The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12
THE GREATEST NAME.
JESUS, THE NAME HIGH OVER ALL,
IN HEAVEN, EARTH OR SKY.

Or. TalnnaEo Speaks of the Power and
Beauty and Glory of Jesus Nams-He
Tells of tho Potency and Cousolation
of the True Religion.
BROOKLYN, May 1.-While DR.. Tai
mage is able to hold vast audiences
spellbound by his eloquence, whatever
subject he has iu hard, he is never 80
eloquent or 80 evidently Il great orator
as when he breaches Christ as the one
hope for the regeneration Of the world.
The fact WAS proved this morning when
he discouracd from the text, Philippians
ii, 9, "Thc name which is above every
name."
Paul is here making rapturous and
enthusiastic description of tho Aame OF
Christ. There arc merely worldly
names that sometimes thrill you through
and through. Such was the name Of
Henry Clay to Kentuckan, the name
OF William Writ TO Nirginian, the
name Of Daniel Webster to New Eu-
glandcr.
BY common p'ovcrb We have come
TO believe that ''thcrc is nothing in Il
namc;' and so parents sometimes at
the baptlsmal altar give titles to their
children reckless of the fact that that
title, that name, will be lifetime him
drance or lifetime help. You have
no right to give your child a name lack
ing either In euphony or moral meaning.
1T is sin to call chlld. Jefi6IaK1nr
or Ilglath;p ;pileser:--..oGr%6 Roy anything that
cG>J D.
IAN cNaspcrating name yourself is no
reason why you should inllict it upon
your progeny. And yet how often it is
that we sec Il name full of jargon rat
Ting down from generation to genera
ton simply because Il long while ago
some one happened to be afflicted with
it. Institutions and great enterprises
sometimes without sufficient dclibcra-
ton take nomenclature. Mighty dcst-
MES have been decided by name;
While we may by long course Of
Christian behavior get over the mislor-
tune of having been baptized with the
name OF dcspOt or cheat, how much
better 1t would have been II we could
have all started life without any such
incumbranCc!
When Paul, in my text and in other
passages OF Scripture, burst forth in as
piratlOns of admiration for the name of
Christ, L want TO inquire what are the
characteristics Of that appcllation, "Thc
name which is above every name" In
the first place, speaking TO you in re-
gard to the name OF Christ, l want to
tell you it is an easy name. You are
sometimes introduced to people with
long and unpronounceablc names, and
you have to listen cautiously ID get the
names, and you have to hear them pro-
nounccd two or three times before you
risk trying to utter them, but within the
first two years the little child folds its
hands and looks upward and says
"Jcsus.'
Can it be that in all this church ;his
morning there are representatives of
any household where the children are
familiar with the names OF the father
and mother and brother aud sister, yet
know nothing about "that name which
is above every namc:" Sometimes YOU
forget the name OF a quite familiar
friend, and you have to think and think
before you get il, but can you imagine
any freak OF intellect by which you
should forget the name OF Jesus: That
word seems TO iii the tongue III every
dialect. Down to old age, when the
voice is trcmulOuS and uncertain and IN
distinct, even then this regal word finds
potent uttcrancc.
When an aged father was dying one
OF the children came and said, FEATHER,
do you know me-" and in the deirum
OF the last sickness he said, "No, |
don't know YOU" Another child came
and said, "FathCr. do YOU know mc:n
No." he SAID, 81 don't know yCu.n
Then the village pastor came in and
said, "Do you know me-" lie said,
mo; l don't think l ever saw YOU"
Then said the minister, do you know
Jesus?" "Oh, ycs!' said the dying
man, 81 know Jesus; chief among ten
thousand is he, and the one altogether
lovely" Yes, for all ages and for all
languages, and tor all conditions Is an
easy name.
Jesus, l love thy charming name.
"IiS music to my ear;
Faln would | sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear
But l remark further in regard to
this name of Christ, that it is a beauti.
ful name. Now you have noticed tha.
you cannot disassOciate name from the
character of the person who has it.
There are some names, for instance,
that are repulsive to my car. Those
names are attractive to your ear. What
Is the difference: Why, | happened to
know some persons of that name who
were cross or sour or queer or unsym-
pathetic. and the persons who have
happenci to know of that name Were
kind and genial. Since, then, we can
not disassociatc name from the char
acter OF the person who has the name,
that consideration makes the name of
Jesus unspeakably beautiful.
L cannot pronounce that name in your
presence, but you think of Bethlehem
and Gethsemane and Golgotha, and you
see his loving face, and YOU hear his ton-
der voice, and you feel his gentle touch.
AS soon as L pronounce his name in
your presence you think of him who
banqueted with heavenly hierarchs, yet
came down and breaktasted on the fish
which the rOumh men hauled ONT OF