News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-05-05

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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
"Oh," he says, 81 am going to Jesusr'
and so the old man faints away into
heaven.
And the little child comes in from
play and she filings herself into your
lap, and she says, Mamma, I'm so sick;
I'm so very sick" and you put her to
bed and the fever is worse and worse,
and some midnight while you are shak-
ing up the pillow and giving the medi-
cine she looks up in your face and says,
Mamma, I'm going away from you"
You say, why, where are you going,
my darling?" And she says, Il am go
ing 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.
Oh, was it not beautiful when little
child heard that her playmate was dy-
ing, and she went to the house, and she
clambered upon the bed of her dying
playmate. and she said to the dying
playmate, Where are you going to-"
and the dying girl said, I'm going to
Jesus" Then said the little girl that
was well, as she bent over to give the
parting kiss to her dying playmate,
'.Well, then, if you are going to Jesus,
give my love to him." 1t is a beautiful
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 him, quoting over his pillow this
passage, This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sin
ners," and there he stopped. Then my
father finished the quotation by saying,
..of whom | am chief" g
But remark again, in regard to this
name of C1lI isJ, that it Is a mighty name.
Rothschild is a name mighty in the COM
| mercial world, Silliman is a name
mighty in the scientific world, Irving is
name mighty in the literary world,
Washington is name mighty in the po-
litical world, Wellington is a name
mighty in the military world; but where
in all the earth is a name SO potent to
lift and thrill and arouse and rally and
bless as the name Jesus? Why, the
sound of that one name endorsed Saul
and threw Newton ON his face ON ships
deck; and that one name today, while
speak, holds hundred million souls I'M
der omnipotent spell. That name in
England today means more than Vic
toria In Germany that name today
means more than Emperor William.
Oh, mighty name!
IT ACTS LIKE A TALISMAN.
have seen a man bound hand and
foot of the devil and captive of all evil
habits, at the sound of that name dash
down his shackles and march out for
ever free. | have seen a man overcome
of misfortune and trial, every kind of
trouble had he; but at the sound of that
name the sea dropped, and the clouds
parted, and the sunburst of eternal glad |
ness poured upon his soul. | have seen !
a man hardened in infdelity, defiant of !
God, full of jeer and scoff, jocose of the |
judgment day, reckless of eternity, at |
the sound of that name blanch and |
cover and groan and kneel and weep |
and repent and pray and believe and J
rejoice and triumph.
Oh, it is q mighty name. Under its |
power the last temple of superstition |
will come down and the last Juggernaut |
of iniqRity 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 |
1ameI 1t viii 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 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
1agc3a, Tlaa. name will swallow up 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 the world her olive wand extend,
And white robed innocence from heaven de- |
scend.
WHO CAN FORGET THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN? |
But remark again, taking step for |
ward 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 tombstone |
and you wish that Walter SCOTS "Old |
Mortality" would come along and re- |
chisel 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 tomb |
stone.
And so the greatest names of this |
world either have persisted, or are perish
ing Gregory VI, Sancho of Spain, |
Conrad | of Germany, Richard l of Eng |
land, 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 rev.
erence. But the name of Christ is en-
during forever. 1t will be preserved in
the worlds fine art. There will be other
Bellinis to sketch the Madonna, and |
other Ghirlandaajos to present the bap-
tism of Christ, and other Bronzinos to |
show Christ visiting the spirits in prison.
and other Giottos to appal the vision
with the Crucifxion. 1t will be pre-
served in the worlds literature.
There will be other Alexander Popes
TO write the Messiah" and other DIR.
Youngs to celebrate his triumph and
other Cowpers to sing his love. 1t will
be preserved in the worlds grand and
elaborate architecture, and Protestant
ism shall yet have its st. Marks and
st. Peters. 1t shall be preserved in
the worlds literature, for there viii DO
other Paleys to write the Evidences of
Christianity" More than all, it will be
embalmed in the hearts of all the good |
of earth and all the great ones of heav-
en- Shall the emanciDated hondmau