Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S Sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "What Is in Name?''
Preached in queenstown, Ireland.)

TEXT: "A name which is above erery
name philippians H., g.
On my way from the Holy Land, and
while | wait for the steamer to resume her
voyage to America, l preach to you from
this text. which was enc of Pauls rapturOus
and enthusiastic descriptions of the name of
Jesus By common prOverb we have come
to believe that there is nothing in a name,
and 50 parents sometimes present their chill
Cren for baptism regardless Of the title given
them, and not thinking that that particular
title will be either a hindrance or help
Strange mistake. You have no right to give
TO your child name that is lacking either in
euphony in moral meaning. 1t is a sin
for you to call your clild JehOiakim or Zig
lath-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,
filed with jargon, rafting down from gen
GRAFTON to generation, simply because some
one long while ago happened to be afflicted
with it. Institutions and enterprises have
sometimes without sufficient deliberation
taken their nomenclature. Mighty destinieS
have been decided by the signifiCa nce of
name. There are men who all their life long
toll and tussle to get over the influence Of
some unfortunate name. While we may,
through right behavior and Christian de-
meanor, Outlive the fact that we were bap-
tiZed 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
any such incumbrance. When | find the
apostle, in my text and in other parts of his
writing, breaking out in Inscriptions of adj
IniratiOn in regard to the name of Jesus, [
want to inquire what are some of the char
acterlstlcs Of that appeliatiOn. And that
the Saviour Himself, while | speak, might
fill me with His own presence for we me- er
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 or three times, be-
fore we venture to speak it. But within the
first two years the little child clasps it's
hands, and looks up, and says Jesus" Can
it be, amid all the families 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?' Some
times we forget the titles of our very best
friends, and we have to pause and think be-
fore we can recall the name. But can you
imagine any freak Of intellect in which you
could forget the SaviOur's designation? That
word Jesus" seems to fit the tongue in
every dialect When the voice in old age
gets feeble and tremulous, and indistinct,
still this regal word has potent utterance:
Jesus, love Thy charming name.
IT'S music to my
Fain would l sound it out so lond
That heaven and earth might hear.
Still further [ remark it is beautiful
name. You have noticed that it is impOSSi-
BILE to disSOciate name from the person who
has the name SO there are names to me
that are repulsive-I do not want to hear
them at all-while those very names are at
tractive to you. Why the difference? 1t is
because I happen to know personally those
names who are cross, and sour, al lappish,
and queer while the persons used to
know by those names were pleasant and at
from the person who holds the name, that
consideration makes ChrlStS name SO I'M
Speakably beautiful. No sooner is it pro-
uOunced in your presence than you thlnk
OF Bethlehem, and Gethsemane, and Col
gOtha, and you see the loving face, and hear
the tender voice, and feel the gentle touch.
Y on see Jesus the one who, though ban
quoting with heavenly hierarchs, came
down to breakfast on the fish that rough
men had just hauled out of GeneSSaret;
Jesus, the one who, though the clouds are
the dust of 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
ccnturiOn'S daughter, and how He helped the
blind man to the sunlight, and how He made
the Cripple'S CTutCheS useless and how he
looked down into the babes laughing eyes,
and as the little one struggled to go to Him,
flung out His arms around it and impre ssed a
loving kiss on its brow, and said: "Of such IS
the kingdom of heaven" Beautiful name
Jesus! 1t stands for love- for patience, for
kindness, for fOrbearance, for selt-sacrlfice,
for magna nmity. 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 twisted out of
the straw on which He lay, and then as
though built out of the thrones on which His
people shall reign. Sometimes [ sound that
word 'Jesus," and I hear coming through
the two syllables the sigh of Gethsemane and
the grOan of Calvary; and again [ 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 it on the wall
Let it drip from harP'S string and thunder
out in organs diapason. Sound it often,
sUund it well, until every star shall seem to
shine it. and every flower shall seem to
breathe it, end mountain and sea. and daV
and night, and earUn ana heaven acclaim IN
full chant: Blessed be His glorious name for
ever The name that is above every name"
Jesus, the name high over all.
In heaven and earth and sky.
70 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 a long walk, and trem-
bIngIv opens tho doors, and hangs his hat on
the old nail, and sets his cane in the usual
corner, and lies down on a couch, and says to
his children and grandchildren: My dears,
| am going to leave you" They say:
,'Why, where are you going, grandfather"
Il am going to Jesus" Aud so the old man
faints away into heaven. The little
child comes in from play and throws her
self on your lap, and says: Mamma,
| am so sick, [ am SO sick" And
you put her to bed, and the fever is worse
and worse, until in some midnight she