The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-18
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Chamber over the fence of the graveyard and
pun away the weeds, and you see the faded
inscription on the tombstone. That was the
name Of q man who once ruled all that
town. The mightiest names of the world
have either persisted or are perishing.
Gregory vi, Sancho of Spain, Conrad
l. OF Germany, Richard 7. of Eng
land, Louis XVI of France Catharine Of
hussia-nhghty names ones, that made the
world treInble; but now, none 50 poor as 70
do them reverence, and to the great mass of
the people they mean absolutely nothing:
they never heard of them. But the name Of
Christ is to endure forever. 1t will be per
petuated in art, for there will be other Bel
Inns to depict the Madonna; there will be
other GhlriandiOs to represent Christ's bap-
tism; there will be other Bronzinos to show
US Christ visiting the spirits in prison; other
Giottos to appall our sight with the cruciiix-
ION The name will be preserved in song, for
there VIII be other Alexander Popes to write
me Messiah other Dr. Youngs TO portray
His triumph, other Cowpers to sing His love.
IL WIZ be preserved in costly and magnificent
architecture. for Professionalism as well as
Catholicism is yet to have its st. Marks and
It's st. Peters. That name will be preserved
IN the literature of the world, for already it
Is em0aimed in the best books, and there will
be other Dr. Paleys to write the Evidences
OF Christianity and other Richard Baxters
to describe the Saviours coming to judg-
ment. But above all, and more than all, that
name will be embalmed in the m ,nory of all
the good Of earth and all the great ones Of
heaven VIII the delivered bondman OF
earth ever forget who freed him? VIII the
blind man of earth forget who gave him
SlghtY Will the outcast Of earth forget VINO
Fght him home? MOI mol
gSLo destroy the memory Of that name of
Sist, You would have to burn up all the
loF~les and ell the churches on earth, and then
IN spirit of universal arson go through the
gate oil heaven, and pat torch to the temples
and the towers and the palaces. and after AM
that city was wrapped in awful conflagration.
and the citizens came out and gazed on the
ruin-even then they would hear that mama
IN the thunder of falling tower and the crash
OF crunbling wall, and see it inwrought in
the flying banners Of flame, and the redeemed
of the Lord on high would be happy vet and
cry out: Let the palaces and the temnles
burn. we have Jesus leftr blessed be His
glorious name for ever and ever. The name
that's above every name.n
Lave you ever made up your mind by what
name you will call Christ when YOU meet Him
in heaven; You know He has many names.
Win you call Him Jesus or the Amounted
One, or the Messiah, or will you take some Of
the symbolical names which on earth Won
earned from your Bible?
Wandering some day in the garden of God
nhig the place a-bloom with eternal spring.
tide, infinite luxuriance of rose, and lily, and
imaranth, you may look up into His face and
say: MY Lord, Thou art the rose Of Sharon.
and the lily Of the Valley
Some day, as a soul comes up from earth
20 take its place in the armament, and shine
as star for ever and ever, and the lustre Of
useful life shall beam forth tremulous and
beautiful, you may look up into the face Of
Christ and say: my Lord, Thou art a brighter
star-the morning star-a star forever"
Wandering some day amid the fountains
of life that toss in the sunlight and fall in
crash of peal and amethyst in golden anil
crystalline urn, and you wander up the round
banked river to where it first tingies its silver
on the rock, and out Of the chalices of love
you drink to honor and everlasting ioy. YOU
may look up into the face of Christ and say:
My Lord, Thou art the fountain of living
water"
Some day, wandering amid the lambs and
sheep IN the heavenly pastures, feeding by
the rock, rejoicing in the presence Of BIN
who brought you out Of the wolfish wilder
ness to the sheepfold above, you NAV look up
into His loving and watcRfni eve and saw;
My Lord, Thou art the shepherd of the
everlasting hills
But there IS another name you may select
1 viii imagine that heaven is done. Every
throne has its King. Every harp has its
harper. Heaven has gathered up everything
thaJ IS worth having. Inc treasures of the
whole universe have poured into it. The song
full. The ranks full. The mansions full.
Heaven fun. The sun shall set afire with
splendor the domes of the temples, and burn
sh the golden streets into blaze and be re-
iected back from the solid pearl of the twelve
gates, and it shall be noon in heaven, noon on
the river, noon on the hills, noon in all the
noon. Then the soul may look
up gradually accustoming itself 10 the vision.
shading the eyes as from the almost insuffera-
bic splendOr Of the monday light, until the
vision can endure it. then crying out. Thou
IA the sun that never setsr'
&ft this point L am staggered with the
ought that notwithstanding all the charm
n the name of Jesus and the fact that it 6
, 'asy name, and 50 beautiful a name and ]
% potent name, and 50 enduring a name,
here are people who find no charm in those /
'wo syllables. o come this day and see
whether there IS anything in Jesus. 1 chal-
enge those of yOr who are farther from God /
o come at the close of this service and test
With me whether God is good, and Christ is
gracious, and the Holy Spirit is omnipotent.
challenge you to come and kneel down with
ne at the altar of mercy. 1 will knesl on
me side Of the altar and you kneel on the
,ther side of it, and neither of us will raise
Up until our sins ara forgiven, and we
scribe in the words of the text, all honor to
he name of Jesus-you pronouncing it. 1
1.-THE name that is above
very name