The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-13

| And they say: why, where are you
going, grandfather?" 'Or' he says,
81 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 sick" and 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.
o! 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 top
and the dying girl said, I'm going to
Jesus" Then said the little girl that
=
parting kiss to her dying playmate,
well, then, if you are going to Jesus
give my love to Him" 1t is beautiful
name, whether on the lips of childhood
or on the lips of the old man.
But l remark again. in regard to this
name of Christ, that it is a mighty name.
Rothschild is name mighty in the
al &c
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 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.
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
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
man hardened in infidelity, defiant of
God, full of jeer and scoff, jocose of the
Judgment day, reckless of eternity, at
the solnd of that name blanche, and
cover. and groan. and kneel, and weep,
and repent, and pray, and believe, and
rejoice and triumph.
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
namel 1t will first make the whole
earth tremblc, and then it will make all
the nations sing. Mighty namel
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 pagO-
da. That name will swallOwupall 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-
But | remark again, taking a 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 Scott's
''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 perished 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. 1t will be preserved in the worlds
grand and elaborate architecture, and
professionalism shall yet have its st.
Marks and its ST Peters IL shall be
preserved in the worlds literature, for
there shall be other Paleys TO write the
Evidences of Christianity" More
than all, it will be embalmed in the
hearts of all the good of earth. aud all
the great ones Of Heaven. Shall the
emancipatcd bondman ever forget who
set him free? Shall the blind man ever
forget the Divine Physician who gave
him sight? Shall the lost and wander
ing ever forget who brought them
home? Why, to make the world forget
that name would be to burn up all the
Bibles, and burn down all the churches
and then, in the spirit of univer-
sal arson, go through the gate of
Heaven and put the torch to all the
temples and mansions and palaces, until
in the awful confiagration all Heaven
went down, and the people came out TO
ll. III, IL, r.a.l min. l,t