The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-07-07
THE NAME OF JESUS.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmgge Discourses
Upon a Mighty Subject.
Name That Has Been Handed Down
Through Eighteen Centuries as the
Embodiment of All that is
Good and Pure.

The name which Is above every name Phil
ippans H., g. .i|t
Paul is here making rapturous and
enthusiastic description of the tune Of
Christ. There are merely worldly
names that sometimes thrill you
through and. through. Such was the
the name of William Writ to Vir-
gilman, the name of Daniel Webster to a
New Highlander.
By common proverb we have come to
believe that there is nothing in a
name" and so parents sometimes ut the
baptismal altar give titles to their chill
dren, reckless of the fact that that
title, that name, viii be lifetime him
derance or a lifetime help. You have
no right to give your child a name lack
ing either in euphony or moral mean
ing. 1t is a sin to call "a child 5ehoia-
kim, or Tiglathp iieser-or by nything
that is disagreeable.z Because you have
had an cxasperating name yourself is
no reason why you should infiiet it
upon your progeny. And.yet how often
it Is that we see q name full of jargon
rafting down from generation to gen
GRAFTON, simply because a long while
ago some one happened to be afflicted
with it. Institutions and great enter
prises sometimes without sufficient de-
liberation take nomenclature Mighty
destinies have been decided by name
While we may, by a long course OF
Christian behavior, get over the misfor-
tune of having been baptized with the
name of a despot or d cheat, now much
better it.woald have been if we could
have all started life without any such
incumbrance!
When Paul, in my text and in other
passages of Scripture, burst forth in
aspirations of admiral ton for the name
of Christ, l want to inquire what are
the characteristics of that appellation
1.-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 peo-
pie with long unpronounceable 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 morning there are rep
resentatives of any household where
the children are familiar with the
names of the father and mother and
brother and sister, vet 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 and think
before yon get it; but can you imagine
any freak of intellect 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
indisticnt, even then this regal word
finds potent utterance
When an aged father was diving, one
of the children came and said: Gather.
do you know me?" and in the delirium
of the last sickness. he Said gNo, +
don't know you" Another child came
and said: Father, do you know me?"
No" he said, 81 don't know gou.n
Then the village pastor came. in and
said: ''Do you know me?'' He said:
mo, | don't think | ever saw You. -
Then, said the minister: DO Won
know Jesus?" s'Oh, yes!'' said the dv-
man, Il know Jesus; chief among ten
thousand is He, and the one altogether
lovely" Yes, for all ages and for all
languages, and for all conditions It is
on easy name.
Jesus, 1 love Thy charming name. -.--
IT'S music to my ear;
Fa1n would sound it out so loud
That Heaven and earth might hear
Have you ever heard in Methodist
church, during a time of revival, a score
of souls come to the altar and cry out
for mercy under the power of just two
lines of glorius old John Wesley?
Jesus, the NAME high over all,
In Heaven, or earth, or sky.
To the repenting soul, to the exhausted
invalid, to the Sundayschool girl, to
the snow-white octogenarian, it is beau
tiful. The aged man comes in from a
long walk, and he TREMENDOUSLY opens
the door, and he hangs his hat on the
VI" hehii' ana itc putS HIS cane IN tile
rsual place, and he lies on his couch.
and he says to his children and grand
children my dears am going awav
from YOU" And they say: '.Why,
where are you going grandfather?a
"Oh!" he says, Il 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 says, Mamma, I'm so sick. I'm
so very sick" and You put her to bed.
and the fever is worse and worse. and
some midnight, while -ou are shaking
up the pillow and giving the medicine.
she looks up in your face and saws.
Mamma, I'm going away from YOU. ;,
You say: Why where are you going.
my darling?" And she says: Il am
going to Jesus" And the red check
that you take to be the mark of the
fever turns out to be the carnation
bloom of Heaven. ~-.
Oh? was it not beautiful when a little
child heard that her playmate was
dying, and she went 10 the house. ard
she clambered upon the bed of her
DIVING Diavuuafa and che sa;aE -