Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-07
REV. DR.. TALMAGB.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun,
day Sermon.
The Greatest Name of All"

thuslastle description OF the name Oh Christ
There are merely worldly names that some
times thrill you through and through. Such
was the name of Henry Clay to Kentuck-
ian, the name of William Writ to Virgin
ian, the name of Daniel Webster to New
Highlander.
By common proverb we have come to be-
leve that there is nothing in uame;n and
SO parents sometimes at the baptismal altar
gives titles to their children reckless of the
fact that that title, that name, will be alife-
time hindrance or a lifetime help. You
have no right to give your child name
lacking either in euphony or moral mean.
ing,
1t is sin to call a child Jehoiakim or
Tiglath- pileser-or by anything that is disa-
greeable. Because you have had an exas-
| Perating name yourself is no reason why
| you should inflict it upon your progeny.
| And yet how often it is that we sea a name
| full of jargon rafting down from generation
| to generation simply because long while
| ago some one happened to be afflicted with
it. institutions and great enterprises soma
/ times without sufficient elaboration take
nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been
decided by name. While we may by a
| long course of Christian behavior get over
| the misfortune of having been baptized with
! the name of a despot or cheat, how much
| better it would have been if we could have
| oil started life without any such incum-
| brancel
When Faul. in my text and in other pas
sages of Scripture, burst forth in aspirations
| of admiration for the name of Christ, want
! to inquire what are the characteristics OF
| that appel alton, 1.-The name which is above
every name" In the first pace. speaking to
/ you in regard to the name of Christ | 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 pronounced two or
three times before you risk trying to utter
them, but within the first two years the lit
tie child folds its hands and looks upward
and says Jesus"
Can it be thatin all this church this morn
ing 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 name| Some
times you forget the name of quite familiar
friend, AMI you have to think and think be-
fore you get it. but can you imagine any
freak of intellect by which you should for
get the name of Jesus? That word seems to
fit the tongue in every dialect Down to old
age, when the voice is tremulous and uncer-
tain and indstinct, even then this regal
word finds potent utterance.
When an aged father was dying one of
the children came and said, 'Father, do
you know meY' and in the delirium of the
last sickness he said, "No, 1 don't know
you" Another child came and said,
''Father, do you know me?7 NO." he said,
81 don't know you" Then the village pas
tor came in and said, "Dou you know meg
He said, mo; don't think lever saw you"
Then said the minister. "Do you know
Jesusp' ''Ob, yesf' 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 all
conditions is an easy name.
Jesus. love Thy charming name,
Ills music 10 my ear;
Fan would sound it ont 50 loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
But l remark further in regard TO this
name of Christ that it is a beautiful name
Now you have noticed that you cannot dis.
associate name from the character of the
person wto 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, happened
to know some persons of that name who
| were cross or sour, or queer or unsympa-
thetic, 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 unspeabably beautiful.
/ cannot pronounce the name in your
!
Gethsemane and Golgotha, and you see His
loving face, and you hear His tender voice,
and You feel His gentle touch. As soon as
l pronounce His name in your presence you
think of Hin VINO baDqueted with heavenly
hierarchs, yet came down and breakfasted
on the fish which the rough man hauled out
! of Genesaret; you think of Him who, though
the clouds are the dust of His feet, walked
footsore on the road to Emmaus.
i cannot speak His name in your hearing
this moring, but you think right away of
the shining one who restored the centurion's
daughter, and who helped the bind man to
sunlight. and who made the cripple's crutch
useless and who looked down into the laugh
ing eyes of the babe until it struggled to go
to Him; then, flinging His arms around it.
and impressing q kiss upon its beautiful
brow, sid: "Of such is the kingdom of
heaven"
Oh, beautiful name, the name Of Jesus
which stands for love, for patience, for self
sacrifice, for magnanimity, for everything
that is good and glorious and tender and
sympathetic and kindl 1t is aromatic with
all odors. 1t is accorjant with all harmonies
Sometimes when | look at that name of
Jesus Christ it seems as il the letters were
made of tears, and then they seem to be
cleaning crowns. Sometimes that nams
seems to be twisted out of the straw on
which He Law, and then it seems to bs built
TO reign. Sometimes l sound that word
Jesus and | hear in it the sob of Gethsemane
and the groan of Calvary, and then l speak
His name and it is all a ripple with gladness
and ring with hosanna. Glorious name!
Take all the glories of bookbindery and
put them around the page on which that
name is printed. On Christmas morning
wreathe it on the wall. Let it drip from
harp's string and let it thunder out in organs
diapason. Sound it often sound it we'll uu.
til every star shall seem to shine it, and every
flower shall seem TO breathe it and mount
ain and sea, and day and night, and earth
and heaven acclaim in full chant. BLESSED
be His glorious name forever" THE name
which is above every name.h
Have you ever heard in a Methodist
church, during time of revival, a score of
souls come to the altar aud cry out for mercy
under the power of just two lines of glorious
cid John Wesley?
Jesus the name high over all,
In heaven, or earth or sky.
Tc the repenting soul to the exhausted in.
valid, to the Sunday school girl, to the snow
white octogenarian it is beautiful. The
aged man comes in from long walk, and he
TREMENDOUSLY opens 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 lies on his
caaeh, and he says to his children and his
grandchildren, MY dears, am going away
from you And they say, why, where
are you going, granifatherY 'Oh," ne says,
~ 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, Pm SO sick, Pm 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 Civ
ing the medicine, she looks up in your face
and says, Mamma, Pm going away from
you" You say, "WhY, where are you go
ing, my darlingy And she says, II am 60
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.
OBJ, was it not beautiful when q little
child hearl that her p aymate was dyin~,
and she went to the house, and she c,ambered
upon the bed of her dying playmate.
/ "Where are you going tor aud the dying
girl said, Ppm going to Jesus" Then said
the little girl that was well as she bent over
to give the parting kiss to her dying play
mate, 'Well, then,i il 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 10 him.
/ quoting over his pillow this passage, This
is faithful saying and worthy of all ac-
ceptation-that Christ Jesus camp into the
world to save sinners, land there he stopped.
| Then my father finished the quotation by
| saying. 'of whom am chief"
But remark again, in regard to this
name of Christ, that it is a mighty name.
/ Rothschild is name mighty in the com
mercial world, Sillinan is name mighty IN
the scientific world, Irving is a name mighty
in the literary world Washington is a name
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