The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-05-13

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Tslmage IS able to hold vast audiences spell
hound by his eloquence whatever subject he
has in hand, he Is never so eloquent, or so eyi
IDENTIFY q great orator as when he breaches
Christ as the one hope for the regeneration Of
che world. The fact was proved this morning
when he dscoursed from the text Philippians
"a 1.-The 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,' Such was the
name of Henry Clay to Kentuckian,
che name of William Writ to Virgin
ian, the name of Daniel Webster to a
New Highlander
ny conm0nlproverb we have come to
believe that "there is nothing in a
NAME" and so parents sometimes at
the baptisinal altar give titles to their
children, reckless of the fact that that
title, that name, will be a lifetime hind
rance or lifetime help. You have no
right to give your child name lacking
either in euphony or moral meaning.
tits d sin to call child Jehoia1im,
or Tiglath- pileser--or by any
thing that is disagreeable
because you have had an eXasperating
name yourself is no reason why you
should inict it upon your progeny
And vet how often it is that we see u
name full of jargonrattling down from
generation to generation, simply be-
cause long while ago some one hap
pened to be afflicted with it Institu-
GiGDs and great enterprises sometimes
without sufficient deliberation take
nomenclature. Mighty destinies have
been decided by u name. While we
may, by long course of Christian be-
havior, get over the misfortune OF hav-
ing been baptized with the name Of u
despot or cheat, how much better it
would have been If we could have all
started life without any such incum-
br0nce!
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,
s"The name which is above every name
In the first place, speaking to You in
regard to the name of Christ, want to
cell you it is an easy name. You are
sometimes introduced to people with
long and unpronounceable names, and
You have to listen cautiously to get the
names, and you have to hear them pro-
noHnced two or three times before you
risk trying to utter them; but within
the first two years the child folds its
hands and looks upward, and
saws Jesus" Can it be
that in all this church this morning
Chere are representatives of any house
hold where the children are familiar
with the names of the father and
mother and brother and sister, yet
know nothing about that name which
lis above every Nance" Sometimes you
forget the name of n 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
GOngue in every dialect, Down to old
1gc, when the voice is tremulous, and
uncertain, and indistinct, even then
this regal word finds potent utterance,
when an aged father was dying, one
,I,tIIrn,, u,,1 cniI
"'Father, do you know me?" and in the
delirium of the last sickness he said,
@'No, don't know you" Another child
came and said, "Father, do you know
me2' mo, he SAID, 81 don't know you. u
Then the village pastor came in and
said, $40 you know me?" He said
''No, don't think ever saw you,
Then said the minister, "Do you know
Jesus?" "Oh yesr said the dying
man, 81 know Jesus chief among ter
thousand is he, and the one altogether
lovely" Yes, for all ages and for al
languages, and for all conditions is NJ
easy name.
Jesus, love thy charming name,
7Tis music to my car;
Urain would / sound IL out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
But l remark further in regard tc
this name of Christ, that it is u beauti-
full name, Now you have noticed that
you cannot disassociate name from
the character of the person who has it
There are some names, for instance
chat are repulsive to my ear. Those
names are attractive to your ear. What
is the difference? Why, happen Il
know some persons of that name who
were cross, or sour, or queer, or unsym
pathetic, and the persons you have
happened to know of that name were
kind and genial.
Since, then, we cannot disassociate q
name from the character of the person
who has the name, that consideration
makes the name of Jesus unspealiably
beautiful, | cannot pronounce that
name in your presence, but you think
of bethlehem and Gethsemane an6
Gtlgotha, and you see his loving face
and you hear his tender voice, and vor
feel his gentle touch. AS soon as
pronounce his name in your presensC
you think of him who banqueted
with heavenly hierarchs, yet came
down and breakfasted on the fist
which the rough men hauled out Of
Genesaret; You think of him who,
slough the clouds are the dust Of his
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Emmaus. cannot speak his name in