Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-07

up into your face and says: Mamma,
kiss me good-by, l am gong away from
you" And you say: My dear, where
are you going to-" And she says. Il am
going to Jesus" And the red cheek
which you thought was the mark OF the
fever, only turns ont to be the csrnatlon
bloom of heaven! Oh. yes; it is a sweet
! name spoken by the lips of childhood,
spoken by the old man.
Still further: it is mighty name.
| Rothschild is a potent name in the COM
mercial world, Culver in the scientific
world, Irving powerful name in the lit.
erary world, Washington an influential
name in the political world, Wellington
a mighty name in the military world; but
tell me any name in all the earth 80
potent to awe, and lift, and thrill, and
rouse, and agitate, and bless, as this
name of Jesus. That one word endorsed
Saul, and flung Newton on his face on
ships deck, and to-day holds 400, 900, 600
name in England o-day means more than
Victoria; in Germany, means more than
Emperor William; in France, means more
than Carnot; in Italy, means more than
Humbert of the present or Carl
baldi of the past. l have seen
man bound hand and foot in sin, Satan
his hard task master, in q bondage
from which no human power could de-
liver him, and yet at the pronunciation
of that one word he dashed down his
chains and marched OIL. forever free.
have seen man overwhelmed with dis
aster, the last hope fled, the last light
gone out; that name pronounced in his
hearing, the sea dropped, the clouds
gladness poured into his soul. / have
seen Q man hardened in infidelity, de-
FAINT of God full of SCOT and jeer, jocose
of the judgment, reckless of an unending
eternity, at the mere pronunciation Of
that name blanch, and cover, and quake,
and pray. and sob, and groan, and be-
lieve, and rejoice. o, it is mighty name!
At it's utterance the last wall of sin
will fall, the last temple of super
stition crumble, the last Juggernaut of
cruelty crash to pieces. That name
will first make all the earth tremble, and
then it will make all tho nations sing. 1t
honor, the insignia on every flag, the bat
tle-shout in every conflict. All the mill
ions of the earth are to know it. The red
horse of carnage seen in apocalyptic Wis
ion, and the black horse Of death, are TO
fall back on their launches, and the white
horse of victory will go forth, mounted by
him who hath the moon under his feet,
and the stars of heaven for his tiara.
Other dominions seem to be giving out;
this seems to be enlarging. Spain has
had to give up much of its dominion.
Austria has been wonderfully depleted
in power. France had to surrender
some of her favorite provinces Most
of the thrones of the world are being
| lowered, and most of the scepters of the
world are being shortened; but every
Bible printed, every tract distributed,
every Sunday-school class taught, every
school founded, every church established,
| is extending the power of Christ's name.
| That name has already been spoken under
the Chinese wall, and in Siberian snow
CASTLE in Brazilian grove and in Eastern
| pagoda. That name is to swallow up all
other names. That crown is to cover up
all other crowns. That empire is to alb
| sorb all other Nominations.
All crimes shall cease and ancient fra uds shall
\ fail
Returning justice lift aloft her scale;
| Peace DER the world her olive wand extend
And white-robed innocence from heaven de-
scend.
Still further: 1t is an enduring name.
You Chamber over the fence of the grave
yard and pull aside the weeds, and you
! see the faded inscription on the tomb
| once ruled all that town. The mightiest
names of the world have either persisted
or are perishing. Gregory W., Sancho
Of Spain, Conrad l. Of Germany, Richard
l. of England, Louis XVI. Of France,
| Catharine of Russia-mighty names once,
that made the world tremble; but now.
none SO poor to 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. It will be perpetuated
in art, for there will be other Bellinis to
depict the Madonna; there will be
other Ghirlandios to represent Christ's
| baptism; there will be other Bronzinos
| to show us Christ visiting the spirits
in prison; other Giottos 10 appali our
sight with the cruciixion. The name
| Will be preserved in song, for there will
be other Alexander Popes to write the
Messiah, other DR.. Youngs to portray
his triumph, other Cowpers to sing his
love. 1t will be preserved in costly and
magnificent architecture. for Protestant
ism as we'll as Catholicism is yet to have
its st. Marks and it's st. Peters. The
name will be preserved in the literature
OF the world, for already it is embalmed
in the best books, and there will be other
Dr.. Paleys to write the Evidences of
| Christianity" and other Richard Bakers
to describe the Saviour's coming to iudg-
ment. But above all, and more than ali.
that name will be embalmed in the m EN-,
DRY OF all the good of earth and all the
great ones Of heaven. Will the delivered
bondman of earth ever forget who freed
him? Will the blind man Of earth forget
who gave him sight? Will the outcast of
earth forget who brought him home?
No! No!
| ., To destroy the memory of that name of
Christ. you would have to burn up all the
Bibles and all the churcheslon earth, and
then, in spirit of universal arson, 90
through the gate of heaven and put a
torch to the temples and the towers and
the palaces, and, after all that CITY was
wrapped in awful confagration, and the
citizens came ont and gazed on the ruin
even then they would hear that name
III the thunder Of falling tower and the
crash of crumbling wall, and see it in
wrought in the flying banners of fame
and the redeemed OF the Lord on HIGH
would be happy yet and cry out: Let
the palaces and the temples burn, we have
Jesus left" BLESSED be His glorious
name for ever and ever The name that
is above every name"
Have you ever made up Your mind bv
what name you will call Christ when Won