Milford chronicle., 1892-05-06


informing wreathe it on the wall. Let j
drip from harp's string and let it thuu
I der out in organs diapason. Sound
a Noften, sound it well, until every sta
/ shall seem to shine it, and every howe
shall seem to breathe it, and mountain
and sea and day and night and eartl
= and heaven acclaim in full chant
BLESSED be his glorious name forever.
"The name which is above every name.
IT THRILLS IN SONG.
Have you ever heard in a Methods
church, during time of revival, ascor'
of souls come to the altar and cry on
for mercy under the power Of just two
lines of glorious old John Wesley?
Jesus, the name high over all,
In heaven or earth or sky.
To the repenting soul, to the exhausted
invalid, to the Sunday school girl, to the
snow white Octogenarian, it is beautiful
The aged man comes III from a long
walk, and he TREMENDOUSLY opens the dool
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 couch
and he says to his children and his
grandchildren, my dears, l am going
away from you" And they say, "Why,
where are you going, grandfather?
ooh, he says, Il 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 a 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 tor
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,
nWell, then, if you are going to Jesus,
give my love to him." It is beautiful
name, whether on the lips Of childhood
or on the lips of the old man. When my
father was uying 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 sim
ners," and 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 tits mighty name.
Rothschild is a name mighty in the COM
mercial world, Silliman is name
mighty in the scientific world, Irving is
name mighty in the literary world,
Washington is u name mighty in the pO-
ltical 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 Jesusg Why, the
sound Of that one name endorsed Saul
and threw Newton ON his face on ships
deck; and that one name today, while J
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 namel
1T ACTS LIKE A TALIsMAN.
l 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 thar
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 inhdelity, defiant of
God, full Of jeer and scoff, jOcose of the |
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 |
rejoice and triumph.
Oh, it is a mighty name. Under its /
power the last temple Of superstition |
will come down and the last Juggernaut |
of ini0uity 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 It viii first make the whole
earth tremble, and then it viii make all
the nations sing. Mighty namel
Other dominions seem to be giving
way; France had to give up some Of her
ravorite provinces; Spain has lost a great
deal of her power; many of the thrones
Of the world are being lowered; many of
The scepters Of the world are being
but every tract distributor,
every Bible printer, every Christian in
established spreads abroad the
mighty name of Christ It has already
been heard under the Chinese wall, and
N the Siberian snow castl and in the
Brazilian grove, and IN the eastern
Dagoda. That name will swallow up all
names. That crown will yet cover
Up all other crowns. That empire via
ret compass all Nominations.
III crimes shall cease and ancient fraudf shall
fail,
justice lift aloft her scale;
'eace DER the world her olive wand extend,
md white robed innocence from heaven de-
scend
WHO CAN FORGET THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN
But / remark again, taking a step for
ward in this subject, that the name Of
yhrist is an enduring name. You get
yer the fence of the graveyard and you
,ull the weeds back from the name that
las nearly faded from the tombstone,
nd You wish that Walter SCOTS 'Old
would come along and ne.
hisel it, so that you might really lind
mt what the name is Why, that was
he name Of the greatest man in all the