What peace and rest those two syllables JE-SUS breathe to the wearied troubled heart of the Christian. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds! For all blessing is bound up in its sweetness, and all glory is found in it too.

As is well-known the meaning of the name is Jehovah-Saviour. "Thou shalt call His name JESUS, for He"- Jehovah-"shall save His people from their sins." It is, as the evangelist shows, the equivalent of "Emmanuel, God with us" (Matt. 1:21-23).

It is the Greek counterpart of the Hebrew name Joshua (who is called Jesus in Hebrews 4:8). Interest therefore attaches itself to the way in which Joshua got his name.

Turning to Numbers 13 we find recorded there the names of the twelve spies who were sent over Jordan by Moses to inspect the land of Canaan. In verse 8 we read, "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun."

Now "Oshea" means saviour. He was to be the captain-leader of the chosen nation. But lest he should be wise in his own conceits and imagine that in some power or ability of his own he was the saviour of Israel-a prefix was placed before his name Oshea. That prefix was an abbreviated form of Jehovah, and so we find added the words:"Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua," that is Jehovah-the-Saviour. After this change every time he heard his new name pronounced he might be reminded that it was the Lord Himself who was delivering His people from their foes and leading them into the land of promise.

And we who live in these glad Christian days do well to remember the glory of our Deliverer "from the wrath to come," of "the Captain of our salvation" Who is leading us to the glory of God.

There is a danger of uttering that name lightly in the catchy words of catchy tunes and of forgetting who He is of whom we sing.

We may well ask ourselves whether we serve Him with the "reverence and godly fear" to which we are exhorted. For "holy and reverend is His name."

Would we if in the presence of our Lord-the Lord of glory-address Him as "Jesus?" Did the disciples who were about Him in holy familiarity ever do this? The Holy Spirit recording His gracious words and deeds in the gospel pages speaks of Him as Jesus constantly and do we not see that this is suitable. But the same Holy Spirit leads those disciples when speaking to the Saviour to say "Lord" or "Master." And His own words to them were:"Ye call me Master and Lord:and ye say well for so I am" (John 13:13).

That was true in the days of His humiliation when He walked in grace on earth. But now, as Peter declared, "God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ." He is now in glory and majesty on the throne of God. And the Holy Spirit has come from Him there and enables us to say in truth "Jesus is Lord" (1 Cor. 12:3).

John lay in His bosom at the supper table and said then, "Lord who is it." But when he beheld Him in vision on the Patmos-isle, he fell at His feet as dead in the presence of His glory and majesty. Then in grace the words "Fear not," fell from His lips as He laid His right hand upon the apostle. That "Fear not" might recall various occasions when the same comforting words had been uttered and might show that He was the same as of old.

There are certain occasions after our Lord's exaltation on which the Holy Spirit speaks of "Jesus" without the addition of Lord or Christ. But it will be found on careful examination that there is in each case a special reason for referring to the Lord by that title.

May we not be led to wonder at times whether some who omit to use His title "Lord," rightly know the Godhead glory which is His.

If a president or king of a nation were to come to visit some of the poorer of the people would any one call him by his personal name without giving him some title of honor or respect. We cannot imagine any decently minded person acting thus. Can we?

So there is an honor due to our Lord, which every believer should hasten to pay. The enemy of our souls would ever seek to lessen the fame of our holy Saviour and we have to beware of his devices.

Then shall not we who owe all our blessing to our adorable Lord seek Him "after the due order" and give unto Him the glory that is "due unto His name" whenever we address Him.

Let us remember that His glory magnifies the grace in which He has drawn so near to us for our blessing. This it is which leads us to sing,

"We'll praise Thee, glorious Lord,
Who died to set us free."

Inglis Fleming

(To be continued. D. V.)