The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-06-10

above every name"
paul Is here making raptnrous and
enthusiastic description of the name OF
christ There are mere worldly names
that sometimes thrill you through and
through. Such was the name of Henry
Clay 10 KentuclSian, the name of Will.
lam Writ to n Virginian, the name OF
Daniel Webster TO New Highlander.
By common proverb we have come 10
belieye that there is nothing in a
name, and so parents sometimes at the
baptismal altar give titles to their chill
aren reckless of the fact that that title,
that name, will be q lifetime help.
You have no right to give your child a
name lacking either in euphony or
moral meaning. 1t is crime to call a
child Jehoialim or Tiglath pileser, or
ANYTHING that is disagrccable. Because
Won have had an cXasperating name
yourself is no reason why you should
infiict il upon your progeny. And yet
how often il is that we see a name full
of iargon rafting down from genera
ton TO generation simply because a
long while ago some one happened to
be inflicted with it. Institutions and
great enterprises sometimes without
sufficient deliberation take nomcncla-
tucc. Mighty destinies have been de-
eidcd by name.
While we may, by long course of
Christian behavior, get over the mis-
fortune of having been baptiSed with
the name of despot or cheat, how
much better it would have been If we
could have all started life without any
such incumbrance!
When Paul, in my text, and in other
passages of Scriptures, burst forth in
aspirations of admiration for the name
Of Christ, | 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 regard TO the name of Christ, l
want TO tell you that it is an easy name.
You are sometimes introduced TO people
with long and unpronounceabie names,
and You have to listen cautiously to
get the names, and you have to
near them pronounced two or
three times before you risk trying TO
uttcr 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 morn
ing 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 nance" Some times you
forget the name of n quite familiar
friend, and YOU have to think and think
before You 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 trcmulous and uncertain and
indiStinct, even then this regal word
finds potent utterancc.
When an aged father was dying one
Of the children came and said, Father,
do you know mc?" and in the delirium
OF the last sickness he said, mo, |
don't know YOU" Another child came |
and said, Father, do you know me?'
No he said, Il don't know you"
Then the village pastor came in. and
said. do You know mc?"~ He said, |
mo. ] don't think | ever saw you"
Then. said the minister. DO you
know Icsus?' "Oh, ycs," said the |
dying man, II know Jesus: chief |
smong ten Thousand is He, and the one
altogether lovely" Yes, for all ages
and Tor AL languages, and for all con-
1nonS Jesus is an easy nama
Jesus, love Thy charming name,
'Tis music 20 my ear
Fain would sound il out so loud
That Heaven and earth might hear.
But remark further in regard TO this
name of Christ that il is Il beautiful
name. Now you have noticed that you
can not diSassociatc name from the
character of the person who has it,
There are some names, for instance,
That are repulsive to my ear. Those
naines are attractive To your ear. What
S the difference? Why, happened 10
know some persons of that name who
were cross, or sour, or queer, or unsym-
pathetic, and the persons whom you
nave happened to known are kind and
GENIAL. Since, then, we can not disas-
soclate name from the character OF
the person who has the name, that con-
heration makes the name of Jesus un-
beautiful. I can not pro-
honnce that name in your presence but
you think of Bethlehem and Gethse-
name and Golgotha, and you see His
owing face and you hear His tender
voice. and you feel His gentle touch. As
soon as pronounce His name in your
presence you think of Him who ban
queied with heavenly hierarchs, yet
rame down and breakfasted on the fish
which the rough men hauled out of
uenesaret You think Of Him, who,