p. 723 | That Lovely Name

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 46.

That Lovely Name.

I REMEMBER once hearing an anecdote of an old Scotch woman, who lived in some very remote part of the Highlands. She was ill, and one of her few neighbors, with considerable trouble made her way to the nearest minister, to ask him to visit her. He did so, but after much questioning on his part, and not feeling at all satisfied with the poor woman's answers, he was about to leave disheartened, knowing that she had not long to live. At last, making one further attempt in which he used the all-prevailing name of Jesus, the dying turned to him, and in her native Scotch dialect said: "I ken not of your doctrines, I ken not of your ordinances, but, as the flower on the mountain side opens to the sunshine, so my heart opens to that lovely name."

It was enough; the chord was touched and it gave forth a true note. That dear Scotch woman, if she knew little else, knew this, "That there is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved," and that through his name, "whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins."

Reader, have you obtained this knowledge, and is that name to you the "Sweetest note in seraph song, Sweetest name on mortal tongue, Sweetest carol ever sung, Jesus, blessed Jesus"? —Sel.