Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-05-07
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DIR. TALMAeE ON THE POTENCY OF
THE NAME OF CHRIST.

THE NAME OF CHRIST.
The Name Itself Has Certain Beauty
of Sound, bm. No Familiar Namo Can
Re Dissociatcd from the Character af
The i'erson Who i;cars 1T.
BROOKLYN, May 1.-Whilo DR.. Tai
mage is able to hold vast audiences spell
bound by his cloquencc, whatever sub
ject he has in hand, lie is never SO elo-
uuent, or SO evidently Il great orator, as
when he breaches Christ Us the ono hope
for the regeneration of tho world. The
fact was proved this morning when he
discoursed from the text, Philippians ii,
o. Tho name which is above every
name"
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. Sach was the name of Henry
Clay to Kentrckian, the name of Will
liam Writ to a Viryinian, the name of
Daniel Webster to New Englander.
By common provcrb we have como to
believe that "there is nothing in a
namc;" and so parents sometimes ut the
baptismal altar give titles to their chill
dren, reckless of the fact that that title,
that name. will be a. lifetime hindrance
or IL lifetime help You have no right
to give your child name lacking
either in cuphony or moral meaning.
/ 1t is sin to call u child Jehoiakiin or
Tiglath-pilcscr. or By anything that is
disasreeable. Because you have had an
exaspcrating name yourself is no reason
why YOU should infiict it upon your
progeny, and yet how often it is that we
see name full of jarSon rafting down
from generation to generation simply
because long while ago some one hap
pcned to he afflicted with it. Institu-
tons and great enterprises sometimes
without sufficient deliberation take no.
mcnclature. Mighty destinies have been
decided by name While we may by
q long course of Christian behavior get
over the misfortune of having been bap-
tized with the name of dcspot 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 appcllation, 1.-The
name which is above every name" In
the first place, speaking toyou in regard
to the name Of Christ, l want to tell you
it is ;tn easy name. You are sometimes
introduced to people with long and I'M
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; bit 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 arc representatives ofany
household where the children are ia
1niliar 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 apuitc familiar friend, and you
have to think and think before yon getit;
but can you imagine any freak of intel
lect Ivy which you should forget the
name of Jesus? That word seems to fit
the tongue i'll every dialect. Down to
old age, when the voice is tremulous and
uncertain 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 lney' and in the delirium
of the last sickness he said, mo, don't
know you" Another child came and
said, Father, do you know mc!" NO."
he said, Il don't know you" Then the
village pastor came in and said, "Doyou
know me- He said, mo; don't think
ever saw you" Then said the minis
ter, .'Do you know jesus" "Oh, yes!"
said the dying man, II know Jesus;
chief among ten thousand is he, and the
one altogether lovely" Yes, for all
ages and for ell languages, and for all
conditions is an easy name.
Jesus, love thy chaming namc,
'Tis music TO my ear;