Name, A Good—See Reputation.
Nameless Pioneers—See Unknown
Workers.
NAMES
Many of the names we bear, as well as
names of many of the places we know and
frequent, are derived from something done
or some particular thing connected with the
place. For example, there is a town about
thirty-five miles from Paris by the name of
Fontainebleu. It is said that when this town
was originally founded, near the tenth century,
that there was a beautiful fountain
there, and from this it took the name of
Fontainebleu, contracted from Fontaine Belle
Eau (Fountain of beautiful water).
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NAMES, ENDURING
The Pharos of Alexandria was built by
Sostratus, a Greek architect, in the reign
of Ptolmey Philadelphus. Ptolemy ordered
that a marble tablet be built into the wall
with his name conspicuously inscribed upon
it as the builder of the famous edifice. Instead,
Sostratus cut in Greek characters his
own name deep upon the face of the tablet,
then covered the whole with an artificial
composition, made of lime, to imitate the
natural surface of the stone, and cut a new
inscription in which he inserted the name of
the king. In due time the lime moldered
away, name and all, leaving his own name
to come out to view and to remain as long
as the lighthouse stood.
There are names that wear away,
while others are made to endure.
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Names Handed Down—See Dynastic Names.
Nations, Destiny of—See Destiny of Nations.
NATIVE CONVERTS
Bishop Taylor, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, used to tell the story of a wealthy
Parsee in India whom he had persuaded to
read the New Testament. Deeply imprest,
the man declared that if he could find Christians
who matched that Book he would join
them. He sought among the white people for
the life of the Book, but reported to Bishop
Taylor that he had failed to find it to his
satisfaction. The latter then sent him among
the native converts, receiving his pledge that
he would make as diligent search there as
he had made among the Europeans. In a
short time he returned with enthusiasm, to
say that he had discovered men and women
whose lives corresponded with the Book.
He himself became a Christian and suffered
the loss of wealth and friends for the
sake of the Name, and when he died of
violence in Bombay his last words were,
"It is sweet to die for Jesus." The story
points to the tremendous truth that it is not
in our conventialized Christendom that the
New Testament experiences are being reproduced
most closely, but in the communities
of disciples who are freshly out of raw
heathendom.—William T. Ellis, "Men and
Missions."
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NATURALIZATION
Citizenship in heaven is not nearly so difficult as that of getting out naturalization papers in America.
The National Liberal Immigration League
has petitioned the Department of Commerce
and Labor to establish a calendar in the
naturalization bureaus, so that applicants for
second, or final, papers may be notified and
attended to in regular order, instead of by
the present first-come-first-served method
with its resultant confusion and delays. Such
a calendar would simplify matters wonderfully
for the coming citizen. A man getting
his final papers is obliged to bring with him
two citizens as witnesses, who will swear
that they have known him to be a resident
of the United States for at least five years,
the last year a resident of the State in which
he receives his papers, and that he is a person
of good moral character, and qualified in
every way to become a citizen. Imagine the
degree of good-nature essential in the instances
of these witnesses, who must get up
long before daylight, night after night, to
accompany the potential citizen and see him
