The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-04-20

| think Of lawyers, and ministers what they
| think Of ministers, and artists what they
think Of artists. As long as men and
women in any department keep down and
have a hard struggle they will be family
| praised, and the remark will be: "Oh,
| yes; he is good, clever sort of fellow"
"She is rather, yes, somewhat, quite-well,
may say, tolerably nice kind of a woman"
But let him or her get a little too high, and
off goes the aspiring head by social or CON-
mercial decapitation.
Remember that envy dwells more on
small deficits of character. than on great
forces, makes more of the fact that Domit-
ian amused himself by transfixing flies with
his penknife than of his great conquests; Of
the fact that Handel was a glutton than of
the fact that he erected imperishable orato-
rios; more of Coleridge's opium habit than
Of his writing "Chrstabel" and ''The Ancient
Mariner" more of the fact that Addison
drank too much than OF the fact that he was
the author of the Spectator" more of a
mans peocadilloes than of his mighty ener.
giles; more of his defeats than of bis victories.
Look ut the sacred and heaven descended
science Of healing, and then see DIR. Macken-
zie the English surgeon, who prolonged the
life of the crown prince of Germany until he
became emperor, and, hope, may yet cure
him, so that he may for many years govern
that magnificent German nation, than which
there is no grander. Yet so great are the
medical jealousies that DIR. Mackenzie dare
not walk the streets of Berlin He Is under
military guard. The medical students Of
Germany can hardly keep their hands off of
him. The old doctors of Germany are with
ing with indignation. The fact is that in
saving Frederick's life DIR. Mackenzie saved
the peace of Europe. There was not an In
telligent man ON either side the ocean that
did not fear for the result if the throne passed
from wise and good old Emperor William to
his inexperienced grandson. But when, I'M
der the medical treatment of Dr. Mackenzie,
the Crown Prince Frederick took the throne,
a wave of satisfaction and confidence rolled
over Christendom. What shall the world do
with the doctor who saved his life? "Oh,n
cried out the medical jealousies of Europe
destroy him, of course, destroy him"
What brutal scene OF jealousy we had in
this country when President Garfield lay dy-
ing. There were faithful physicians that
sacrificed their other practices and sacrificed
their health for all time in fidelity to that
deathbed. Drs. Bliss and Hamilton and Ag-
new went through anxieties and tolls and
fatigues such as none but God could appre-
ciate Nothing pleased many of the medical
profession. The doctors in charge did moth
ing right. We who did not see the case knew
better than those who agonized over it in the
sick room for many weeks. l, who never had
anything worse than a run-round on my
thumb, which seemed to me at the time was
worthy all the attention of the entire medical
fraternity, had my own ideas as to how the
president ought to be treated. And in pro-
portion as physicians and laymen were ignor-
ant of the case they were sure the treatment
practiced was mistake. And when in post
mortem the bulle: dropped out of a different
part of the body from that in which it was
supposed to have been lodged, about 2O0, 1000
people shouted: 81 told you So" "There,
knew it all the time" There are some doc
tors in all cities who would rather have the
patient die under the treatment of their own
schools than have them get we'll under some
other pathy.
sorry to say that in matters of jealousy it is
no better than other professions There are
now in all denominations great many young
clergymcn who have faculty for superior
usefulness. But they are kept down and kept
back and crippled by older ministers who
look askance at these rising evangelists
They are snubbed. They are jostled. They
are patronizingly advised. 1t is suggested
to them that they had better know their
place. If here and there one with more nerve
and brain and conservation and divine force
go past the senioss who want to keep the chief
places the young are advised in the words of
Scripture: "Tarry at Jericho till their boards
are grown" They are charged with sensa-
tionalisln. They are compared to rockets that
go up in a blaze and come down sticks, and
the brevity of their career is jubiantly proph-
esied. If it be denomination with bishops
q bishop is implored to sit down heavily on
the man who will not be nodded; or il
a denomination without bishops, som of the
older men with nothing MORO than their own
natural heaviness and theological avolrdu-
pois are advised to 1atteu out the innovator.
In conferences and presbyteres and associa-
lions and conventions there is often seen the
most damnable jealousies. Such ecclesias-
tical tyrants would not admit that jealousy
had any possession of thAp, and they take
on a heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and
sugar plums and balm of a Thousand flowers,
and roll up their eyes with an air of unctuous
sanctity when they simply mean the destruc-
ton of those over whom they pray and
snuffle There are cases where ministers of
religion are derelict and criminal, and they
must be put out
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is a
jealous attempt to keep men from surprising
their theological fellows, and as at the presi-
Dental elections in country places the people
have a barbecue-which is a roasted OK,
round which the people dance with knives.
cutting off a slice here, and pulling out rib
there, and saving a beefsteak yonder, and
having high time-so most of the denomi-
nations of Christians keep on hand a barbe-
cue in which some minister Is roasted, while
the church courts dance around with their
sharp knives of attack, and one takes an ear,
another a hand another a foot, and IL is
hard to tell whet er the ecclesiastical plain
tiffs of this world or the demons of the
neither world most enjoy it. Albert Barnes,
than whom no man has accomplished more
good in the last l 900 years, was decrced to
sit silent for year in the pew of his own
church while some one else occupied his pull
pit, the pretended ofrense that he did not
believe in u limited atoneinent, 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 businesses
and occupations and trades, and amid all
circles, needs to be heard what God says
In regard to envy and jealousy, which,
UnOuSn nOU eAdCUiy Une same, are UWinSs
envy is the rottenness of the bone"
"Where envy aud strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work" jealousy is the rage
of 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 re-
formers and ministers of religion and thou
sands of good men and women, is too mighty
for you to contend against unaided. The evil
has so many roots, Of such infinite convolu-
ton, that nothing but the enginery Of omnipo-
tence can pull it out. Tradition says that
when Moses lifted up his hand to pray it was
all encrusted with mama, and no sooner do
you pray than you are helped. Away with
the accursed, stenchful, blackening, damning
crime of jealousy. Allow it to stay and 10
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 10
does any one it leads you to assail. It 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
well of everybody. Stab no man in the back.
Be honey bee rather than a spider; be a
dove rather than a buzzard.
Surely this world is large enough for you
and all your rivals. God mas gwen you q
work to do. Go ahead and do it. Mind
your own business. In all circles, In all bust
nessess, in all professions there is room for
straightforward successes. Jealousy enter
tanned will not only bedwarf your soul but
it will flatten your skull, bemean your eye,
put pinchedness of look about your nostril,
give bad curl to the lip, and expel from
your face the divine image in which You
ware creatad When Won hear q man or wo-
man abused, drive in on the defendants side.
Watch for excellences In others rather than
than for defects morning glories instead Of