Connecticut western news., 1892-05-05
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR. TALMAGE ON THE POTENCY OF
 THE NAME OF CHRIST.

The Name Itself Has n Certain Beauty
 of Sound, but No Familiar Name Can Re Dissociated from the Character of the Person Who Bears It.
 BROOKLYN, May 1.-While Dr. Tal- mage Is able to holdv vast audiences spell hound by his eloquence, whatever sub Ject he has in hand, he is never so elo- Iuent, or so evidently great orator, as when he breaches Christ as the one hope for the regeneration of the world. The fact was proved this morning when he discoursed from the text, Philippians ii, Q, "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 hat sometimes thrill you through and through. Such was the name of Henry Clay to Kentuckian. the name of Will liam Wirt to a Virginian. the name of Daniel Webster to rsw Englander.
 By common proverb >'e have come to believe that there is nothing in a lame:" and so parents sometimes at the oaptismal altar give titles e ta.eir chil- ,lren, reckless of the fact that that title. hat name, will be a lifetime hindrance or lifetime help. You have no right % give your child a name lacking either in euphony or moral meaning.
 It is a sin to call a child Jehoiakim or Tiglath-pileser, or by anything that is tisagreeable. Because you have had an ,xasperating name yourself is no reason why you should infict it upon your progeny, and yet how cften it is that we see name full of jargon rattling down rom generation to generation simply because long while ago some one hap pened to be afflicted with it. Institu- tions and great enterprises sometimes without sufficient deliberation take mo- menclature. Mighty destinies have been lecided by name. While we may by long course of Christian behavior get over the misfortune of having been bap- ized with the name of despot or a cheat, how much better it would have been if we could have all started life without any such incumbrance!
 SWEET TO THE MEMORY.
 When Paul, in my text and in other passages of Scripture, burst forth in as- pirations of admiration for the name of Christ, want to inquire what are the characteristics of that appellation, "The name which is above every name" In the first place, speaking t2you in regard to the name of Christ, 1 w5nt to tell you it is an easy name. You are sometimes introduced to people with long and un- pronounceable 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 1t be that in all this church this morning there are representatives of any household where the children are fa- lniliar 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 quite familiar friend, and you have to think and think before you get it; but can you imagine any freak of intel feet 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 aud indistinct, even then this regal word finds potent utterance.
 When an aged father was dying, one of the children came and said, Father, do you know mel" and in the delirium of the last sickness he said, No, don't T said. Father, do you know mel" Mo-" he said. "l don't know you" Then the village pastor came in and said, Do you know mel" He said, No; don't think ever saw you Then said the minis ger, Do you know Jesusy" ''Oh, yesI' said the "ying man, Il 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. love thy chaming name,
 'Tis music to my ear;
 Fain would l sound it out so loud
 That hraven and earth might hear.
 LOVELY NAMES IN SCRIPTURE.
 But reuiark further in regard to this name of Christ, that it is a beautiful 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 ;lre repulsive to my ear. Those names are attractive to your ear. What is the difference? Why, happened to know some persons of that name who were cross or sour or queer or unsympa- rhetic, and the persons you have hap pened to know of that name were kind and genial. Since, then, we cannot dis associate name from the character of the person who has the name, that con sideration makes the name of Jesus un- speakably beautiful.
 1 cannot pi ionounce that name in your presence, but you think of Bethlehem, Gethsemane and Golgotha, and you see his loving face, and you hear his tender voice, and you feel his gentle touch. As soon as l pronounce his name in your presence you think of him who banquet ed with heavenly hierarchs, yet came down and breakfasted on the fish which the rough men hauled out of Genesaret; you think of him who. though the clouds are the dust of his feet, walked footsore on the road to Emmaus.
 l cannot speak his name in your hear ing this morning. but you think right away of the shining one who restored the centurion's daughter, and who helped the blinG man to sunlight, and who made the cripple's crutch useless, and who looked down into the laughing eyes of the babe until it struggled to go to him; then hinging his arms around 1t and impressing kiss upon its beautiful brow, said. '.Of such is the kingdom of heaven"
 Oh, beautiful name. the name of Jesus, which stands for love, for patience, for self sacrifice, for magnanimity, for eyerythi ? that is good and glorious and