Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-05-07

hosanna. Glorious namel
Take all the glolies of boolSbindery
and put-them around the page on which
that name is printed. On Christmas
morning wreathc it on the wall. Let it
drip from harps string and let it th1n-
der out in organs dial;;lson. Sound it
often, sound it well, until every star
shall seem to shine it, and every flower
shall seem to breathe it, and mountain
and sea and day and night and e;lrth
and heaven acclaim in full chant,
BLESSED be his glorious name forever.
''The name Which is above every name"
IT THRILLS IN SONG.
Have you ever heard in a Methodist
church. during n time of revival, a score
of souls come to tho altar and cry out
for mercy under the power of just two
lines of glorious old John Wesley?
Jcs,,ls, the name high over NIL,
In heaven or c,Lrth or sky.
To tho repenting soul Ito tho exhausted
invalid, tSpsthe Sunday school girl, to the
snow white octog cnarian, it is beautiful.
The aged man comes iii from long
walk, and he TREMENDOUSLY opens tho door
of his home, and he hangs lis 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 children and his
grandchildren, My dears, l am going
away from YOU" And they say, "Why,
where are you going grandfather
"Oh." he says, 81 am going to Jesus"
and 50 the old man faints away into
heaven.
And the little child comes in from
play and she filings herself into your
lap, and she says, 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 shak
ing up lie pillow and giving the medi-
cine she looks up i'll your face and says,
"Malnma,eI'm going away from you"
You sag, why, where arc you going,
my darling?" And she says, Il am go
ing to Jesus" And the rcd cheek that
you take to lie the mark of the fever
turns QUITO be only the carnation bloom
of heaven.
Oh, was it not beautiful when little
child heard that her playmate was dy-
ing, and she went to the house, and she
clanbercd upon the bed of her dying
playmate, and she said to the dying
playmate, "Where are you going to-"
and the dying girl said, I'm going to
Jesus" Then sud tie little girl that
was we'll, as she Lent over to give the
parting kiss 10 her dying playmate,
"Wcll, tlicn, if you are going to Jesus,
give my lore 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, .'IEis is a faithful saying and
worthy of al acccptaiion, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sin
ners," and there he stopped. Then my
father finished the quotation by saying,
"of when / an Chief
But remark again, in regard to this
name of Christ, That tits 4 mighty name.
Rothsclild is, a name mighty in the COM
ciaIz-sysdSsesssl] sf Silliman is.-a--nane
mighty in the scientific world, Irving is
name mighty in the literary world,
Washington is {; ninc mighty in the po-
litical world, Wellington is nanic
mighty in the military world; but where
i'll all the earth is Il name so potent to
lift and thrill and arouse and rally and
bless as the name jesus? Why, the
sound of that onc mime endorsed Saul
and threw Newton on his face on ships
deck; and that Gle name today, while l
speak, holds hundred million souls I'M
der omnipotcnt spell. That name in
England today means more than Vic
toria. In Germany that name today
means more than Emperor William.
Oh, mighty name!
IT ACTS LIKE a TALISNf.lN.
l have seen man bound hand and
foot of the devil aud captive of all evil
habits, at the sound of that name dash
down his shackles and march out for
ever free. l have seen q man overcome
of misfortune and trial, every kind of
trouble had he: but at the sound of that
namo the sea dropped, and the clouds
parted, and the sunburst Of eternal glad
ness poured upon his soul. have seen
man hardened in infdclity, defiant of
God, full Of jcer and scof, 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
rejoice and triumph.
Oh, it is a mighty name. Under its
power the last temple of superstition
will come down and the last Juggernaut
of iniquity will be shattered to pieces.
The red horse of carnage, spoken OF. in
apocalyptic vision, and the black horse
of death must como hack 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 tiarr. 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 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 in
stitution 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 up all
other names. That crown will yet cover
up all other crowns. That empire will
yet compass all Nominations.
All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall
Returning justice lift aloft her scale;