HALLOWED BE THY NAME by W. A. Colcord

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 25.

“HALLOWED BE THY NAME.”

By W. A. Colcord

THERE is great need for cultivating reverence for God. One way of doing this is to learn to speak the name of God with reverence. The name of God, the great Jehovah, should never be spoken in a light and flippant way. “Holy and reverend is His name.” We may well believe that angels mention that name with the greatest holy reverence, vailing their faces when they speak the name of God. And the name of Christ is equally sacred to them. They honor the Son even as they honor the Father. How inappropriate, therefore, that we, who are lower than the angels, should speak these names without due respect and becoming reverence. We should never speak of God or of Christ as we would of a horse, a house, or any other commonplace thing. Those who do so have no appreciation of the exalted character of God, of Christ, and of heavenly things. “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.” W. A. COLCORD.