Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-09

TETr: The wind was contrary. =" Mathew
xiv. "a.
A we'll know by experience on Lake
Galilee. one hour all may be calm and the
next hour the winds and waves will be- so
boisterous that you are I'm doubt "a TO
whether YOU will land on the shore or on
the bottom OF the deep. The disciples In
the text were caught in such a stress OF
weather and tho sails bent and the ship
plunged. for "the wind WAS contrary -
There il in one of the European straits n
place where. whichever way you sail the
winds are opposing. There are people who
all their life seem sailing in the teeth Of
the wind. All things seem against them
IL may be said Of their condition as ~ that
OF the disciples In my text. "the wind was
contrary"
great multitude OF people are under
seeming disadvantage. and I will today.
In the swarthiest AnglO-SaxOn that can
manage. treat their cases not as a nurse
counts out eight or ten drops OF prescrip-
tiOn and stirs them In a haASlass - water
but a. when man has by a mistake taken
a large amount ofstrvchnine or paris green
or helladonna, and the patient Is walked
rapidly round the room and shaken up un-
I'll he gets wide awake. Many % you have
taken large draught OF the poison OF dis
c0uragement. aud come out by the order
of the Divine Physician TO rouse you out Of
that lethsrgv.
First. many people are under the iisad-
vantage OF an unfortunate name given
them by parents who thought they were
doing a good thing. Sometimes AZ the
baptism Of children while have held UT
one hand In prayer / have held up the
other hand IN anazement that parents
should have weighted the babe with such
dissonant and repulsive nomenclature
have not - much wondered that sOrt
children should cry out az the chri-tenfns
font a. that others with such smiling fac,
should take n title that will be the burtier
of their lifetime. II Is outrageous TO ariici
children with an undesirable name because
* happened 70 De possessed by = parent OF
a rich uncle from whom favors are ex
pected or some prominent man OF the da.
VINO may end his life In disgrace. n H. ns
excuse. because they are Scripture names
20 call a child JehoiAkim or Tiglath- -Pil
eser. baptized one by the name Bath
sheba. Why. under all the circumam bien.
heaven. any parent should want to give Il
child the name OF that loose creature %
scripture times l cannot imagine. have
often felt at the haptisma altar whet
names were announced 20 me. Ike saving
A. did the Rev. Or. Richards Of Morris
town. y. J., when a child was handed hirr
Tor baptism aud the name given -Hadnr
You better call it something elses"
Impose not upon that babe a name suc.
restiV@ OF hippancy or meann~~s. Therei.
no excuse FOR such assault and battery or
the cradle when our laucuaye Ia Orul.nt
with names musical and suggestive N
meaning. such as John meaning "fha era.
clous gift of God. or Henry. meaning ..ths
Il. ~.
good counselor or Joshua meaning
God. our salvation. " or Amhro-t. meaning
immortal. ' or Andrew. meaning manly.
or Esther. meaning star" OF Abigail
meaning my father : joy" OF Anna. mean.
ing grace or Victoria meaning "Vi...
tory, or Rosalic. meaning beautiful as a
rose, or Margaret. meaning "A pearl" or
Ida, meoaing "gOdlike." or Clara. meaning
hlustrious. or Amelia. meaning busy "
or Bertha. meaning beautiful" and hun.
ID Af hkarr Anna ina
heip rather than a hindrance
but sOmetlmes the great hindrance In lite
- not in the given name but in the family
name. While legislatures are willing 10
lltt such incubus. there are families that
keep name which mortgages all the gen
crations with great disadvantage You
say. Il wonder II he i any relation 10 So
and-so." mentioning some family celebrA-
ted tor crime or deception. IL 10 a wonder
10 me that In all such families some spirited
young man does not rise. saving TO his
brothers and sisters. III you want TO keep
THIS nuisance or standardization OF name
VIII keep IL no longer than until by
quickest course OF law can slough OF thi,
/ Sangrene- The city directory has hun
dreds OF names the mere pronunciation of
which has been "a lifelong obstacle. Ifyou
have started life under name " which either
/ through ridiculous orthography or vicious
suggestion has been an membranes, re-
solve that the next generation shall not
De so weighted. Ii Is not deneaninc TO
change name. saul OF Tarsus became
( Paul the Apostle Hadassah. the myrtle :"
became Esther. the star" We have In
America. and suppose IL Is 80 Ia all ecu a
tries, names which ought TO be abolished
and can be and will bs abolished for the
reason that they are libel and a slnndcr
But ~ Tor any person you are submerged
either by given name or by family name
that you must bear. God will help you to
/ overcome the outrage by life consecrated
( 10 the good and u-eful. You may erase
the curse from the name. II IL once stood
! lor meaaness, you can make it stand for
generosity. II once IL stood for pride, you
can make IL stand for humanity. III 10 once
stood Tor fraud. you can make IL stand for
honesty. III once IL stood for wickedness
! you can make il stand for purity. There
have been multitudes OF instances whers
| men and women have magnincensly con.
| qnered the disasters OF the name indicted
upon them.
Again. many people labor under the mis-
| fortune OF Incompetent physical equipmsnt.
We are by our Creator economically
| built that we cannot afford the obliterasion
| OF any physical faculty. We want our two
| eyes, our two ears, our two hands, our twc
| feet, our eight fingers and two thuubs
| Yet what multitudes OF people have but
| one eye or but one footl The ordinary
casualties of life have been quadrup pied
| quintupled, sextupied. aye, cenfuplcd, 10
| our time by the Civil War, and at the North