vengeance have had their voices stilled by a single invocation of that name! The tender youth and gentle virgin and aged martyr went bravely to the lions and the stake, encouraging one another with that name; or, like the Apostles, went forth from the council rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer for the name of Jesus. And then alas! for how many has it proved a rock of scandal set for their ruin, and a sign that should be contradicted and blasphemed! But for many, oh, let us hope for many, many more it has been a saving factor in their lives, from the moment when first 'twas lisped by their childish prattle until it trembled on their dying lips. Ah! no wonder saints have burned it on their breasts; no wonder JHS, its monogram, confronts us on the altar and falls in vivid colors from the stained windows to the floor; for Jesus is a name above every name, at the mention of which every knee should bend on earth, in heaven, and in hell.
Brethren, Jesus means Saviour, Emmanuel or God with us. " The Lord is with thee," the angel said to Mary, and hence he called her blessed. It is our rare privilege to be accounted blessed, if we will, in a higher and a nobler sense. " Yea, rather/' says Our Lord, " more blessed still are they who hear the word of God and keep it." Next to our worship of the Divinity, a proper reverence for His sacred name is the gravest precept of religion. " Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain," is the second of the ten commandments. Reverence, then, that name, remembering St. Paul's promise to the
