The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-25

But IN the majority OF cases that have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is
jealous attempt TO keep men from sur
passing their theological fellows, and, as
at presidential elections in country places,
the people have a barbecue-which is a
roasted OK round which the people dance
with knives, cutting off slice here, and
pulling out rib there, and saving off
beefsteak Wonder, and having high time
$50 most OF the denominations of Chris
tiaus keep on hand barbecue III which
some minister isroasted, while the church
courts dance around with their sharp
knives OF attack, and one takes an ear,
another hand, another a foot, and it is
hard TO tell whether the ecclesiastical
plaintiffs of this world or the demons OF
the neither world most enjoy it. Albert
Barnes, than whom no man has accom-
plished more good in the last thousand
years, was decreed to sit silent for year
in the pew of his own church while some
one else occupied his pulpit, the pretended
offense that he did not believe in linn
tied atonement, but the real offense the
fact that all the men who tried him put
together would not equal one Albert
Barnes.
Yes; amid all professions and business
and occupations and trades, and amid oil
circles needs to be heard what God saws
in regard to envy and jealousy, which
though not exactly the same are twins.
envy is the rottenness of hope" "Where
envy and strife is, there is confusion and
every evil work" Jealousy is the rage
OF man" Ny hearers, if this evil passion
is in any of our souls, cry nightly unto
God for its expulsion. That which has
downed kings and emperOrs and apostles
and reformers and ministers of religion
4 of,
too mighty for YOU to contend against
unaided. The evil has so many roots of
such infinite convolution that nothing but
the energy OF omnipotence can pull it out.
Tradition SAYS that when Moses lifted up
his head to pray it was all encrusted with
mamma. and no sooner do you pray than
YOU are helped. Away with the accursed,
stenchful, blackening, damning crime of
iealously. Allow it to stay and it will eat
up and carry off ali the religion you can
pack in your soul for the next half CEN
fury. 1t will do you more harm than it
does anyone it leads you TO assail. II will
delude you with the idea that you can
build yourself up by pulling somebody
down. You will make more out OF the
success OF others than out of their mis-
fortunes Speak well of everybody. Stab
no man in the back. Be hOney-bee
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than buzzard.
Surely this world is large enough for
YOU and all your rivals. God has given
YOU work to do Go ahead and do it.
Mind your own business. In all circles,
in all business, in all professions, there is
room for straightforward successes. Jeal-
ousv entertained will not only bedwarf
your soul but it will flatten your skull, be-
mean your eye, put pinchedness OF look
about your nostril, give bad curl to the
lip, and expel from your face the di-
vine image in which you were created.
When You hear man or woman abused,
drive in on the defendants side. Watch
for excellences in others rather than de-
fects. morning glories instead OF night
shade. If someone is more beautiful than
you. thank God that you have not so
many perils of vanity to contend with. If
someone has more wealth than you, thank
God that YOU have not so great steward
ship to answer for Ii someone is higher
up in social position, thank God that those
who are down need not fear fall. II
someone gets higher office in church or
state than you, thank God there are not
so many to wish for the fastening OF your
obsequies.
The duke of Dantzig, in luxurious
apartments, was visited by plain friend
and to keep his friend from jealousy, the
duke said: "Tou can have all l have if
YOU will stand twenty PAGES off and let me
shoot at YOU a hundred times" "NO,
no." said his friend. "Wel," said the
duke, 'to gain all my honors l faced on
the battlefield more than a thousand
gunshots fired not more than ten PAGES
off"
A minister OF small congregation COM
planned TO a minister of large congrega-
| ton about the sparseness OF his attend
ants. "Ah," said the one Of the large
audience, "my son, you will find in the
day of judgment that you had quite
enough people for whom to be held ac-
countable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating en-
ulation. Seeing others good, let us try to
be better. Seeing others industrious, let
us work more hours. Seeing others be-
nevolent, let US resolve on giving larger
percentage of our means for charity.
Nav God put congratulations for
others into our right hand and
cheers on our lips for those who do brave
and useful things. Life is short at the
longest; let il all be filed up with help
fulness for others, work and sympathy for
each others misfortunes, and our arms be
full of white mantles to cover up the mis-
takes and failures OF others. If an evil re-
port about some. one come to us. let us put
ON il most favorable construction, as the
Rhone enters Lake Leman foul and comes
out crystalline. Do not build so much on
the transitory differences Of this world,
for soon it will make no difference to us
whether we had 100000 or 10 cents,
and the ashes into which the tongue of
Demosthenes dissolved are just like the
ashes into which the tongue of the veriest
stammerer went.
Ii you are assailed by jealousy make no
/ answer. Take it as a compliment, Tor peo-
! pie are never jealous of failure. Until
/ your work is done you are invulnerable.
I Remember how our Lord behaved under
/ such exasperatiOns. Did they not try to
/ catch Him in His word? Did they not
/ call Him the victim of intoxicants! Did
/ they not misinterpret Him from the win
/ ter of the year to the spring of the year
/ 33-that is, from His first infantile cry to
/ the last grOan of His assassination? Yet
! He answered not a word. But so far from
/ demolishing either His mission or His
/ good name, after near nineteen centuries
/ He outranks everything under the skies,
! and is second to none above them, and
l the archangel makes salaam at His foot
stool. Christ's bloody antagonists thought
that they had finished Him when they
wrote over the cross His accusation in
/ three anguages-Hebrew, and Greek, and
/ Latin,-not realizing that they were by
! that act introducing Him to all nations,
4 al loY, !