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AhtAE EVERY NAME.
Mighty Destinies Have Been Decided
by a Name.
There's One That's Beautiful, Powerful
and Enduring. THE Name Which Is
Above Every Name sermon by
Rev. 4. Dewitt Talmsse, ID. ID,

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Philip ans IL, Q: The name which is
above very name.
Paul is here making rapturous 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 to a Kentuckian, the name of Will
fam Writ to a Virginian, the name of
Daniel Webster to New Highlander.
BY common proverb we have come to
believe that there is nothing in a
name" and so parents sometimes at the
baptismal altar give titles to their chill
drcn reckless of the fact that that title,
that name, will be q lifetime help.
You have no right to give your child
name lacking either in cuphony or
moral meaning 1t is crime to call a
child Jchoiakim or Tiglath pileser, or
anything that is disagreeable. Because
you have had an cXasperating name
yourself is no reason why you should
:itict it upon your progeny. And yet
how often it 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 dcliberation take nomencla-
ture Mighty dcstinies have been de-
cilcd by a name.
While we may, by long course of
Christian behavior, get over the mis-
fortune of having been baptised with
the name of a despot or cheat how
much better it would have been if we
could have all started life without any
such incumbrance.
When Paul, II my text, and in other
passages of Scriptures, burst forth in
aspirations of admiration for the name
o. Christ, | want to inquire what are
the characteristics of that appellation,
'Ihc name which is above every
name" In the first place, speaking to
You in regard to the name of Christ, |
want to tell you that it is an easy name.
You are sometimes introduced to people
with long and mpronounccaDle 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 morn
ing there are representatives, of any
household where the children are IA
miiar with the names of the father and
mother and brother and sister. yet know
nothing about that name which is
above every name?' Some times 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 Jesus? That
word seems to fit the tongue in every
dialect. Down to old age, when the
voice is tremulous and uncertain and
iudiStinct even then this regal word
finds potent uttcrance.
When an aged father was dying one
OF the children came and said, Father,
do Won know me?" and in the delrium
OF the last sickness he said, mo, |
don't know YOU" Another child came
and said, Father, DO you know mc?''
NO" he said, II don't know you,
Then the village pastor came in and
said, 'Do you know me?' He said,
''No, | don't think ! ever saw you"
Then, said the minister, "Do you
know Jesus?' "Oh, yes!" said the
diving man, II know Jesus chief
among ten thousand Is He, and the one
altogether lovely" Yes, for all ages
and Tor all languages, and for all con-
ditions Jesus is an easy name.
Jesus l love Thy charming name,
lis music to my ear:
Fain wCVld sound it out so loud
That Heaven and earth might hear.
But remark further in regard to this
name of Christ that it is beautiful
name Now you have noticed that you
can not disassociate a name from the
character of the person who has it,
There are some names, for instance,
that are repulsive to my ear. Those
names are attractive to your ear. What
Is the difference? Why, happened tc
know some persons of that name who
were cross, or sour, or queer, or unsym
pathetic, and the persons whom you
Ia>e happened to known are kind ano
genial. Since, then, we can not disas
ISOLATE 4 name from the character o.
the person who has the name, that con
sideration makes the name of Jesus un
spcakably beautiful. | can not pro
nounce that name in your presence but
ycu think of Bethlehem and Gethse
name and Golgotha, and yOu see Hi:
loving face and you hear His tender
voice and you feel His gentle touch. A
soon as | pronounce His name in YOU
presence you think of Him who ban
quoted with heavenly hierarchs, ye
came down and breakfasted on the fist
which the rough men hauled out o
Gcncsaret. You think of Him, who
though the clouds are the dust of Hi
feet. walked footsore on the road t.
Emmaus. | can not speak His name il
Your hearing this morning, but You
think right away of the shining On,
who restored the centurion's daughter
and who helped the blind man to sun
light. and who made the cripple
crutch useless, and who looked dow
into TIE laughing eyes of the babe unit
il struggled to go TO Him; then, flingin!
His arm around it and impressing
kiss upon its beautiful brow, said: 20
such is the kingdom of Heaven"
Oh beautiful name, the name of JIG
sus. which stands for love, for patience
for self-sacrifice, for magnanimity, flo
,a,cr,thinU that is good and gloriou