Sunday-school girl, to the snow-white octogenarian, 1t Is beau tiful The old man comes in from a long walk, and tremblingly opens the loor, and hangs his hat on the old nail, and sets his cane in the usual corner, and lies down on couch, and says to his children and grandchildren: My | 1ears, am going to leave you They |