The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-05-04

Jesus, and hear it in the sob Of Geth-
semane and the groan of Calvary, and
then I speak His name and it is all
a-ripple with hosanna. Glorious name!
Take all the glories of boohbindery
and put them around the page on which
that name is printed. On Christmas
morning wreath it on the wall. Let it
drip from harp's string and let it thun-
der out in organs diapason. 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, day and night, and earth and
heaven acclaim in full chant, BLESSED
be His glorious name forever" ''The
name which is above every name"
Have you ever heard in Methodist
church, during Il time of revival II score
of souls come to the altar and cry out
for mercy under the power Of just two
lines Of glorious old John Wesley?
Jesus, the name high over all,
In heaven, or earth or sky,
To the repenting SOUL to the exhausted
invalid, to the Sunday-school girl, to
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tiful. The aged man comes in from Il
long walk, and he tremulously opens
the door of his home, and he 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 children and
his grandchildren: "My dears, am
going away from you."' And they say
"Why, where are you going, grand
father?" "Oh!" he says, 81 am going to
Jesus" and so the old man faints away
into Heaven.
And the little child comes in from
play and she fiings herself in your lap,
and she says: Mamma, I'm so sick,
I'm so very siclk;" and you put her to
bed, and the fever is worse and worse,
and some midnight, while you are shak-
ing up the pillow and giving the medi-
cine, she looks up in your face and says;
Mamma, I'm going away from YOU
You say: "Why, where are you going,
my darling?" And she says: ~ am go
ing to Jesus" And 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 1t not beautiful when little
child heard that her playmate WAS dy-
ing, and she went TO the house, and she
clambered 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 said the little girl that
was well, as she bent over to give the
parting kiss to her dying playmate,
"Well, then, If you are going to Jesus,
give my love TO Him" 1t is II 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: "rhis is faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptlticn, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sim
ners," and there he stopped. Then my
father finished the quotation by saying,
'of whom am chief"
But remark again, In regard to this
name of Christ, that 1t is mighty
name. Roths ,hild is a name mighty in
the commercial world, Silliman is a
name mighty in the scientific world,
Irving is name mighty in the literary
world, Washington Is a name mighty
in the political world, Wellington is q
name mighty in the military world; but
where in all the earth is a name so po-
tent TO lift, and thrill, and arouse, and
rally. and bless, as the name of Jesus!
Why, the sound of that one name un.
horsed 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 nan in England to-day means
more than Victoria. In Germany that
name to-day means more than Emperor
William. o, 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 shackles and march out for.
ever free. have seen Il man overcome
of misfortune and trial, every kind ot
trouble had he: but at the sound Of that
name the sea dropped and the cloud:
! gladness poured upon his soul. have
seen a man hardened in infdcli;y. dc
! fiant Of God. full Of jccr and scoff
jocose Of the Judgment day, reckless oi
eternity, ut the sound Of that name
, blanch and COVER. and groan, anC
; kneel, and weep. and repent, and pray
! and believe. and rejoice, and triumph.
Oh! 1t is mighty name, Under IT.
power the last temple of superstition
: will come down, and the last Jugger
naut of iniquity will be shattered Il
pieces. The red horse of carnage
: spoken of in apocalyptic' vision, and thC
black horse Of death must come back on
their launches, while the white horsC
Of victory goes forth, mounted Of Hin
: who hath the moon under His feet anC
the stars of heayen for His tiara. Mighty
: name! 1t will make the whole eartl
J tremble. and then it will make all the
: nations sing. Mighty namel
Other dominions seem TO be giving
, way; France had to give up some OF hei
: iavorite provinces; Spain has lost O
great deal of her power; many Of the
thrones Of the world are being lowered
many of the scepters Of the world arc
being shortened, but every tract dis
tributor, every Bible printer, every
Christian institution established, spreads
abroad the mighty name Of Christ. II
mas already been heard under the Chi
uese wall, and in the Siberian snow
castle, and in the Brazilian grove, and
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