The Globe-republican., 1892-05-16

drip from the harp's string and let it
thunder out In organs diapason. Sound
it often, sound it we'll, until every star
shall seem to shine it, and every flower
shall seem to breathe 1t, and mountain
and sea and day and night and earth and
Heaven acclaim il full chant BLESSED
be His glorious name forever" 1.-The
name which is above every name"
Have you ever heard in q Methodist
church, during time of revival, a score
of souls come to the altar and cry out 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 ex-
hausted invalid, to the Sundav-school
girl, to the snow white octogenarian, it
from long walk. and he TREMENDOUSLY
opens the door Of his home, and 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, I am
going away from you" And they say,
why where are you going. grand
iather?" oh" he says, Il am going to
jesus. anu tuc Oiu mdu 1dluIS away
into Heaven.
And the little child comes in from play
and she filings herself into your lap, and
she says, Mamma, I'm sick: I'm so very
sick; and you put her to bed and the
fever is worse and worse, and some mid
night while you are shaking up the pill
low and giving the medicine she looks
up in your face and says. Mamma, I'm
going away from you You say, "Why.
where are you going, nv darling?" And
she says, Il 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.
Oh, was it not beautiful when q 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. Il am going to Jesus. :"
Then said the little girl that was we'll,
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 dy-
ing the village minister said to him,
quoting over his pillow this passage,
This is faithful saying and worthy
Of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners" and
there he stopped. Then my father fin
ished the quotation by saying. ''of whom
am chief"
But / remark again, in regard to this
name OF Christ, that it is mighty name.
Rothschild is name mighty in the COM
mercial world. Silliman is name mighty
in the scientific world. Irving is name
mighty in the literary world, Washing
ton is name mighty in the political
world, Wellington is name mighty in
the military world; but where in all
the earth is 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 to-day, while l speak,
holds hundred million souls under
omnipotent spell. That name in England
to-day means more than Victoria. In
Germany that name to-day means more
than Emperor William. Oh, mighty
name!
have seen man bound hand and
foot of the devil and captive of all evil
habits, at the sound of that name dash
down his ShackieS and march out for
ever free. | have seen 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 l have seen
man hardened in infidelity, defiant of
God, full of jeer and scott. jocose Of the
judgment day, reckless OF eternity. at
the sound of that name blanch and
cover and groal and kneel and weep
and repent and pray and believe and re.
joice and triumph.
Oh, 1t is q 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
name. 1t will first make the whole
earth tremble. and then it will make all
Other dominions seem to be giving
way: France had to give up some of her
farorite 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
pagoda- That name will swallow up all
other names. That crown will vet cover
up all other crowns That emotion will
yet compass all Nominations
AL 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 l remark again, taking a 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 Won wish that Walter ScOtt'S sVOld