Dear Mr. Editor :-

Referring to your question "Is it so?" in Editor's Notes of July number of "HELP and food," concerning the statement of a correspondent that "The Lord was never called merely 'Jesus' by any but His enemies, " I submit the following:

Matthew uses the name unqualified about 168 times, Mark about 88 times, Luke about 95 times, John, in his Gospel, 244 times, and 9 times in his first Epistle and Revelation. In the Acts the name "Jesus" alone occurs 26 times, in Paul's epistles 22 times; Peter uses it once.

If your correspondent meant that He was never personally addressed as merely "Jesus," he would not be quite exact, since Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, addressed Him as "Jesus, thou Son of David" (Mark 10:47).

" Thou shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins" (Matt. i:21); and the more fully one apprehends the meaning of this name, the more ready will he be to fall at His feet and say, " My Lord and my God."

At the same time no right-minded Christian would think of personally addressing Him as simply "Jesus," without, in thought at least, directly connecting that name with some of the glorious titles which He won by His cross. J. B. J.

Dear Mr. Editor :-

I was glad to see the matter regarding addressing our Lord; for while one would not for a moment check the outpouring of the heart in any sincere love of our Lord Jesus Christ, we cannot too often nor too forcibly be reminded of the eternal glories of His person. One is often pained to hear among certain people, who make special claims to holiness, such expressions as "Lovely Jesus," "Sweet Jesus," and the like, all of which betoken a familiarity which is not born of humility nor of love, but from forgetfulness, or ignorance, of the glory of His Person.

From what comes to mind of the Holy Scriptures the Lord when personally addressed by His name "Jesus" has usually one of His titles with it.

I was struck in connecting John 6:68 and 2 Tim. 2 :22, with the thought that true fellowship in following Christ aright can only be where there is the proper acknowledgment of His Lordship. Thank God, there is a time coming when, according to Philippians 2:11, every tongue will own Him Lord.

Yours affectionately in Christ, S. W. M.