Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-04-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON,
The Weekly Discourse Of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
Subjects "JeaIOusy."

| want 10 grapple 1t.
There is an old sin, hsggard, furious, mon
strous and diabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawled tho earth Il combines
all that is obnoxious in the races, human,
| quadrupedal, pathological, reptilian and
1nsectile, horned, tusked, hoofed, fanged,
stlnged; the eye of basilisk, the tooth of an
adder, the jaws Of a crocodile, the crushing
folds OF an anaconda, the slyness Of a scor.
| pion, the tongue OF cobra, and the coil of
the worm that never dies 1t is in every
community, in every church. in every legis-
| latlNe hall, In every monetary institution in
every drawing room levee, in every literary
ana professional circle. 1t whispers, il
Misses 1t lies, it debauches, it basphemes,
1t damns. My text names it when il saws.
Jealousy 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 or social or professional or political
recognition. 1t is the shadow of other PEG.
| pies success 1t is the shiver in our pocket
| DOCK because 1T is not as fat as some one
else's pocket book. 1t is the twinge in our
tongue because it is not as eloquent as some
one else's tongue. 1t is the flutter in our
robes because they are not as lustrous as
some one else's robes. IL is the earthquake
under our house because it is not as many
Ieet front and deep as our neighbours house
1t is the thunder of other peoples popularity
sourlng the milk of our kindness 1t is the
father and mother both of one-half of the
dlscontent and outrages and detractions and
bankruptcies and crimes and woes of the
human race
1t was antediluvian as much rs It is post
oiluVlan. 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 sacri.
nee has been accepted and yours rejected"
AND Cain picked up the stick as though lust
20 talk with it, and while Abel was watch
ing some bird in the tree top, or gazing at
some waterfall, down came the blow of the
flrst assassination, which has had it's echo in
all the fratrlcides, matricideS, uxorcides
homlcldes infanticides and regicides of ali
ages and all nations. This passion of jealousy
so disturbed Callgula at the prominence of
some of the men of his time that he cut n
much admired curl from the brow of Cincin
natus, and took the embroidered collar from
the neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomaeus
killed because of his purple robe, which at.
tracted too much attention, After Columbus
had placed America as gem in the Spanish
crown, Jealousy set on the Spanish cour
tiers to depreciate his achievement, and
aroused animosities till the great discoyerer
mad MS heart broken Urged on by this bad
passion, Dionysius fayed Plato because he
was wiser than himself, and Philoxenius be-
cause his music was too popular. jealousy
made Korah lie about Moses, and Succotb
depreciate Gideon.
Jealousy made the trouble between Jacob
ana Esau. That hurled Joseph into the pit
!hat struck the twenty three fatal wounds
INTO julius Caesar. That banished Aristides
That fired Antony against Cicero. Tiberius
exlled an architect because of the fame he
got for beautiful porch, and slew a poet for
his fine tragedy. That set Saul in a race
against David. How graphically the Bible
puts it when it says: "Sall eyed David.n II
seems to take possession of both eyes and
than foe
holes of hell. Saul eyed David" That is
he looked at him as much as to say: "You
little upstart, how dare you attempt ANYTHING
greats l will grind you under my heel |
Will exterminate you, / will, you miserable
homunculus Crouch, crawl, stink into that
rat hole. | will teach those women to sing
some other song, instead of "Saul has sIaiu
his thousands but David his tens of thou
sands" When Voltaire heard that Frederick
the Great was forgetting him and putting his
literary admiration on Bacaulard d'Arn9ud
the old infldel leaped out of his bed and
danced the floor in a maniacal rage. and
ordered his swlftest horses hooked up to carry
him to the Prussan palace
That deSpicable passion of iealousv led
Napoleon the First to leave in his will a be-
quest OF 5000 francs to the rufiian who shot
at wellington when the victor at Waterloo
was passing through Paris. That stationed
the grouty elder brother at the back door of
VIC nohleSIedu Wnen the prOdIgal son re-
turned, and threw chill on the family re-
union while that elder brother complained
saying: Who ever heard of giving roas
veal to such prohigate!" Ay that passion
rose up and under the darkest cloud that
ever Swallowed the earth and amid the loud
est thunder that ever shook the mountains
and amid the widest flash of lightning thai
ever blinded or stunned the nations, hung ur
on two pieces of rough lumber back of .Teru
salem, the kindest, purest, lovingcst nature
that heaven could delegate, and stopped moi
until there was no power left in hammer OF
bramble or javelin to hurt the dead Son oil
God.
That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry.
unbalked, RACES on, and now pierces tia
earth like fiery diameter and encircles il
like fiery circumference Ii wants both
hemlspheres. 1t wants the heavens II
would, II it could, capture the palace of God
and dethrone Jehovah, and chain the All
mighty in eternal exile, aud after the demo.
lition Of the universe would cry: Satisfied
at last, here | ami Alone, the undisputed
and everlasting |, Me, Nine Myself" That
passion Keeps all Europe perturbed. Nations
jealous OF Germany, of England, of Russia
and those jealous of each other, and ali OF
them jealous of America
IN our land this passion OF jealousy keeps
all the political world aboil There are nj
least 500 people who are jealous of Governor
Hill, and would like to be his successor,
about 5000 who are Jealous of Grover Cleve
land, and would like to relieve him Of th.
cares OF office, and after the nomina
lions or next summer have been made
a whole pandemonium of defamation.
scurrility,, hatred, revenge, falsehood, pro
fanlty and Misrepresentation will be turned
upon this land. The tariff. about the raising
or lowering or reformation of which many
OF them care nothing except as to its effect
on votes, will be discussed from a thousand
platforms, and the people of Louisiana will
De told that the tariff will be arranged to suit
American sugar, the people of Virginia will
be told that the tariff will be arranged to suit
American tobacco, and the people of Penn
sylvania Will be tod that the tariff will b,
arranged to suit American iron, and th,
people of Ohio that the tariff will be
arranged to suit American wool,
while Massachusetts and Connecticut
will be promised protection for manufact
ures, and all the monetary interests, north.
south, east and west, will be told in eacE
neignoorhood that the taxes and tariff will
pc liked to suit them, irrespective of any
body else; and, the Presidential election
over, all will settle down as it was before
II you think that all this discu sion in public
places is from any desire of the welfare Of
the dear people and not for political effect,
you are grievously mistaken.
20 into all occupations and professions
ana II you want to know how much ieal-
cusy is yet to be extirpated, ask master
builders what they think of each others
houses, and merchants what their opinion is
OF merchants in the same line of business in
The same street, and ask doctors what they
think of doctors, and lawyers what they
thlnk 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
nave 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-weii,
may say, tolerable nice kind of woman 4"
But let him or her get little too high and
OIL goes the aspiring head by social or com
| mercial decapitation.