Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
WHAT IS IN A NAME.
The Last Sermon in Rev. DR.. Tai
mage's European Journey
DWELLS ON THE ONE WORD JESUS.
Music Of Two Syllables That Fit the Tongue
in Every Dialect.
A DISCOURSE GIVEN IN QUEENSTOWN

-rsPEcIAL TKLEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH!
QUEENSTOWN, January 26.-While the
steamer Aurania, from Liverpool, was lying
in this harbor few hours to-day waiting for
the mails, many of the passengers went
ashore The Rev. 7. De Witt Talmsge, D.
D., was among the number, and took advan-
tage of the opportunity to preach. His sub
ject was "What is in a name?" and his text,
Philippians IL, 9: "a 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 Paul's rspturous and en-
thusiastic descriptions of the name of Jesus
By common proverb we have come to believe
that there is nothing in a name, and so pa
rents sometimes present their children for
baptism regardless of the title given them,
and not thinking that that particular title
will be either a hindrsnce or 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-
exasperating name is no reason why you should
give il to those who come after you. But how
often we have seen some name. filed with jar
gon, rattling down from generation to genera
tion simply because someone 3 long while ago
happened to be afflicted with it. Institutions
and enterprises have sometimes without
sufficient deliberation taken their nomencla-
ture. Mighty desrinies have been decided by
the significance of a name. There are men
who sllfheir lifelong 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, OF an
infidel, or q cheat, how much better 1t would
have been if we all could have started life
without any such incumbrance.
WHAT HIS NAME SIGNIFIES.
When find the apostle, in my text and in
other parts of his writing, breaking out in
assumptions of admiration in regard to the
name Of Jesus, want to inquire what are
some Of the characteristics of that appellation.
And that the Savior Himself, while 1 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 unpronounceable that We
have sharply TO listen, and to hear the name
given to Us two OF three times before we vent
ure 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 fam
lilies represented here to-day, there is one
household where the little ones speak of
father" and mother" and brother" and
sister" and not of 1.-THE name which is above
every name?" Sometimes we forget the titles
Of our 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
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That word Jesus seems to fit the tongue in
every dialect. When the voice in old age gets
feeble and tremuluOus and indistinct still this
regal word has potent utterance.
Jesus, Low Thy charming name,
'Tis music to my ear:
Fain would sound 1t out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
Still further. remark it is a beautiful name.
You have noticed that it is impossible to dis.
sociate a name from the person who has the
name. So there are names that are to me re-
pulsiVe-I 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.
ITS SACRED ASSOCIATIONS.
As we cannot dissociate q 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 Gethse-
name, and Golgotha, and you see the loving
face, and hear the tender voice, and feel the
gentle touch. You see Jesus the one who,
though banquetting with heavenly hierarchs,
came down 10 breakfast on the fish that rough
men had lust hauled out of Gennesaret: Jesus
the one whO though the clouds are the dust of
His feet, walked footsore on to the road to EN-
maus Just as soon as that name is pronounced
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One gave back the centurion's daughter, and
how He helped the blind man to the sunlight,
and how He made the cripple's crutches use
less, and how He looked down into the babe's
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:
"0f such is the kingdom of heaven" Beautiful
name-Jesus! 1t stands for love- for patience
for kindness, for forbearance for self-sacrifce
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 'sted out of the straw on
which he lay, and I4Ien 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
syllables the sigh Of Gethsemane and the groan
of Calvary; and again l sound it. and it 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 1t on
the wall.
Let it drip from harps string and thunder
out in organs diapason. Sound it often sound
it well, until every star shall seem to shine it,
and every flower shall seem to breathe 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 ana sky,
BOTH BEAUTY AND POWER.
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 tremb-
liugly opens the doors, and hangs his hat on
the old nail, and sets his cane in the usual cor
ner, and lies down on a couch. and says to his
children and grandchildren: my dears, I am
going to leave you" They say: "Why where
are you going, grandfather" II am going to
Jesus" And so the old man faints away into
heaven. The little child comes in from play
and throws herself on your lap, and saws:
Mamma am 50 SICK l am so 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,
! am going away from you" And YOU saw:
my dear, where are you going tor 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 heaVeni Oh, yes; it is a sweet name spoken
by the lips of childhood, spoken by the old
man.
Still further IL is a mighty name. Rotbschild
is a potent Dame in the commercial world.
Cuyier in the scientific world, Irving a power
ful name in the literary world, Washington an
influential name In the political world, Yelling
ton 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