The Forrest City times., 1892-05-06
THE NAME OF JESUS.
HOW IT APPEARS TO DR. TAIL
 MAGE
A Beautiful Sunday Morning Sermon h the Brooklyn Isbernaele-rhe Great Pulpit Orator on Names for the Little Ones.

Talmage is able to hold vast auaieuccs spell bound by his eloQuence. whatever SIesecf he has in hand. he Is never so eloquent, CT 90 eHl- denty great orator as when he rreScaeS Christ as the one hope for the regeneration ef inc world. The fact was proved this morning when he discoursed from the text Philippians ?: g. "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 a kentuckian, the name of William Wirt to a Virgin ian, the name of Daniel Webster to New Englander.
 Ky common proverb we have come to believe that "there is nothing in a name." and so parents sometimes at the baptismal altar give titles to their children, reckless of the fact that that title, that name, will be lifetime hind rance or a lifetime help. You have no right to give your child name lacking either in euphony or moral meaning. It is sin to call a child Jehoiakim, or Tiglath- h-pileser-or by any IHlnR IHdL IS Because you have had an exasperating name yourself is no reason why you should inlet it upon your progeny. And yet how often it is that we see name full of jargon rattling down from generation to generation. simply be- cause a long while ago some one hap pened to be afflicted with it Institu- tions and great enterprises sometimes without sufficient deliberation take nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been decided by a name. While we may. by long course of Christian be- havior, get over the misfortune of hay ing been baptized with the name of despot or a cheat, how much better 1t would have been if we could have all started life without any such incum- branee!
 When Paul, in my text and in other passages of Scripture, burst forth in as prations of admiration for the name of Christ, I want to inquire what are the characteristics of that appellation, 1.-The name which is above every name. ;" In the first place, speaking to you in regard to the name of Christ, l want to tell you it is an easy name. You are sometimes introduced to people with 1 long and unpronounceable names, and you have to listen cautiously to get the names, and you have to hear them pro- | nounced two or three times before you risk trying to utter them but within the first two years the child folds it's hands and looks upward, and says ''Jesus." Can it be that in all this church this morning l there are representatives of any house. hold where the children are familiar 1 with the names of the father and mother and brother and sister, yet know nothing about that name which l is above every name?" Sometimes you l forget the name of a quite familiar 1 friend, and you have to think and | think before you get it; but can you | imagine any freak of intellect by which you should forget the name o1 l Jesus? That word seems to fit the 1 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 l of the children came and said
 Father, do you know me?" and in the
 delirium of the last sickness he said
 "No. I don't know you" Another child
 came and said, Father do you know
 me?'' No, he sald 'I don't know you. ,
 Then the village pastor came in and
 said, ''Do you know me?" He said
 No, don't think I ever saw you. l Then said the minister, Do you know
 Jesus?" ''Oh yesr' said the dying
 man, ''I know Jesus; chief among ter
 thousand is he, and the one altogether
 lovely" Yes, for all ages and for al lanpuages, and for all conditions is ar
 easy name.
 Jesus love thy charming name
 l '1is music to my ear;
 Fain would sound 1t out so loud
 That heaven and earth might hear But I remark further in regard tc
 this name of Christ, that it is beauti-
 ful name. Now you have noticed thai
 you cannot disassociate name iron 1 the character of the person who has 1t | There are some names, for instance
 that are repulsive to my car. Those
 names are attractive to your ear. Whai
 is the difference? Why, happen tC
 know some persons of that name whC
 were cross, or sour, or queer, or unsym
 pathetic, and the persons you have | happened to know of that name were
 kind and genial.
 Since, then, we cannot disassociate
 name from the character of the person who has the name, that consideration
 makes the name of Jesus unspeakablS beautiful. l cannot pronounce thai
 name in your presence, but you thinf | of Bethlehem and Gethsemane anC
 Golgotha, and you see his loving face
 and you hear his tender voice, and vol
 feel his gentle touch. As soon as pronounce his name in your presens' you think of him who banqueteo with heavenly hierarchs, yet came down and breakfasted on the hsl which the rough men hauled out o' Genesaret; you think of him who
 though the clouds are the dust of hi'
 let. walked footsore on the road t' Emmaus. cannot speak his name 1T
 your hearing this morning. but yot
 think right away of the shining on'
 who restored the centurion's daughter
 and who helped the blind man to sun light. and who made the cripple'' I and who looked dOxT