The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-02


The aged man comes in from long Walk
and he trenulously opens the door OF his
home aud he hangs his hat on the old nal,
and he puts his cane in the usual place, and
he lies on his couch, and be says to his
children aud his grandchildren: my desrs ,
lam going away from you" And they
say; ''Why, where are you going, grand
fatherF" "O,' he says, 81 am going to
Jesus" and SO the old man faints away into
heaven.
And the little child comes in from play
and she filings herself in your lap, and she
saws, Mamma I'm so sick, I'm 50 very
SICK ~ and you put her to bed, and the fever
Is worse and worse, and some midnight,
while you are shaking up the pillow and
giving the medicine, she looks up in your
face aud SAYS. Mamma, Pm going away
from you" You say, why, where are
you going, my darlingm And she says, Il
am going to Jesus" And the red cheek
that you take to be the mark of the fever
turns out to be only the carnatton bloom OF
heaven.
o! was it not beautiful when a little child
heard that her playmate was dying, add she
went TO the house, and she clambered upon
the bed of her dying playmate, and she
said to the diving playmate, Where are
you going TOT" and the dying girl said, I'm
going to Jesus" Then said the little girl
that was we'll, as she bent over TO give the
parting kiss to her dying playmate, well,
then, if you are going to Jesus give my
love to him." 1t is a beautiful name,
whether on the lips of childhood or on the
lips of the old man. When my father was
dying, the village minister said TO him,
quoting over his pillow this passage: This
is faithful sayiny :, and worthy of all ac-
ceptatiou, that Christ Jesus came into tho
world to save sinners, and there he stopped.
Then my father finished the quotation by
saying, "of whom l am chief"
But remark again, in regard to this
name Of Christ, that it is a mighty name.
Rothschlld is a name mighty in the COM
mercial world, Silliman is name mighty
IN the scientific world, Irving is name
mighty in the literary world, Washington
IS name mighty in the political world,
Wellington is a name mighty ia the mill
tary world: but where in all the earth is a
name 80 potent to lift, and thrill and arouse,
and rally, and bless, as the name Jesusa
Why, the sound OF that one name endorsed
Saul aud threw Newton on his face on
ships deck; and that one name to-day,
while l speak, holds a hundred million
souls under omnipotent SPELL Tnas name
in England to-day means more than Vic
toria. In Germany that name to-day means
more than Emperor William. o. mighty
nRmel
have seen a man bound hand and foot
of the devil and captive of all evil habits,
at the sound of that name dash down his
shackes and march out forever free. l have
trial. every kind of trouble had he; but at
the sound of that name the sea dropped and
the clouds parted, and the sunbursU OF eter-
nal gladness poured upon his soul have
seen man hardened in intidelity, defiant OF
God, full of Jeer and scoff, jocose Of the
Judgment day reckless Of eternity, at the
sound Of that name blanch, and cover,
and groan, and kneel, and weep, and re-
pent, and pray, and believe and rejoice, and
triumph
o! it is a mighty name. Under its
power the last temple OF superstition will
come down. and the last Juggernaut of
jniquity will be shattered to pieces. The
red horse of carnage, spoken of in apo.
calyptic vision, and the black horse of
death must come back on their launches,
while the white horse of victory goas forth,
mounted of him who hath the moon under
his feet. and the stars OK heaven for his
tiara. Mighty ma ne! 1t will first make
the whole earth tremble, and then it will
make all the nations sing. Mighty name!
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 scepters of
the world are being shortened; but
every tract distributor, every Bible
printer, every Christian institution estah-
hshed, spreads abroad the mighty name of
Christ. 1t has already been heard under
the Chinese wall. aud in the Siberian snow
castle, and in the Brazilian grove, and in
the eastern pagoda. That name will swal-
low up all other names. That crown will
yet cover up all other crowns. That en-
pire will yet compass all domintions.
All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall
fail.
Returning Justice lift aloft her scale;
Peace 0 or the world her olive wand extend,
And whiterobed innocence from heaven
descend.
But remark again, take step forward
In this subject, that the name of Christ is
an during name. You get over tho fence
of the graveyard and you pull the weeds
back from the name that has nearly faded
from the tombstone, and you wish that
W alter Scott's "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 ell the
town, in all the country IN all the state
now almost faded from the tombstone. And
so the greatest names of this word either
have persisted, or are perishing. Gregory
VI, Sancho Of Spain, Conrad |. Of
Germany, Richard l. of England CAtbarine
or Russia. These names were once mighty,
aud they made the earth tremble Who
cares for them now None so poor as 10 do
them reverence. But the name of Christ is
enduring forever 1t will be preserved in
the worlds fine art. There will be other
Bellinis to sketch the Madonna, and other
GnIlandaa1OS 10 present the baptism Of
Christ, and other Bronzinos to show Christ
visiting the spirits in prison. and other
Giottos TO appal the vision with the cruel
fixion. 1t viii be preserved III the worlds
literature. There will be other Alexander
Popes to write the Messiah " aud other
DIR. Youngs to celebrate his triumph, and
other Cowpers to sing his love. 1t will
be preserved in the worlds grand and elab,
crate architecture, aud Protestantism shall
vet have its st. Marks and its st Peters
1t shall be preserved in the worlds litera.
ture, for there will be other Paleys 10 write
the evidences Of Christianity" More
than all 81, it will be embalmed in the hearts
of all the good of earth and all the great
ones Of heaven. Shall the emancipa,ed
bondman ever forget who set him freei
Shall the blind man ever forget the divine
physician who gave him sightg Shall the
lost and wandering ever forget who brought
them homes Why. to make the world for
get that name would be to burn up all the
Bibles, and burn down all the churches,
and then, il the spirit of universal arson,
go through the gate of heaven and put the
torch to all the temples and mansions and
palaces, until in the awful conflagration all
heaven went down, aud the people come
out to look upon the charred ruins; but
ayan then thay vyOuid haar tha mama n