Mrs. Reginald VanGleason decided to give a cocktail party at her mansion for her friends. She called in Nora, her maid of many years, and said to her, "I want you to stand at the door of the drawing room. As my friends arrive, I want you to call the guests’ names." Nora smiled broadly and replied, "Oh, thank you, ma’am, for twenty years I’ve been waiting to call your friends names." "To call a person names" means to abuse that person by calling him derogatory nicknames or insulting titles. A name to us is usually a convenient label that we put on persons, places, things, qualities, and actions for practical identification. In the period when the Bible was written, however, a name meant much more than merely a label. A person’s name stood for the character, the essential nature of its bear…