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Hymn History: Jesus is the Sweetest Name I Know · Traveler’s Tales

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  From a random call for help and a seemingly strange disappearance comes
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  the story of the wonderful hymn.
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  Jesus is the sweetest name I know.
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  This is Greg Dowdy and thank you for joining us today for Travelers Tales
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  produced by enjoying the Journey.
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  We are thrilled to share stories from our Christian heritage.
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  A special thanks to Jerry Vargo for both his research on this history, but also
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  for his permission to share it with you.
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  From 1922 to 1929, Peter w Philpot was serving as the pastor of the
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  Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois.
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  One night he was awakened by a call to come help a young woman staying
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  at the Stevens Hotel, now named the Conrad Hilton within the city.
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  He arrived to find her in the company of two family members.
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  The woman, Lela Long was gravely ill and in great distress.
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  Pastor Phil Philpot prayed for her physical needs, but also had the privilege
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  of leading her to faith in Christ.
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  Late the next day, he phoned the hotel to see how she was doing, only to learn that
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  the three people had already checked out.
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  He wondered what had become of them, but had no way of getting in touch.
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  Five or six years later, Peter Philpott moved to California and was the pastor
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  of a large church in Los Angeles.
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  At the close of one service, who should come up to him?
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  The three people he had met in Chicago, they had seen his picture in a church
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  advertisement and came to meet him.
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  He'd learned that an emergency had required their rapid departure
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  from Chicago, and they apologized for not getting in touch with him.
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  Lela long thanked him for pointing her to the savior.
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  Her life was wonderfully changed and she was now using her
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  musical talent to serve the Lord.
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  She handed Pastor Philpot a copy of Jesus Is the Sweetest name I know written after
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  her conversation, she said, I have written this, especially for you in Remembrance
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  of the day that you introduced me to the most wonderful person I've ever known.
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  Pastor Phil Pod asked her what was the inspiration for the theme of this song.
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  She replied that she knew a medical missionary in China who
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  gave the gospel to everyone he treated for their medical needs.
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  One day, a very old woman stooped with age came to the clinic.
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  It was evident that she had traveled a long distance to come to the
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  clinic by the mud caked on her feet.
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  After treating the woman, as was his custom, the missionary led her to Christ.
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  Several days later, the woman came back to the clinic.
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  The missionary asked her what she needed medically.
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  The old woman said that she did not need any medical attention, but that she wanted
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  to ask a question of the missionary.
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  The old woman said to the missionary, he saved me.
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  He lives in my heart and he has made me so happy.
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  But sir, I have forgotten his name.
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  The missionary said to the old woman, his name is Jesus.
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  The woman bowed low as Orientals do and thanked the missionary for telling her his
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  name as the old woman left the missionary, he could hear her repeatedly saying as
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  she walked away, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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  She traveled all that long way just to learn his name.
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  Lela Long told Pastor Phil Pot, that was what gave me the idea for this song.
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  The song says, there have been names that I loved to hear, but never has
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  there been a name so dear to this heart of mine as the name divine,
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  the precious, precious name of Jesus.
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  And the chorus says, Jesus is the sweetest name I know.
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  And he's just the same as his lovely name, and that's the reason why I love him.
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  So.
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  Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know, friend.
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  The Bible says in Acts 4:12 that there is none other name under heaven
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  given among men whereby we must be saved and that name is Jesus.
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  If you have never called upon the name of Jesus to save you from
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  your sin, you can write now and you too can discover for yourself.
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  That Jesus is the sweetest name I know.
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