GOSPEL Light is "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ." (2 Con 4:6.) "God is light," and the entrance of His word, by faith, gives light and understanding to the simple. (Psa. 119)
In one of my morning walks, I met an old man on the roadside. After bidding him “Good morning," I found he was very deaf, and for some time I could not make him understand my words.
But when I mentioned the name of "Jesus," his face lit up, and he said, “How sweet the name of Jesus sounds"!
The hearing of that name had called to his mind the line of 'the well-known hymn, and now he seemed able to understand my words. The entrance of that name had called forth a response, and he was willing to walk with me to his house.
Some months after I called upon him again, and at first he did not remember me, but when I recalled to his memory the line of the hymn, "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds!" the old man remembered our former conversation.
He then asked me if he was right in saying that the name of Jesus was the password into heaven. He told me of a little incident in his early life, when living near Portsmouth. He sometimes went with a friend to visit some of the Naval Marines who were stationed in their huts.
He said it was necessary to give the right password current at the time, and then they were admitted into the huts.
The apostle Peter, by the Spirit, when he stood before the Council of the Jews at Jerusalem, said: “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him Both, this man stand before you whole. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”
Yes, the name of Jesus is the only name in which salvation is found. It is the sinner's password “into heaven," for life, for liberty, and soon for
“Blest name, the rock on which we build,
Our shield and hiding-place,
Our never-failing treasury filled
With boundless stores of grace.”