Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-05-21
REV DIR. TALMAGE
The Broo kiyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.

TEXT: rThe name uhtch is obore erer1
rom>."-P Philippians H.. 9.
Paul is here making rapturous AMI en-
thusiastic description OF the name OF Christ.
There are merely worldly names that some
times thrill you through and through. Such
was the name Of Henry Clay to a Kentuck
ian, the name Of William Writ to q Virgin
tan, the name Of Daniel Webster "a New
Englander.
By common proverb we have come to be-
Heve that there is nothing in naIne," and
so parents sometimes at the baptismai altar
gives titles TO their children reckless Of the
fact that that title, that name, will be q life
time hindrance or q lifetime help. You
have no right to give your child q name
lacking either Ia euphony or moral mean
Ing.
1t is O sin to call q child Jchoiakim or
Iigieth- pileser-or by anything that Is disa-
greeabie. Because you have had an exas-
perating name yourself is no reason why
you should infict it upon your progeny.
And yet how often 1t is that we see a name
full OF jargon rattling down from generation
to generation simply because q long while
ago some one happened to be afflicted with
it. Institutions and great enter prises some
times without sufficient elaboration take
nomenclature. Mighty d~estinies nave been
decided by q name. While we may by a
long course of Christian behavior get over
the misfortune Of having been baptized with
the name OF a despot or a cheat, how much
better it would have been il we could have
all started life without any such incum-
branec.
When Paul. in my text and in other pas
cages OF Scripture, burst forth in aspirations
OF admiration for the name Of Christ, want
10 inquire what are the characteristics Of
that appellation, 1.-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 1t IS an easy name. You are
sometimes introduced to people will long
and unpronounceable 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 lit
tie child folds it's hands and looks upward
and says Jesus"
Can it be that in oil this church this morn.
ing there are representatives Of any house
hold where the children are familiar with the
names Of the father and mother and brother
and sister. yeu know nothing about that
name which is above every nnme?" Some
times you forget the name OF a quite familiar
friend, and you have to think and think be-
fore you get it but can you imagine any
freak OF intellect by which you should for
get the name of Jesus? That word seems to
tit the tongue in every dialect. Down to old
age, when the voice is tremulous and uncer.
tain and indistinct, wen then this regal
word finds potent u%tterance.
When an aged father was dying one OF
the children came and said, Father, do
you know me?' and in the delirium of the
last sickness he said, mo, l don't know
you" Another child came and said,
FEATHER, do you know me?' NO" he said,
II don't know YOU" hen the village pas
tor came in and sai1, "Dou you know me9'
Io cail I'M. I lox,A xI;,J u
Then said the minister. "Do you know
JesusT' "Oh, yes" said the dying man, 81
know Jesus; Chief among ten thousand Is
He. and the One altogether lovely" Yes,
for all ages and for all languages. and for all
conditions IS an easy name.
Jesus, l love Thy charming name,
Ills music TO my ear;
Fain v ouid | sound 1t out 30 loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
But I remark further in regard to this
name Of Christ. that it is a beautiful name.
Now you nave noticed that you cannot dis
associate a name from the character OF the
person who has it. There are some names
for instance, that are repulslve to my ear
Those names are attractive to your ear
What is the differences Why, l happened
to know some persons OF that name who
were cross or sour, or queer or unsympa
thetic, and the persons you have happened
to know Of that name were kind and genial
Since, then, we canine disassociate q nam
from the character OF the person who haI
the name, that consideration makes to-
name OF Jesus unspeahab]y beautiful.
l cannot pronounce the name in you
pres nee, Tut you think Of bethlehem ane
Gethsemane and Golgotha, and you seesHi
loving face, and you hear His lender voice
AMI YOU feel His gentle touch. AS soon "a
pronounce His name In your presence yo1
think of Hin who banqleted with heavenl,
hierarchs. yet came down and breakfaste;
on the fish which the rough man hauled GU
Of Genesaret; you think OF Hin who, thong
the clouds are the dust Of His feet Wake
~footsore en- the Dad t. Emmaus.
cannot speak His name in your-hearin
this moring, but you think right away o
the shining one who restored the centurion
daughter, and who helped the Blind ma t
sunlight, and who made the cripple's crutc
useless, and who looked down into the laugh
ing eyes of the babe until it struggled to <
to Him; then, hinging His arms around i
and impressing "A kiss upon IT'S beautifl
brow, said: 'Of such is the kingdom {
heaven"
oh. beautiful name, TIL, name Of Jesu
which stands Tor love. for patience, for Sc
sacrifice, for magnaninity. for everythin
that is good ant glorious and tender an
sympathetic and kind! 1t Is oma wit
all doors. 1t isarcoriant with oil narmonlc
Sometimes when | LOOK at that name
Jesus Chrlst 1t seems as II the letters wei
made of tears, and then they seem to
cleaning CROWNS. Sometimes that Han
seems to be twisted out OF the straw
which He laS and then It seems to BE- bu
out of the thrones on which His people a
to reign. Sometimes | sound that NO
Jesus, and | hear In it the sob of Gethshna
and the groan of Calvary, and then l tpe
His name and it is all a ripple with giadn'
and a ring with h%ooanna. Glorious name
Take all the Slories Of bookbindery a
put them around the page on which u
name is printed. On Christmas morni
wreathe it on the wall. Let it drip In
harp's string and LET it thunder out in orga
diapason. Sound 1t often, sound 1t well.
til every star shall seem to shine 1t. and eve
flower Shall seem to breathe it, and mou
r ain ana sea, and day and night, and ga
! and heaven acclaim in full chant, ''bies
he His glorious name forever "Ihe ma
which is above every name
Have you ever heard in a Methof
church, during IA time OF revival, q scor'
souls conc to the altar and cry out for me
= under the power of just two lines OF glori
old John Wesley
Jesus, the nama high over all.
In heaven, CT earth. or eky.