The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-05-12
TH]|:]..El,GREAT ESTNA 3
Talmage Speaks of It as Easily
Spoken and Never
Forgotten.
The Name That is 50 Remarkable
And fits Every Dialect
is Christ.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.,-Lspecial.] DR..
Talmage discoursed this morning
from the text Philippians ii, 8. 1.-THE
name which is above every name.''
{ Paul is here making rapturous and
enthusiastic 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 Kentuckian,
the name Of William Writ to a New
Englander.
by common proverb we have come
to believe that ''there is nothing in q
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 life
time hinderance or a lifetime help.
You have no right to give your child
name lacking either in euphony or
moral meaning. 1t is sin to call a.
child Jehoikim, or Tiglathpileser-or
by anything tnat is disagreeable. Be-
cause you have had an exasperat-
ing name yourself is no reason
why you should infict it
upon your progeny. And yet
how often it is that we see name
full Of jargon rattling down from gen.
Grafton to generation, simply because
a long while ago some one happened
to be afflicted with it. Institutions
and great enterprises sometimes with
out sufficient elaboration take nom
enclature. Mighty destinies have peen
decided by a name. While we NAV,
by a long course of Christian behavior,
get over the misfortune of having been
baptized with the name of despot or
a cheat, how much better it would
have been five could have all started
life without any such incumbrance
When Paul, in my text and in other
passages of scripture, burst forth in
aspirations of admiration for the
name of Christ, I want to 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, l want to tell you.
IT'S AN EASY NAME.
You are sometimes introduced to
people with long and unpronounce-
able 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 it's hands
and looks upward and says Jesus"
Can it be that in all this church this
morning there are representative of
any household where the children
are familiar with the names of the
father and mother and brother and
sister, yet know nothing about that
name which is above every name?"
Sometimes you forget the name OF a.
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 dialet. Down to old
age, when the voice is tremulous and
uncertain and indistinct, even then
this regal word finds potent utterance.
Jesus, love thy charming name.
lis music to my ear; .@..r
F'ain would sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear
I But remark further in regard to
this name OF Christ, that it is g. beau
tiful name. Now you have noticed
that you cannot disassociate q 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 to know some per-
sons of that name who were cross, or
sour, or queer, or unsympathetic, and
the persons you have happened to
know of that name were kind and
genial. Since then, we cannot disas-
sociate q name from the character of
the person who has the name, that
consideration makes the
NAME OF JESUS UNsPEAHABLY BEAUTI-
I cannot pronounce that name in
your presence, but you think OF Beth
lehem and Gethsemane and Golgotha,
and you see his loving face and you
hear his tender voice, and you feel his
gentle touch. AS soon as pronounce
his name in your presence you think
OF him who banqueted with heavenly
hierarchs, yet came down and break
tasted on fish which the rough men
hauled out OF Genesaret; you think Of
him who, though the clouds are the
dust Of his feet, walked foot
sore on the road to Emmaus, I can
not speak his name in your hearing
this morning but you think right
away of the shining one who restored
the centurion's daughter, and who
helped the blind man to sunlight, and
who made the cripple's crutch, use
less, and who looked down into the
laughing eyes OF the babe until it
struggled to 60 to him; then finging
his arms around it, and impressing
kiss upon it's beautiful brow said,
#"Of such is the kingdom OF heav-
en-
Oh, beautiful name, the name OF
Jesus, which stands for love for pa
thence, for self-sacrifice, for magnanim-
lty, for everything that is good and