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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 27, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 40.

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THE ONE NAME.

By Dr. Bethune

Jesus! How does the very word overflow with exceeding sweetness, and light, and joy, and love, and life; filling the air with odors, like precious ointment poured forth; irradiating the mind with a glory of truths in which no fear can live; soothing the wounds of the heart with a balm that turns the sharpest anguish into a delicious peace, shedding through the soul a cordial of immortal strength. Jesus! the answer to all our doubts, the spring of all our courage, the earnest of all our hopes, the charm omnipotent against all our foes, the remedy for all our weakness, the supply of all our wants, the fullness of all our desires. Jesus! at the mention of whose name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. Jesus! our righteousness, our sanctification, our redemption; Jesus! our elder brother, our blessed Lord and Redeemer. Thy name is the most transporting theme of the church, as they sing going up from the valley of tears to their home on the mount of God; thy name shall ever be the richest chord in the harmony of Heaven, where the angels and the redeemed unite their exulting, adoring songs around the throne of God. Jesus! thou only canst interpret thy own name, and thou hast done it by thy works on earth, and thy glory at the right hand of the Father.—Dr. Bethune.