Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

Wkeu OIL WHISKY auu tuo poOple VI OAio
that the taxes must be taken off wool.
while Massachusetts and Connecticut will
be promised protection for manufactures.
and all the monetary interests, North.
South, East, and West. will be told in each
neighborhood that the taxes and tariff will
be fixed TO suit them, irrespective of any
body else; and, the Presidential election
over all will settle down as it was before.
If you think that all this discussion in pub
lie places is from any desire of the welfare
of tho dear people and not for political eff
feet. you are grievously mistaken.
Go into all occupations and professions,
and if you want to know how much jeal-
ousy 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 samo line of bust
ness in the same street, and ask doctors
what they think of doctors, and lawyers
what they think Of lawyers, and ministers
what they think of ministers, and artists
what they think of artists. As long as mon
and women in any department keep down
and have hard struggle, they will be
family praised and the remark will be:
ooh, yes; he is a good, clever sort of a
! fellow" "She is rather, yes, somewhat,
quiet-well, I may say, tolerably nice kind
of o woman" But let him or her get little
too high and of goes the aspiring head
by social or commercial decapitation.
What a brutal scene of jealousy we had
in this country when President Garfield
lay dying. There were faithful physicians
that sacrificed their other practice and sacri-
feed their health for all time in fidelity to
that deathbed. Drs. Bliss and Hamilton
and Agnew went through anxieties and
tolls and fatigues such as none but God
could appreciate. Nothing pleased many
of the medical profession. The doctors in
charge did nothing right. We who did not
see the case knew better than those who
agonized over it in the sick room for many
weeks. I, who never had anything worse
that run round on my thumb, which
seemed to me at the time was worthy all
the attention of the entire medical fratern-
ity, had my own ideas as to how the Presi-
dent ought to be treated. And in propor-
ton, as physicians and laymen were ig-
norant Of the case, they were sure the
treatment practiced was a mistake. And
when in post-mortem the bullet dropped
out of different part of the body from
that in which it was supposed to have been
lodged, about 100000 people shouted, "I
told you so" @There, / knew it all the
time" There are some doctors in all
cities who would rather have the patient
die under the treatment of their own
schools than to have them get we'll under
! some other pathy.
"Yea; look at the clerical profession.
am sorry to say that in matters of jealousy
it is no better than other professions.
There are now in all denominations great
many young clergymen 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
jestled. They are patronizingly advised.
80 tod 10 Al. 4. L,
ter know their place. If here and there
Grafton and divine force 90 past the seniors
who want to keep the chief places, the
young are advised in the words of Scrip
ture: "Tarry at Jericho till their boards
are grown" They are charged with SEN
sationalism. They are compared to rockets
that go up in a blaze and como down sticks,
and the brevity of their career is jubilantly
prophesied. If il be o denomination with
bishops, bishop is implored to sit down
heavily on the man who will not be nodded;
or If denomination without bishops, some
of the older men, with nothing more than
their own natural heaviness and theolog-
ical avoirdupois, are advised to fatten out
the lnnovator. In conferences and presbv-
teries and associations and conventions
there is often seen the most damnable
jealousy. Such ecclesiasticaltyr ants would
not admit that jealousy had any possession
of them, 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 IN air of unctuous sancity,
when they simply mean the destruction of
those over whom they pray and shuttle.
| There are cases where ministers of re.
ligion are derelict and criminal, and thew
must be put out.
But, in the majority of cases that have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials, there is
jealous attempt to keep men from surpass-
ing their theological fellows, and as
at the presidential elections in country
places the people have abarbecue-which
is roasted OK round which the people
! dance with knives, cutting off slice here,
and pulling out rib there, and saving off
beefsteak yonder. and having a high
time-so most of the denominations of
Christians keep on hand barbecue in
which some minister is roasted, while the
church courts dance around with their
sharp knives of attack, and one takes an
ear, another hand, another foot, and it
is hard to tell whether the ecclesiastical
plaintiffs of this world or the demons of
the other world most enjoy it. Albert
Barnes, than whom no man has accom-
plished more good in the last 1000 years,
was decreed to sit silent for year in the
pew OF his own church while some one
else occupied his pulpit, the pretended
oHense that he did not believe in a limited
atonement, but the real otfense 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, though
not exactly the same, are twins: Envy is
the rottenness of the bone;" Where envy
! and strife is, there is confusion and every
evil work." Jealousy is the rage Of a
man." My hearers, it 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, ia
too mighty for you to contend against un-
aided. The evil has so many roots, of
such infinite convolution, that nothing
but the enginery of omnipotence can pull
it out. Tradition says that when Moses
lifted up his hand to pray it was all en-
crusted 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 It
will eat up and carry off all the religion
you can pack into your soul for the next
half century. 1t will do Won mora harr,,