Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
sJea1ousy" tho Subject of Sunday Morn
ing's Discourse.

II Combines All That Us Obnoxtous in the
Human Race and In the Brute Creation
It Picrces and EnOiroles tho Earth with
Its Raging Fire.
BnooK1YN, April 15.-The hymn sung
by the congregation in the Tabernacle this
morning begins;
No more let human blood be split
Vain sucritioe for human guilt.
Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered
Having expounded passages of scripture
in regard TO the behavior of Jacob and
Esau. the Rev. L. De Witt Talinage, d. d.,
preached on:the subject of I'd ealouy," TAX
ing his text from Proverbs vi, 81. Seal
ousy is the rage of man." He said:
Some subjects religious teacher touches
thousand times. pew coming on them
from one direction. now from another.
But here is a Bible theme that for some
reason is left teetotally alone. This
strength Of God, want to grapple it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious,
monstrous. and diabolicnl, that has for
ages walked and crawled the earth. 1t
combines oil that is obnoxious in the races
human, quadrupedal, ornihological. rep.
lillian and ins "ctile, horned, tusked, hoofed,
fanged, stineed; the eye ola basiliss, the
tooth of an adder, the jaws of q crocodile,
the crushing folds Of an anaconda, the sly
ness of q scorpion, tho tongue of Il cobra
1t is in every community, in every church,
IN every legislative hall, in every monetary
institution, in every drawing room levee,
in every literary and professional circle. 1t
whispers, it Kisses, titles, it debauches, it
blasphemes, it damns. My text names it
when it says "JealounV is the rage Of a
man." 1t is grief at the superiority of
others; their superiority in talent, or
wealth, or beauty, or elegance, or virtue,
recognition. It is the shadow of other
peoples success. 1t is the ,shiver in our
pocket book because it is not as fat as
some one elses pocket-book. 1t is the
twinge in our tongue because it is not as
eloquent as some one else's tongue. 1t is
the hutter in our robes because they are
not as lustrous rs some one elses robes.
1t is the earthquake under our house be-
cause it is not as many feet front and deep
as cur neighbours house. 1t is the thunder
of other peoples popularity souring the
milk of our kindness. Ills the father and
mother both of one half of tho discomfort
and outrages and detractions ana bank
ruptcies and crimes and woes of the hui
man race.
1t was antediluvian as much as il is post
diluvian. 1t put rough stick in the
bands of the first boy that wac ever born
and said to him: Now Cain, when Abel
is locking the other way, crush in his
skull; for his sacrifice has been accepted
and yours rejected" And Cain picked up
the stick as though Just 10 walk with it,
and while Abel was watching some bird in
tho tree top, or gazing at some waterfall,
down came the blow of the first assassina-
ton. which has had its echo in all the fra
tricides, matricides, uxoricidss, homicides,
lnfanticides, and regicides of oil ages and
of all nations. This passion of jealousy SO
disturbed Caligula at The prominence of
some of the men of his time, that he cut q
much admired curl from the brow of Gin
cinnatus, and took the embroidered collar
from the neck of Torquatus, and had
Ptolumaeus killed because of his purple
robe, which attracted too much attention.
After Columbus had placed America as q
gem In the Spanish crown, jealousy set on
the Spanish courtiers to depreciate his
achievements, and aroused animosities till
the great dscoverer had his heart broken.
Urged on by this bad passion, Dionysius
fiayed Plato because he was wiser than
himself, and Philoxenius because his music
was too popular. jealousy made Korah
He about Moses and Succoth deprecated
Gideon.
jealousy made the trouble between Jacob
and Esau. That hurled Joseph into the
pit. Nat struck the twenty three fatal
wounds into julius Caesar. That banished
Arislides. That fred Antony against
Cicero. Tiberius exiled an architect be-
cause of the fame he got for beautiful
porch. and slew poet for his fine tragedy.
That set Saul in rage against David
How graphically the Bible puts it when it
says: Saul eyed David" It seems to take
possession of both eyes and makes them
~Saul eyed David" That is, he looked at
him as much as to soy: "You little upstart.
how dare you attempt anything great? T
will grind you under my heel. I will ex-
terminate you, I will, you miserable
@homunculus. Crouch, crawl stink. into
that rathole. will teach these women
TO sing some other song. instead of Saul
has slain his thousands but'Devid his tens
of thousands. When Voltaire heard that
Frederick the Great was forgetting him
md putting his literary admiration on
Bacaulard d'Arnaud, the old infidel lcaped
out of his bed and danced the floor in a
maniacal rage, and ordered the swiftest
horses hooked up 10 carry him to the
Prusslan palace.
That despcable passion of jealousy led
Napoleon I. to leave in his will bequest
OF 5,0nG francs to the ruffian who shot at
Wellington when the victor of Waterloo
was passing through Paris. That stationed
the grouty elder brother at the back door
of the homestead when the Prodigal Son
returned, and threw chill on the fnmAy
reunion while that cider brother COM
planned, saying: "Who over heard of Civ
ing roast veal to such profigate?"
Aye, that passion rose up and under the
darkest cloud that ever Swallowed the earth
and amid the loudest thunder that ever
shook the mountains, and amid the widest
flash of lightning that ever blinded or
stunned the nations, hung up on two
pieces of rough lumber back of Jerusalem,
the kindest purest, lovingest nature that
Heaven could delegate, and stopped not
until there was no power left in hammer
or bramble or javelin to hurt the dead Son
of God.
That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry,
nnbalked, RACES on, and it now pierces the
earth like fiery diameter, and encircles it
like fiery circumference. 1t wants both
henispheres. 1t wants the heavens. It
would, if it could, capture the palace of
God, and dethrone jehovah, and chain
the Almighty in eternal exile, and after the
demolition of the universe would CRY:
Satisfied at last, here am! Alone! the
nndisputed and everlastingI, Me, Mine.