Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-05-13
REV. Or. TaLMAGE.
THE BROOkLYN DIVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT "THE GREATEST NAME oF
All"

TEXT: The name Which IS dboue every
ndme."-Phiippians H., e.
Paul is here makirg rapturous and Ell
thusiastic description OF the name of Christ.
There are merely worldly names that some
times thrill you throug gh and through. Such
was the name of henry Clay TO a Kentuck-
ian, the name Of William Writ to a Virgin
ian, the name Of Daniel Webster TO New
EnglandeF.
By common proverb we have come to be-
heve that there is nothing in name;' and
so parents sometimes az the baptismal altar
gives titles TO their children reckless of the
fact that that title that name, will be life
time hindrance or a lifetime help. You
have no right to give your child a name
lacking either in euphony or moral mean
ing.
Il is a sin to call child Jehoiakim or
Tigiath.p .pileser-or by anything that Is disa-
greeable. Because you have nad an exas-
peratiug name Yourself IS no reason why
you should lnhlct II upon your progeny.
And yet how often II ls that we see a name
full OF largon rafting down from generation
TO generation simply because "a long while
ago some che happ,ned to be afflicted with
II. Institutions and great enterprises some
times without sufficient elaboration take
nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been
decided by a name While we NAV bv
long course OF Christian behavior get over
the misfortune Of having been baptized with
the name of despot or a cheat, how much
better IL would have been II we could have
all started life without any such incum-
brance!
When Paul in my text and in other pas.
sages of Scripture, burst forth in aspirations
OF admiration fer the name Of Christ, | want
to inquire what are the characteristics OF
that appel alton. The name which Is above
In fhtN Nrgf Lrt., -,
you in regard TO the name Of Christ l want
To tell you It is an easy name. You are
sometimes introduced 70 people with long
and unpronouuceable names, and you have
70 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 lit
tie child folds its bands and looks upward
and says Jesus
Can Il be that in all this church this morn
ing there are representatives Of any houvs
hold where the children are familiar with the
names OF the father and mother and brother
and sister, yet know nothing about chat
name which is above every uamci" Some
times you forget the name OF a quite familiar
friend. and you have TO think and think be-
fore you get it, hut can YOU imagine any
freak of intellect by which you should for
get the name Of Jesus? That word seems 70
age, when the voice IS tremulous ami uucsr-
tain and lndisunct, even then this regal
word finds potent utterauce.
When an aged father was dying one OF
the children came and said, Father. do
YOU know me- and i'll tn, delrlum of the
last sickness he sali, no. | don't know
you.n Another child came and said,
Father do you know meT' No. he SAID,
Il don't know you.r Then the village pas
.,A .kn,,, kr,
He said, No; don't think lever saw you. >
Then said the minister, DO you know
Jesusy' oh, yesn said the dying man, Il
know Jesus; Chief among ten thousand is
He. and the One altogether lovely Yes
for all ages and for al languages, and for all
conditions is an easy name
Jesus l love Thy charming name,
'Tis music 10 nv ear
Fan would sound Il out 80 loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
But remark further in regard 70 this
name Of Christ. that 1t is a beautiful name.
Now YOU have noticed that you cannot dis.
associate a name from the character of the
person WHO has it, There are some names,
for instance, that are repulsive to my ear.
Those names aTs attractive TO your ear.
. What is the difference Why, | happened
TO know some persons rf that name who
/ were cross or sour, or queer or unsympa-
thetc, and the persons you have happened
10 know Of that name were kind and genial.
Since, then, we cannot d.sassociate a name
from the character OF the person who has
the name, that consideration makes the
name Of Jesus unspeabably beautiful.
, | cannot pronounce the name in your
presence, Tut you think Of Bethlehem and
Gethsemane and Golgothn and you see His
loving face and YOU hear HIS tender voice.
ani YOU feel His gentle touch. As soon as
| pronounce His name in your presence you
think of Hin who banqueted with heavenly
hlerarchs yet came down aud breakfaSted
on the fish which the rough man hauled out
OF Genesarst; you think Of Him who, though
the clouds are the dust Of His feet walked
footsore on the road to Emmaus
cannot speak His name in your hearing
this moring, but you think right away or
the shining one who restored the centurion's
daughter, and who helped the blind man to
sunlight. and who made the cripple's crutch
useless, and who looked down into the laugh.
ing eyes of the babe until it struggled TO go
to Him, then, fiinging His arms around it.
and impressing a 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 everything
that is good anu glorious and tender and
sympathetic and kind Ii is aromatic with
all odors. 1t is accordant with all harmonies.
Sometimes when | look at that name OF
Jesus Christ it seems as il the letters were
made of tears and then they seem TO be
cleaning crowns Sometimes that name
seems to be twisted out OF the straw on
which He lay, and then It seems to be- built
out of the thrones on winch His people ara
to reign. Sometimes | sound that word
Jesus, and h,ar in it the sob of Gethsemane
and the groan Of Calvary, and then | speak
His name and it is all ripple with gladness
and a ring with hosannR. Glorious name!
Take all the glories OF ooGbindery and
put them around the page on which that
name is printed. On Christmas morning
wreathe II on the wall. Let it drip from
harp's string and let it thunder out i'll organs
diapason. Sound it often, sound it well. un-
til every star sbail seem to shine it, and every
flower shall seen TO breathe it and mount
ain and sea, and day and night, and earth
and heaven accl lim in full chant, blessed
be His glorious name forever The name
which is above every name"
Have ycu ever heard in a Methodist
church, during time Of revival, a score Of
souls come to the sitsr and cry out for mercy
under the power 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 in
valid, to the Sunday school girl, TO the snow
white octogenaran it is beautiful. The
aged man comes in from a 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 l am going away
from you " And they say, why, where
are you going, grandfather "Oh, he says,
~ am going to Jesus" and SO the old man
faints away into heaven.
And the little child comes in from play
and she filings herself in your lap, and sh'
SAYS, Mamma, Pm so sick, Pm so very
sck;n and you put her TO bed, and the fever
is worse and worse, and some midnight
while you are shaking up the pillow and Civ
ing the medicine, she looks up in your fac