The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-16


fact that all the men who tried him put to
gether would not equal one Albert Barnes.
Yes; amid all professions and businesses
and occupations and trades, and amid all
circles needs to be heard what God says in
regard to envy and jealousy, which, though
not exactly the same, are twins: Envy is
tho rOtteunesS OF the bone;n ''Where envy
and strife is, there is confusion and every
evil work; jealousy is the rage of a man. "
My hearers, if this evil passion is in any
OF your souls, cry nightly unto God for its
expulsion, That which has downed kings
and emperors and apostles and reformers
and ministers of religion and thousands of
good men and women, Is too mighty for
you to contend against unaided. The evil
has SO many roots, of such infinite convolu-
tion, that nothing but the enginery of
omnipotence can pull it ont. Tradition
says that when Moses lifted up his hand to
pray it was all eucrusted with mamma, and
no sooner do you pray than you are helped.
Away with the accursed, stenchful, black
ening, damning crime of jealousy. Allow
it to stay and it will eat up and carry off
all the religion you can pack into your soul
for the next half century 1t will do you
more harm than it does anyone it leads you
to assail. 1t will delude you with the idea
that you can build yourself up by pulling
somebody else down. You will make more
out of the success of others than out of
their misfortunes. Speak we'll of every
body. Stab no man in the back. Be a
honey bee rather than spider; be dove
rather than bu2Zard.
Surely this world is large enough for you
and all your rivals. God has given you n
work to do. Go ahead and do it. Mind
your own business In all circles, in all
businesses, in all professions there is room for
straightforward successes. Jealousy enter
tained will not only bedwart your soul, but
it will fiatten your skull, bemean your eve,
put pinchedness of look about your nostlil,
give bad curl to the lip, and expel from
your face the divine image in which you
were created. When you hear a man or
woman abused drive in on the defendants
side. Watch for excellences in Others
rather than for defects, morning glories in
stead Of nightshade. III some one is more
beautiful than you, thank God that you
have not so many perils of vanity to con
tend with. If some one has more wealth
than you, thank God that you have not SO
great stewardship to answer for. If some
one is higher up in social position, thank
God that those who are down need not fear
a fall If some one gets higher office in
church or State than you, thank God there
are not so many to wish for the Fastening
ON of your obsequies.
The Duke of Dantzig in luxurious apart
ments was visited by plain friend, and to
keep his friend from jealousy, the Duke
said: "You can have all have if you will
stand twenty PAGES Off and let me shoot at
you hundred times.n mo, no, said his
friend. "Well." said the Duke. Ito gain all
my honors faced on the battlefield more
than thousand gunshots fired not more
than ten PAGES off.
A minister of small congregation COM
pla ned TO a minister of large congregation
about the sparseness of his attendants.
a l. ! -.n1 L. ~
son, you will find in the Day of Judgment
that you had quite enough people for whom
to be held accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating emu
lation. Seeing others good, let us try to be
better Seeing others industrious, let us
work n lore hours. Seeing others benevo-
lent, let us resolve on giving larger per
centage of our means for charity. May
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 it all be filled up
with helpfulness for others, work and sym
pathy for each others mlsfortunes, and our
arms be full of white mantles to cover up
the mistakes and failures of others. If an
evil report about some one come to us, let
US put on it most favorable construction, as
the Rhone enters Lake Leman foul and
comes out crystalline. Do not build SO much
J
for soon it will make no difference to us
whether we had ten million dollars or ten
cents, and the ashes into which the tongue
of Demosthenos dissolved are just like the
ashes into which the tongue of the veriest
stammerer weat.
If you are assailed by jealousy, make no
answer. Take it as a compliment, for peo-
pie are never jealous of a failure. Until
your work is done you are invulnerable.
Remember how our Lord behaved under
such exasperations. Did they not try to
catch him in his word7 Did they not call
him the victim of intoxicantsi Did they
not misinterpret him from the winter of the
year ! to the spring of the year 30; 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 every
thing under the skies, and is second to none
above them, and the archangel makes sa-
laam at his footstool. Christ's bloody an
tagonists thought that they had finished
him when they wrote over the cross his ac-
cusation in three languages-Hebrew and
Greek and Latin, not realizing that they
were by that act Introducing him to all ma
tions, since Hebrew is the holiest language,
and Greek the wisest Of tongues, and Latin
the widest spoken.
You are not the first man who had his
faults looked at through a microscope and
bis virtues through the wrong end of tele-
scope. Pharaoh had the chief butler and
baker endp geoned, and tradition says that
all tho butler had done was TO allow fly in
the Kings cup, and all the baker had done
was TO leave gravel in the Kings bread.
The world has the habit Of making great
ado about what you do wrong and forget
ting TO say anything about what you do
right, but the same God will take care of
you who provided for Merlin, the Christian
martyr, when hidden from pursuers In "a
hay-m w in Paris, and hen came and laid
an egg close by him every morning, thus
keeping him from starvation. Blessed are
they that are prosecuted, although persecu-
tion is "A severe cataplasm. Ointment may
smart the wound before healing it. What
a soft PILLOW 10 die on if when we leave the
world we can feel that, though a thousand
people may have wronged us, we have
wrOnged no one: or, having made envious
and Jealous attack on others, we have re-
pentod of the sin and as far as possible
made reparation. The good resolutio of
Timothy Poland in his quaint but exquisite
hymn entitled Most Any Day" we might
well unanimously adopt:
Well keep all right and good within,
Our work will then be free from sin;
Upright vel walk through thick and thin
Straight on our way.
Deal just with all the prize wen win
Most any daV