The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-07-07

| pillow the passage: 'This is faithful
i saying, and worthy of all acceptation
that Christ Jesus came into the world
| to save Sinners" and there he stopped.
Then my father finished the quotation
| by saying, ''Of whom am chief"
But 1 remark again, in regard to this
name of Christ, that 1t Is mighty
name. Rothschild is a name mighty in
the commercial world. Silliman is a.
name mighty in the scientific world,
Irving is name mighty in the literary
world, Washington is a name mighty in
the political world, Wellington is a
name mighty iii the military world; but
| where in all the earth is name so po-
tent to lift, and thrill, and arouse, and
rally, and bless, as the name of Jesus!
| Why, the sound of that one name I'M
| horsed Saul, and threw Newton on his
face on ships deck; and that one name
to-day, while / speak, holds a hundred
million souls under onnipotent spell
That name In England to-day means
more than Victoria. In Germany that
name to-day means more than Emperor
| William, Oh, mighty name.
[ have seen man bound hand and
foot of the devil and captive of all evil
habits, at the sound of that name dash
down his shackles and march out for
ever free. have seen man overcome
of misfortune and trial, every kind of
trouble had he; but at. the sound of
that name the sea dropped and the
clouds parted, and the sunburst of cter-
nal gladness poured upon his soul. 1
have seen man hardened in infdelity,
defiant of God, full of jeer and scott,
i jaeose of the judgment day, reckless Of
eternity, at the sound Of that name
blanch, and COVER, and groan, and
kneel, and weep, and repent, and pray,
and believe and rejoice, and triumph.
But l remark again, taking a step
forward in this subject, that the name
of Christ is an enduring name. You
get over the fence of the graveyard and
you pull the weeds back from the name
stone, and you wish that Walter SCOTS
''Old Mortality" would come along and
rechisel it so that you might really
find out what the name is Why, that
was the name of the greatest man in
all the town, in all the country, in all
the state, now almost faded from the
tombstone. And so the greatest names
of this world either have persisted or
are perishing. Gregory VI, Sancho of
Spain, Conrad I. of Germany, Richard
| |. of England, Catharine of Russia.
| Other dominions seem to be giving
way; France had to give up some of her
| favorite provinces; Spain has lost a
great deal of her power; many of the
thrones of the world are being lowered;
many of the sccpters of the world are
being shortened, but every tract-dis-
tributor, every Bible printer, every
| Christian institution established.
spreads abroad the mighty name of
Christ. 1t has already been heard under
] the Chinese wall, and in the Siberian
snow castle, and in the Brazilian grove,
and in the Eastern pagoda, That name
will swallow. up ali other names. That
crown will yet cover up all other
crowns That empire will yet compass
all Nominations.
All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall
| feel, -fs
Returning justice lift aloft her scale,
| Peace DER thu world her olive wand extend,
And white robed innoc nee from Heaven de-
| scend.
Those names were once mighty, and
they made the earth tremble. Who cares
for them now? None so poor as to do
them reverence. But the name of Christ
is enduring forever. It will be pre-
served in the worlds fine art. There
will be other Bellinis to sketch the Ma
donna, and other Ghirlandaies to pre-
sent the baptism of Christ, and other
Bronzinos to show Christ visiting the
spirits in prison, and other Giottos to
appal the vision with the crucifxion.
1t will be preserved in the worlds lit
erature. There will be other Alexander
Popes to write the Messiah and
other DIR. Youngs to celebrate His
triumph, and other Cowpers to sing His
love. 1t will be preserved in the worlds
| grand and elaborate architecture. and
Pfotestaism shall yet have it's ST.
| Marks and st. Peters. It shall be pre-
served in the worlds literature, for
there win be other Paleys to write the
Evidence of Christianity" More than
all, it will be embalmed in the hearts of
all the good of earth, and all the great
| ones of Heaven. Shall the emancipated
bondman ever forget who set MIN freeP
Shall the blind man ever forget the
Divine physician who gave him sight?
Shall the lost and wandering ever for.
get who brought them home? Why, to
make the world forget that name would
be to burn up all the Bibles, and burn
down all the churches, and then, in
the spirit of universal arson, go through
the gate of Heaven and put the torch to
all the temples and mansions and pal
aces, until in an awful confagration all
Heaven went down, and the people
came out to look upon the charred
ruins; but even then they would hear
the name of Christ in the thunder of
falling towers. and in the crash of
temple walls, and see it interviewer
into the flying banners of fame, and
the redeemed of Heaven would saw:
Let the temples and the palaces burn:
let them burn; we have Jesus left"
Blessed be His glorious name forever
'sIhe name which is above every name. -
My friends, have you made up your
mind nv what mama