The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-13

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and earth and Heaven acclaim In full
chant, blessed be His glorious name
| forever" ''The name which Is above
every name"
Have you ever heard in q Methodist
church, during q time of revival, a score
F, 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 oil,
In Heaven, or earth, or sky.
To the repenting soul, to the ex-
hausted invalid, TO the Sunday school
girl, to the snow white octogenarian,
IL is beautiful. The aged nan 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, l am going away from you"
And they say: ''Why where are you
going, grandfatherp" cor he 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, I'm SO sick, I'm
80 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 giving the medicine,
she looks up in your face and says,
mamma, I'm going away from you"
You say, "Where arc you going, my
darling?" And h says, ~ 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.
But I remark again, in regard to this
name Of Christ, that 1t is u mighty name.
Rothschild is n name mighty In. the
commercial world; Silliman is n name
mighty in the scientific world; Irving il
a name mighty In the literary world;
Washington Is q name mighty in the
political world; Wellington Is q name
mighty In the military world; but
where in all the earth Is n name so po-
tent to lift, and thrill, and arouse, and
rally, and bless rs the name Of Jesus?
Why, the sound of that one name un-
horsed Saul and threw Newton on his
face on ships deck; and that one name
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million souls under omnipotent spell.
o! It Is a 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
ap~ocalyptic 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! It win first make the whole
earth tremble, and then It will make oil
the nations sing. Mighty name!
Other dominions seem to be giving
way; France had to give up some Of hel
favorite provinces; Spain has lost u grca,
deal Of her power; many of the thrones
Of the world are being lowered; many
Of the sccpters Of the world are being
shortened, but every tract distributor
every Bible printer, every Christian in
stitution established spreads abroad ths
mighty name of Christ. 1t has already
been heard under the Chinese wall ant
in the Siberian SNOW castle and In thu
Brazilian grove and in the eastern pagO
da. That name will swallow up all othe,
names. That crown will yet cover III
oil other crowns. That empire will ye
compass all Nominations.
All crimes shall censc and ancient frauds shal
, fail
Returning justice lift nloft her scale;
Peace DER the world her olive wand extend,
. And white-robed innocence from Heaven dc
scend.
, But l remark again, taking II STE
forward in this subject, that the nam'
' Of Christ IL an enduring name. 70,
, get over the fence of the graveyard an,
you pull the weeds back from the nam
that has nearly faded from the tomb
stone and you wish that Walter Scott
"Old Mortality" would come along an,
rechisel 1t so that you might really fin'
out what the name is. Why, that wa
the name of the greatest man in all tn
t town, in all the country in all the state
. now almost faded from the tombstone
And so the great names of this worl
either have persisted or are perishinl
Q Gregory VI, Sancho, Of Spain; Coma
{ l., of England; Catherine, of Russia
O Those names were once mighty, an
O they made the earth tremble. VIII
cares for them now? None so poe
as to do them reverence. Br
e the name Of Christ Is enduring forevei
l. It will be preserved In the worlds fin
q art. 1t will be preserved in the world
70 grand and elaborate architecture, an
o professionalism shall yet have its s
|. Marks and its st. Peters. 1t shall |
IT preserved in the worlds literature. Il
there shall be other Paleys to write tn
u evidences of Christianity" Mo,
II than all, it will be embalmed in Il
Is hearts Of all the good of earth, and a
IT the great one of Heaven. Shall IL
emancipated bondman ever forget WI
et set him free? Shall the blind man ev,
he forget the Divine Physician who ga,
1t him sight? Shall the lost and wandc
ing ever forget who brought the
st homer Why, to make the world forg
IN that name would be to burn up all u
n Bibles, and burn down all the church,
ar and then, in the spirit of unive
TX sal arson, go through the gate
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