Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-07

| flower shall seem TO breathe NJ, ana
mountain and sen, and day and night,
and earth and Heaven acclaim in full
chant, BLESSED be His glorious name
forever" Tho name which is above
every name"
Have You ever heard in Methodist
church, during n time of revival, score
of souls come to the altar and cry out
for mercy under the power of just two
lines of glorious old John Wesley?
Jesus the name high over oil,
| In Heaven. or earth, or sky.
To the repenting soul, to the ex-
hausted invalid, to the Sunday school
girl, to the snow white octogenarian,
it Is beautiful. The aged man comes in
from long walk, and he TREMENDOUSLY
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, am going away from you"
And they say: "Why, where are you
going, grandfather" 20" he says,
II 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 she says, Mamma, I'm so sick, I'm
so very sicl1;" ana you put her to bed,
and the fever is worse and worse, and
some midnight, while you are shaking
up the pillow and giving the medicine,
she looks up in your face and says,
Mamma, I'm going away from you"
You say. Where are you going, my
darling?" And she says, II am going
to Jesus" And the red cheek that you
take to be the mark of the fever turns
out to be only the carnation bloom Of
Heaven.
But / remark again, in regard to this
name of Christ, that it is mighty name.
Rothschild is name mighty in the
commercial world; Silliman is name
mighty in the scientific world; Irving is
a name mighty in the literary world;
Washington is name mighty in the
political world; Wellington is a name
mighty in the military world; but
where in all the earth is a name so po-
tent to lift. and thrill, and arouse, and
rally, and bless as the name OF Jesus?
Why, the sound of that one name un-
horsed Saul and threw Newton on his
face on ships deck; and that one name
to-day, while speak, holds hundred
million souls under omnipotent spell.
o. it is a mighty name. Under its
power the last temple OF superstition
will come down and the last Juggernaut
of iniquity will be shattered to pieces.
The red horse of carnage, spoken OF in
apocalyptic vision, and the black horse
of death must come back on their
launches, while the white horse of vic
tory goes forth, mounted of Him who
hath the moon under His feet and the
stars Of Heaven for His tiara. Mighty
name. 1t will first make the whole
earth tremble, and then it will make all
the nations sing. Mighty name!
Other dominions seem to be giving
way; France had to give up some of her
favorite provinces; Spain has lost a great
deal of her power; many of the thrones
of the world are being lowered; many
of the scepters of the world are being
shortened, but every tract distributor,
every Bible printer, every Christian in
stitution established spreads abroad the
mighty name of Christ. 1t has already
been heard under the Chinese wall and
in the Siberian snow castle and in the
Brazilian grove and in the eastern pago-
da- That name will swallow upa all other
names. That crown will yet cover up
all other crowns. That empire will yet
compass all Nominations.
All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall
fail
Returning justice lift aloft her scale;
Peace DER thu world her olive wand extend,
| And whte.robed innocence from Heaven de-
scend
But remark again, taking n step
forward in this subject, that the name
of Christ is an enduring name. You
get over the fence of the graveyard and
YOU pull the weeds back from the name
that has nearly faded from the tomb
stone and you wish that Walter SCOTS
'Old Mortality would come along and
rechisel it so that you might really find
out what the name is. Why, that was
the name of the greatest man in all the
town, in all the country in all the state,
now almost faded from the tombstone.
And so the great names Of this world
either have persisted or are perishing
Gregory VI, Sancho, of Spain; Conrad
l., of England; Catherine, of Russia
Those names were once mighty, and
they made the earth tremble. Who
cares for them now? None so poor
as to do them reverence. But
the name of Christ is enduring forever.
1t will be preserved in the worlds fine
art. II will be preserved in the worlds
grand and elaborate architecture, and
professionalism shall yet have its St
Marks and its st. Peters. 1t shall be
preserved in the worlds literature, for
there shall be other Paleys to write the
ssEvidences of ChristianitV" More