Milford chronicle., 1892-05-06


through. Such was the name of Henri
Clay to a Kentuckian, the name of Viii
liam Writ to a Virginian, the name o
Daniel Webster to New Highlander.
By common proverb we have come t.
believe that "there is nothing in
name;" and so parents sometimes at tn
baptismal altar give titles to their chill
dren, reckless of the fact that that title
that name, will be a lifetime hindranc,
or lifetime help. You have no RICH
to give your child a name lacking
either in euphony or moral meaning.
It is a sin to call child Jehoiakim o.
Tiglath-pileser, or by anything that i
disagreeable. Because you have had al
exasperating name yourself is no reason
why You should infict it upon you
progeny, and yet how often it is that We
see a name full of jargon rafting down
from generation to generation simply
because a long while ago some one hap
pened to be afflicted with it. Institu
tions and great enterprises sometimes
without sufficient deliberatiOn take no
menclature. Mighty destinies have been
decided by a name. While we may by
a long course of Christian behavior gel
over the misfortune of having been hap
tized with the name of a despot or a
cheat, how much better it would have
been if we could have all started life
without any such incumbrancel
SWEET TO THE MEMORY.
When Paul, in my text and in other
passages of Scripture, burst forth in as
pirations of admiration for the name of
Christ, want to inquire what are the
characteristics of that appellation, "The
name which is above every name" In
the first place, speaking to you in regard
to the name Of Christ, l want to tell you
it is an easy name. You are sometimes
introduced to people with long and un-
pronounceable names, and you have to
listen cautiously to get the names, and
you have to hear them pronounced 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 Jesus"
Can it be that in all this church this
there are representatives of any
household where the children are ia
miliar with the names of the father and
mother and brother and sister, yet know
nothing about ''that name which is above
every name?" Sometimes you forget the
name of a quite familiar friend, and you
have to think and think before you get it;
but can you imagine any freak Of intel
lect by which you should forget the
name of Jesus? That word seems to fit
the tongue in every dialect. Down to
old age, when the voice is tremulous and
uncertain and indistinct. even then this
regal word finds potent utterance.
When an aged father was dying, one
Of the children came and said, Father,
do YOU know me?" and in the delirium
of the last sickness he said, mo, I don't
know YOU" Another child came and
said, "Father, do you know mel" "NO,"
he said, Il don't know you" Then the
village pastor came in and said, ''Doyou
know me?" He said, mo; don't think
[ ever saw you" Then said the minis
ter, do you know Jesus?" ooh, yesl"
said the dying man, u know Jesus;
chief among ten thousand is he, and the
one altogether lovely" Yes, for all
ages and for all languages, and for all
is an easy name.
Jesus, love thy chaming name,
fTis music to my ear;
Fain would sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
LOVELY NAMES IN SCRIPTURE.
But 1 remark further in regard to this
name of Christ, that it is a beautiful
name. Now you have noticed that you
cannot disassociate a name from the
character of the person who has it.
are some names, for instance, that
IRE repulsive to my ear. Those names
ire attractive to your ear. What is the
Inference? Why, happened to know
jome persons Of that name who were
ross or. sour or queer or unsympa-
hetic, and the persons you have hap
,ened to know Of that name were kind
md genial. Since, then, we cannot dis
associate name from the character Of
he person who has the name, that con-
liberation makes the name Of Jesus un-
beautiful.
l cannot pronounce that name IN your |
presence, but you think Of Bethlehem,
Sethsemane and GolgOtha, and you see
lis loving face, and you hear his tender |
,oice. and you feel his gentle touch. As
DON as l pronounce his name in your
you think of him who banquet
d with heavenly hierarchs, yet came
lown and breakfasted on the fish which /
he rough men hauled out Of Genesaret; /
-ou think Of him who, though the clouds
re the dust of his feet, walked footsore |
N the road to Emmaus.
I cannot spealSshis name in your hear
ny this morning, but You think right |
way Of the shining one who restored |
he centurion's dat hter, and who 7
lelped the blind man to sunlight, and /
Who made the cripple's crutch useless,
nd who looked down into the laughing /
YES Of the babe until it struggled to go |
0 him; then tiinging his arms around it
nd impressing kiss upon its beautiful
row, said, "Of such is the kingdom OF
Oh, beautifulname. the name Of Jesus,
which stands for love. for patience, Tor
elf sacrifice, for magnanimity, for
that is good and glorious and
ender and sympathetic and kindl 1t is
romatic with all odors. 1t is iccordant
With all harmonies. Sometimes, when
look at that name Of Jesus Christ, it
GEMS as if the letters were made Of
ears, and then they seem to be CLEANS
ny crowns. Sometimes that name
GEMS to be twisted out Of the straw on
which he lay, and then it seems to be
uilt out Of the thrones on which his
eople are to reign. Sometimes l sound
hat word Jesus, and hear III it the sob