The Penn's Grove record., 1892-05-06
REV. DR.. TALNAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's SUN
DAY SERMON
suhjeot;- "Ihe Greatest Name ofAn..

TEXT: "The name Uhich is ADORE erert
ndme."-Philippians it,, Q.
Pauli is here making rapturuus and en-
thuslastic description of the name OF Christ.
Ihere are merely worldly names that some
times thrill you through and through. Such
was the name Of Henry Clap toa hentuck-
ian, the name of William Writ to a Virgin
IAN, the name of Daniel Webster to a New
Highlander.
BY common proverb we nave com to be.
leVe That there is nothing in ame, ana
so parents sometimes at the baptismal altar
gives titles to their children reckless of the
fact that that title, that name, will be life
Tune hlndrance or a lifetime help. You
have no right to give your child a name
lacking either in euphony or mora! mean
ing.
1t is a sin to call a child J"hOiakim OF
Iiglatl-pileser-Or by anything t.at Is disa-
greeable. Because you have had an eXas-
perating name yourself is no reason why
you should inaict it upon your progeny.
And yet how often it is that We set a name
full of jargon r%attling down from generation
to generation simply because a long while
ago some one happened TO be afflicted with
1t. Institutions and great enterprises some
times without sufficient deiIbrratIpn take
nomenclature. Mighty destluies have been
decided by a name. While We may by a
long course OF Christian behas iar get over
the misfortune of having been htptiAei with
the name of a despot or a cheat, how much
better it would have been if we could have
all started life without any such lncum-
brancel
When Paul. in my text and in other pas
sages of Scripture, burst forth in aspirations
of admiration for the name of Christ, J want
TO inquire what are the characteristic OF
that appellation. The name which is above
every name" In the first pace, S%peakins TO
you in regard to the name of Christ. l want
to tell you it is an easy name You are
sometimes introduced to people with long
and unpronounceable names, and YOU have
to listen cautiously to get thu uam and
you have to hear them pronounced two or
three times before you risk trying 10 utter
them, but within the first two years the lit
tie child folds its hands and looks upward
and says Jesus
Can it be that in all this church lhis morn
ing there are representatives Of any house
hold where the children are famiiIar with the
names of the father and mother and brother
and sister, yet know nothing about that
name which is above every name Some
times you forget the name of a quite familiar
friend, and you nave to think aud 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
fit the tongue in every dialect. Down to old
age, when the voice is tremulons Hul uncsr-
tain and 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, mo, | don't know
you" Another child came and said,
stFather. do you know me?' ''N9," he said,
~ don't know YOU" Then the village pas
tor came in and said, "Dou you know meT
He said, mo; Idon't think lever saw you"
Then said the minister, 'Do you know
Jesus?' 'Ob, yeSg' said the dying man, ~
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,