Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-03-31


ing my honor to another. Now
if | will not permit my wife to
wear another mans name why
should | expect jealous God to
give his honor to some ordinary
man. If am a christian ! am
married to Christ and religiously
| have no right to divide his
honor by wearing in whole or
part the name of any person,
place or thing.
Has God named his people?
Yes, in every age of the world
he has named them and in no age
of the world has he left it to them
to name themselves. Back in
the dim starlight age of the world
he called them Children of God;
then later he called them Israel
lite and last of all he gave them
the new name Christian. When
God gives his people name they
are blessed if they wear it and
cursed if they refuse it, and
further the name he gives always
reflects the central object of our
worship while human names too
often stand only for some opinion
or unholy strife. You can not
speak the God-given names with
out saying his name or Christ's.
In the first we have Children of
God, then next Israelite-the
word ell in this word is Hebrew
for God. When say Christian
my mind runs far out, even be-
yond the starry skies to Christ,
the great redeemer, but not so
when | call myself from or for
some man.
Is the name Christian the God
given name. What do the scrip
lures say? "And the gentiles shall
see thy righteousness and all
kings thy glory and thou shall
be called by a new name which
the mouth of the Lord shall
name." lisa. 81: 2, also,
"And ye shall leave your
name for curse unto my chosen;
for the Lord God shall slay thee
and call his servants by another
name. lisa. So: 10.
Here God promises to let the
gentiles see his righteousness and
says he will call his people by a
new name when they do and more
than this he commissioned Paul
to bear the name to them as he
did Peter to preach the first SER
mon. When Christ appeared
unto Paul he said he should bear
his name before the gentiles and
children of Israel.
Now in Acts 10, we find the
conversion of Cornelius the gen.
tile and in the 18th chapter we
see Barnabas leave Antioch to
seek Saul and when he finds him
he brings him to Antioch and
assemble themselves with the
church and teach much people
and the disciples are called
Christians first in Antioch Acts
II: 26. But some say they were
called Christians by their en-
emies. How did you learn thatf
Let us examine it for moment
and see. They were not called
Christians by the Jews for the
word Christ or Messiah is one OF
the most sacred words they have
certainly they would not apply
it to the people they so much
hate. What did the Jews cal
them? Nazarenes. Perhaps the
gentiles gave them the name, NJ
that can not be for they calico
them Galilaeans. Who did cal
them by that name? | ans
wer God, for the Greel
word used in the origi
nal from which we have the
words "Were called" means t.
call by a divine command. Hence
it is folly to evade the name
: Christian on the ground that i
l was given for reproach. If thi
is not the name then God said HI
would do thing and has failet
. to perform it.
Again: The family Of God i
, divided into two parts. One ha
passed on and stand on the shore
of eternal life while the othe
part is here in this world and We
Paul tells us that the who'll
, family both in heaven and eartl