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

the Person Who Bears 1t.
BROOKLYN, May 1.-While DR.. Tai
mage is able to hold vast audiences spell
bound by his eloquence, whatever sub
ject he has in hand. he is never so elo-
quent, or so evidently great orator, as
when he breaches Christ as the one hope
for the regeneration of the world. The
fact was proved this morning when he
discoursed from the text, Philippians ii,
9, The name which is above every
name"
Paul is here making rapturous and
enthusiastic description of the name of
Christ. There are merely worldly names
that sometimes thrill you through and
through. Such was the name of Henry
Clay to q Kentuckian, the name of Vii
liam Writ to Virginian, the name Of
Daniel Webster to New Highlander.
By common proverb we have come TO
believe that there is nothing in g
@name;" and SO parents sometimes at the
baptismal altar give titles to their chill
dren, reckless of the fact that that title,
that name, will be lifetime hindrancc
or lifetime help. You have no riga:
to give your child name lacking
either in euphoHy or moral meaning.
1t is a sin 20 call child Jehoiakim OF
Tiglath- pileser, or by anything that is
disagreeable. Because you have had an
exasperating name yourself is no reason
why you should infiict it upon your
progeny, and yet how often it is that we
see name full of jargon rafting down
from generation to generation simply
because a long while ago some one hap
pened to be afflicted with it. lnstitu-
lions and great enterprises sometimes
without sufficient deliberation take no
menclature. Mighty destinies have been
decided by name. While we may by
a long course of Christian behavior get
over the misfortune of having been bap-
tized with the name of a despot or a
cheat, how much better it would have
been if we could have all started life
without any such incumbrance!
SWEET TO THE MEMORY.
When Paul, in my text and in other
passages of Scripture, burst forth in as
pirations of admiration for the name of
Christ, | want to inquire what are the
characteristics of that appellation, ''The
name which is above every name" In
the first place, speaking to you in regard
to the name of Christ, want to tell you
it is an easy name. You are sometimes
introduced to people with long and I'M
pronounceable names, and you have to
listen cautiously to get the names, and
YOU have to hear them pronounced two
or three times before you risk trying to
utter them; but within the first two
years the little child folds its hands AND
looks upward and says Jesus
Can it be that in all this church this
morning there are representatives of any
household where the children are fa-
miliar with the names of the father and
mother and brother and sister, yet know
nothing about '.that name which is above
every name?" Sometimes you forget the
name of quite familiar friend, and you
have to think and think before you get it;
but can you imagine any freak of intel
lect by which you should forget the
name of Jesus? That word seems to fit
the tongue in every dialect. Down to
old age, when the voice is tremulous and
uncertain and indistinct, even then this
regal word finds potent utterance.
When an aged father was dying, one
of the children came and said, ''Father,
do you know me- and in the delirium
of the last sickness he said, No, don't
know you Another child came and
said, Father, do you know me?'' mo, .
he said, Il don't know you Then the
village pastor came in and said, DO you
know me?' He said. mo; | don't think
l ever saw YOU" Then said the minis
ter, do you know jesus" ''Oh, yesr
said the dying man, Il know Jesus
chief among ten thousand is he, and the
one altogether lovely" Yes, for all
ages and for all languages, and for al
conditions is an easy name.
Jesus. l love thy chamng name,
TITS EQusic to my ear;
Fain would sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear.
LOVELY NAMES IN SCRIPTURE.
But | remark further in regard to this
name of Christ, that it is beautiful
name. Now you have noticed that yor
cannot disaSSociate a name from the
character of the person who has 1t
There are some names, for instance, tina
are repulsive to my ear. Those name;
are attractive to your ear. What is the
difference Why, l happened to know
some persons of that name who were
cross OF sour or queer or unsympa
thetic, and the persons you have hap
pened to know of that name were kline
and genial Since, then, we cannot dis
associate name from the character O.
the person who has the name, that con
sideration makes the name of Jesus I'm
speakably beautiful.
cannot pronounce that name in you
presence, but you think of Bethlehem
Gethsemane and Golgotha, and you SCI
his loving face, and you hear his tende
voice, and you feel his gentle touch. A
soon as l pronounce his name in you
presence you think of him who banquet
ed with heavenly hierarchs, yet CAM
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