Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-05-02
In THE TABERNACLE.
*. TALMAcE ON THE POTENCY OF
THE NAME or CHRIST.

Ne Dissociated from the Character OF
the Person Who Bears It.
RRooKLYN. May 1.-While DIR. Tai
nage is able to hold vast audiences spell
ound by his eloquence, whatever sub
eel he has in hand, he is never so elo-
suent. or so evidently great orator, as
when he breaches Christ as the one hope
or the regeneration of the world The
act was proved this morning when he
iscoursed from the text, Philippians il
The name which is above every
ame.
Paul is here making rapturous and
Enthusiastic description of the name OF
,hrist. There are merely worldly names
f hat sometimes thrill you through and
through. Such was the name Of Henry
lav to a Kentuckian, the name of Viii
"a liam Writ to Virginian, the name Of
Daniel Webster to a New Englander.
BY common proverb we have come to
believe that there is nothing in
name:" and so parents sometimes at the
baptisinal altar give titles to their Gill
dren. reckless of the fact that that title.
that name, will be lifetime hindrance
or lifetime help You have no right
to give your child name lacking
either in euphony or moral meaning
II is a sin to call child Jehoialzim or
TigIath-pileser. or by anything that is
disagreeable. Because you have had an
axasperating name yourself is no reason
twhy you should inflict it upon yOur
progeny, and yet how often it is that we
zee name full of jargon rattlng down
from generation to generation simply
Because long while ago some one hap
Dened to be afflicted with it. lnstitu-
tions and great enterprises sometimes
f without sufficient deliberation take no.
n nienclature. Mighty destinies have been
& decided by name. While we may by
a long course of Christian behavior yet
lover the misfortune of having been bap-
Il tized with the name of despot or a
cheat, how much better it would have
been if we could have all started life
without any such incumbrance!
SWEET TO THE MEMORY.
When Paul, in my text and in other
passages of Scripture, burst forth in as
"A pirations of admiration for the name of
4 Christ, want to inquire what are the
n characteristics of that appellation, THE
e name which is above every name" In
the first place, speaking toy you in regard
ito the name of Christ, want to tell you
+ it is an easy name. You are sometimes
!, introduced to people with long and I'M
& pronounceable Names and you have to
+ listen cautiously to get the names, and
I You have to hear them pronounced two
or three times before you risk trying tc
4 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 thil
morning there are representatives of any
household where the children are ia
miliar with the names of the father anC
mother and brother and sister, yet know
& nothing about "that name which is above
every name?" Sometimes you forget the
name of quite familiar friend, and yot
+ have to think and think before you get it
but can you imagine any freak of intel
lect by which you should forget th'
name of Jesus? That word seems to fl
the tongue in every dialect Down t.
old age, when the voice is tremulous anC
uncertain and indistinct, even then thii
regal word finds potent utterance.
When an aged father was dying, on,
of the children came and said, "Father
do you know me2" and in the deliriun
of the last sickness he said, mo, don
know YOU" Another child came anC
said, "Father, do you know meY "No,
no said, 81 don't know YOU" Then tn
In N
know me?" He said, mo; | don't thinl
! ever saw you" Then said the minis
ter, ''Do you know JesusY" "Oh, yesI
said the dying man, 81 know Jesus
chief among ten thousand is he, and tn,
one altogether lovely" Yes, for al
ages and for all languages, and for al
conditions is an easy name.
Jesus, love thy chaming name,
IS "ris music TO my ear;
Fain would fsound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
LOVELY NAMES IN SCRIPTURE.
But remark further in regard to thi
name of Christ. that II is beautiful
name. Now You have noticed that yol
cannot disassociate a name from tn
character of the person who has II
There are some names, for instance, tina
are repulsiye TO my ear, Those name
are attractive TO your ear. What is tn
difference2 Why, | happened TO know
some persons of that name who wer
& cross or sour or queer or unsympa
thetic, and the persons you have hap
pened TO know of that name were lun'
and genial. Since, then, we cannot dis
associate name from the character o
the person who has the name, that con
sideration makes the name of Jesus un
epeakably beautiful.
cannot pronounce that name in yoa
presence, but you think of Bethlehem
Hethsemane aud Golgotha, and you SO
his loving face. and you hear his tende
voice, and You feel his gentle touch. A
soon as | pronounce his name in you
presence you think Of him who banquet
"a with heavenly hierarchs, yet cam
down and breakfasted on the fish whic
the rough men hauled out OF GenesareI
YOU think OF him who. though the cloud
K arc the dust of his feet, walked footsor
On the road 10 Emnaus.
cannot speak his name In your heai
ing this morning, but you think righ
away Of the shining one who restore
the centurion's daughter, aud VIII
helped the blind man 70 sunlight, an'
who made the cripple's crutch useless
aud who looked down into the laughing
eyes Of the babe until il struggled 10 q
1o him. then fiinging his arms around !