Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-05-02

everything that ,~ood and glorious and
tender and syln)a. l.ctic and kind. 1t is
aromatic Nll.l al osioTs. Ii Is accordant
with all ll;s,I!.0-Gles. S0n3ei ines, when
| look 1t that name of Jesus Christ, it
seems rs if he letters we're made of
tears, and then they seem to be gleam
ing crowns. Sometimes that name
seems to be twisted out of the straw on
which he lay, and then it seems to be
built out of the thrones on which his
people are to reign. Sometimes | sound
that word Jesus, and | hear III it the sob
of Gethsenlane and the groan Of Calvary,
and then [ speak his name and it is all
a-ripple with gladness asad airing 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 thun-
der out in organs diapason. Sound it
often, sound it well, until every star
shall seem to shine it, and every flower
shall seem to breathe it, and mountain
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"
IT THRILLS IN SONG.
Have you ever heard in IL 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.
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invalid, to the Sunday school girl, to the
snow white octogenarian, it is beautiful.
| The aged man comes in from a 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 couch,
and he says to his children and his
grandchildren, my dears, | am going
away from you" And they say, why,
where are you going, grandfather!
"Oh," he says, II 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 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, 81 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 little
child heard that her playmate was dy-
ing, and she went to the house, and she
clambered upon the bed Of her dying
play1nate. and she said to the dying
playmate, ''Where are you going to?''
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,
'.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 dying 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 sin
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 it is IL mighty name
Rothschild is name mighty in the com
mercial world, Silliman is a name
mighty in the scientific world, Irving Is
a name mighty in the literary world
Washington is a name mighty in the pc
litical world Wellington is IA name
mighty in the military world: but where
in all the earth is a name SO potent tt
lift and thrill and arouse and rally anC
bless as the name Jesus? Why, the
sound of that one name endorsed Sau
and threw Newton on his face on ships
deck: and that one name today, while
speak, holds hundred million souls I'm
der omnipotent spell. That name IL
England today means more than Vic
toria In Germany that name today
means more than Emperor William
Oh, mighty name!
1T ACTS LIKE A TALISMAN.
have seen d man bound hand ant
foot of the devil and captive Of all evi
habits. at the sound of that name das.
down his shackles and march out for
ever free have seen man overcom
of misfortune and trial, every kind o
trouble had he; but at the sound of tina
name the sea dropped, and the cloud
parted, and the sunburst Of eternal glad
ness poured upon his soul. | have seel
a man hardened in infidelity, defiant o
God, full Of jeer and scott, jocose of tn
Judgment day, reckless Of eternity, a
the sound of that name blanch AM
7 cover and groan and kneel and wee
and repent and pray and believe am
rejoice and triumph.
Oh, it is a mighty name. Under it
power the last temple of superstition
will come down and the last Juggernau