The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-18

Take all the glories of bookbindery
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, and 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 revival, score of
souls come to the altar and cry ont 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 exhaust
ed invalid to the Sundayschool girl, to
the snow-white octogenarian, it is beau
tiful. The aged man comes in from a
long walk, and he TREMENDOUSLY opens
the door of his old 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, Il am going to
L L., lii foi
into Heaven"
And the little child comes in from
play and she filings herself in your lap
and she says. Mamma. I'm SO SICK, I'm
so very sick, and you put her to bed
and the fever is worse and worse, and
some midnight, while you are shaking
up the pillow and giving the medicine,
she looks up to you and says, Mamma,
I'm going away from you" You say,
why, where are going, my darling"
And she says, II am gong to Jesus"
And the red check that you take to be
the mark of the fever turns out to be
only the carnation bloom of Heaven.
Oh! was it 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 the dying
playmate, and she said to the dying
playmate: where are you going top
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 a beautiful
name, whether on the lips of childhood
or the lips of the old man, When my
father was dying the village minister
said to him quoting over his pillow this
passage; This is faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sin
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 it is a mighty
name Rothschild is a mighty name in
the commercial world, Stillman 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 a
name mighty in the military world; but
where in all the earth is name so
| potent to lift and thrill and arouse and
rally and bless as the name Jesus?
Why the sound of that once endorsed
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. The name
in England to-day means more than
Victoria. In Germany that name to-
day means more than Emperor William.
Oh, 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 shacklcs and march out forev-
err free. have seen a man overcome of
misfortune and trial, every trouble had
he, but at the sound of that name the
sea dropped and the clouds parted, and
the sunburst of eternal gladness poured
upon his soul. ! have seen "A man hard
enod of inldclity, defiant of God, full of
jeer and scoff, jocose of The Judgment
day, reckless of eternity, at the sound
of that name blanch, and cover, and
groan, and llnecl, and weep, and repent,
and pray, and believe, and rejoice, and
triumph.
| Oh. it is might name. Under its
power the last temple of superstitution
Will come down, and the last Jugger-
naut of iniquty will be shattered to
pieces. The red horse of carnage,
spoken of in an apocalyptic vision, and
the black horse of death must come
back on their launches, while the white
horse of victory goes forth, mounted OF
Him who hath the moon under His feet
and the stars of Heaven for His tiara
Mighty name, 1t "ill first make the
whole earth tremble, and then it will
make all the nations sing. Mighty
name,
Other dominions seem to be giving
way; France had to give up some of hen
favoritc provinces; Spain has lost q
great deal of her power; many of the
thrones of the world are being lowered
many of the sccptcrs of the world arr
being shortened: but every tract dis
tributor, every Bible printer, every
Christian institution established
spreads abroad the mighty name o
Christ. 1t has already been heard un
der the Chinese WALL and in the Siberian
snow castle, and in the Brazilian grove
and in the Eastern pagoda. That nam,
will swallow up all other names Tha
crown will yet cover up all othe
crowns. That empire will yet compass