The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-13
ABOVE ALL OTHERS.
DR.. Talmage Upon the Beauties Of
the Saviours Name.
A Title That Is Easy, Beautiful, Blessed,
Enduring and Above All Other Names
1t Stands For Tenderness
and sympathy.

In a late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. I.
Dewitt Talmage discoursed upon the
beauties of the titles of Jesus Christ.
His text was from Philippians ii. 9.
"The name which is above every name.
DIR. Talmage said:
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, William Writ to
Virginian, the name of Daniel Web
ster to New Englander.
By common proverb we have come
to believe that ''there is nothing in a
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 lifetime hind
rance or lifetime help. You have no
right to give your child n name lacking
| either in euphony or moral meaning.
| 1t is sin to call child Jehoiaxim or
Tiglath-pileser-or by anything that is
disagreeable. Because you have had
an eXasperating name yourself is no
reason why you should inflict it upon
your progeny. And yet how often 1T is
we see name full of jargon rattling
down from generation to generation,
simply because a long while ago some
one happened to be afflicted with it. In
stitutions and great enterprises some
times without sufficient deliberation
take nomenclature. Mighty destinies
have been decided by a name. While
we may, by 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 if we could have
started life without any such hindrance.
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 To you in re-
gard to the name of Christ, want to
tell you it is an easy name. You are
sometimes introduced "a people with
long and unpronounceah names, and
you have to listen cautiously to get the
names, and you have to near them pro-
nounced 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 it be that in all this
church this morning there are repre-
sentatives 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 dialect.
When an aged father was dying, one
of the children came and said: Father,
do You know me?" and in the delirium
of the last sickness he said: mo. don't
know you" Another child came and
said: Father, do you know me?" No"
he said, II don't know you" Then the
village pastor came in and said: "Do
YOU know me?" He said: ''No, don't
think ever saw you." Then said the
minister: do you know Jcsus?" so,
yesr' said the dying man, Il know
Jesus; chief among ten thousand is he,
and the one altogether lovely" Yes,
for all ages ard for all languages, and
for all conditions it is an easy name.
Jesus. love Thy charming name.
| 'Tis music to my ear:
Fain would sound il out so loud
| That Heaven and earth might hear.
But I remark further in regard to
this name of Christ. that it is beauti-
full name. Now you have noticed that
you cannot disassOciate a name from
the character of Il person who has it.
There are some names, for instance,
that are rcpulsive to my ear. These
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 un-
sympathetic, and the persons you have
happened to know of that name were
llindund genial. Since, then. we can
not disassociate name from the
character of person who has the
name, that consideration makes the
name of Jesus unspeallably beautiful.
/ cannot pronounce that name in your
presence but you think of Bethlehem
and Gethsemane and GOlgotha. and yOu
see His loving face and Hear his tender
voice and you feel His gentle touch. As
soon as | pronounce His name in your
presence you think of Him who ban
quoted with heavenly higharchies, 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 Emmus. can
not speak His name in your
hearing this morning but you think
right away of the shining one who re-
stored 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 strug-
gled to go to him; then, fiinging His
arms around it and impressing kiss
upon it's beautiful brow, said: 'Of
such is the kingdom of Heaven" o,
| beautiful name, the name of Jesus,
which stands for love, for patience, for
self sacrificing, for magnanimity, for
everything that is good. and glorious,
and tender, and sympathetic, and kind!
1t is aromatic with all odors. 1t is ac-
cOrdant with all harInonies.
Take all the glories of bookbindery
and put them around the page on which
that name is printed On Christmas
morning wreath II on the wall. Let it
dip from harp's string and let it thun-
der out in organs diapason. Sound it
often, sound it well, until every star