The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

| church, during d 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, ii 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 80 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 awat from you
You say, why, where are you going,
my darlingY And she says, "a am go,
ing to Jesus" And the red cheek that
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
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,
"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 aceeptation, 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 a name
mighty in the scientific world, Irving is
name mighty in the literary world,
Washington is name mighty in the po-
litical world, Wellington is o 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 today, while /
speak, holds hundred million souls I'M
der onnipotent 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 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 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. have seen
man hardened in intidelity, 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 mighty name. Under it's
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
the nations sing, Mighty name!
Other dominions seem to be giving
way; France had to give up some of her
favorite 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 empire will
| yet compass all Nominations.
| All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall
fail
Returning Justice lift aoft her scale;
| Peace DER the world her olive wand extend,
And white robed innocence from heaven de-
scend.
| WHO CAN FORGET THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN
But remark again, taking 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 you wish tl.at Walter SCOTS "Old
Mortality" would come along and re-
chisel it, so that lou might really lind
out what the name is. Why, that was
the name of the greatest man in all the
town. in all the country, in all the
state, now almost faded from the tomb
! stone.
And SO the greatest names of this
world either have persisted, or are perish
ing Gregory vi, Sancho of Spain
Conrad of Germany, Richard of Eng
land, Catherine of Russia Those names
were once mighty, and they made the
earth tremble. Who cares for then
now? None SO poor as to do them rev
erence. But the name of Christ is en-
during forever. 1t will be preserved il
the worlds fine art. There will be Other