The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-07-08
CONTRARY WINDS.
u,,v Persons Are Under the De-
advantage of an Unfortunate Name.
~ Labor Under the Misfortune OF
Incomplete Physical Eqn'pment-Dr.
Talmsges Il autiful Sermon OF r.
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nr Talmace took for his sermon
.,aerbiect ''Contrary Winds, and the
.avt Matthew xiv, Il, the winds was
contrary
Az well know by experience on
Lake GaliIee, one hour all may be calm
ond the next hour the winds and waves
will be so boisterous that you are in
do,bt as to whether you will land on
tho shore or on the bottom Of the deep.
The disciples in the text We're caught
~ such a stress of weather and the
calls bent aud the ship plunged, for
.the wind was contrary" There Is in
one of the European straits a place
where. whichever way you sail, the
winds are opposing. There are peo-
,,e who all their life seem sailing in
The teeth Of the wind. All things
seem against them. 1t may be said of
their condition as OF that Of the dis
eiples in my text, the wind was con-
trary."
great multitude of people are un-
der seeming disadvantage, and L Will
to-day in the swarthicst Anglo-SlNon
that can manage, treat tleir cases
not as nurse counts out eight or ten
drops of a prcscriptio ION and stirs them
in half glass Of water, but as when
man has By mistake taken large
amount of strychnine or paris green
or belladonna, AMI the patient is
walked rapidly round the room and
shaken up until he gets wide awake.
Many OF you have taken large
draught of the poison of discourage
ment. an come out by the order of
the Divine Physician to rouse you out
of that lethargy.
First, many pc ople are under the dis
advantage Of an unfortunate name
given them by parents who thought
they were doing good thing Some
times at the baptism Of children while
have held up one hand in prayer |
have held up the other hand in amaze
ment that parents should have weight
ed the b be with such a disSOnant and
repulsive nome nclature. | have not
so much wondered that some children
should cry out at the christening font
as that others with such smiling face
should take title that will be the
burden of their lifetime 1t is out
rageous to a afii!ct children with an I'M
desirable name because it happened to
be possessed by parent or rich un-
Gle from whom favors are expected or
some prominent man of the day who
may end his life in disgrace. 1t is no
excuse, because they are Scripture
names, to call child Jehoiakim or
Tiglath- PiIeser. | baptized one by
the name Bathsheba. Why, under all
the circumambient heaven, any parent
should want to give to child the
name OF that loose creature of Scripture
times | can not imagine. | have often
felt at the baptismal altar, when
names were announced to me, like
saying, as did Rev. DR. Richards,
OF Morristown, y. j., when child
was handed him for baptism and the
name given, Hadn't yol better call it
something else?"
Impose not upon that babe name
suggestive of fippancy or meanness.
AoSAS 10 lio NNNuoC Ici Sut II fiSSd VI
and battery on the cradle when our
language is opulent with na:ncs music
al and suggestive in meaning. such as
John, meaning the gracious gift OF
TOD, or Henry. meaning the thie1
OF household" or Alfred, meaning
good counselor, or Joshua, meaning G
tod, our salvatlon,' or Ambrose,
M. -
meaning 'mHnly," or Esther, meaning
star" or Abigail, meaning my
iatners joy or Anna, meaning
grace" or Victoria, meaning vic
.ory, Or Rosalic, meaning ''beauti-
iui as rose or Margaret, meani n 9
apearl,' or Ida, meaning ''godli Ike,
or Clara, meaning 'illustr.ous,' OF
Amelia, meaning "busy,' or Bertha
meaning beautiful and hundreds O.
osner names just as good that are {
heip rather than hndrance.
nut sometimes the great hindranct
"a iiie is not in the given name, bu'
u the family name. While legis
lures are willing to lift such incubus
'here are families which keep ;
name which mortgages all the gen
.a'ions !, with great disldva n tage
lou say, Il wonder if ne is any rela
.ioh to "So-and-sc," mentioning som.
'snliy cele brated for crime or decep
'ion' 1t is wonder to ne that in al
soeh families some spirited young mar
aoes not rise, saying to his brothers
-. ui sisters, If you want to keeI
'ais nuisance or scandalization of
lame 10 Will keep it no longer than un
:" :, oy quickest course of law cal
slough off this gangrene." The city di
.ee'ory has hundreds of names tn
"use pronunciation Of which has bee1
l'eAong obstacle. Ii you have start
~ ~ NE under name which eithe
safough ridiculous photography O
Ncious suggestion has BEEN an in
mosanee, resolve that the next gen
s'ion so, shall not be SO weighted. 1t
:. Wv u nuemeaning to ochange a name. Sau
H,sus .arsus became Paul the Apostle
e., rassah' the myrtle becam
;s'her, the star" We have in Anne,
.cs' and l suppose it is SO in all cour
;.I.s names which ought to be abo'
80 ana can be and will be abolishe
,os the reason that they are libel an
SANDER. But if for any reason vo
are submerged ei,har b,,, ,,;,,,,, -,