Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-05-05


drin from eharp's string and let IL
thnnder ont in organs diapason. Sound
II nften. sound it well, until every star
sbal} seem to shine it, and every flower
shall seem to breathe it, and mountain
and sea and day and night and earth ana
Heaven acclaim III full chant, '3lesseo
he His glorious name forever. zine
name which is above every name.
Have Won ever heard in q Methodlst
church. during a time of revival, score
of souls come to the altar and cry out lof
mercy under the power OF lust TWO nnes
Of glorious old John Wesley?
Jesus. the name high over ALL
In Heaven or earth or sky.
To the repenting soul. to the eS-
hausted invalid, to the SundaV-school
Girl. to the snow white octogenarlan, IL
is beautiful. The aged man comes IN
from long walk, and he TREMENDOUSLY
opens the door of his home, ana hangs
his hat on the old nail, and he puts his
cane in the usual place, and he lies on
! his couch, and he says to his chllofen
and his grandchildren. my dears, l am
going away from you And they say,
''Why where are you going, grand
father?" oh he says, 81 am going to
Jesusr' and the old man faints away
into Heaven.
And the little child comes in from play
and she filings herself into your lap, and
she saws, Mamma, I'm sick; I'm SO very
sick: and you put her to bed and the
fever is worse and worse, and some MO
night while you are shaking up the Pill
low and giving the medicine she LOOKS
up in your face and says. Mamma, I'm
going away from you You say, "Why,
where are you going, my darllng?' Ana
she says, II am going to Jesus. Ana
the red cheek that YOU take to be the
mark of the fever turns out to be only
the carnation bloom of Heaven.
Oh, was it not beautiful when a little
child heard that her playmate was dy-
ing, and she went to the house, and she
clam bered upon the bed OF her dying
PLAYMATE, and she said to the dying
playmate, ''Where are you going TOP" and
the dying girl said, 81 am 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, II
you are going to Jesus, give my love to
Him. 1t is beautiful name, whether
on the lips Of childhood or on the lips OF
the old man. When my father was dy-
| ing the village minister said to him,
quoting over his pillow this passage,
This is faithful saying and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners" and
there he stopped. Then my father fin
ished the quotation by saying. 'of whom
l am chief"
But l remark again, in regard to this
name Of Christ, that it is a mighty name.
Rothschild is name mighty in the COM
mercial world, Silliman is a name mighty
in the scientific world, Irving is name
mighty in the.literarY world, Washing
ton is name mighty in the political
world, Wellington is a name mighty in
the military world; but where in all
the earth is name so potent to lift and
! thrill and arouse and rally and bless as
the name Jesus? Why, the sound of
that one name endorsed Saul and threw
Newton on his face on ships deck; and
that one name to-day, while | speak,
holds hundred million souls under
omnipotent spell. That name in England
to-day means more than Victoria. In
Germany that name to-day means more
than Emperor William. Oh, mighty
name!
| have seen man bound hand and
foot of the devil and captive of all evil
habits, at the sound Of that name dash
down his shaclIies and march out for
ever free. [ have seen man overcome
of misfortune and trial, every kind of
trouble had he; but at the sound Of that
name the sea dropped, and the clouds
parted, and the sunbnrst of eternal glad
ness poured upon his soul. / have seen
man hardened in iniidelity, defiant of
God, full of jcer and scott, jocose of the
judgment day, reckless of eternity, at
the sound of that name blanch and
cover and groan and kneel and weep
and repent and pray and believe and re-
joice and triumph.
Oh, it is a mighty name. Under it's
power the last temple of superstition
will come down and the last Juggernaut
| OF iniQnitY will be shattered to pieces
The red horse of carnage. spoken of in
apocalyptic vision, and the black horse
of death must come back on their
launches, while the white horse of vic
tory goes forth, mounted of Him who
hath the moon under His feet and the
stars of Heaven for His tiara. Mighty
name! 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 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 in
stltutlon established spreads abroad the
mighty name of Christ 1t has already
been heard under the Chinese wall, and
IN the Siberian snow castle, and in the
Brazilian grove, and in the Eastern
pagoda. That name will swallow ND all
other names. That crown will yet cover
up all other crowns. That emotion will
yet compass all Nominations
All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall
fail, ~
returning justice lift aloft her scale;
Peace Ger the world her olive wand extend
ana white robed innocence from Heaven de-
scend