News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
TALMAGE ON HIS WAY HOME
He breaches His Last Sermon In the
Old World.
He Takes Advantage of Delay of q Few
Hours at Queenstown and Speaks on
"What Is in a Name" The Music of
Two Sy1lab1es-The Word Jesus" Fits
Every Tongue.


QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 26, 1890.-While the
steamer Aurania, from Liverpool, was lying
in this harbor few hours today waiting for
the mails. many of the passengers went
ashore. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
was among the number, and took advantage
of the opportunity to preach. His subject
was, "What Is in a NameP' and his text,
Philippians H., 8: "a name which is above
every name" The eminent preacher said:
On nv 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 PauPs 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 parents sometimes present their children
for baptism regardless of the title given
them, and not thinking that that particular
title will be either hindrance or a help.
Strange mistake. You have no right to give
to your child Il name that is lacking either in
euphony or in moral meaning.
1t is a sin for you to call your child Jehoia-
kim or Tiglath-Pileser. Because you your
self 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. filed with jargon, rafting
down fir m generation to generation, simply
because some one a long while ago happened
to be afflicted with it. Institutions and en-
teri rises have sometimes, without sufficient
elaboration, taken their nomenclature.
Mighty destinies have been decided by the
significance of a name. There are men who
all their life long toll and tussle to get over
the inf ence of some unfortunate name.
VIII. lie we may, through right behavior and
Christian demeanor, outliYe the fact that we
were baptized by the name of despot, or an
infidel, or cheat, how much better it would
have been If we all could have started life
without inpnmbranRP |
the apo tie, in my text and in other parts of
his writing, breaking out in Inscriptions of
admiration in regard to the name of Jesus,
[ want to inquire what are some of the char
acttristics of that appellation. And o tina,
the Saviour himself, while / speak, might fill
me with his own presence, for we never can
tell to others that which we have not our
selves 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, before
we venture to speak it. But within the first
two years the little child clasps its hands, and
looks up, and SAYS "JeS us." Can it be, amid
all the families represented here today, there
is one household where the little ones speak
of "fa:her' and F'mother," and ''brother'
and "sister," and of "the name which is
above every name?" Sometimes we forget
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
Savlour's designation? That word "Jesus"
seems to fit the tongue in every dialect.
When the voice in old age gets feeble and
tremuous and indistinct, still this regal
word has potent utterance.
Jesus, love thy charming name,
IT'S music to my ear;
Fain would / sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
Still further, I remark it Il beautiful name.
You have noticed that it is impossible to dis
sociate name from the person who has the
name. So there are names that are to me re-
pusive-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. As we
cannot dissociate a name ON 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 Gethsemane,
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
banque.ing with heavenly hierarchs, came
down to breakfast on the fish thu t rough men
had lust hauled out of Genessaret; Jesus, the
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 cripple's crutches use
less, and how he looked d, wn into the babes
laughing eyes, and, as the little one struggled
to go to him, flung out his arms around it
anu iIII pa Iiie
said: 'Of such is the kingdom of heaven"
Beautiful name-Jesus! 1t stands for love,
for patience, for kindness, for forbearance,
matte with all odors and accordant with all
harmonies. Sometimes l 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 n which
his people shall reign. Sometimes 1 sound
that word "Jesus," and 1 hear coming
through the two syllables the sigh of Geth
semane and the groan of Calvary; and again
l sound it, and it is all aripple 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 Christ
mas morning wreathe it on the wall.
Let it drip from harp's 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 1t, and the 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"
CCTaous tho name hiuh over all