Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-21

cnt will be promised protection Tor iiraiiItac'-
urcs, and NIL the monetary interests north,
south, east and west, will DO told in each
neighborhood that tho taxes and tariff Will
be fixed to suit them, irrespective of any
body olse; and, the presidential election
over, all will settle down US 1t was before.
If you think that oil this discussion in public
places is from any desire OF the welfare OF
the dear people and not for political effect,
you nrc grievously mistaken
60 into all occupations and professions,
and if you want to know how much Jeal-
ousy ia yet to be e1tirpated, 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
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 hard struggle thcy will be family
praised, and the remark will be: "Oh,
yes; he is q good, clever sort OF q fellow"
.sShc is rather, yes, somewhat, quite-wen,
Imay say, tolerably nice KIM OF d woman. "
But let him or her get littlo too high, and
oif goes tho aspiring head by social or conf
mercinl dccapitation.
Remember that envy dwclls more on
small deficits of charas1SSs. chan great
forces, makes more of the fact that Domitr
ian amused himself by transflxing flies with
his penknife than of his great conquests; OF
the fact that Handel was glutton than OF
the fact that he erected .impershabe orato-
rios; more OF Coleridgc's opium habit than
of his writing "Christabel' and .Thc Ancient
Mariner;n more OF the fact that Addison
drank too much than of the fact that he was
the author OF the Spectator more OF
mans peccadilloes than of his mighty ener-
gies; more of his defeats than of his victories.
Look at the sacred and heaven descended
science of healing, and then sos DR.. Macken-
zic, tho English surgeon, who prolonged the
life Of the crown prince Of Germany until ne
became emperor, end, 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 iealousics thut DR.. Mackenzie dare
not walk tho streets of Berlin. He is under
military guard. The medical students Of
Germany Gun hardly keep their hands off Of
him. The old doctors of Germany are with
ing with Indignation. The fact is that in
saving Frcdcrick's life DR.. Mackenzie saved
tho peace of Europe. There was not an in
tclligent nun 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.-Maclicnze,
1a,.if.l
n wave Of satisfaction and confidence rolled
over Christendom What shall the world do
with the doctor who saved his life! "Oh,"
cried out the medical jealousics 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
dcathbed. Drs. Bliss and Hamilton and Ag-
new went through anXicties and tolls and
fatigues such as none but God could appre-
cate Nothing pleased many of the medical
profession. Tho doctors in charge did MOTH
ing right. We who did not see the case knew
better than those who aSonizcd over it in the
sick room for many weeks. /, who mover had
ANYTHING worse than run-round on my
thumb, which seemed to me at tho timc was
worthy all the attention of the entire medical
fraternity, had my own ideas rs to how the
president ought to be treated. And in pro-
portion rs physicians and laymen were iGnor-
ant Of tho case they were sure tho treatment
when i3lpost
norton tho bullet dropped out of difrerent
part of the body from that in which it was
supposed to'hare been lodged, about 200,O
people shouted 81 told you so.' "Therc,
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 well under some
other pathy.
Yea; look at the clerical profession. I am
sorry to say that in matters of jealousy it is
no better than other professions. There arc
now in all denominations great many young
clergymen who have faculty for superior
usefulness. But they arc kept down and kept
back and crippled by Older ministers who
look asSanco ut these rising evangelists.
They are snubbed. They are jostled. They
are extraordinarily advised 1t is suggested
to them that they had better know their
place. If hero and there one with more nerve
and brain and conservation and divine force
20 past the seniors who want to keep the chief
places, the young aro advised in the words OF
Scripture: "Tarry ut Jericho till their boards
are grown" They are charged with sensa-
tionalisn. They are compared to rockets that
90 up in blaze and come down sticks, and
the brevity of their carceri is jubilantly proph-
csied If it be 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 theological avoirdu-
pois are advised to ilatten out the innovator.
In conferences and presbyteries and aSsocia-
lions and conventions there is often seen the
most damnable jealousies. Such ccclesias-
tical tyrants would not admit that jealousy
had any possession of them, and they take
on n heavenly mir, and talk sweet oil and
sugar plums and balm Of q thousand flowers,
and roll up their eyes with an mir of unctuous
sanctity when they simply mean the destruc-
ton Of those over whom they pray and
snu1lo. There arc cases where ministers OF
religion arc derolict and criminal, and they
must be put out
But in the majority Of cases that I have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is o
jealous attempt to keep men from surprising
their theological fellows and us at the presi-
DENTAL elections in country places the people
have barbecue-which is roasted OK,
round which the people dance with knives,
cutting of slfce-here, and pulling out rib
there, and saving becfsteall yonder, and
having high time-so most Of the denomi-
nations of Christians keep on hand barbe-
cue in which some minister is roasted, while
the church courts dance around with their
sharp knives of attack, and one takes on ear,
another hand another q foot, and it Is
hard to tell whether the ecclesiastical plain
tiffs of this world or the demons of tho
nctter world most enjoy it. Albert Barnes,
than whom no man has accomplished more
good in the last 1000 years, was decreed to
sit silent for year in the pew of his own