Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-05-05
THE GREATEST NAME.
JESUS, THE NAME HIGH OVER ALL,
IN HEAVEN, EARTH OR SKY.

of the True Religion.
BROOKLYN, May l.-While DIR. TalmagC
Is able to hold vast audiences spellbound
by his eloquence. whatever subject he has
in hand. he is never so eloquent or so eyi-
IDENTIFY great orator AS when he breaches
Christ as the one hope for the regeneration
of the world. The fact was proved this
Philippians ii, o. "The name which is
above every name."
Paul is here making rapturous and en-
thusiastic description of the name of
Christ. There are merely worldly names
that sometimes thrill you through and
through. Such was the name of Henry
Clay to a Kentuckian, the name of William
Writ to Virginian, the name of Daniel
Webster TO New Englander.
BY common proverb we have come to be-
lieve that ''there is nothing In a name:"
and so parents sometimes at the baptismal
altar give titles to their children reckless
of the fact that that title, that name, will
be lifetime hindrance or lifetime help
You have no right to give your child a
name lacking either in euphony or moral
meaning
1t is sin to call child .Jehoiakim or
Tigath- pileser-or by anything that is
disagreeabe Because you have had an
exasperating name yourself is no reason
why you should inhict it upon your prog
eny. And yet how often il is that we
see a name full Of jargon rattling down
from generation to generation simply be-
cause a long while ago some one happened
to he afflicted with it. Institutions and
great enterprises sometimes without suf
ficient deliberation take nomenclature.
Mighty destines have been decided by
name. While we may by long course Of
Christian behavior get over the misfortune
of having been baptized with the name of
despot or cheat. how much better il
would have been If we could have all
started life without any such incum
brancel
AN EASY NAME.
When Paul. in my text and in other pas
sages of Scripture. burst forth in aspira.
tons Of admiration for the name Of Christ
| want,to inquire what are the character
istics Of that appellation. THE name which
is above every name In the first place
speaking TO you in regard to the name of
Christ | want TO tell you it is an easy
name. You are sometimes introduced TO
people with long and unpronounceable
names, and you have to listen cautiously
to get the parues and you have to hear
them pronounced two or three times be
fore you risk trying to utter them, but
within the iirsl 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 representatives of any
"A
with the names OF the father and mother
and brother and sister, yet know nothing
about that name which is above every
namef' Sometimes You forget the name
of 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
Jesusf That word seems to tit the tongue
in every dialect Down to old age, when
the voice is tremulous and uncertain and
indistinet, even then this regal word finds
potent utterance.
When an aged father was dying one of
the children came and said Father, do
you know mes" and in the delirium Of the
last sickness he said mo, ! don't know
YOU Another child came and said, ga
Their, do you know me9' Mo- he said, !
~ don't know you Then the village pas
tor came in aud said, DO you know me?" |
He said mo. don't think | ever saw
you Then said the minister, DO you
know .Iesus" "Oh, yesP' said the dying |
man. Il know Jesus; chief among ten thou
sand is he, and the one altogether lovely" |
Yes, for all ages and for all languages, and |
for all conditions is an easy name.
Jesus, love thy charming name.
'ris music to my ear;
Fain would sound 1t out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear
a BEAUTIFUL NAME
But | remark further in regard to this |
name of Christ. that it is beautiful name. |
Now you have noticed that you cannot dis.
associate a name from the character Of the
person who has il. There are some names.
for instance, that are repulsive to my ear
Those names are attractive TO your ear.
What is the difierences Why. | happened /
to know some persons of that name who
were cross or sour or queer or I.nsympa-
thetic, and the persons you have happened
to know Of that name were kind and
genial Since. then, we cannot disassociatc
a name from the character of the person
who has the name. that consideration
makes the name Of jesus unspeakably
beautiful
cannot pronounce that name in your
presence. but you think of Bethlehem and
Gethsemane and Golgotha and you see his
loving face, aud you hear his tender voice,
and you feel his gentle touch. As soon as
pronounce has name in your presence you
think Of him who banqueted with heav
emily hierarchs. yet came down and break
tasted on the fish which the rough men
hauled out Of Genesaret; you think of him
who, though the clouds are the dust of his
feet, walked footsore on the road to En-.
maus.
cannot speak his name in your hearing
this morning, but you think right away of
the shining one who restored the cen
turions daughter and who helped the
blind man to sunlight, and who made the
cripple's cruteh useless, and who looked
down into the laughing eyes of the babe
until it struggled to go to him; then, fling
ing his arms around it, and impressing a
kiss upon its beautiful brow, said. .sOf
such is the kingdom Of heaven"
Oh, beautiful name the name of Jesus,
a L = ]