The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12

hear in it the sob Of Gethsemano and
the groan OF Calvary, and then l speak
his name and it is all ripple With glad
ness and a ring with hosanna. Glorious
name!
Take all the glories Of bookbiudery
and put them around the page on which
that name is printed. On Christmas
| M orniug wreatho it on tho wall. Let it
drip from harp's string and let /. thun-
der out in organ's diapason. Sound It
often, sound it well, until every star
shall seem TO shine it, and every flower
shall seem TO breathe it, and mountain
| and sea, and day and night, and earth
and heaven acclaim in full chant,
| "Blessed bC his glorious name iOrcyer,n
THE name which is above every name, -
lave you ever heard in a Methodist
church, during time of revival, a score
of souls come to the altar and crv out
Tor mercy under the power of Just two
iincs of glourious old John Wesley?
Jesus, the name high over all,
In heaven, or earth, or sky.
TO the repcnting soul, to the exhaust
cd Invalid. to the Sunday school girl, to
the snow white octogcDarlan it is bcautl-
| 1ul. The aged man comes in from a
long walk, and he trcmulously obens
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 les on his
couch, and he says to his children and
his grandchildren, MY dears. | am 90
ing away from YOU" And they say.
"Why, where are you going, grand
father" "Oh," he says, lam going
to Jesus" and 60 the old man faints
away into heaven.
And the little child come IN from play
and she filings herself in your lap, and
she says, "Mamma, Pm 80 sick, I'm SO
very sick" and YOU put 'ner 70 bed, and
lI'the fever is worse, aud some midnight,
while you are shaking up the pillow and
giving the medicine. she Look up in your
face and says, "Mamma, Pm going
away from you." You say, "Why,
where are you going, my darling?" And
she says, Il am going to Jesus" And
the rcd cheek that you take to be the
mark of the fever turns out TO be only
the carnatlon bloom Of heaven.
Oh, was it not beautiful when a little
child heard that her playmate was dyin :
and she went to the house, and she
clambered upon the bed of her dying
playmate, and she said to the dying
playmate. "Whcre are you going to-"
and the dying girl SAID, Ppm going TO
Jesus" Then said the little glrl that
was well as she bent over to give the
parting kiss to her dying playmate,
swell, then, if you are going TO Jesus,
give my love to HIM." 1t is a bcauti ,ul
name, whether on the lips of childhood
or on the lips Of the old man. When my
father was dying the village minister
said to hlm, quoting over his pillow th.
passage, '"This Is faithful saying aud
worthy Of all acceptation-that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sim
ncrs," and there he stopped. Then my
father finished the quotation by saying,
"ot whom am chief"
But | remark again, in regard to this
name of Christ, that it is a mighty name.
Rothschlld is a name mighty in the com.
mcrclal world, Sllliman is Il name
mighty in the scientific world, Irving is
4 name mighty in the literary world.
Washington 1s a name uiighty In the
political world, Wellington Is name
mighty in the military world, but where
in all the earth is name so potent to
lit and thrill and arouse and rally and
. bless as the name Jesus? Why, the
sound OF that one name unhOrsed Saul
and threw Newton on his face on ships
deck, and that one name today, while |
speak, holds hundred million souls uD-
der omnipotent spell. That name in
England today means more than Vic
tor!ca. In Germany that name today
means more than Emperor William.
Oh, mighty name!
| have seen man bound hand and
foot Of the devil and captive of all evil
habits, at the sound Of that name dash
down his shacklcs and march out forever
Tree. l have seen man overcome of
misfortune and trial, every kind oftrouble
haG he; but at the sound Of that name
the sea dropped, and the clouds parted,
and the sunburst of eternal g!adness
poured upon his soul. / have seen a
man hardened in intidelity, deliaht Of
GOD, full of ieer and scofr, jocose of the
judgement day, reckless of eternity, at
the sound OF thatname blanch and cover
and groan and kncel and weep and re-
l pent and pray and believe and rejoice
+ and triumph.
| Oh, it is mighty name. Under its
l power the last temple ofsuperstition will
come down and the last Juggernaut of
lniquitY will be shattered to pieces. The
red horse of carnage, spoken Of in apoc-
alyptc vision; and the black horse of
l'tttCp hAu'I tOlhC DuCh Oll GilCll HuullCllCS, J.,
} while the white horse of victory goes
forth, mounted of HIM who hath the
!. moon under his feet and the stars of
, heaven Tor his tiara. Mighty name! 1t
Will first make the whole earth tremble,
aud then 1t will make all the nations
, sing. Mighty name!
Other dominions seem to be giving
, way; France had to give up some of her
, tavoritc 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 dstrl-
butor, every Bible printer, every Chris :
tian institution 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 pagoda. That name will swal-
low up all other names. That crown
will yet cover up all other crowns. That