Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-05-05

children, reckless OF the TACT tndt tnaU
title, that name, will be lifetime hind
rance or lifetime help. You have no
right to give your child a name lacking
either in euphony or moral meaning.
1t is sin to call child Jehoialsim,
or Tiglath- by any
thing that is disagreeable.
Because you have had an exasperatipg
name yourself is no reason why you
should inlet it upon your progeny.
And yet how often it is that we see a
name fril of jargon rafting down from
generation to generation, simply be-
cause long while ago some one hap
pened to be afflicted with it. Institu-
tions and great enterprises sometimes
without sufficient deliberation take
nomenclature. Mighty destinies have
been decided by name. While we
may, by a long course of Christian be-
havior, get over the misfortune of hav-
ing been baptized with the name of a
despot or cheat, how much better it
would have been if we could have all
started life without any such incum-
brance!
When Paul, in my text and in other
passages of Scripture, burst forth in as
piratiors of admiration for the name of
Christ, want to inquire what are the
characteristics of that appellation,
''Thc name which is above every name"
In the first place, speaking to you in
regard to the name of Christ, l want to
tell 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-
nounced two or three times before you
risk trying to utter them; but within
the first two years the child folds it's
hands and looks upward, and
saws Jesus" Can it be
that in all this church this morning
there 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
is above every nance" Sometimes you
forget the name of 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
tongue in every dialect. Down to old
age, when the voice is tremulous, and
uncertain, and indistinct, even then
this regal word finds potent utterance.
Ga I,,i
of the children came and said,
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
me?" mo, he SAID, 81 don't know you.
Then the village pastor came in and
said, do you know me?" lie said,
mo, | don't think ever saw you. ="
Then said the minister, do you know
Jesus?'' "Oh yes!'': said the dying
man, II know Jesus; chief among ten
thousand is he, and the one altogether
lovely" Yes, for all ages and for all
languages, and for ali conditions is an
easy name.
Jesus love thy charming name,
'Tis music to my ear:
Fain would sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear
But | remark further in regard to
this name of Christ, that it is beauti-
full name. Now you have noticed that
you cannot disassociate a name from
the character of the person who has it.
There are some names, for instance,
that are repulsive to my ear. Those
names are attractive to your ear. What
is the difference? Why, l happen tc
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 a
name from the character of the person
who has the name, that consideration
makes the name of Jesus unspeakably
| beautiful. / cannot pronounce thai
name in your presence, but you thinl
! of Bethlehem and Gethsemane anC
! Golgotha, and you see his loving face
and you hear his tender voice, and yor
feel his gentle touch. AS soon as
pronounce his name in your presenst
you think of him who banquetet
with heavenly hierarchs, yet cam,
down and brealfasted on the fisl
which the rough men hauled out o
Genesaret; you think of him who
though the clouds are the dust of hi
feet, walked footsore on the road t.
Emmaus. ! cannot speak his name il
your hearing this morning, but yo'
think right away of the shining on
who restored the centurion's daughter
and who helped the blind man to sun
light, and who made the cripple
crutch useless, and who looked dow
into the laughing eyes of the babe un
til it struggled to go to him; the n
fiinging his arms around it, and i'm
pressing kiss upon its beautiful brow
said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven
Oh, beautiful name, the name O
Jesus, which stands for love, for pa
thence, for self-sacritice, for magnanim
ity, for everything that is good, an
glorious, and tender, and sympathetic
and kind 1t is aromatic with all odors
II is accordant with all harmonies
Sometimes when look at that name c
Jesus Christ it seems as IL the letter
were made of tears, and then they seer
TO be cleaning crowns. Sometime
that name seems 10 be twisted out {
the straw on which he lay, and then
seems to be built out of the thrones o
which his people are to reign. Some
/ times | sound that word Jesus, and
hear it in the sob of Gethsema ne a
I the groan of Calvary, and then spea
, his name and it is all a-ripple wit
! gladness and airing with hosanni
Glorious name!
: But there is another name by whic
r You can call him. Perhaps that will
the name | have not mentioned yet.
imagine that heaven is all full. Ever
throne has its king Every harp has i
z harper. All the wealth of the univei,
h hasscome into heaven. There is notl
;, ing to be added. The song full. II
d ranks full. The mansions all full
e Heaven full. The sun will set afire vii