The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-05-06

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! look at t at name OF Jesus Christ. i
seems as II .he letters were made 0
! tears, and then they seem to be CLEAN
! ing crowns Sometimes that name
seems to be twisted out of the straw OF
which he lay, and then it seems to b,
built out Of the thrones on which his
people are to reign. Sometimes sounC
that word Jesus, and hear init the sol
Of Gethsemane and the groan Of Calvary
and then speak his name and it is al
a-ripple with gladness and airing witt
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 il
"Trip from harp's string and let it thun-
der out in organs diapason. Sound ii
often, sound it we'll 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. y
The name which is above every name. >
IT THRILLS IN SONG.
Have you ever heard in a Methodist
church, during a 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 exhausted
| invalid, 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 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. 81 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
pSi dllN pllV ICNCl - NOiSV flhd WOISt,
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 ont 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
playmate, and she said to the dying
playmate, Where are you going to-"
and the dying girl said, Pm 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 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, "Tnis is a 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 "a mighty name.
Rothschild is a name mighty in the com
mercial world, Silliman is 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 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 Jesus? Why the
sound of that one name endorsed Saul
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 in
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 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 man overcome
Of misfortune and trial, every kind of
trouble had ne: 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. have seen
a man hardened in infdelity, 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 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 iniuuity will be shattered to pieces.
The red horse of carnage. spoken of in
lpocalyptic vision, and the black horse
IF death must come back on their
launches. while the white horse of vic
tory goes forth, mounted of him who