The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-16
A GREEN EYED MONSTER.
TALMAGE GIVES BATTLE TO THE
DRAGON OF JEALOUSY.

DRAGON OF JEALOUSY.
The Hideous Old Sin Shown Up In It's
True Colors-It Was Stalking the
Earth When Cain Slew Abel-Some
of the Trouble 1t Has Caused.
BROOKLYN, April 15.-The hymn sung by
the congregation in the Tabernacle this
morning. begins:
mo more let human blood be split,
Vain sacrifice for human guilt"
Prof Henry Eyre Brown rendered the
Second Sonata in E minor, by Ritter
Having expounded passages of Scripture
in regard to the behavior of Jacob and
Esau, the Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, d. D.,
preached on the subject of Jealousy" +"
taking his text from Proverbs, vi. "a;
jealousy is the rage of man" He said:
Some subjects religious teacher touches
a thousand times, now coming on them
from one direction, now from another. But
here is Bible theme that for some reason
is left teetotally alone. This morning, ask
ing your prayers and in the strength of
God, want to grapple it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious, mon
strous and diabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawled the earth. 1t combines
all that is obnoxious in the races human,
quadrupedal, pathological, reptilian and
insectile, horned, tusked, hoofed, fanged,
stinged the eye of basilisk, the tooth of an
adder, the jaws of a crockodile, the crush
ing folds of an anaconda, the slyness of a
scorpion, the tongue of a cobra, and the
coil of the worm that never dies. 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, it lies, it de-
MSagches, MM f+ it it, blaSaGemes} a & it domns ms.
at the superiority of others; their surerior-
ity in talent, or wealth, or beauty, or ele-
gance, or virtue, or social, or professional.
or political recognition 1t is the shadow
of other peoples success. 1t is the shiver in
our pocketbook because it is not as fat as
someoae else's pocketbook. 1t is the twinge
in our tongue because it is not as eloquent
as someone else's tongue 1t is the futter
in our robes because they are not as lustrous
as someone else'S robes. 1t is the earth
quake under our house because it is not as
many feet front and deep as our neighbor's
house. 1t is the thunder of other peoples
popularity souring the milk of our kindness
It is the father and mother both Of one-half
of the discomfort and outrages and detrac-
tions and bankruptcies and crimes and woes
of the human race.
1t was antediluvian as much as it is post
dlluvian. 1t put rough stick in the hands
of the first boy that was ever born and said
to him: ''Now, Cain, when Abel is looking
the other way, crush in his skull; for his
sacrifice has been accepted and yours re-
Tns, ,t.,l-a 4 1.
though just to walk with it, and while
Abel was watching some bird in the tree
top, or gazing at some waterfall, down
came the blow of the first assassination,
which has had its echo in all the fratricides,
matrlcides, uXOricides, hOmicldes, infanti-
cides and regicides of all ages and all ma
tions. This passion of jealousy so disturbed
Caligula at the prominence of some of the
men of his time, that he cut much
admired curl from the brow of Cincinnatus,
and took the embroidered collar from the
neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomacus
killed because of his purple robe, which at
tracted too much atte After Colum-
bus had placed America as a gem in the
Spanish crown, jealousy set on the Spanish
courtiers todepreciate his achievement, and
aroused animosities till the great discoVerer
had his heart broken. Urged on by this
bad passion Dionysius fiayed Plato because
he was wiser than himself. and Philoxenus
because his music was too popular. Jealousy
made Korah lie about Moses and Succoth
depreciate Gideon.
Jealousy made the trouble between Jacob
and Esau That hurled Joseph into the
pit That struck the twenty-three fatal
wounds into Julius CPsar. That banished
Arstides. That fired Antony against
Cicero. Tiberius exiled an architect be-
cause of tine fame he got for a beautiful
porch, and slew poet for his fine tragedy
That set Saul in a rage against David
How graphically the Bible, puts it when it
SAYS: "Saul eyed David" 1t seems to
take possession of both eyes and makes
them flash and burn like the two PORTFOLIOS
OF he'll ''Saul eyed David" That is he
looked at him as much as to say: "You
little upstart, how dare you attempt any
thing great2 | will grind you under my
heel. | will extermi ate you, | WILL you
miserable homuncuus Crouch, crawl
stink into that rat hole. will teach those
women to sing some other song, instead Of
Saul has slain his thou ands, but David his
tens of Thousands - When Voltaire heard
that Frederick the Great was forgetting
him and putting his literary admiration on
Bacauard d'Arnaud, the old infidel leaped
out of his bed and danced the floor in q
maniacal rage, and ordered his swiftest
hyi 0Lo HCChSN Up W Ne"' H'4'A w piio J. iuo-
sian palace.
That despicable passion of jealousy led
Napoleon the First to leave in his will a
beauest of five thousand francs to the rnffian
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 prodi-
gal son returned and threw a chill on the
family reunion while that elder brother
complained, saying: who ever heard OF
giving roast veal to such a proAigatel1
Ave, that pas ion 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
unbalked, RACES on, and it now pierces the
earth like a fiery diameter and encirces il
like q fiery circumference 1t wants both
hemispheres. 1t wants the heavens. IL
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
undisputed and everlasting /. Me, Mine,
Myself That passion keeps all Europe